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San Bruno Officials Denounce Governor's Veto of CPUC Reform Legislation
2015-10-11 03:14:34| Energy - Topix.net
City officials have spent the past five years seeking to hold PG&E and CPUC officials accountable since the 2010 gas explosion. San Bruno city officials were "extremely disappointed" Friday by Governor Jerry Brown's veto of half a dozen bills intended to reform the California Public Utilities Commission in the wake of a deadly pipeline explosion, according to City Manager Connie Jackson.
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Development banks pledge $15 bln in new climate funds: officials
2015-10-10 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Development banks including the World Bank have pledged an additional $15 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change, taking the world closer to the clutch target of $100 billion, officials said Friday. Just two months before key UN climate talks in Paris, world leaders are scrambling to reach the magic number of $100 billion in funding to combat global warming and help vulnerable nations cope with the impact of climate change. The figure, agreed in previous rounds of talks, is seen as...
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Officials: Broken Rail Caused West Virginia Train Derailment
2015-10-09 15:55:58| Railroads - Topix.net
A broken rail that wasn't found on two previous inspections led to a fiery oil train derailment in southern West Virginia in February, federal investigators said Friday. A CSX train was carrying 3 million gallons of Bakken crude when it derailed Feb. 16 during a snowstorm in Mount Carbon.
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Asbestos in home demolitions: See the data Oregon officials took months to release
2015-10-08 16:23:54| Waste Management - Topix.net
Ed Edinger, Asbestos Training Project owner, gives us an up-close look at one of the most commonly used types of asbestos. Without the state's public record law, it would have been impossible for The Oregonian/OregonLive to uncover that Oregon environmental regulators have failed to ensure the public doesn't breathe cancer-causing asbestos fibers.
US, Japan Officials Envision Northeast Maglev Route
2015-10-08 01:48:40| ENR.com: Headline News
A U.S. company working with the Central Japan Railway Co. envisions a magnetically levitated, or maglev, passenger route along the Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., and New York City that will reduce travel time to an hour.
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