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Lowell's TRC wins $26M bridge pact
2015-01-12 23:29:45| Waste Management - Topix.net
TRC Companies Inc., an engineering consultant based in the Wannalancit Mills, said Monday it has been awarded a $26 million contract by the Pennsylvannia Department of Transportation. In a press release, TRC officials said the company is tasked with providing construction-engineering inspection services for more than 500 bridges throughout the state.
Sugar buyers' slam NAFTA sugar pact, shift focus to Australia, Canada
2015-01-05 07:45:17| Sugar Industry News
Dec 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. sugar buyers' group has slammed a U.S.-Mexican government pact announced late on Friday, saying the deal has increased the importance of broadening access to the domestic market through other trade agreements and the need for greater reform of a government sugar support program.
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Giving Climate Pact Legal Teeth Could Make It Toothless
2014-12-04 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As negotiators gather in Peru for a critical round of climate talks, U.S. delegates are straining to explain what they call a "counterintuitive' reality: For next year's global climate agreement to be effective, commitments made under it must not be legally binding. Such an outcome would disappoint many, including the European Union's negotiating team, which says it will be pushing for binding commitments during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change talks in Lima this week...
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UN climate talks set sights on historic Paris pact
2014-12-02 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: To fresh warnings and appeals to seize the political momentum, UN talks opened in Lima yesterday tasked with drawing the outlines of a 2015 deal to roll back climate change. Gathering 195 states, the 12-day meeting also has to agree on the pact's heart - a format for nations to make pledges to reduce earth-warming carbon pollution. These national commitments would form the cornerstone of an unprecedented accord to be sealed in Paris in December 2015 and take effect by 2020. "2014 is threatening...
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Obama China pact raises stakes India in climate talks
2014-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: U.S. President Barack Obamas breakthrough deal with China to rein in fossil fuel emissions puts the spotlight squarely on India and other major economies as the worlds governments gather in Peru in search of a plan to fight climate change. Carbon dioxide emissions will jump 34 percent in India by 2020 and double by 2030 under its existing policies, according to the International Energy Agency. A promise by the planets third largest polluter behind the U.S. and China to limit emissions would send...
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