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Calls for tougher meat testing rules
2013-02-17 10:11:14| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Waitrose boss Mark Price calls on everybody in the food industry to apply "renewed rigour" to the testing of meat amid the horsemeat scandal.
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Case of alleged rogue fracker exposes need for tougher laws in Ohio
2013-02-16 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Plain Dealer: The good news is that appalled state and federal officials were lightning fast in investigating and prosecuting the case of Ben Lupo, owner of Hardrock Excavating and other fracking-related companies in the Mahoning Valley. Lupo was charged last week with a criminal violation of the federal Clean Water Act for allegedly telling an employee to dump liquid fracking waste and oil-laced mud into a stormwater drain leading to a tributary of the Mahoning River. He faces up to three years in prison and...
'Tougher' food testing ordered
2013-02-09 18:46:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Retailers will now carry out "more and tougher testing" of beef products in the wake of widespread horsemeat contamination, the environment secretary says.
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Tougher air standards OK'd by Northeastern states
2013-02-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Haven Register: Connecticut and the eight other Northeastern states that take part in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) on Thursday announced they have agreed to new standards that will further reduce air polluting emissions. RGGI is a market-based program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that was created in 2007, and Thursdays announcement by the nine states that participate comes after a two-year review of the existing standards and what implementing more stringent measures might mean....
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State ready to get tougher on trash
2013-01-27 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star Tribune: Burning more of Minnesota's garbage and putting less in landfills has been the state's goal for years, but every day in Elk River, full garbage trucks rumble past a garbage-to-energy recycling center to dump their contents at the landfill next door. Last year alone, an extra 140,000 tons of waste from the metro area went into landfills, which are cheaper for haulers, instead of the more environmentally friendly burners. But the state is getting ready to crack down on the practice. Next month...
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