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Protesters push leaders to avert climate catastrophe

2015-11-28 12:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Masses of people joined a worldwide wave of marches on Saturday demanding leaders craft a pact to avert a climate catastrophe when they gather in a still-shaken Paris. From Australia to New Zealand, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Japan, people rallied at the start of a weekend of popular protests urging world powers to seal a deal at the UN climate summit that officially opens in the French capital Monday. "Protect our common home," declared placards held aloft as thousands gathered in Melbourne,...

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Climate Pledges Too Weak to Avert Disaster

2015-10-20 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: World leaders gathering in Paris in December for the 21st annual UN Climate Conference, COP21, are expected to sign a legally-binding international agreement to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Ahead of the conference, organizers have requested that countries submit Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, or INDCs, pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by an amount that supposed to be fair and ambitious. To date, 150 INDCs have been...

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Nowakowski derides LIRR shortcomings, aims to avert future meltdowns

2015-09-22 01:30:26| Railroads - Topix.net

Long Island Rail Road president Patrick Nowakowski Monday criticized technological shortcomings that worsened several major service disruptions over the last three weeks, including communications systems that are "confusing people more than they're helping people." Long Island Rail Road president Patrick Nowakowski Monday criticized technological shortcomings that worsened several major service disruptions over the last three weeks, including communications systems that are "confusing people more than they're helping people."

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As safety deadline looms, railroads look to Congress to avert shutdown

2015-09-12 05:04:52| Railroads - Topix.net

The nation's freight railroads, commuter lines like Metra, and Amtrak are facing a potential service crisis Dec. 31. The railroads insist they're not to blame, but critics say the warning signals were ignored for years. Ever since two serious Metra derailments in 2003 and 2005, the latter of which killed two passengers and cost millions in lawsuits, federal safety investigators have called for the commuter rail agency to install a high-tech safety system known as Positive Train Control.

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