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Sledding bans - coming to a town near you?
2015-01-08 19:11:16| Footwear - Topix.net
The Associated Press reports that municipal officials in places like Iowa, New Jersey, Nebraska and Indiana are worried about lawsuits when children are injured in sledding accidents. They often cite a 2000 incident in which the family of a girl in Omaha, Nebraska, won a $2m judgement against the city after she was paralysed while sledding in a local park.
American Apparel Now Explicitly Bans Managers From Hitting On Workers
2015-01-08 02:07:44| Apparel - Topix.net
Less than a month after firing its controversial chief executive, American Apparel unveiled a revamped code of ethics on Tuesday, packed with policies to combat sexual harassment and prevent relationships between supervisors and subordinates. The 6,200-word document is more than four times as long as the prior code, according to Bloomberg News .
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British Columbia bans transport of oil on pipelines built for LNG facilities
2015-01-08 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The Province of British Columbia (BC) has banned the transport of oil and diluted bitumen on pipelines constructed specifically for liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities.
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Crane-Age Limits: Anti-Dumping Bans Disguised as Safety?
2015-01-06 19:54:04| ENR.com: Headline News
Regular inspection and maintenance, it concluded, can make a crane of any vintage structurally fit for duty, says Haag Engineering Co.
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Heavyweight Response to Local Fracking Bans
2015-01-03 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: This northern Colorado city vaulted onto the front lines of the battle over oil and gas drilling two years ago, when residents voted to ban hydraulic fracturing from their grassy open spaces and a snow-fed reservoir where anglers catch smallmouth bass. But these days, Longmont has become a cautionary tale of what can happen when cities decide to confront the oil and gas industry. In an aggressive response to a wave of citizen-led drilling bans, state officials, energy companies and industry groups...
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