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Call for ban on costly helplines
2013-09-06 09:15:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Consumer group Which? says it is "outrageous" that customers face high charges when calling helplines and wants the practice stopped.
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650,000 Comments Call on Obama Administration to Ban Fracking on Public Lands
2013-08-23 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Yesterday, a coalition of 276 environmental and consumer organizations including Americans Against Fracking, 350.org, Berks Gas Truth, Center for Biological Diversity, CREDO Action, Democracy for America, Environmental Action, Daily Kos, Food & Water Watch, MoveOn, Progressive Democrats of America, The Post Carbon Institute and United For Action delivered to President Obama and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) nearly 650,000 public comments asking the federal government to ban hydraulic fracturing--fracking--on...
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United Kingdom: MPs call for ban on 'nerve agent' neonicotinoid pesticides to protect dwindling bee population
2013-04-05 20:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Nerve agent pesticides should be banned until science has established whether they are to blame for the rate at which bumblebees and other insects are vanishing from the countryside, a committee of MPs has urged. The All Party Environmental Audit Committee has called for a precautionary moratorium that would prevent three types of neonicotinoid pesticide from being used on the plants that attract bees while they are in flower. The Government has opposed any pesticide ban despite pressure...
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