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China takes cautious step towards carbon emissions trading
Reuters* China is battling to balance econ growth with environment * Nationwide trading scheme still a long way off * Country is world's main source of greenhouse gas By David Stanway BEIJING, June 18 (Reuters) - China launched its first pilot carbon...Tags: Politics, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Government, National Government
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China takes cautious step toward carbon emissions trading
ReutersBEIJING (Reuters) - China launched its first pilot carbon emissions exchange on Tuesday, though plans for a nationwide rollout and efforts to apply the scheme to some polluting heavy industries could be undermined by a slowdown in the world's No.2...Tags: Arts and Culture, Petroleum Industry, Environmental Politics, Politics, Environmental Issues
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Reducing carbon emissions a daunting task
Mike Tidwell is correct that the evidence for global climate change is indisputable and that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and alterations in the earth's ecosystems is the primary cause ("Forecast calls for pain," Feb. 6). Since the...Tags: Wind Power, Global Warming, Environmental Issues, Ecosystems, Renewable Energy
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Protesters urge Tribune Co. not to sell newspapers to Koch brothers
Tribune reporterAbout two dozen protesters staged a rally in front of Tribune Tower Wednesday as part of a "national day of action" to dissuade Tribune Co. from selling its newspapers to brothers Charles and David Koch, conservative billionaire industrialists who are...Tags: Politics, Tribune Company, Newspaper and Magazine, Bruce Karsh, Chicago Tribune
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Barrick pays $11.6 mln fine for environmental harm in Chile
ReutersSANTIAGO, May 31 (Reuters) - Barrick Gold Corp has paid a discounted $11.6 million fine for serious environmental violations at its suspended Pascua-Lama gold project, a spokesperson for the company said on Friday. Last Friday, Chile's new...Tags: Punishment, Environmental Issues, Chile, Barrick Gold Corporation, Fines
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The climate change guilt trip
A friend recently returned from a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada. His eyes shone as he described the opalescent sky, the vitality of wildlife in spring and the fun he'd had playing with his two young daughters during the mellow evenings. It had been...
Tags: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Passenger Cars, Lobbying, Petroleum Industry, Duke Energy Corporation
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WRAPUP 5-Roiled by mystery GMO wheat, US races to reassure buyers
Reuters* Japan cancels tender to purchase some U.S. wheat * EU preparing to test incoming shipments * Importers to seek details from U.S. government (Adds Oregon researchers in second section) By Julie Ingwersen and Charles Abbott CHICAGO/WASHINGTON, May 30...Tags: Arable Farming, Japan, Genetic Engineering, Oregon State University, Litigation
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Roiled by mystery GMO wheat, U.S. races to reassure buyers
ReutersCHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials raced to quell global alarm on Thursday over the first-ever discovery of an unapproved strain of genetically modified wheat, working to figure out how the rogue grain escaped from a field trial a decade ago....Tags: Japan, Arable Farming, Egypt, Genetic Engineering, Asia
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Review: 'The East' a complex, provocative morality tale
"The East" is a provocative industrial espionage thriller that pits counterculture revolutionaries intent on exposing corporate villainy against the undercover intelligence specialists paid exceedingly well to keep their compromised clientele clean. By...
Tags: Arbitrage (movie), Ethics, Values, Patricia Clarkson, The Company You Keep (movie)
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Consumer question: When is 'green' logging really green?
SEATTLE — The seal looked appealing, a daisy on a field of green, with the words “Tested Green.” It was issued to more than 120 products as a guarantee of environmental responsibility. The problem, federal trade regulators announced in...
Tags: Forestry and Timber, Paper and Product Packaging Industry, Weyerhaeuser Company, Natural Resource Industry, Accounting and Auditing
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News media confidential sources are often what expose government wrongdoing
It took courage for more than a dozen Allentown police officers to divulge what they felt was wrongdoing by their chief, who they said threatened "retribution" on anyone who did so. It also took solid assurances that the chief would never find out who...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Exxon Mobil Corporation, U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement, Prisons
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The Goldman Sachs banker turned Nature Conservancy chief
Mark Tercek had some horribly awkward moments after he left Goldman Sachs to run a U.S. environmental charity, the Nature Conservancy. At one of his first big staff meetings, he committed a total eco no-no by drinking from a plastic water bottle. When...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Staten Island (New York City), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., World Wildlife Fund, Coca-Cola Co.
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May 21, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 4, 2013
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