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Study to question popularity of environmental investing

GLG Partners will work with Mercer’s investment consulting business to determine whether environmental investing has become the norm. Issues surrounding climate change and other major environmental issues will be examined, and their effect, if any, on the approach and focus for mainstream investment. ';We believe that environmental liabilities are already changing the ...
Environmental Groups Court Strikes Down Bush Administration Pollution Monitoring Loophole Upholds Publics Right to Know

Throws out EPA rule that waived pollution monitoring requirements for thousands of factories and power plants WASHINGTON - August 19 - A federal appeals court ...
Environmental Groups Judge Dismisses Inyo County Lawsuit to Open Roads in Remote Death Valley Wilderness

threw out a lawsuit by Inyo County, Calif., to open highways through remote roadless areas of Death Valley National Park. Inyo County officials had hoped to take control of three ...
Environmental Defense Fund Co-sponsor of Global Warming Solutions Act to Provide Testimony at San Jose Public Workshop on Draft Scoping Plan to Implement Law

Media Advisory for Friday, August 8, 9:30am-4pm WASHINGTON - August 7 - WHAT: A co-sponsor of ...
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy New Global Contract Needed to Re-Assert Basic Rights Protect Environment

WTO Doha Collapse Requires a New Direction in Multilateralism MINNEAPOLIS - August 6 - Global institutions enforcing trade and finance rules have overridden fundamental human rights, stalled international development and harmed the environment, finds three new papers released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. A new system is badly ...

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What Women Want [DVD]

Playing Nick Marshall, the wealthy, successful, male-chauvinist Chicago ad executive in What Women Want marks the first time Mel Gibson has played the lead role in a straight romantic comedy. While the more recent entries into the Lethal Weapon franchise have played like comedies with an extreme body count, Gibson has never been in a movie like this one, which is surprising beca ... ...

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Greenpeace Documents Chemical Contamination In Ghana

Research Confirms Microsoft and Dell Electronic Waste in Africa INTERNATIONAL - August 5 - A Greenpeace science team visiting two scrap yards in the capital city Accra and the city of Korforidua, Ghana, has confirmed that soil and sediment taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards are severely contaminated with hazardous chemicals. This information was released today in a report ...
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Climate Staff Urge EPA to Come Clean Before Congress

"Professional Staff at EPA Has Nothing to Hide" Says Joint Letter to Johnson WASHINGTON - August 5 - The professional staff charged with developing greenhouse gas regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency want Administrator Stephen Johnson to come clean on how decisions were reached on key climate change issues, according to a joint letter released today by Public Employees ...
China to continue improvement of investment environment official

China will continue to facilitate foreign investment and enhance the protection of intellectual property rights in efforts to improve the investment environment, a senior official said Wednesday. "Improving investment environment and protecting the legal rights of foreign investors are not only the government's promises but also what the government is doing," Yu Jianhua, assistant ...
Michael Pollan Why the family meal is crucial to civilisation

Michael Pollan, the American food writer and campaigner, says eating together round the table every night is the way children learn best how to get along in the wider ...
Xi pledges to safeguard the environment

environment al degradation, President Xi Jinping vowed on Friday. "Those who made rash decisions regardless of the ecological environment, resulting in serious consequences, must be brought to account, and should be held accountable for a lifetime," he said. "Only by implementing the strictest system and the most stringent rule of law can we provide reliable protection for ...

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Malaysian Indian Congress to hold its polls in 2014

The organisational elections of the Malyasian Indian Congress (MIC), including the presidential election, will be held in 2014, a media report said Saturday.

The party's acting president G. Palanivel said that the presidential election will be held between January and March next year and this will be followed by elections of other top office-bearers.

Formed in 1946, the MIC is one of the oldest political parties in Malaysia.

It is one of the three major constituents of that country's ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, other two being the United Malays National Organisation and the Malaysian Chinese Association.

Speaking after a meeting of the party's Central Working Committee (CWC), Palanivel said that a committee would be formed by November this year to oversee the elections.

He also brushed aside speculations that the chairmen of the party's state units have been pushed to pass a "no contest" resolution for the president's post.

"I did not ask the states to do that. If anyone wants to challenge me, it is up to them," the Malaysian Star quoted him as saying.

"I am not thinking about it right now. People can challenge me or return me unopposed. That is not important to me. My focus is to strengthen the party. ...