| Daimler board members not targeted in German prosecutor probe: source
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| Daimler's board members are not personally under investigation as part of a fraud probe being conducted by the Stuttgart public prosecutor, a company source said on Tuesday.
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The Mercedes-Benz logo is seen before the company's annual news conference in Stuttgart, Germany, February 4, 2016. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo
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| Company climate risk disclosure could become mandatory in a few years
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| Companies' disclosure of risks to their business from climate change could become mandatory in a few years as investor pressure gathers pace, climate finance experts said on Tuesday.
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A man walks over a bridge as smoke rises from chimneys of a thermal power plant in Shanghai February 23, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
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| The missed opportunity of a tiny, tidy life
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 "Meet your neighbors" should be a rather benign request. You share many trappings of your life with them, after all: A street, a building stairwell, a bodega where you see each other buying the exact same flavor of taquitos at two in the morning. See! You have so much in common. Recent reader responses to this very suggestion revealed its perceived outrageousness. They covered a remarkable variety of objections: claims of being too shy, accusations that yours truly is a "Cheeto follower," and the colorful declaration that "my neighbor can go pound sand" (which I had to Google). Getting to know your neighbors was a necessary early step in my Apathy Detox, which was designed to remedy political malaise by bettering one's community. But the ensuing disdain for befriending, well, strangers resurrected a haunting suspicion I first felt when reporting on the tiny, off-the-grid house obsession a few years ago: that the pursuit of a sustainable life has become an exercise in looking inward. What can you do in ...
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| Meet the fixer: This organizer is uniting millennials.
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 A lot of climate hawks spent late 2016 and early 2017 in reassessment or mourning. Meanwhile, Anthony Torres was busy channeling his fellow engaged millennials into direct action, including coordinated sit-ins at the offices of New York's Chuck Schumer, the new Senate Minority Leader, and Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware. The message: Do not play ball with the polluter-in-chief. The son of a Nicaraguan immigrant father and a working-class New Yorker mother, Torres grew up with sea-level rise on his Long Island doorstep, and he understands how poverty, climate, and other social challenges are all knitted together. He's proven especially adept at rallying peers to his side, both in an official capacity at the Sierra Club (where he helped coordinate communications and direct actions that aided in a defeat of the Trans-Pacific Partnership) and in extracurricular work with groups like #AllOfUs, a progressive collective aimed at organizing young people around threatened communities. His advice on connecting ...
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| Effect of steam hydration on reactivity and strength of cement-supported calcium sorbents for CO2 capture
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| Steam hydration was used to reactivate spent cement-supported CO2 sorbent pellets for recycle. The effect of steam hydration on the reactivity of sorbents was investigated in a bubbling fluidized reactor. A specially designed impact apparatus was developed to evaluate the strength of the reactivated pellets as well as determine the effect of 'superheating'. It was found that the reactivity of synthetic pellets was elevated significantly over that of raw limestone after steam hydration. The CaO conversion of spent pellets increased from 0.113 to 0.419 after hydration, whereas that of spent ...
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| D.C.-area forecast: Rain likely today, and the gray weather continues into Thursday
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 TODAY'S DAILY DIGIT A somewhat subjective rating of the day's weather, on a scale of 0 to 10. 4/10: This gray May way at least puts summer heat on delay. EXPRESS FORECAST Today: Cloudy, midday to afternoon showers. Highs: 68-72. Tonight: Cloudy, showers. Lows: 56-62. Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy, shower chance late. Highs: 73-78. View the […]
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| Nationals vs. Mariners weather forecast: Soggy situation
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 Nationals vs. Mariners 7:05 p.m., Today, May 23, Nationals Park Seattle-like weather greets the Mariners with showers, especially early in the game; should turn drier after 8 p.m. [How the Nationals make high-pressure weather decisions] First pitch: Scattered showers, light breezes, cloudy, upper 60s 9th inning: Mostly cloudy, light breezes middle 60s Chance of rain: […]
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| Rain brings relief to China's parched grain fields
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| Heavy rains this week have brought relief to parched fields in China's major grain producing regions, breaking a months-long dry spell that had slowed corn planting and hit winter wheat crops.
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FILE PHOTO: A harvester unloads corn to a cargo truck at a farm in Gaocheng, Hebei province, China, in this September 30, 2015 file picture. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo
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| Even Republicans are nervous about Trump's budget.
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 Though the official release is planned for Tuesday, leaked versions of the 2018 budget proposal show dramatic funding cuts for environmental programs — even those supported by the president's own party. The budget, which still needs congressional approval, would cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 35 percent. It also slashes funding for cleanup programs like Superfund, but adds cash for water infrastructure. After submitting an original budget blueprint, the Trump administration faced backlash from Democrats and environmental groups about the drastic cuts. But Republicans are wary of what President Trump might propose, too. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska, has said she opposes the elimination of programs like Energy Star and ARPA-E, which funds energy technology research. Both were cut in the draft budget. Republicans have also defended regional water programs that Trump proposed cutting. Murkowski, along with five other Republican senators, urged Trump to set aside money ...
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