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Obama Promotes Solar Power as Way to Compete in Global Economy
It’s estimated that there are now close to 143,000 solar workers in the United States, a nearly 20% increase over employment totals from 2012. Now, thanks to President Obama, there may be even more. Further promoting the idea of solar energy, President Obama said in a speech last Friday that the nation must unite in…
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Distracted Driving to Blame in Nearly 6 out of 10 Teen Car Accidents, AAA Study Finds
Almost 60% of moderate to severe car crashes involving teens are caused by distracted driving, a new study from the AAA Foundation of Traffic Safety has found. That figure is much higher than the 14% previously estimated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. “The in-depth analysis provides indisputable evidence that teen drivers are…
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Regulators Seeking Greater Power Over Automakers After Mass Recalls in 2014
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will gain the power to order a freeze on the sale of defective cars if Congress passes the transportation funding bill the White House sent to it earlier this week. Auto manufacturers would have to immediately cease sales of cars determined by the regulator to pose “an immediate likelihood…
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Chinese Government Offers Support to Struggling Property Developers
A study from Bankrate once found that 76% of everyday consumers were wary of the stock market, finding it too risky and complicated. For this reason, perhaps, many people in the United States and around the world have begun to prefer investing in property, which is often seen as more stable and advantageous. This is…
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NYC Officials Announce Plans for 14-Mile Long Queens Bus Route, Costing $200 Million and Benefiting 30,000 Riders
New York City’s transportation authorities recently revealed plans for a 14-mile long Queens bus route — reportedly the longest route the neighborhood has ever seen — which officials hope will decrease traffic congestion and travel times. According to the New York Daily News, the plan is estimated to cost around $200 million. The cost, according to…
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his Yearly Event Contributes to Thousands of Workplace Injuries
It’s something that we do every year — so you’d think our bodies would have grown accustomed to it.But believe it or not, the springtime activity of turning the clocks forward an hour for Daylight Saving Time (DST) might actually be contributing to thousands of injuries in the workplace across the country.According to ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com, new…
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New York State Attorney General’s Office Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter to Prominent Supplement Retailers
Americans generally assume that the medications, foods and other ingestible products they purchase are safe. And why shouldn’t they? The United States has measures in place to monitor the quality of everything from the actual product to the integrity of its packaging, with additional ASTM standards and FDA requirements to guide companies looking to meet…
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Canadian Government Restarts Charter Plane Program, Giving Inuit Children Access to Dental Care
Providing adequate dental care for Canadians is hard enough already, considering that seven out of every 10 Canadians will develop gum disease at some point in their lives, and about 12 million Canadians have untreated dental problems at the moment. But for indigenous residents living in remote areas of the country, the statistics are even…
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Legionnaires’ Victim Files the First Claim against Co-Op City for Negligence
Back in November 2014, several residents living in Co-Op City (located in the Bronx, NY) started developing symptoms of a potentially-fatal disease called Legionnaires’ disease; by January 2015, the NBC New York reported that 12 cases of the disease had been diagnosed, and that the city’s Health Department believed at least 75% of those cases…
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Mobile Ranking Algorithm Could Have Bigger Impact on Google Searches Than Panda or Penguin
Google’s announcement at the end of February that it would begin to factor mobile usability into search rankings has already spurred quite a lot of activity, as website designers and search engine optimizers have rushed to bring websites up to Google standards before the new mobile ranking algorithm is implemented April 21. But the change…