Renewable Energy World / Sustainable Capital Finance | By: Maggie Parkhurst | May 30 2017: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been a hot topic for the past few years, with numerous Fortune 500 companies announcing aggressive goals relating to their clean energy usage. To many of these companies, transitioning their Read more…
Mining Weekly | By Keith Campbell | 2nd June 2017: JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – At last month’s International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment, held at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in Pretoria, one of the very many topics addressed was the use of remote sensing, particularly Read more…
Gallup | By: Frank Newport | June 02 2017: President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the strongly negative reaction by some groups regarding that decision are focused mainly on trade-offs and questions about the data used in evaluating those Read more…
The White House | June 01 2017 (Video Above) – Reuters | June 01 2017: President Donald Trump, in phone calls on Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Theresa May, personally explained his decision to withdraw the Read more…
Defense One | By: Mohana Ravindranath | June 1, 2017: The Facebook algorithm that auto-tags people in photographs might be slightly creepy, but also of interest to the intelligence community. The IC’s research and development unit is hosting a new contest in search of the best facial recognition algorithms that Read more…
Waterworld | By: Alanna Maya | Assistant Editor: Access to safe drinking water is a global crisis, which is why developing new, innovative ways to convert river water, wastewater and agricultural waste into clean water is critical. Thanks to new innovations in the field of treatment, promising technologies could eliminate Read more…
WaterWorld | By Sarah Fister Gale: Water security is a global issue and even in the United States, with our rich and diverse water resources, once relied-upon water systems are now at risk. California is slowly recovering from a five-year drought, the Colorado River is beginning to run dry in Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By Richard L. Cassin | Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 8:02AM: Shearman & Sterling has published a client alert a lot of us need these days — “Transacting Business During a Corruption Investigation.” Why an alert about doing business during an investigation? Because investigations can continue Read more…
Nextgov | By: Heather Timmons | May 31, 2017: U.S. President Donald Trump continues to rail against press coverage of leaks from his administration and government agencies, most recently accusing the news media—offering no evidence—of reporting on lies and calling them leaks. But there’s no sign the leaks are going Read more…
The FCPA Blog |By: Richard L. Cassin |Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 7:08AM: The son of a former Prime Minister of Gabon was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing government officials in Africa. Samuel Mebiame, 43, was a Read more…
The Guardian |By: Fiona Harvey | Thursday 1 June 2017 00.01 BST: Intensive farming cited as main reason for destroying natural barriers to deluge and making low lying areas more vulnerable to floods. Only a tenth of England’s extensive floodplains are now fit for purpose – 90% no longer function Read more…
Reuters | By: Yeganeh Torbati |Thu Jun 1, 2017 | 5:45am EDT: The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. The new questions, part of an Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Alexandre de Juniac | May 30, 2017 3:36 p.m. ET: Airlines have considerable expertise on safety and security matters. Governments should tap it. As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security considers expanding its ban on laptops and other large portable electronic devices from the Read more…
Mining Weekly | By: Martin Creamer | 31st May 2017: JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The South African government is refusing to grant an exemption to diamond mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM) relating to the exportation of diamonds to neighbouring Botswana for aggregation, Mining Weekly Online can today report. Aggregation Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Aaron Karp | 31 May 2017: A JetBlue Airways Airbus A320 flying transcontinental made an emergency landing May 30 in Grand Rapids, Michigan after a passenger’s laptop computer emitted smoke. Flight 915 operating from New York JFK to San Francisco was diverted “following reports of Read more…