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Governor Brian Kemp got what he (and his 'dark money' donors) sought: legislation to try and limit lawsuits and suppress massive jury verdicts (rare as they actually are, actually) . On today to discuss the kinds of impact this bill will have on...
by The Ron Show
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on Thu Mar 20, 2025 at 03:08 PM PDT
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Melt, Sag, Degrade Much Rail Note: My purpose here is to bat a few ideas around about how Ukraine can shut down Russian rail deliveries to the front. I don’t know what ideas will ultimately prove useful to Ukraine, but I offer them for consideratiopn....
by TheInventer
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on Tue Oct 29, 2024 at 10:22 AM PDT
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If you want to see better, more frequent train service by Amtrak, speak up now! The Federal Railway Administration is preparing a study and they want input by March 8. Here’s the bulletin from Railroad Workers United. This isn’t just about adding new...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 11:24 AM PST
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In the 1901 annual report of the Commissioner of Railroads for the state of Michigan, the author mentioned that “Railroad rules have been written in blood.” The idea was that safety rules were only implemented when enough blood had been spilled. As we...
by Justin Mikulka
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on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 06:56 AM PST
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by Jessica Lussenhop and Topher Sanders
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by ProPublica
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on Mon Jan 01, 2024 at 10:59 AM PST
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If you have some time today, there will be a webinar at 8:00pm EST Start: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 8:00 PM ET End: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 9:15 PM ET This is a virtual event The transportation sector employs nearly 10% of the U.S....
by xaxnar
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on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 09:17 AM PDT
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Biden, Modi, and G20 allies unveil rail and shipping project linking India to Middle East and Europe President Joe Biden and his allies on Saturday announced plans to build a rail and shipping corridor linking India with the Middle East and Europe, an ambitious project aimed at fostering economic ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Sep 10, 2023 at 09:15 AM PDT
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I previously wrote up the consequences of a serious derailment in a major European rail link. � The latest news is that one of the two tunnels of the Gotthard Base Tunnel has now been reopened to ...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Aug 23, 2023 at 10:39 AM PDT
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This is a major story in Europe; the Gotthard Base Tunnel has been closed by a derailment that happened on August 10, 2023. The tunnel is an incredible piece of infrastructure and a passenger as well as freight route. The accident is in the news now as...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 09:14 AM PDT
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Help has arrived in East Palestine, just in time. Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons! GoComics.com/laloalcaraz & laloalcaraz.com y Pocho.com y mas!
by laloalcaraz
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on Wed Feb 22, 2023 at 01:42 PM PST
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When it comes to addressing climate change, Job One has to be getting off carbon. There are multiple ways to go: wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, nuclear, biofuels —�and hydrogen.
Here’s what ...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Jan 12, 2023 at 06:17 AM PST
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The European Union permitted France to ban all domestic flights linked by train travel of less than two and a half hours. The decision by the EU was made yesterday, 12/2/2022. The ban will affect routes between Paris Orly, Nantes, Lyon, and Bordeaux,...
by Pakalolo
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on Sat Dec 03, 2022 at 09:20 AM PST
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It's unclear at the moment, no one really knows what is the larger context. However, Transport Minister Volker Wissing spoke at a press conference earlier about what he calls "targeted and willful" approach and a "clearly intentional act." Note: No One...
by Jeffersonian Democrat
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on Sat Oct 08, 2022 at 02:06 PM PDT
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Late last year, an infrastructure bill finally made it through Congress. This, along with other programs, is going to make a huge difference in the way millions of people live in the greater New ...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 07:46 PM PDT
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Please excuse the length of this cathartic piece. It is very much a “Dear Diary, well it’s been a funny old start to 2022” for reasons you will understand. In part its a manifesto to “Blog Back Better” after the manifesto using a sort of...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Mon May 23, 2022 at 01:37 PM PDT
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I had to do an errand Tuesday which meant I could take the brand new Elizabeth line railway (note the official lower case L) rather than a much slower route. (I fib. I rearranged handing over the keys to a late friend’s apartment to the landlord from...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Tue May 24, 2022 at 08:27 PM PDT
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Charlie Pierce has taken note of the latest from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and he’s not taking it lightly. In the future, when historians are doing their work, many of them in underwater archives, they are going to be...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Aug 09, 2021 at 10:48 AM PDT
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Let's talk about the Exxon Mobil bipartisan infrastructure bill: following the money, what's missing Via MarketWatch, Basav Sen of the Climate Policy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies details how Exxon Mobil dictated key elements of the bill, stripping out some vital measures that would deal with climate — but hurt Exxon Mobil’s bottom line....
by xaxnar
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on Fri Jul 30, 2021 at 09:13 AM PDT
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Equity firm forgave 130,000,000 Trump loan in exchange for LNG rail cars up the SE Coast of Florida. “It would only take 22 tank cars to hold the equivalent energy of the Hiroshima bomb,” Jordan Luebkemann, a lawyer for Earth Justice. Florida Bulldog is an investigative news site. In September, they wrote on how a private equity firm forgave an...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Oct 30, 2020 at 03:40 AM PDT
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Good morning, Newdists. Lets celebrate Thursday. . . . Moscow, Russia . . Istanbul, Turkey . . Wroclaw Train Station, Poland .
by Crimson Quillfeather
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on Thu Jan 23, 2020 at 07:30 AM PST
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