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U.N. Report Outlines Climate Change Solutions
Governments may have to extract vast amounts of greenhouse gases from the air by 2100 to achieve a target for limiting global warming, backed by trillion-dollar shifts towards clean energy, a draft ...
U.S. P/C Insurers Face Challenge in 2014 Trying to Match 2013 Performance
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry reported strong performance in 2013, but in 2014, the industry may find it difficult to match last year's results as insurers begin to face more ...
Spending Bill Delays Some Flood Insurance Hikes
Homeowners worried that new federal flood maps will send their flood insurance premiums skyrocketing would get some short-term relief under a provision tucked into the massive government-wide funding ...
Nasdaq Says Talks Over Market Glitches Too Slow: Reuters
Nasdaq OMX Group is prepared to walk away from running the data processor that was at the center of a three-hour trading halt in August, in a sign of its frustration with the pace of talks over ...
Federal Lawsuit Filed Over West Virginia Chemical Spill
Eastman Chemical Co., a Kingsport, Tennessee-based chemical manufacturer, was sued by West Virginia stores and residents who allege the firm concealed the cancer- causing elements of a chemical ...
Verisk to Buy EagleView Technology Image Library for $650 Million
Verisk Analytics Inc., the supplier of data to insurers and banks, agreed to buy EagleView Technology Corp. for $650 million in cash, adding an image library that encompasses about 90 percent of U.S. ...
Shedding Light on ‘Dark Side’ of Internet of Things
The futuristic world of self-driving cars, eyeglasses that e-mail and trash cans that call for pickup is running into the old-fashioned pace of doing business in Washington. Companies from Google ...
Court Says Silicon Valley Workers May Pursue Pay Collusion Case As a Class
Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers won clearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc., Google Inc. and other companies of conspiring to drive down pay by not poaching each other's staff, after ...