Texans favored by Dow Corning breast implant settlement
About 5,000 Texas women are among 177,000 claimants to share 3.2 billion dollars under a tentative Dow Corning breast implant settlement. The accord, approved by a federal bankruptcy judge, still requires formal approval by plaintiffs and creditors, with details to be written and disclosed in two months and a voting date not yet set.
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Dallas
Texas
Dow Corning
Don Corning
Kip Petroff
Don Comings
Barbara Houser
Global warming raises Texas heat and emissions role
Texas cities set about 70 daily high records last month as experts tie warming to climate trends. Jurgen Schmandt of the Center for Global Studies and Houston Advanced Research Center notes Texas’ large role in greenhouse gas output. He and three other experts warn surface temperatures may rise 2 to 4 degrees in 60 years, citing industry in Texas as a major source of carbon dioxide.
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Austin
Texas
Jurgen Schmandt
Center For Global Studies
Houston Advanced Research Center
Enmandt
Public Citizen
Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition
Asarco Ratifies Three-Year Copper Contract
Asarco ratified a three year labor contract based partly on copper prices. The agreement covers about 450 workers at the Amarillo refinery and involves ten local unions representing four international unions. It also affects roughly 2,000 copper workers in Texas and Arizona, with Asarco’s facilities in El Paso and mines near Tucson and Hayden noted.
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Amarillo
Asarco Copper
Texas
Arizona
Asarco
el Paso
Mission
Silver Bell
Tucson
Ariz
Hayden
Ari
Wages and Copper Ties Drive Three Year Pact at Amarillo Plant
A new three year contract between Asarco and unions sets wage increases tied to copper prices and guarantees a total of 1.30 dollars extra per hour by the end of the term. The deal also expands pension benefits and medical plan improvements. The agreement follows a tentative pact in Albuquerque that averted a strike. Local leaders say ratification depended on a majority vote. The Amarillo plant, on 250 acres north of town, refined copper and precious metals last year, with operations dating back to 1922.
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Amarillo
Firefighting SEAT planes shown at Tradewind Airport
Amarillo area fire chiefs and Texas Forest Service officials viewed a demonstration of Single Engine Air Tanker planes used to combat High Plains wildfires. Since June 22 drops have occurred in several Texas Panhandle counties with 173000 gallons of retardant foam delivered, aiding local crews amid hot, dry conditions.
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Tradewind Airport
Amarillo
Texas Forest Service
High Plains
Joe Rice
Canyon Fire Department
Lons
David Weitz
Colorado
Montana
Texas Panhandle
Palo Duro Canyon
Firefighters battle 200 acre blaze in Harral Ranch area
Armstrong County firefighters from Claude and the Texas Forest Service fought a 200 acre plus fire on Harral Ranch in Palo Duro Canyon. Road graders aided as three Claude trucks and two Forest Service engines from Childress responded. Cause unknown per a Forest Service spokesman.
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Claude
Texas Forest Service
Harral Ranch
Armstrong County
Palo Duro Canyon
Forest Service
Childress
Gas pipeline fire cuts power and prompts demand cut
A fire on a Pinnacle Natural Gas Co. line near Hobbs New Mexico cut gas supply to SPS plants Cunningham and Maddox, reducing about 669 megawatts and prompting a voluntary conservation advisory across SPS service areas. One worker was burned. repairs rerouted gas via alternate lines and full power expected today.
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Hobbs
N.M
Southwestern Public Service Co
Pinnacle Natural Gas Co
Houston
New Mexico
U.S. Highway 62
SPS
Cunningham Station
Maddox Station
Ken Vaughn
Vaughn
Harrington Station
Amarillo
Texas
Oklahoma
Pinnacle
Mike Ethington
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Dow
Leslie Bryan
Max Albrigh Tobe
News Business
Stew Bryant
Bill Enrico
United Steelworkers of America
Steelworkers
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Union of Operating Engineers
Ounty
Les Rogers
Coun
Andy Taylor
New Frontier Aviation Inc
Fort Benton
Mont
Bill Elliott
Como
Jane
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