Talks Raise Hopes for End of SF Transit Strike
Bargaining resumed between BART officials and ATU Local 1555 amid a four day stoppage that has crippled Bay Area transit. A trainee operator killed two workers in Walnut Creek during a maintenance run, prompting safety reviews and questions about strike impact on the accident. Residents express frustration but hope service will resume soon.
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Oakland
Calif
San Francisco Bay Area
BART
Rick Rice
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555
Antonette Bryant
Walnut Creek
National Transportation Safety Board
James Southworth
Southworth
Contra Costa County Coro
San Francisco
Karen Wormley
East Bay
Greenspan defends record amid crisis critics in new book
In a Sunday AP interview the 87 year old former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan discusses his book The Map and the Territory and defends his tenure. He concedes some errors but says his record was fairly good and notes lessons on bubbles fear contagion and regulation. He praises Janet Yellen and recalls Washington in the Ford era with Tip ONeill.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
U.S
Alan Greenspan
Associated Press
Greenspan
Fed
Andrea Mitchell
NBC News
Jon Stewart
Charlie Rose
Janet Yellen
Barack Obama
Yellen
Gerald Ford
Council of Economic Advisers
House
Thomas P
Tip” O'Neill
White House
Jerry
US carbon dioxide pollution falls 3.8 percent in 2012
The Energy Department reports energy related carbon emissions dropped 3.8 percent in 2012, led by a shift from coal to natural gas and efficiencies in vehicles. Economy and weather influenced the decline, with per GDP emissions down a record 6.5 percent from 2011 to 2012.
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Washington
United States
Department of Energy
America
U.S
Energy Department
Perry Lindstrom
Jay Apt
Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center
Lindstrom
Pennsylvania State University
Michael Mann
China
US sends armored cars to UN inspectors in Syria mission
The United States provided 10 armored vehicles to the United Nations to assist verification and destruction of Syria's chemical weapons.Costs totaled 1.55 million from the State Department fund, with Royal Canar supplying transport from Joint Base Andrews to the Middle East. The effort comes as car bombs and mortar shells target a Damascus hotel housing OPCW inspectors, highlighting risks faced by the mission.
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Washington
U.S
United Nations
Syria
United States
State Department
Royal
Damascus
Organization For the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
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SF Transit
Ner
Laurence Daniels
Fair Oaks
Christopher Sheppard
Hayward
NTSB
Washington, D.C
Oklahoma State University Transportation Engineering
Samir Ahmed
Ahmed
Jack London Square
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