BEIJING, Jan 17- Chinese leaders dazzled the world by clearing the skies as if by edict before the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008. Fast forward to January 2013, and the government seems powerless against those same skies, tarnished by an opaque, toxic cloud that has smothered the city for nearly a week.
SAO PAULO, Jan 16- Investors have a message for initial public offering candidates in Brazil: be careful how you price your IPO or it will founder. Stung by a string of deals that failed to deliver the promised returns, investors are being extra cautious in Brazil, casting a dark cloud over a pipeline of some $6 billion of potential IPO transactions in 2013..
WASHINGTON, Dec 21- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has softened rules to curb pollution from industrial boilers and large incinerators, revising earlier versions to target only the largest polluters and give them more time to comply.
*Army Corps excavating Mississippi River- bottom rock. Dec 18- The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers on Tuesday began clearing rocks from a shallow stretch of the drought-hit Mississippi River- its largest such undertaking in at least 25 years- to maintain the flow of billions of dollars' worth of goods to Gulf Coast ports.
*Army Corps excavating Mississippi river-bottom rock. Dec 18- The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, in its largest such undertaking in at least 25 years, on Tuesday began clearing a shallow stretch of the drought-hit Mississippi River of rocks impeding the flow of billions of dollars' worth of goods to the Gulf Coast.