While some customers, and shareholders, appreciated the effort of a large company to engage on ground-level social issues, they questioned how workers such as baristas, many of them young adults who are not trained to navigate such difficult conversations, would manage.
Often governments, in times of austerity, don't have resources to gather detailed information and develop ground-level understanding of issues.
[A] Los Angeles cap-and-trade program designed to reduce ground-level ozone ended up issuing permits for more pollution than was actually being emitted.
The format, it is argued, misrepresents the nature of the choice at the ballot box and sucks attention away from ground-level campaigning where the real issues are argued out.
"Everyone on the street is well aware of ground-level ozone and that it is a serious health issue," he says.
In November, the Obama administration proposed regulations that would lower the allowable level of ground-level ozone, which can cause asthma, premature death, and other health issues, from 75 parts per billion to as low as 60 parts per billion.
How can The Times get a handle on the big issues, while at the same time keeping an eye on ground-level developments in the Occupy camps?
There were 20 days in the state this summer that had an unhealthy amount of ground-level ozone, or smog, compared with 6 days in the summer of 2004, according to a report issued on Monday by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The decision today dealt with new standards for two pollutants -- ground-level ozone, which causes smog, and fine airborne particles, commonly known as soot -- that the Environmental Protection Agency issued in 1997.
