environment
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As much as a month's worth of rain could fall in Wales and the south of England over the next few days, but water companies say it will not be enough to replenish reservoirs.
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Ministers attending clean energy summit in London to be gravely warned about continuing global addiction to fossil fuelsGovernments are falling badly behind on low-carbon energy, putting carbon reduction targets out of reach and pushing the world to the brink of catastrophic climate change, the world's leading...(more)
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More Britons than not regard subsidies for wind power as a good deal, an opinion poll suggests on the eve of a major clean energy conference.
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The Environmental Protection Agency issued its first standards for oil and gas companies covering air pollution from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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After Germany last year committed to closing its nuclear reactors, it's relying more on coal and importing power from neighbors that use nuclear energy.KLEINENSIEL, Germany — When the German government shut down half the country's nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, followed two months...(more)
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After more than five years of political and regulatory battles with the Israeli authorities, a solar power company has set up panels in the Arava Desert.
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The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, working in concert with a number of environmental and energy activists and researchers in Washington and Montana, announced Thursday a new push to get Puget Sound Energy to stop buying power from coal-fired Colstrip Generating Station in Montana. According to...(more)
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A coalition of well-known journalists, activists and civil libertarians have sued President Obama, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. , Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and other members of the U.S. government to push them to remove or rewrite this year’s defense appropriations bill, saying it...(more)
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An outbreak of 100 tornadoes raises alarms -- and questions
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Fertilisers used in growing feed crops for cattle produces most potent of the greenhouse gases causing climate changeMeat eaters in developed countries will have to eat a lot less meat, cutting consumption by 50%, to avoid the worst consequences of future climate change, new research warns.The...(more)
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The Environmental Protection Agency wants cleaner air at national parks across the country, including Guadalupe Mountains and Big Bend in Texas.
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More than 20 American companies have played roles in fostering a steady flow of illegal hardwoods from the Peruvian Amazon, part of a “well-oiled machine that is ransacking Peru’s forests and undermining the livelihoods and rights of the people that depend on them,” according to a...(more)
