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The Environmental Protection Agency is completing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wilderness areas, despite the fact that half of the EPA's 10 regional administrators have formally dissented...(more)
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President-elect tells delegates gathered in L.A. to debate tactics for reducing planet-warming pollution that his administration will help lead way to 'a new era of global cooperation.' President-elect Barack Obama sent an explicit message Tuesday to international negotiators of a new global warming treaty that, under...(more)
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The government should not use energy security as an excuse to build unabated coal power plants, according to a study by energy and climate experts.
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Barack Obama, who has spent much of the time since his election closeted with his advisers in Chicago, sent a strong signal today that he intends to make a decisive break with George Bush on environmental policy once he moves into the White HouseThe move was...(more)
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Virtually all of America's financial and political artillery has been dragooned into the great task of heading off a recession. This is exactly the wrong way to go. As painful as it will be in the short run, a recession is just what we need....(more)
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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Billionaire T. Boone Pickens expects to know within 100 days of Barack Obama taking over as president in January whether the U.S. government is going to adopt part of his ambitious and controversial energy plan.
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A supergrid of power supplies to protect Europes energy from the threat of a Russian stranglehold will be announced today.
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Quake tips * To prepare for an earthquake, secure objects that may fall over and cause damage, such as bookshelves or large televisions, said Mark Benthien, director of outreach for the Southern California Earthquake Center, who is helping to organize the Great Southern California ShakeOut. Latch...(more)
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Advanced drilling techniques that blast millions of gallons of water into 400-million-year-old shale formations a mile underground are opening up "unconventional" gas fields touted as a key to the nation's energy future....
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Another Danish photographer, Erik Daugaard, has some great shots of Copenhagen women on bikes, with... For the full photographic glory and the rest of the text, you know where to go.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A federal judge has rejected a seafood company's request to rewrite a plan for dividing punitive damages to be awarded from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Barring an appeal of Wednesday's ruling, lawyers hope to begin handing out punitive damages to...(more)
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Being brought up among wild creatures is not necessarily a fantasy out of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. Tippi Degré, the child of two wildlife photographers, spent most of her childhood with leopards and cheetahs, elephants and ostriches, and now a book is documenting her remarkable...(more)
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