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  • Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate

    AP – 22 mins ago  
    Smoke billows from factories in Moscow. Braking the rise in Earth's... AFP/File

    LONDON - Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change. Full Story »

  • EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells

    AP – 26 mins ago  

    YERINGTON, Nev. - Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. Full Story »

  • Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico

    AFP – 2 hrs 38 mins ago  
    Monarch butterflies in the Mexican state of Michoacan. The mysterious... AFP/File

    MORELIA, Mexico (AFP) - The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests. Full Story »

  • Trafigura waste victims waiting for compensation

    AFP – 2 hrs 50 mins ago  
    A civil protection member of Ivory Coast points at a site polluted... AFP/File

    ABIDJAN (AFP) - Thousands of victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast are still waiting for compensation two months after a settlement was agreed because of a dispute over who should distribute the money. Full Story »

  • Turkey sticks to nuclear power plan

    AFP – Sat Nov 21, 8:47 am ET  
    Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, seen here in May 2009,... AFP/File

    ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey is determined to build a nuclear power plant and will launch a new project to replace a failed tender, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz was quoted as saying Saturday. Full Story »

  • The Day Global Warming Stood Still

    Investor's Business Daily – Fri Nov 20, 6:40 pm ET  

    Climate Change: As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December. Full Story »

  • Nebraska ethanol plant fire produces lawsuit

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 5:51 pm ET  

    OMAHA, Neb. - The owners of a Lexington ethanol plant and their insurer are suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire that shut down the plant for weeks. Full Story »

  • Asian carp may have breached electronic barrier

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 5:13 pm ET  

    TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday. Full Story »

  • Colo. to review taxpayer-paid lobbyists practice

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 4:12 pm ET  

    DENVER - At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside contractors $1.1 million to lobby Colorado lawmakers on legislation ranging from renewable energy tax credits to increasing motor vehicle license fees. Full Story »

  • Vehicle fuel efficiency up in 2008 model year

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 3:58 pm ET  

    WASHINGTON - The fleet of new cars and trucks sold to U.S. consumers averaged 21 miles per gallon in the 2008 model year, a modest increase over the previous year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Friday. Full Story »

  • Fuel-efficient Goodyear tire available on Toyota

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 3:19 pm ET  

    AKRON, Ohio - Goodyear said Friday the 2010 Toyota Prius now includes its fuel-efficient tire, Assurance Fuel Max, as standard equipment. Full Story »

  • Permafrost thaw threatens Russia oil and gas complex: study

    AFP – Fri Nov 20, 2:03 pm ET  
    A gas pipeline is seen at the Russian gas compressor station... AFP/File

    MOSCOW (AFP) - Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday. Full Story »

  • Turkey scraps nuclear power plant tender

    AFP – Fri Nov 20, 1:07 pm ET  
    Greenpeace activists lay in front of the Energy Ministry in Ankara... AFP/File

    ANKARA (AFP) - Turkey on Friday scrapped a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant -- a process that had been under threat of being invalidated by a court decision. Full Story »

  • Vt. nuke critics renew campaign against relicense

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 11:41 am ET  
    A sign on a railroad overpass expresses someone's opinion about... AP

    BURLINGTON, Vt. - Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in announcing a push for Town Meeting Day votes on whether the plant should keep operating past 2012. Full Story »

  • W.Va.'s Capito troubled by EPA response on permits

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 11:32 am ET  

    WASHINGTON - Rep. Shelley Moore Capito says she's troubled by what she heard in a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson. Full Story »

  • LDK Solar completes sale of stake in Chinese plant

    AP – Fri Nov 20, 8:18 am ET  

    NEW YORK - LDK Solar Co. Ltd., a Chinese maker of parts for solar cells, on Friday said it completed the sale of a 15 percent ownership stake in a polysilicon plant in China for about $219 million. Full Story »

  • India PM heads to U.S. in test of ties with Obama

    Reuters – Fri Nov 20, 8:07 am ET  
    India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) poses with U.S.... Reuters

    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's prime minister and U.S. President Barack Obama meet next week to strengthen ties, with the emerging Asian power increasingly playing a bigger role on global issues such as climate change and trade. Full Story »

  • Shun beef to stop climate change, says India

    AFP – Fri Nov 20, 4:39 am ET  
    An Indian farmer with his cattle in the village of Kamalasagar.... AFP/File

    NEW DELHI (AFP) - India, a stronghold of vegetarianism where the cow is a sacred animal for the majority Hindu population, has urged the rest of the world to give up eating beef to help reduce global warming. Full Story »

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