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MONTPELIER, Vt. - A Boston-based consumer and environmental group is bringing its campaign against bottled water to four states, urging them to cut hundreds of thousands of dollars from strapped budgets by ending their purchases of water in plastic containers. Full Story »
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Climate change and how it's affecting South Carolina's natural resources and tourism industry will be the focus of a round-table discussion in the state capital. Full Story »
OSLO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama defended the right of the United States to wage "just wars" as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, acknowledging that as a wartime president he was a controversial choice. Full Story »
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OSLO - Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impassioned case for building a "just and lasting peace." Full Story »
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's Air Resources Board is moving ahead with plans to delay the nation's toughest diesel emissions rules, allotting truckers wrestling with the economic downturn more time to invest in cleaner trucks. Full Story »
Copenhagen, Denmark - Nobody said crafting a new global warming treaty would be easy. Full Story »
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TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese researchers said on Thursday they had found a way to make plant leaves absorb more carbon dioxide in an innovation that may one day help ease global warming and boost food production. Full Story »
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TAIPEI (AFP) - Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is planning its first foray into solar energy with an investment in the island's largest producer of solar cells, a spokesman said Thursday. Full Story »
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BEIJING (AFP) - Despite China's pledges to improve energy efficiency, its carbon emissions could double by 2020 as compared with 2005 levels, surpassing limits seen as key to fighting global warming, experts say. Full Story »
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NEW YORK - Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install. Full Story »
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Officials believe that ice plugged up a pipeline and likely caused a rupture that sent 46,000 gallons of crude oil and water gushing onto snow-covered tundra on Alaska's North Slope late last month. Full Story »
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COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Just five years ago, anyone who talked of easing Earth's climate crisis by fertilising the seas with iron, scattering particles in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight or building a sunshade in space courted ridicule. Full Story »
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BEIJING (AFP) - China's envoy to the world climate change talks in Copenhagen has criticised rich countries for failing to fulfil commitments to curb carbon emissions and provide aid to developing nations. Full Story »
CLOVIS, N.M. - A company that wants to connect the nation's three massive power grids at a facility in Clovis, N.M., has applied for regulatory approvals needed to move forward with the project. Full Story »
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