Report: Indiana power plants 4th dirtiest in US
AP - 44 minutes agoCoal-hungry Indiana ranks fourth in the nation for carbon dioxide emissions from mostly aging power plants that contribute to global warming, an environmental group said Tuesday.
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Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Project Will Proceed (Update1)
Bloomberg - 1 hour 24 minutes agoNov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Bruce Ratner’s $5 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn will move ahead now that New York’s highest court has affirmed the state’s right to seize the property, a spokesman for the developer said.
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BHP, Manila Electric, Woodside: Asia Ex-Japan Equity Preview
Bloomberg - 1 hour 38 minutes agoNov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The following companies may have unusual price changes in Asian trading , excluding Japan. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close, unless noted otherwise.
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U.S. Plans 38 Onshore Oil, Gas Lease Sales in 2010 (Update1)
Bloomberg - 1 hour 43 minutes agoNov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. will hold 38 auctions in 2010 for oil and natural gas leases on federal land as part of its commitment to developing domestic fossil-fuel supplies, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said.
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PetroChina Parent Expects More Discoveries This Year (Update2)
Bloomberg - 1 hour 44 minutes agoNov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- China National Petroleum Corp. , the country’s largest oil company, expects additional “important” overseas energy discoveries after striking oil in Sudan, Chad and Kazakhstan.
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Russia revises gas deal with strggling Ukraine
AP via Yahoo! Finance - 1 hour 59 minutes agoRussia and Ukraine on Tuesday revised their natural gas deal to lower the amount Kiev must buy next year, according to state-controlled monopoly Gazprom.
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Why we won't see a deal on climate change soon
Fortune via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Nov 24, 9:50 am ETLars G. Josefsson showed up at the UN General Assembly in New York City in September with a petition signed by 244,500 people that called for action on climate change, including the fixing of a global price for carbon emissions.
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Workers in a Green Building Take Care of the White Forest.
New Hampshire Public Radio - 1 hour 1 minutes agoThe new headquarters for the US Forest Service in Campton may make LEED Gold.
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Oil Falls as Economic Growth Revised Lower, Supplies May Gain
Bloomberg - 2 hours 9 minutes agoNov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell after a report showed that the U.S. economy grew at a slower level than previously estimated, and on forecasts that supplies gained.
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Cleanup plan released for Grants-era mine site
KOB 4 Albuquerque - Tue Nov 24, 11:51 am ETThe U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comments on a recommendation on how to clean up waste rock piles from past uranium mining activities at the San Mateo mine site northeast of Grants.
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Medvedev vs. Putin? Mystery returns to the Kremlin.
The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 4:00 am ETOnce again, Russia seems to be living up to Winston Churchill's famous description of being "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."
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Police: Ky. census worker killed himself
UPI - 2 hours 25 minutes agoLEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. census worker found dead in Kentucky tried to fake a homicide while actually taking his own life, investigators said Tuesday.
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Congress may probe leaked global warming e-mails
CNET - 2 hours 30 minutes agoLawmakers may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories may have misrepresented the truth about climate change.
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Sen. John McCain's Top 10 Earmark Tweets
US News & World Report - 2 hours 32 minutes agoJohn McCain tweets against costly earmarks, hitting pig waste, maple syrup, and lobbyist receptions.
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GE Oil & Gas installs LNG terminal in Adriatic
AP via Yahoo! Finance - 2 hours 35 minutes agoThe oil and gas subsidiary of General Electric Co. said Tuesday it is operating the first gravity-based offshore liquefied natural gas terminal that is expected to save time in the construction of an LNG project off Italy's northeast coast in the Adriatic Sea.
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Cleanup plan released for mine site
KRQE & KASA FOX 2 Albuquerque - Tue Nov 24, 11:23 am ETThe U.S. Forest Service is seeking public comments on a recommendation on how to clean up waste rock piles from past uranium mining activities at the San Mateo mine site northeast of Grants.
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Natural Gas Futures Rise on Forecast of Lower Temperatures
Bloomberg - 2 hours 49 minutes agoNov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Natural gas futures advanced for a fourth day in New York as forecasts for lower temperatures next week signaled higher demand for the heating fuel.
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Carbon trading controversy in Canberra
CNN - Tue Nov 24, 3:26 am ETAustralian power generators have threatened legal action if the government does not dramatically increase the level of compensation in its proposed carbon emissions trading scheme.
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USFS extends Bear Creek Snow Study
Telluride Daily Planet - 1 hour 45 minutes agoWhat was closed to backcountry skiers last winter in the silver and cold morning hours will remain that way: A ski-area-ran snow study in Bear Creek will continue through this winter on the heels of an extension granted by the U.S. Forest Service.
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Obamas' First State Dinner Marks Departure From Previous Administration
Fox News - 2 hours 58 minutes agoThe grand White House dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh marks a departure from the ones held by Obama's predecessor, George. W. Bush.
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Obama to honor Indian PM with state visit
AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Nov 24, 3:16 am ETBehind the elaborate ceremony of the Indian prime minister's state visit Tuesday, Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama will be working to smooth over differences on climate change and U.S. ties with Indian rivals China and Pakistan.
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