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2013/05/19 07:53
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Source of radioactive leak found in US nuclear power plant A view of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the US state of Michigan (file photo) The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), owned...
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2013/05/18 16:12
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Here's the news from 1991 – a vanishingly small number of peer-reviewed studies in science journals argue that humans aren't the cause of global warming. Here's the news from 2013 – since 1991, less...
2013/05/17 05:08
2013/05/17 05:08
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By BRUCE A. SCRUTON The Portland, Pa., power plant, dubbed by New Jersey officials as one of the dirtiest power plants in the region, will close a year from now under a consent order signed by the...
2013/05/16 16:22
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Duke Energy Progress shut down the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Wake County on Wednesday after the company discovered that the reactor vessel, which contains the plant’s nuclear fuel, showed early...
2013/05/16 14:20
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2013/05/15 10:21
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MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii, May 11, 2013 (ENS) - For the first time in human history, concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, have risen above 400 parts per million, ppm. Many...
2013/05/14 18:02
2013/05/14 18:02
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Ok, this is a little different, but it’s annoying, so I’m going to talk about it. Let me begin by saying I love the Union of Concerned Scientists. They’ve been wonderful advocates on climate change...
2013/05/14 13:42
2013/05/14 13:42
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News Media Help Koch Brothers and ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation Top News Outlets Failed to Cite Think Tank Funding in Two-Thirds of Climate and Energy Stories in 2011 and 2012 Washington,...
2013/05/12 16:13
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The troubles of electric-car-maker Fisker Automotive have fueled another round of debate about whether plug-ins can live up to their promises. The California start-up, which had already halted...
2013/05/10 18:19
2013/05/10 18:19
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COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI – Palisades Nuclear Power Plant remains offline while employees and inspectors continue work to identify and repair a leaky refueling tank that the NRC said resulted in 79 gallons...
2013/05/10 12:43
2013/05/10 12:43
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Farm Bill Debate, Healthy Farms, U.S. Agriculture at Crossroads Congress Should Prioritize Modern, “Healthy Farm” Practices When Farm Bill Debate Re-Starts This Month; Industrial Model of Agriculture...
2013/05/09 21:46
2013/05/09 21:46
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WASHINGTON -- When politicians talk about the need to maintain America as the destination for the best and the brightest in science, they probably have someone like Dr. Reena Pande in mind. Pande's...
2013/05/09 14:48
2013/05/09 14:48
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Last week’s vote on the creation of a Nuclear Advisory Committee pitted town officials against residents. This was unfortunate, and not my intention. The focus of the committee somehow got lost in...
2013/05/09 14:47
2013/05/09 14:47
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The owners of a planned crematorium in East Oakland will have to wait a little longer to fire up their business - on Tuesday, the Oakland City Council voted 8-0 to extend an emergency ordinance to...
2013/05/08 04:26
2013/05/08 04:26
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The developer of glyphosate herbicide says a U.S. paper in a Swiss online journal on entropy studies is "sheer hypothetical speculation" that uses a "piecemeal approach" to connect the chemical to...
2013/05/07 22:31
2013/05/07 22:31
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When President Obama met with South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday, one item was high on the agenda: how to handle North Korea, which has in recent months threatened to strike both...
2013/05/07 17:18
2013/05/07 17:18
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Latest round of negotiations in Germany on reducing global warming ended without a serious deal, environmentalists say. Political leaders are "not confronting special interests" to address climate...
2013/05/06 06:53
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In its zeal to push electric cars into the market, the state has created a system in which Tesla can make as much as $35,000 extra on each sale of its luxury Model S electric sports sedans. That's...
2013/05/04 14:42
2013/05/04 14:42
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World Leaders Lack Political Will to Make Progress at Climate Negotiations By Alden Meyer, Director of Strategy and Policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists Bonn, Germany - infoZine - The first...
2013/05/04 04:19
2013/05/04 04:19
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CHATTANOOGA — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission tracking of whistleblower complaints at nuclear plants lists both of TVA’s plants in Tennessee among the top five. The Tennessee Valley Authority’s...