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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 22:51
AP - 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.
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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 22:13
AP - 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.
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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 21:12
AP - 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.
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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 20:58
AP - 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.
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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 20:19
AP - Goodyear said Friday the 2010 Toyota Prius now includes its fuel-efficient tire, Assurance Fuel Max, as standard equipment.
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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 19:03

A gas pipeline is seen at the Russian gas compressor station in Sudzha near the Russian-Ukrainian border in January 2009. 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.(AFP/File/Sergei Supinsky)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.


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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 18:07

Greenpeace activists lay in front of the Energy Ministry in Ankara in 2008. 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.(AFP/File/Adem Altan)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.


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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 16:41

A sign on a railroad overpass expresses someone's opinion about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Berlin, Vt., Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.  Vermont Yankee, owned by Jackson, Miss.-based Entergy Nuclear, is one of 19 commercial reactors around the country currently seeking to extend their original, 40-year licenses, according to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Its operating license is currently set to expire in 2012. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - 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.


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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 16:32
AP - Rep. Shelley Moore Capito says she's troubled by what she heard in a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson.
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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 13:18
AP - 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.
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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 13:07

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) poses with U.S. President Barack Obama as they arrive at the Phipps Conservatory for an opening reception and working dinner for heads of delegation at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 24, 2009. REUTERS/Chris WattieReuters - 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.


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Date: Friday, 20 Nov 2009 09:39

An Indian farmer with his cattle in the village of Kamalasagar. 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.(AFP/File/Strdel)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.


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Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 23:05

FILE - In this March 3, 2009 file photo, Marvin Odum, president of Shell Oil Co., talks during an interview in New York. Odum said Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, the company did not ask a federal agency to delay a decision on the company's request to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's Chukchi Sea. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP - The Obama administration has delayed a decision on a request by Shell Oil Co. to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's rugged Chukchi Sea. The delay came after the oil company asked for time to respond to criticism of its plan to drill in the icy sea, a prime habitat for threatened polar bears.


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Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 22:41

A fishermen hauls out tuna in Spain. Environmentalists on Sunday warned bluefin tuna was on its way to extinction after a international meeting of fishery ministry officials trimmed catch quotas but upheld continued hauls of the fish, prized in sushi dishes.(AFP/File/Jose Luis Roca)LiveScience.com - That tuna in your sushi might be an endangered species, a new study finds.


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Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 20:47
AP - AES Corp., which operates several coal-fired power plants in the U.S., has agreed to put more information about global warming in its public financial disclosures.
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Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 19:47
AP - The Maryland Public Service Commission has approved an application to build a 50-megawatt wind energy farm atop Backbone Mountain near Oakland in Garrett County.
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Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 19:40

India's Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh attends a climate change workshop in New Delhi in October. 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.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Thursday for all countries to fix binding climate change targets next year at the latest, acknowledging that no such deal is likely at global talks in Copenhagen next month.


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Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 19:31
Reuters - Melting of the Arctic sea ice due to global warming is diluting surface waters and this is endangering some species of shellfish which need minerals in the water to form their shells and skeletons, scientists have found.
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Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 18:59
AP - A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an earlier court ruling.
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Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 17:41

Technicians repair power lines in Nuaille-d'Aunis, western France, in February 2009. Energy industry leaders on Thursday called for an international deal on climate change to tackle financial uncertainty and prevent potentially catastrophic global warming.(AFP/File/Xavier Leoty)AFP - Energy industry leaders on Thursday called for an international deal on climate change to tackle financial uncertainty and prevent potentially catastrophic global warming.


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