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Canada, Alberta seek to assuage oil sands critics
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada will set up a new environmental monitoring system for the northern Alberta oil sands as it seeks to fend off harsh international criticism following revelations that oversight of the huge petroleum de...
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USDA awards $40 million grants to boost local farm/food projects
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday awarded $40.2 million in grants to farmers, ranchers and farmer-controlled rural business ventures aimed at spurring locally produced food supplies and renewable energy ventu...
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NRC sets vote on approving Ga. nuclear plant
ATLANTA - Federal safety officials will vote Feb. 9 on whether to approve what could become the nation's first nuclear plant in a generation. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a hearing on the Atlanta-based Southern C...
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Nature's Surprise: 365 New Species Spotted in Peru
- Hundreds of species never before seen in a Peruvian national park have been found during an inventory of the Amazonian forests there, according to a conservation group. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today th...
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UK minister quits Cabinet to fight criminal charge
FILE - This Wednesday, May, 12, 2010 file photo shows Britain's Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne wave for photographers as he arrives at the official residence of Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street in London. England's chief...
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Storm over climate change among weather forecasters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. But weather forecasters, many of whom see climate change as a natural, cyclical phenomenon, are split over whether they have a responsibility to educa...
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Feds: Mid-Atlantic wind farms take step forward
BALTIMORE - The view off the mid-Atlantic shore in the next decade could include giant wind turbines generating electricity for homes in several states if federal efforts to speed approval for the projects shave years off the process as...
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Lawsuit seeks info, damages in 7-year oil spill
NEW ORLEANS - An environmental watchdog group filed a lawsuit Thursday against the company it blames for an oil spill 11 miles off the coast of Louisiana, claiming oil has been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for more than seven years w...
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Spain's Repsol begins Cuba offshore drilling-sources
HAVANA (Reuters) - Spanish oil company Repsol YPF has begun drilling the first well in Cuba's long-awaited exploration of offshore oilfields that the communist country says hold both billions of barrels of oil and the key to greater pro...
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Feds declare Atlantic sturgeon endangered species
BALTIMORE - The Atlantic sturgeon, a prehistoric fish whose once bountiful populations were depleted by anglers seeking its coveted caviar, has been declared an endangered species by federal officials, a decision that could lead to move...
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