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RAW VIDEO: Russia meteor injures 1,100 in atomic bomb-like explosion
MOSCOW (AP) — With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows and spread panic in a city...
Tags: Science, NASA, Space Programs, Mexico, Vladimir Putin
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BP agrees to pay $4.5B; 3 employees charged
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of criminal charges and pay a record $4.5 billion in a settlement with the government over the deadly 2010 disaster in the Gulf of...
Tags: Prosecution, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tony Hayward, Litigation, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010)
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LETTER: Tempest In A Teapot
The wing-nuts are in their glory. Between the IRS focusing on tea party groups and the Justice Department collecting some AP reporters' phone number records, it's enough to make this classy anti-government bunch whoop with glee. Instead of fantasizing...Tags: NAACP, Internal Revenue Service
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Canada PM defends tar sands pipeline plan, saying oil will come into US anyway
Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — A controversial oil pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast "absolutely needs to go ahead," Canada's prime minister said Thursday, and he warned that the oil will be transported through America one way or another. Stephen Harper addressed...Tags: Environmental Issues, Stephen Harper, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Politics, Keystone XL Pipeline
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Liberals stage comeback to win in Canada's British Columbia -networks
ReutersBy Jennifer Kwan VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 14 (Reuters) - The incumbent Liberal Party won a handsome majority in the election in the Canadian Pacific province of British Columbia on Tuesday, news networks predicted, defying the pollsters who had...Tags: National Government, Kinder Morgan Incorporated, Government, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Politics
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COLUMN-WTO rules on one solar dispute, bigger lurk: Wynn
ReutersBy Gerard Wynn LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - Rejection by the world's trade body last week of preferential support for domestic solar panel makers in Canadian province Ontario brings helpful but limited guidance in a growing number of other disputes. The...Tags: Environmental Issues, International Organizations, World Trade Organization, Politics, Trade Agreements
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Left wing set to win in Canada's BC, may reshape energy policy
ReutersBy Jennifer Kwan VICTORIA, British Columbia, May 9 (Reuters) - The left-leaning New Democrats are set to reshape energy policy in Canada's Pacific province of British Columbia if, as expected, they seize power from the Liberals in Tuesday's elections...Tags: Vancouver (Canada), Environmental Issues, Kinder Morgan Incorporated, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Politics
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Don't save the planet
To the age-old question of how many conservatives does it take to screw in a light bulb, we now have a definitive answer: Just one, but it will take him weeks to chase down a vintage incandescent bulb because he won't touch an energy-efficient one. At...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Science, Radio, Entertainment, Environmental Cleanup
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Connecticut Beekeepers Worry About Pesticide Use
As part of the ongoing battle against Lyme and other tickborne diseases, public health organizations are asking residents in 11 Fairfield County towns to participate in a study to see if wiping out the ticks on rodents will help rein in the illnesses in...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Fairfield County, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Lyme, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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The Goldman Sachs banker turned Nature Conservancy chief
Mark Tercek had some horribly awkward moments after he left Goldman Sachs to run a U.S. environmental charity, the Nature Conservancy. At one of his first big staff meetings, he committed a total eco no-no by drinking from a plastic water bottle. When...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Coca-Cola Co., Coca-Cola, Staten Island (New York City), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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European Union to clamp down on pesticides thought to harm bees
The European Commission will tightly restrict for two years the use of pesticides suspected of harming bees, despite opposition from some of the 27 countries that make up the European Union. The European Commission, the EU's governing body, announced...Tags: European Union, Barack Obama, International Organizations, Politics, Food Industry
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Greenpeace lanza página en internet para captar denuncias de trabajadores petroleros
ReutersOSLO, 24 abr (Reuters) - El grupo ambientalista Greenpeace estrenó el miércoles una página de internet que busca atraer denuncias de los propios trabajadores de las compañías petroleras sobre los riesgos que conlleva la perforación para encontrar...Tags: Royal Dutch Shell Plc, ConocoPhillips
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