The country's top nuclear regulatory body on Monday announced a 90-day review of nuclear reactors in the United States to determine whether stronger oversight is...
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Interior touts support for coal, oil amid GOP attacks
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Damaged equipment, spent fuel hamper efforts at Japanese nuclear plant
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California judge orders delay of carbon-market rules to study alternatives
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Genetically engineered microbe produces butanol directly from cellulose
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U.S. says Shell on track to start first new deepwater drilling in gulf since BP spill
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Monday announced a step toward approval of the first new deepwater oil and gas exploratory drilling plan in the Gulf of Mexico...
Quake scuttles mission to study deep-sea carbon
Japan's half-billion-dollar deep-sea drilling vessel was also a casualty of the tsunami following the massive 11 March earthquake. The Chikyu was docked at Hachinohe,...
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