One year after a well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a smaller blowout Tuesday at a natural-gas well in...
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Greenpeace dings cloud providers on dirty energy
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Obama calls out 'climate change deniers in Congress'
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Biofuels may provide 27% of transport fuel by 2050 versus 2% now, IEA says
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US natgas well blowout raises safety concerns
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BP sues Transocean for $40B; also sues maker of blowout preventer
BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner of the rig that exploded, alleging that...
Nissan says it will deliver 20,000 electric cars by September
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