The European Environment Agency today published provisional data on average CO2 emissions from new passenger cars sold in the EU in 2010, showing a 3.7% drop compared to...
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U.S. environmental groups criticize government's objections to EU aviation emission plan
U.S. environmental groups are attacking the Obama administration's opposition to the EU's plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes, arguing...
Officials: W.Va. mine operator kept two sets of safety records
Federal mine disaster investigators disclosed a few pieces of new information Tuesday night from their year-long look at the April 2010 deadly Upper Big Branch mine...
DARPA to offer $30 million in attempt to accelerate synthetic biology
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Defense Department's high-risk granting body, is about to jump into synthetic biology in a big way....
Group sues to end N.Y.'s role in regional cap-and-trade
Members of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded and largely financed by oil industry interests, filed a lawsuit this week seeking to end New York State’s...
Gevo to proceed to jet engine testing of its renewable jet fuel from isobutanol
Gevo, a renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, recently announced that it had presented positive test results from fit-for-purpose testing of its renewable...
Jellyfish keep UK nuclear plant shut
LONDON (Reuters) - An invasion of jellyfish into a cooling water pool at a Scottish nuclear power plant kept its nuclear reactors offline on Wednesday, a phenomenon which...
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