energy
From grime to green: Chinese city transforms
October 19, 2011Shenyang, China - population 8 million - was once heavily polluted by blankets of soot and smog. Now, it is transforming itself into a growing center for green technology.
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Activists rally outside Ohio Governor Kasich’s energy summit
September 28, 2011Environmental activists rallied outside the Ohio State University Student Union, where Republican Gov. John Kasich held an energy summit.
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French nuclear site rocked by explosion
September 13, 2011On September 12, an explosion at Marcoule, a nuclear facility in southern France, killed one person and injured four.
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The Keystone Pipeline: can labor and environmentalists work together?
August 31, 2011Building Trades unions are backing - and transit unions opposing - the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, from the tar sands of the Canadian province of Alberta to the oil refineries of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Fracking: Are the regulators in bed with the oil and gas industry?
August 4, 2011The Environmental Protection Agency can't protect the environment because oil companies don't want it to. What the frack is that?
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