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NRC Will Rule by Month's End on TVA Nuclear Plant's Safety Status
2013-05-29 17:36:38| ENR.com: Headline News
Alabama-based Browns Ferry facility seeks to lift serious red citation because of a cooling system malfunction
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U.S. trees burned in British coal plants count as renewable energy. WTF?
2013-05-29 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Follow this if you can: Wood from U.S. trees is being shipped over to the U.K., where coal power plants burn it, producing more greenhouse gas emissions than when those same plants generate an equivalent amount of electricity by burning coal. The weirdest part? This doubly destructive practice is being subsidized in the U.K. to help the country meet its renewable energy targets. WTF? The BBC explains that when pine trees are grown in America, the best trunks are cut up for wood planks and sold...
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Ancient plants reawaken: Plants exposed by retreating glaciers regrowing after centuries entom
2013-05-29 03:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: When University of Alberta researcher Catherine La Farge threads her way through the recently exposed terrain left behind by retreating glaciers, she looks at the ancient plant remains a lot closer than most. Now, her careful scrutiny has revealed a startling reawakening of long-dormant plants known as bryophytes. La Farge, a researcher in the Faculty of Science, and director and curator of the Cryptogamic Herbarium at the University of Alberta, has overturned a long-held assumption that all of...
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Natural Gas Gets Burned As Power Plants Return To Coal
2013-05-28 18:00:00| OGI
Coming emissions rules would benefit Marcellus, Haynesville, Barnett.
Big six urge UK government to support gas-fired power plants
2013-05-28 01:00:00| Power Technology
The Big Six energy suppliers in the UK have urged the government to support gas-fired power plants, saying they would help the country avert a shortfall in capacity generation.
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