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Last updated on  November 21st, 2009

EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells (AP): Click here
AP - Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.

Central America demands billions in climate damages (AFP): Click here

View of a damaged national road in the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 2008. Central American nations will demand 105 billion dollars from industrialized countries for damages caused by global warming, the region's representatives said on Friday.(AFP/File/Orlando Sierra)AFP - Central American nations will demand 105 billion dollars from industrialized countries for damages caused by global warming, the region's representatives said on Friday.



Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate (AP): Click here

Smoke billows from factories in Moscow. Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.(AFP/File/Denis Sinyakov)AP - Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.



Greenpeace rallies to stop deforestation in Indonesia (AFP): Click here

Greenpeace activists rally against deforestation in Jakarta. Hundreds of Greenpeace activists rallied in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation.(AFP/Adek Berry)AFP - Hundreds of Greenpeace activists rallied Saturday in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation.



Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico (AFP): Click here

Monarch butterflies in the Mexican state of Michoacan. The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests.(AFP/File/Mario Vazquez)AFP - The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests.



Trafigura waste victims waiting for compensation (AFP): Click here

A civil protection member of Ivory Coast points at a site polluted with toxic waste at the Akouedo district in Abidjan, 2006. Thousands of victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast are still waiting for compensation two months after a settlement was agreed because of a dispute over who should distribute the money.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)AFP - Thousands of victims of toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast are still waiting for compensation two months after a settlement was agreed because of a dispute over who should distribute the money.



Turkey sticks to nuclear power plan (AFP): Click here

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz, seen here in May 2009, said that the country is determined to build a nuclear power plant and will launch a new project to replace a failed tender.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Turkey is determined to build a nuclear power plant and will launch a new project to replace a failed tender, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz was quoted as saying Saturday.



The Day Global Warming Stood Still (Investor's Business Daily): Click here
Investor's Business Daily - Climate Change: As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December.

Nebraska ethanol plant fire produces lawsuit (AP): Click here
AP - The owners of a Lexington ethanol plant and their insurer are suing a subsidiary of a Houston-based natural gas provider they say is responsible for an explosion and fire that shut down the plant for weeks.

Asian carp may have breached electronic barrier (AP): Click here
AP - Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday.

Colo. to review taxpayer-paid lobbyists practice (AP): Click here
AP - At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside contractors $1.1 million to lobby Colorado lawmakers on legislation ranging from renewable energy tax credits to increasing motor vehicle license fees.

Vehicle fuel efficiency up in 2008 model year (AP): Click here
AP - The fleet of new cars and trucks sold to U.S. consumers averaged 21 miles per gallon in the 2008 model year, a modest increase over the previous year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Friday.

Fuel-efficient Goodyear tire available on Toyota (AP): Click here
AP - Goodyear said Friday the 2010 Toyota Prius now includes its fuel-efficient tire, Assurance Fuel Max, as standard equipment.

Permafrost thaw threatens Russia oil and gas complex: study (AFP): Click here

A gas pipeline is seen at the Russian gas compressor station in Sudzha near the Russian-Ukrainian border in January 2009. Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday.(AFP/File/Sergei Supinsky)AFP - Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday.



Turkey scraps nuclear power plant tender (AFP): Click here

Greenpeace activists lay in front of the Energy Ministry in Ankara in 2008. Turkey on Friday scrapped a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant -- a process that had been under threat of being invalidated by a court decision.(AFP/File/Adem Altan)AFP - Turkey on Friday scrapped a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant -- a process that had been under threat of being invalidated by a court decision.



Vt. nuke critics renew campaign against relicense (AP): Click here

A sign on a railroad overpass expresses someone's opinion about the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Berlin, Vt., Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.  Vermont Yankee, owned by Jackson, Miss.-based Entergy Nuclear, is one of 19 commercial reactors around the country currently seeking to extend their original, 40-year licenses, according to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Its operating license is currently set to expire in 2012. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Hoping to sway lawmakers, two of the state's most famous residents and one of its former governors joined groups opposed to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in announcing a push for Town Meeting Day votes on whether the plant should keep operating past 2012.



W.Va.'s Capito troubled by EPA response on permits (AP): Click here
AP - Rep. Shelley Moore Capito says she's troubled by what she heard in a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson.

LDK Solar completes sale of stake in Chinese plant (AP): Click here
AP - LDK Solar Co. Ltd., a Chinese maker of parts for solar cells, on Friday said it completed the sale of a 15 percent ownership stake in a polysilicon plant in China for about $219 million.

India PM heads to U.S. in test of ties with Obama (Reuters): Click here

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) poses with U.S. President Barack Obama as they arrive at the Phipps Conservatory for an opening reception and working dinner for heads of delegation at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 24, 2009. REUTERS/Chris WattieReuters - India's prime minister and U.S. President Barack Obama meet next week to strengthen ties, with the emerging Asian power increasingly playing a bigger role on global issues such as climate change and trade.



Shun beef to stop climate change, says India (AFP): Click here

An Indian farmer with his cattle in the village of Kamalasagar. India, a stronghold of vegetarianism where the cow is a sacred animal for the majority Hindu population, has urged the rest of the world to give up eating beef to help reduce global warming.(AFP/File/Strdel)AFP - India, a stronghold of vegetarianism where the cow is a sacred animal for the majority Hindu population, has urged the rest of the world to give up eating beef to help reduce global warming.



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