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Japan is going nuclear again, Fukushima be damned
The previous government planned to phase nuclear power out, but Japan's new leader intends to restart the country's reactors.
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The era of energy dinosaurs is coming to an end
The big, slow-moving dinosaurs of the energy world face increasing competition from a swarm of smaller, fast-moving mammals. Energy companies will update their strategies for a changing world, or they will perish.
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Drought is taking a toll on the Texas beef industry
Cargill is shutting down a beef processing plant in response to epic drought, and that's causing lots of trouble for one West Texas town.
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ExxonMobil wins and regular folks lose in $1 billion pollution ruling
ExxonMobil just made a billion bucks without having to drill or sell an ounce of oil.
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‘Peer-to-peer’ lending cuts out the Wall Street middlemen
Social lending outfits allow you to loan money to actual humans, providing a leg up for people who really need one.
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Former Trader Joe’s CEO: Let them eat cake — as long as it’s cake we weren’t going to eat ourselves
Doug Rauch is starting a store where poor people can buy the stuff rich people didn't want to eat.
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Entire food system may be contaminated with BPA and other plastic nasties
We can try to minimize our exposure to phthalates, but a new study suggests we're all eating plastic chemicals anyway. Yes, even the vegans.
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Shell to ‘pause’ Arctic drilling in 2013
Shell says it needs more time to figure out how best to drill the hell out of Alaska's offshore areas.
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Nine reasons China won’t need enough coal to justify coal ports in the Pacific Northwest
U.S. coal companies justify the push for coal export terminals in the U.S. Northwest by claiming that China's appetite for coal is endless. A new report shows that they are wrong.
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BP testifies: We knew about ‘big risk’ of explosion
A top BP official tells the court that the company knew there was a "big risk" of a Deepwater Horizon disaster before it happened.