Drought Forces Zambia to Start Power Cuts
Zambia will start electricity-supply restrictions immediately after one of the worst droughts on record caused plunging water levels at the hydropower dams it relies on for almost all its supplies, the
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California Urban Water Use Down 11.5% as Drought Persists
Californians living in the state’s urban areas cut their water use by 11.5 percent in August as conservation efforts expanded to meet a record drought. Water savings climbed from 4 percent in June and
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U.S. Renewable Power Generation Will Rise 6.3% in 2015
Electricity produced from wind, solar, hydropower and other renewable resources will jump 6.3 percent in 2015, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Renewable output, which also includes
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EU Makes New Proposal to Cut Emissions Intensity of Fuels
The European Commission proposed a revised measure to reduce emissions intensity of fuels for use in road vehicles by 6 percent in 2020. The draft law would establish methodology for calculating greenhouse-gas
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EU Moves Closer to Deal on 2030 Climate, Energy Strategy
The European Union made headway toward a deal on a strategy to shift to a low-carbon economy and boost security of energy supplies amid a natural-gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine. Energy and environment
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Solar, Wind Cost May Fall to Level for Coal by 2020s, Study Says
The cost of solar and onshore wind power may fall to the same level as generation from fossil fuels by the 2020s, energy consultant Poyry Oyj (POY1V) said in a report. Solar plants in Spain may produce
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Researcher Financial Conflicts Influence Flu Drug Studies
Researchers with financial ties to flu drug companies more often reported positive findings in their studies of the treatments, a new analysis found. Seven of eight studies that analyzed previous research
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Sweden’s Greens Plan to Close Reactors Ducking Parliament
Sweden’s Green Party has joined the government for the first time in its 33-year history and now wants to use that power to shutter the country’s aging nuclear reactors in the face of opposition from a
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BP Seeking Payment Reversals May Reignite Damages Fight
BP Plc (BP/) is seeking to undo payments to some victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill in a move opposing lawyers warn could open the floodgates to challenging hundreds of thousands of individual damage-claim
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Zimbabwe Tobacco Revival Causes Forests to Go Up in Smoke
Jeremiah Sarudza stands outside his mud and thatch hut and watches his wife and children prepare a tobacco field surrounded by tree stumps. The 32-year-old, like most of Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers,
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Farmers Stung Twice by Grupo Mexico Spill Fouling Waters
Marco Antonio Corrales has given up on the peanut and alfalfa crops he was growing this season along the banks of the Sonora River in northern Mexico. That’s because the waterway, polluted by a copper