Environment
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Mild weather expected at the start of winter: Meteo France
[ad_1] PARIS (Reuters) – France and most of western Europe should have mostly mild weather at the end of autumn and early winter, Meteo France said in its latest forecast for the three months to…
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U.S. EPA to review how clean air, water laws affect energy sector jobs
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday it will review how bedrock laws like the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act affect energy industry job losses, one of several…
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U.S. marine sanctuary oil drilling report sent to Trump, not public
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross sent a report to the White House on Wednesday containing recommendations on whether to change the boundaries of 11 marine sanctuaries to allow more oil…
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Cost of energy in Britain is too high, independent review finds
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – The cost of energy in Britain is too high and is higher than necessary to meet the country’s climate change targets, an independent review has found. FILE PHOTO: Workers paint an…
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Frequency of excessive summertime heat seen rising across U.S.
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Nearly two-thirds of Americans, mostly in Western states and on the Eastern seaboard, have endured more days of extreme summer heat over the past 10 years than in previous decades, a leading…
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Green groups pressure automakers on U.S. fuel efficiency rules
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Sierra Club, Greenpeace USA and Public Citizen and other environmental and consumer advocacy groups plan to turn up the pressure on Wednesday in their campaign to stop automakers from lobbying…
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EU lawmakers demand five-year phase out of weedkiller glyphosate
[ad_1] STRASBOURG (Reuters) – The European Parliament called on Tuesday for weedkiller glyphosate to be phased out in the next five years, prompting the European Commission to drop its proposal for a 10 year license…
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Australia weather bureau says climate indicators near La Nina thresholds
[ad_1] SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday climate indicators were near the levels associated with a La Nina weather event and pegged the chance of the weather pattern developing this…
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Nicaragua will join Paris climate pact, leaving U.S., Syria isolated
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Nicaragua is set to join the Paris climate agreement, according to an official statement and comments from Vice President Rosario Murillo on Monday, in a move that leaves the United States and…
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Rhino, elephant poaching declines in Namibia
[ad_1] WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia recorded fewer cases of rhino and elephant poaching this year compared to recent years, the southern African nation’s minister of environment and tourism said on Monday. Namibia has one of…
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Typhoon Lan heads out to sea, leaves three dead and flooding
[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – A rapidly weakening typhoon Lan made landfall in Japan on Monday, setting off landslides and flooding that prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people, but then headed out to…
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Petrobras applies to swap environmental fines for services
[ad_1] SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Petróleo Brasileiro SA has applied to federal environmental agency Ibama to provide environmental protection services in exchange for wiping out all its fines for environmental offenses, the state-controlled oil…
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Typhoon kills at least two in Japan, prompts call for thousands to evacuate
[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – A typhoon roared towards Japan’s main island on election day on Sunday, killing at least two people, prompting a warning for tens of thousands to evacuate and the cancellation of hundreds…
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Powerful typhoon drenches Japan, soaks voters as they trudge to polls
[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – Tens of thousands across Japan were advised to evacuate, hundreds of flights were canceled and rail services disrupted as heavy rain and wind lashed a wide swathe of Japan on Sunday,…
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Four dead from landslide at Malaysia construction site, victim search to continue
[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Four foreign workers were killed and 10 others are missing after a landslide at a construction site in George Town, capital of the northwest Malaysian state of Penang, authorities said.…
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China says winter smog battle to have limited impact on economy
[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – The economic impact of China’s tough campaign against smog this winter is expected to be limited, a senior state planning official said on Saturday. A cyclist wears a face mask on…
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EPA abandons changes to U.S. biofuel program after lawmaker pressure
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has backed off a series of proposed changes to the nation’s biofuels policy after a massive backlash from corn-state lawmakers worried the moves would undercut…
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Solar industry fears for thousands of jobs should U.S. impose import restrictions
[ad_1] SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore-headquartered solar panel maker REC hopes to be exempt from potential U.S. restrictions on imports following a recent trade finding that said no significant injury to the United States had been…
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South Korea survey backs restarting construction of two nuclear reactors
[ad_1] SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean government-organized committee is recommending Seoul resume the stalled construction of two new nuclear reactors after an opinion survey it set up found nearly 60 percent of respondents said…
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U.S. House members ask EPA not to lower biofuels requirements
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter on Thursday not to lower some requirements for mixing biofuels into…
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South Africa commits to shale gas despite adverse court ruling
[ad_1] CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s mineral resources minister said on Thursday the government remains committed to shale gas exploration despite a court order revoking fracking regulations that pushes back plans to award the…
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Trailers could house those displaced by fires in California wine country
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Residents of Northern California’s wine country left homeless by the state’s deadliest-ever wildfires could be temporarily housed in federal government trailers, officials said on Wednesday, as the death toll from…
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Trump, Iowa governor discuss biofuels: governor's office
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds had a “very positive” call with U.S. President Donald Trump about the importance of biofuels to the corn-growing state on Tuesday, at a time when the administration…
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U.S. firm to build solar plants in blackout-plagued Gaza
[ad_1] GAZA (Reuters) – The Gaza Strip will have three new solar energy plants operating by April, the U.S.-based energy firm behind the project said on Tuesday, providing the territory with some relief from daily…
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U.S. regulator hints at changes to plan boosting coal, nuclear plants
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said on Tuesday that a directive from the U.S. energy secretary to prop up struggling nuclear and coal power plants has initiated an…
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Portugal's government faces no-confidence vote over forest fires
[ad_1] LISBON (Reuters) – A Portuguese opposition party launched a motion of no-confidence in the Socialist government on Tuesday over its failure to prevent the loss of human lives in this week’s lethal wildfires, the…
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India's Andhra Pradesh investigates planting of Monsanto's unapproved GM cotton
[ad_1] GUNTUR, India (Reuters) – One of India’s biggest cotton-growing states has formed a panel to investigate how 15 percent of the state’s cotton acreage has been planted with a non-approved genetically modified strain developed…
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Searchers pick through burned-out California homes for bodies
[ad_1] SANTA ROSA, Calif. (Reuters) – Search-and-rescue teams combed through gutted homes across California’s celebrated wine country on Monday, looking for the charred bodies of those killed in the state’s deadliest wildfires, as survivors slowly…
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Patchwork of destruction left by deadly California wildfires
[ad_1] SANTA ROSA, Calif. (Reuters) – Californians on Monday picked through the debris of homes and businesses incinerated by the deadliest wildfires in the state’s history while firefighters hoped to have the blazes contained by…
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Storm Ophelia batters Ireland, trees and power lines down
[ad_1] LAHINCH, Ireland (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Ophelia began to batter Ireland’s southern coast on Monday, knocking down trees and power lines and whipping up 10-metre waves, as the government warned the country’s worst storm…