Environment News
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China has taken on General Electric Co. and Western peers that control the $70 billion wind-turbine market, striving to repeat its 2010 coup when the Asian nation sold more than half the world’s solar panels for the first time.
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Limits on air pollution from U.S. industrial boilers would be blocked and replacement standards delayed under legislation passed by the Republican-led House of Representatives.
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Allan Ritter pushed a bill to make 25 million Texans pay an extra $3.25 a year to help provide water for decades. Then, with a record drought devastating farms and ranches, the state representative’s party leaders waded in.
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Radioactive radium-226 was the source of a high radiation reading in Tokyo’s Setagaya district yesterday, officials said, ruling out the possibility it may have come from the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors.