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...this trip then at some point. Right now India gets only 3 percent of its energy from nuclear power, and it hopes that figure will rise to as much as 25 percent by 2050 - both to reduce its energy imports and to limit the use of its own coal supplies, which are highly polluting. The U.S. wants to be part of India?s nuclear growth and to see it take place under international oversight...
...usually) tantalizing aroma of chocolate that wafts over Chicago, is a beloved local institution. So when the EPA responded to an anonymous complaint by telling the factory to eliminate the smell, it provoked a storm of protest from residents of the Windy City. The fact that six coal-fired power plants in the area have racked up more than 7,600 uncited violations since 1999 only further fueled their outrage...
...issue could make Wilson the political canary in the '06 coal mine. Up for re-election--in a dead heat with New Mexico's attorney general--Wilson has received more than 500 letters about the controversial program. Last week she started getting ones thanking her for taking on Bush...
...Soulful Last Words TIME's verbatim column quoted the note left by Martin Toler Jr., one of the coal miners who died after being trapped by an explosion in a West Virginia mine [Jan. 16]. Toler wrote: "It wasn't bad/ just went to sleep." I was so moved when I read those words that I immediately went online to find the rest of the message Toler left to comfort his family and friends. He had also scrawled, "Tell all I love them, I'll see them on the other side." At the moment when death was taking everything from...
...green leaf. No single agenda would addresses as many core U.S. strategic issues as a revamped energy policy. Achieving energy independence could at once un-muddy U.S. foreign policy and curtail potentially irreversible damage to the environment through the use of emission-free renewable, nuclear, or clean coal energy sources. Moreover, investment in the area in the long run would stimulate economic growth by creating new jobs and putting the U.S. back on the cutting edge of energy technology. Unfortunately, it seems that President Bush has answered the praiseworthy, yet ultimately powerless, calls for an energy initiative on the scale...