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Two food cities: Restaurateurs compare Minneapolis and St. Paul	18.5.2013	MinnPost
It's a tried-and-true topic here — the differences between the two non-identical Twins. Familiar truisms abound — St. Paul is more tradition-minded, more respectful of its past, more Catholic, more "Eastern" (as in possessing neighborhoods, like Cathedral Hill, that put you in mind of Boston's South End). Minneapolis is more "Western" — more Denverish — more Lutheran, more restless and trendy. There's some truth to this set of contrasts, as well as some overemphases and some strong emerging counter-trends. We thought that it might be interesting to get a food-business point of view on this perennial topic, so we asked owners and managers at three locally based restaurants with locations in both St. Paul and Minneapolis how the two towns were different, from a foodie's perspective. No Twin Cities restaurateur, of course, would ever tell a reporter which city he or she likes better; it's like asking which of their kids they like better — and it's commercial suicide too. But people in ...
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Doctors Confirm Black Lung In Victims Of Mine Blast	17.5.2013	NPR News
A study of mine blast victims finds further evidence that there's a resurgence of black lung among coal miners. The relatively young ages of some of the miners and their limited tenure underground suggests significant exposure to coal dust.
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Natural gas industry has a 'fracking' wastewater problem, study says	17.5.2013	MSNBC
Natural gas industry has a 'fracking' wastewater problem, study says
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As Europe struggles, the Franco-German alliance turns testy	16.5.2013	MinnPost
Photoshopped images of German Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed in Nazi uniform have become a common sight at angry protests across Europe , especially in southern countries that disagree with her budget-cutting prescription to lead the Continent out of its debt crisis. But it is a far less provocative message of European discontent, coming from the ruling party of France , that has some more worried. In a recent draft document, French Socialist politicians blamed Ms. Merkel’s “selfish intransigence,” and dubbed her the “chancellor of austerity,” with some even publicly picking a fight with the German leader. In doing so, they are putting to the test one of the cornerstones of the European Union : the Franco-German alliance. The relationship between the two powers has always been fraught due to their profoundly different political systems and cultures. And today the cohesion of the 27-member EU is founded on much more than just the relationship between the two biggest economies of the ...
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Tri-State calls for renewable mandate veto (Cached)	16.5.2013	Durango Herald
DENVER x2013 The company that supplies coal-powered electricity to rural Colorado is waging a media campaign to try to convince Gov. John Hickenlooper to veto a renewable-energy bill.Itx2019s the biggest political advertising blitz since last fallx2019s election, and it included a full-page ad and half-page ad Sunday in The...
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Letters: No plans for new investment in coal	16.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Your article ( European energy chief puts forward case for funding coal , 12 May) says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has "hinted it may expand funding of high-carbon coal projects despite mounting pressure from climate change campaigners to rule out such investments". This suggestion is wrong. The EBRD is not considering an expansion of its funding of coal projects. The EBRD has been pioneering in its development of a sustainable energy initiative which is actively promoting energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources across the regions where it invests. The EBRD may, on a selective basis and taking into account the lack of availability of alternative sources of energy, consider financing coal-fired projects that would replace highly polluting existing plants with new state of the art ones, thus improving energy efficiency and lowering emissions. But there is no consideration of a policy of expanding its funding for coal projects. Anthony Williams European ...
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Climate change activists say they blocked freighter from delivering coal to Mass. power plant	15.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Climate change activists say they blocked freighter from delivering coal to Mass. power plant
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DealBook: Sony and Activist Investor Meet Politely	15.5.2013	NY Times: Business
DealBook: Sony and Activist Investor Meet Politely
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World Bank rethinks stance on large-scale hydropower projects	14.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Despite their disruption, can dams help the organisation work towards ending poverty while keeping carbon emissions down? The World Bank is making a major push to develop large-scale hydropower, something it had all but abandoned a decade ago but now sees as crucial to resolving the tension between economic development and the drive to tame carbon use. Major hydropower projects in Democratic Republic of the Congo , Zambia , Nepal and elsewhere – all of a scale dubbed "transformational" to the regions involved – are part of the bank's fundraising drive among wealthy nations. Bank lending for hydropower has scaled up in recent years, and officials expect the trend to continue. Such projects were shunned in the 1990s, in part because they can be disruptive to communities and ecosystems. But the World Bank is opening the taps for dams and related infrastructure as its president, Jim Yong Kim, tries to resolve a quandary at the bank's core: how to eliminate poverty while adding as little as ...
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Oil demand in developing nations overtakes industrialised world	14.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Shale oil has rapidly boosted oil production in the US, presaging a revolution in oil to mirror that in gas production Developing countries have overtaken the industrialised world for the first time in their thirst for oil, according to the world's leading energy authority. This transformation in the demand for oil has come as production of the fuel has boomed in the US, "sending ripples through the global markets", the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesday . Shale oil – the technique of blasting apart dense rocks under high pressure to release fossil fuels trapped within – has rapidly boosted oil production in the US, presaging a revolution in oil to mirror that in gas production. The US pioneered shale gas production in the past decade , resulting in a gas glut in the country that has sent gas prices plunging and led to a massive switch from coal to gas for electricity generation. As with shale gas, the newfound oil supplies are likely to be used first to slake demand ...
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AP: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths	14.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.
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Poor marks for Senate candidate Markey’s energy record	14.5.2013	Washington Post: Op-Eds
I don’t have a dog in the Senate fight in Massachusetts between 18-term Rep. Ed Markey (D) and Republican Gabriel Gomez, a former Navy SEAL. But if energy policy matters to voters up there, they should hold Markey accountable for not adapting to new realities that have emerged since he came to Congress in the ...
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Minnesota solar energy mandate closer to becoming law	14.5.2013	Twincities.com: News
Legislation mandating that Minnesota's largest utilities use solar energy is closer to becoming law, meaning less coal will be burned and utility bills will probably increase for many state residents.
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Natural gas export plans stir debate	13.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking.
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Natural gas export plans stir debate	13.5.2013	Seattle Times: Politics
A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking.
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Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants	13.5.2013	LA Times: Nation
Clock is ticking, slowly, on rules for coal-fired power plants
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CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend, say experts	13.5.2013	MSNBC
CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend, say experts
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European energy chief puts forward case for funding coal	13.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
EBRD chief Riccardo Puliti warns Europe not to be hasty in adopting 'ideological' policy on carbon intensity funding One of Europe's most influential government-owned investors in the energy industry has hinted it may expand funding of high-carbon coal projects despite mounting pressure from climate change campaigners to rule out such investments. Riccardo Puliti, energy chief at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), warned against an "ideological" policy on carbon intensity in funding decisions without giving weight to other considerations. The EBRD, which is based in London and owned by more than 60 countries, including the UK, is reviewing its energy policy. It has a €37.5bn (£32bn) loan book, with 41% of its investments last year channelled into the energy and infrastructure sectors. Puliti's comments came as scientists declared the highest day-long concentration of C0 2 in human history and a line of global institutions such as the International Energy ...
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Parts of UK Coal may be nationalised after colliery fire closes pit	13.5.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Ministers discuss returning parts of UK Coal to public ownership in attempt to save retirement savings for 6,000 members Troubled parts of UK Coal, Britain's largest coal mining business, could return to public ownership under plans being discussed by ministers that would protect some or all of the company's ailing pension scheme. Ministers are in daily contact with the company and union representatives, acutely aware that a failure of the business would wipe almost £360m off the value of retirement savings for 6,800 pension scheme members and saddle the government-sponsored Pension Protection Fund (PPF) with a £540m bill. The future of UK Coal, which runs three of Britain's last remaining deep pits, was plunged into uncertainty in February when a fire broke out causing the closure of its largest deep-pit colliery, Daw Mill in Warwickshire. The underground blaze, which is still burning, has resulted in 650 miners being put out of work and has cost UK Coal £160m in lost coal and a £100m in ...
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Project aims to track big city carbon footprints	12.5.2013	AP National
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward....
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