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Court rules california climate payments aren’t taxes.

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Infamous Three Mile Island is latest casualty of shale boom.

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The company behind the Dakota Access pipeline is in another controversy.

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VW ‘knew its cars failed emissions rules for Britain.'

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Local activists are turning oil politics upside down.

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