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Forests key to mitigating climate change.
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Trudeau to get energy and environment award at Houston energy conference.
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Wind power blows through nuclear, coal as costs plunge at sea.
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Regulators demand repair of leaking Alaska gas pipeline, citing public hazard.
Federal regulators have given oil and gas operator Hilcorp until May 1 to permanently repair a pipeline spewing more than 200,000 cubic feet of...
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