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As Kansas utility pursues surcharge on solar customers, advocates want more data.
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Kansas regulators reject most of utility’s energy efficiency proposal.
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To save Chilean wine, producers head south.
Faced with increasingly inhospitable growing conditions, the Chilean wine industry is moving south and experimenting with new vines.
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Trump and Modi wrap climate change differences in shroud of silence.
President Donald Trump's first meeting with his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, went off Monday with a conspicuous omission when the two leaders...
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