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Apple's Safari challenged by rival mobile browsers

2013-03-01 19:21:20| CNET News.com

Safari still accounts for more than half of Web tracker Net Applications' mobile-browser traffic, but Android's stock browser and Opera Mini are gaining ground. [Read more]

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Corn ethanol challenged

2013-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Living on Earth: Corn based ethanol makes up 10% of the fuel mix in the US and EPA has approved a 15% mix. But last year 20 ethanol producers closed up shop. Wallace Tyner, an energy economist at Purdue University explains to host Steve Curwood why small ethanol producers simply can't turn a profit. Transcript CURWOOD: The current gasoline we put in our cars - E10 - contains 10 percent ethanol. Corn-based ethanol helps provide income for American farmers, and a federal mandate for ethanol aims to reduce global...

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The nation's capital wasn't the only place climate-change protesters challenged business as usual

2013-02-19 15:20:26| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

In addition to the tens of thousands of protesters who showed up in Washington, D.C., Sunday to urge President Barack Obama to reject a permit for TransCanada to build the northern leg of its Keystone XL pipeline and generally call for action on climate change, there were smaller protests across the country.

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EU Wind Power Grows in 2012 - but Industry Challenged in 2013

2013-02-13 16:02:00| Transmission & Distribution World

The EU wind energy sector installed 11.6 GW of capacity in 2012, bringing the total wind power capacity to 105.6 GW, according to the 2012 annual statistics launched today by the European Wind Energy Association.

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