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Burned birds become new environmental victims of energy quest

2014-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NBC: Birds singed in midair by a solar thermal power plant in the Mojave Desert known as "streamers" for the smoke plume they emit viscerally highlight the reality that the quest for energy almost always causes some form of environmental harm, even through technologies considered green and clean. The same power plant that's creating streamers was nearly derailed due to concerns about its potential impact on habitat for rare desert tortoises, for example. Wind power projects routinely kill birds...

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Car wash held to benefit shooting victims

2014-08-15 02:10:08| Grocery - Topix.net

Friends and relatives wash cars Thursday at the Grocery Outlet store on Olympia Street in Kennewick to raise money for the funeral costs for three victims of last weekend's shooting in a Benton County.

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Judge OKs settlement with Tenn. coal ash victims

2014-08-05 22:56:58| Energy - Topix.net

A federal judge has approved an agreement by the nation's largest public utility to pay $27.8 million to settle claims from Tennessee property owners who suffered damages from a huge spill of toxin-laden coal ash sludge in 2008.

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GM's faulty-ignition fund taking victims' claims

2014-08-02 22:42:07| Automakers - Topix.net

By BY SHARON COHEN AP National Writer When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10 year old, with a machete scar and memories of a murdered uncle as reminders of why... By BY SHARON COHEN AP National Writer When he arrived at the Texas border, Celvyn Mejia Romero was a scared 10-year-old, with a machete scar and memories ... (more)

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