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Libraries in suspense over lead regulations

Librarians across the United States are making noise about new federal restrictions on lead that could take books out of the hands of children.

Time.com: Drought Endangering Nuclear Power

Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply them

CNNMoney: Fuel efficiency and the American driver

More hybrids. More diesels. Smaller engines and fancier technology. And an initial sticker price increase that could total a couple thousand dollars.

Congress close to raising fuel economy standards

Congress is finalizing a deal that would raise the fuel economy standards for most U.S. cars and trucks for the first time in more than 30 years.

Fortune: In search of safe nukes

There is a remote valley in southeastern Idaho -- 890 square miles; desolate, dry and stunningly beautiful -- that is the place to go for atomic lore. It's the home of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), where on December 20, 1951, scientists succeeded for the first time in converting nuclear power into electricity. They lit four 75-watt light bulbs. The next day they lit the whole lab.

Fortune: Going nuclear

"We were at heightened security - we were at red," recalls Al Griffith, spokesman for the utility that owns the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire.

CNNMoney: Exxon linked to climate change pay out

A think tank partly funded by Exxon Mobil sent letters to scientists offering them up to $10,000 to critique findings in a major global warming study released Friday which found that global warming was real and likely caused by burning fossil fuels.

Money Magazine: SUVs, Small Cars and Safety

SO YOU'RE FEELING THE PAIN AT THE PUMP, and you're thinking about getting a smaller car. It's just that they're so...small. How could you feel safe, when SUVs still roam the highways? Easy, says Da...

Fortune: How Do You Feel About Nuclear Power Now? There are new reasons to build more plants--and new reasons to fear them.

On the western edge of the vast Nevada Test Site, where hundreds of nuclear weapons have been detonated, lies a dusty ridgeline known as Yucca Mountain. Located in a desert region of north-south mo...

Fortune: Pain and suffering on the march, fair wages for weak hitters, why Zoe got off easy, and other matters. SEXISM AND THE SINGLE PLA

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), departing from its traditional preoccupation with nuclear war, is now spearheading a campaign to alert the world to a different kind of holocaust: humans' d...

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