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Independent senator Nick Xenophon says he would support a repeal of the carbon tax, but only if there was a good alternative.

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Xenophon supports repealing carbon tax

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Fuego volcano belched burning lava and black ash into the sky early Saturday, leading the government to issue an airplane advisory and close sections of highway.

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Guatemala volcano spits lava and ash

(Reuters) – After a decade of promise, advanced biofuels makers are entering a crucial make-or-break period with the first of a new generation of production facilities about to come on line.

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Analysis: New facilities spotlight next-generation biofuels

In order to re-establish confidence in Europe’s power sector as an actor in the European quest to cut carbon emissions, a few conditions need to be met.

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Carbon trading has a pivotal role in European energy policy (Analysis)

(Reuters) – The United States imposed punitive tariffs on solar panel imports from China, the latest in a series of trade disputes between the world’s two biggest economies and sparking accusations by Beijing of protectionism.

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China cries foul after U.S. sets tariffs on solar imports

LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – To reach its strict climate targets and fulfill Chancellor Angela Merkel’s nuclear exit plans, Germany needs to avoid coal and build a stack of gas power plants to secure clean energy supplies beyond 2020.

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Analysis: Germany’s Merkel losing green battle to cheap coal

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The Humane Society of the United States is accusing an Oklahoma exotic animal park of allowing children to handle and pose for photographs with juvenile tigers in what they called “a petting zoo for carnivores.”

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Oklahoma park accused of letting kids play with tigers

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras, its navy, and oil industry regulators rushed to investigate multiple reports of an oil leak from an offshore field on Thursday, but said they found no signs of oil in the water.

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Brazil probes oil leak reports, finds nothing

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Firefighters struggled against strong winds on Thursday to halt the advance of Arizona wildfires that have charred more than 30 square miles (78 square km) of dry ponderosa forest, brush and grass, and a blaze in nearby Colorado swelled overnight.

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Winds, low humidity bedevil Arizona, Colorado firefighters

It only takes some insight from Google to recognise that Tony Abbott's emotive rhetoric on the carbon price has won out. 18 May 2012 11:03 AM

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CLIMATE SPECTATOR: Why Abbott has won the carbon tax debate

(Reuters) – Apple Inc plans to power its main U.S. data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms.

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Apple to use only green power for main data center

BEIJING, May 17 (UPI) — The outcome of China's planned carbon emissions scheme could have a transforming impact on efforts to tackle climate change, experts say.

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China posed for carbon emissions scheme

SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — A new series of reports from University of California, Berkeley (UCB), University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and Resources for the Future (RFF) …

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Allocating California's Carbon-Market Generated Dollars

BRASILIA (Reuters) – An oil spill was discovered off Brazil’s coast near the country’s Espirito Santo state, Brazil’s Navy said on Thursday, the latest in a series of spills that have raised questions about the safety of a massive expansion of the country’s oil production capacity.

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Brazil Navy investigates new oil spill off coast

Australians will realise that Tony Abbott has “over-egged the pudding” when the climate tax is implemented, the climate change minister says.

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Carbon tax 'perfectly manageable': Combet

SAMSO, Denmark (Reuters) – Over a beer or two, Danes like to tell a story that goes like this: One night the energy ministers of the countries around the North Sea got together to divide up its oil and gas wealth. The Danish minister got very drunk, but the Norwegian managed to stay sober. As a result, Norway carved out a jagged shape that included Ekofisk, which has proved to be a major field, and Denmark was left with the dregs

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Denmark aims low with green energy policy

LONDON (Reuters) – Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Ltd this month resumed trading in coal derivatives more than a decade after parent Royal Dutch Shell exited the coal business and sold its mines, sources close to the company said.

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Shell re-enters coal with swaps trading

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – The U.S. government is seeking to close caves in national forests in the Northern Rockies to stem the spread of white-nose bat syndrome, a disease that has killed an estimated 5.5 million bats in 19 states and is spreading westward, officials said on Wednesday.

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Rocky Mountain cave closure sought over bat disease

TOKYO (Reuters) – After Penguin Number 337 made a daring bid for freedom from a Tokyo aquarium and vanished into the waters of Tokyo Bay two months ago, many feared the worst for the adventurous feathered fugitive.

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Fugitive penguin 337 spotted alive in Tokyo Bay

It’s hard to imagine why the price on carbon is being viewed as a tax grab given it will put the government in the red. But unfortunately it’s a perception that’s hard to shake. 17 May 2012 10:50 AM

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CLIMATE SPECTATOR: The amazing disappearing carbon tax grab