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		<title>Where has the oil in the Gulf of Mexico gone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since BP used an experimental cap to stop oil from flowing nearly two weeks ago, not much crude has shown up on the water&#8217;s surface. So, where has the oil in the Gulf of Mexico gone? Jane Lubchenco, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said scientists are working on producing an estimate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Rare Ecuadorian Bird Species Given U.S. Endangered Status, Including One of Darwin&#8217;s Finches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO— In response to decades-old listing petitions and a series of lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated two rare South American bird species as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act: the black-breasted puffleg, a hummingbird native to Ecuador, and the medium tree finch, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kern County (Southern California) under state of emergency as result of spreading wildfires</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles, California &#8211; Kern County &#8212; in southern California &#8212; was under a state of emergency Wednesday as a result of spreading wildfires that have destroyed 25 homes, caused more than 2,300 people to evacuate and burned 15,000 acres. On Tuesday afternoon, firefighters were called to a new wild fire southeast of Tehachapi. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Amazon Chernobyl.&#8221; Support justice for the rainforest communities of Ecuador!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, creating an environmental tragedy experts call &#8220;the Amazon Chernobyl.&#8221; This systematic contamination has left tens of thousands of local indigenous people and campesinos suffering an epidemic of cancer, miscarriages, birth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. government agencies preparing criminal probe against BP Plc, Transocean Ltd and Halliburton Co</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – Several U.S. government agencies are preparing a criminal probe of at least three companies involved in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, though it could take more than a year before any charges are filed, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. BP Plc, Transocean Ltd and Halliburton Co are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By Law No more Bullfights in Catalonia &#8211; Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BARCELONA &#8211; The Catalan parliament dealt the death blow to bullfighting in the region on Wednesday, outlawing the centuries-old spectacle for the first time in mainland Spain. The result of 68 in favor, 55 against the ban was expected, since Catalonia&#8217;s parliament had accepted a citizens&#8217; petition to stop bullfighting with activists concerned about animal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Rent-A-Car is going to start renting Nissan Leaf electrics beginning in January</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to try out an all-electric car for a few days before you decide to buy? Enterprise Rent-A-Car is going to start renting Nissan Leaf electrics beginning in January. There will only be 500 initially and they will be dispersed among eight cities: Phoenix; Tucson; Knoxville, Tenn.; Nashville; San Diego; Los Angeles; Portland, Ore.; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chevrolet Volt &#8211; The first mass-market electric vehicle at $41,000. Get it with government tax credits and rebates at $33,500</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chevrolet Volt, the first mass-market electric vehicle from General Motors Co., will have a sticker price starting at $41,000 when it hits showrooms later this year. But government tax credits and rebates designed to speed the entry of electric vehicles into the marketplace will make the price more attractive. There&#8217;s a federal tax credit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery of large natural gas reserves under waters of eastern Mediterranean could lead to new Lebanon-Israel conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIRUT – The discovery of large natural gas reserves under the waters of the eastern Mediterranean could potentially mean a huge economic windfall for Israel and Lebanon, both resource-poor nations — if it doesn&#8217;t spark new war between them. The Hezbollah militant group has blared warnings that Israel plans to steal natural gas from Lebanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Dudley the new chief executive of BP said: &#8220;BP Will Fulfill Commitments in the Gulf&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Robert Dudley, BP’s newly appointed chief executive, said Tuesday that the oil giant remained committed to its business in the United States as it moved to sell $30 billion in assets before 2012 to pay for costs related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP on Tuesday set aside $32.2 [...]]]></description>
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