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Not Exactly an Unbiased Source of News on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill...
BP seems to have bought many phrases related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing). What this means is that people who do an internet search to find information about the spill have a good chance to see BP's official site pop up at the top of their search results.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Making Sure the Chevy Volt is Safe for First Responders
A friend of mine works part-time as a firefighter in a small town, and one of the things that he's often talking about is how dangerous airbags can be if you are a first responder. They might save the life of a car's passengers, but if they go off while you are crawling inside a car, or if you cut up the car in the wrong pace and hit an unexploded airbag, that can cause big problems. But first responders are trained for this and are adjusting their techniques to minimize risk. The same is true with elec... 
Fire in Rujigou coalfield in China. Photo: Anupma Prakash
The Coal, The Coal is on Fire, Let the...
China has the worst underground coal fires on Earth. These fires, which have sometimes been raging out-of-control for decades, destroy as much as 20-200 million tons of coal each year (nobody knows the exact number), which is more than Germany's entire annual coal production. Inner Mongolia, which is a part of China and not to be confused with Mongolia, is China's biggest coal-producing region (637 million tonnes of coal just last year), and it's also #1 when it comes to massive coal fir... 
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Peak Oil is not news to TreeHugger readers, but in the 
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