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Nikiski LNG Plant Closing
Channel 2 News and the Associated PressConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Corp. plan to shut down the Nikiski liquefied natural gas plant in Alaska after more than 40 years in operation. Officials cite deterioration in the LNG market for the decision. Exports from the plant went to Japan....Tags: Energy Resources, Natural Resources, Sean Parnell, Plant Closings, Marathon Oil Corp.
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Japan's central bank keeps policy unchanged, says economy 'picking up,' as trade deficit grows
AP Business WriterTOKYO (AP) — Japan's central bank says the world's third-biggest economy is "picking up" as demand recovers in other countries and remains resilient at home, though the trade deficit widened in April, for the tenth straight month. The Bank of Japan...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Japan, Energy Resources, Politics
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Japan says trade deficit widened to $8.6 billion in April as weak yen pushed imports higher
AP Business WriterTOKYO (AP) — Japan's trade deficit widened to a larger-than-expected 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion) in April as its weakening currency accentuated surging import costs. Exports rose 3.8 percent from the same month a year earlier to 5.78...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Japan, Energy Resources, Politics
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Out of the Blue: Speak up against San Onofre
Amid a spate of promising economic news, home values are climbing. Now for the bad news. For the first time in human history, the concentration of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is nearing the milestone level of 400 parts per million....Tags: Henry A Waxman, The New York Times, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Southern California Edison Company, Politics
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Radioactive tuna from Fukushima? Scientists eat it up
Marine biologist Dan Madigan stood on a dock in San Diego and considered some freshly caught Pacific bluefin tuna. The fish had managed to swim 5,000 miles from their spawning grounds near Japan to California's shores, only to end up the catch of local...
Tags: Science and Technology, Wildlife, Japan, Stanford University, Long Island
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Annapolis man to head FEMA grant program
President Barack Obama has named an Annapolis man to head the multibillion-dollar grant program through which the Federal Emergency Management Agency helps local governments prepare for disasters. Brian Kamoie, 41, will oversee a vast portfolio of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Government Aid, University of Baltimore, FEMA, Politics
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. ECONOMISTS PREDICT STEADY JOB GAINS The Labor Department is set to release employment numbers later this morning, and many analysts think they'...Tags: Iran, Google Inc., Mumbai (India), Shootings, Murder
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Fukushima nuclear disaster adds only small health risks, WHO says
The 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami that triggered a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station has resulted in only a small increase in lifetime cancer risks for people living nearby, and an even smaller...
Tags: Science and Technology, Japan, Leukemia, Birth Defects, Cancer
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From disaster comes knowledge
Beverly Findlay-Kaneko has used her memories of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan two years ago to start making a change in her new home of Huntington Beach. Findlay-Kaneko was in Japan when those natural disasters led to three...Tags: Japan, Energy Resources, Energy Saving, Energy and Resource Industries, Environmental Issues
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On Japanese tsunami anniversary, recalling Fukushima effects on ocean
It’s been exactly two years since Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami. The magnitude 9.0 shaker resulted when a portion of the Pacific plate was pushed into and underneath the North American plate, shifting the position of Earth's axis...
Tags: Pacific Ocean, Tsunamis, Japan, Natural Disasters, Health Organizations
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8 U.S. sailors sue Japanese firm over radiation from nuclear meltdown
L.A. NOWEight sailors from the Coronado-based carrier Ronald Reagan are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. for allegedly lying about the danger from radiation caused by the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant, according to Bloomberg News. The ship was... -
Major Quake Hits Off Japan, Sets Off Small Tsunami
CNNTOKYO -- A powerful earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday evening, rattling buildings in Tokyo and setting off a small tsunami. It also jarred nerves in a nation still recovering from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March...Tags: Tsunamis, Tokyo (Japan), Japan, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), Nuclear Power
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Dec 28, 2012
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Dec 7, 2012
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