Energy & Environment

Last week President Obama announced $8.33 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear construction projects in Georgia, after three decades of an ad hoc nuclear moratorium across the country. For all of the coverage last week, the media frenzy missed an important part of the story--the destructive processes at the front end of nuclear power.
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As North America and Europe face their coldest winters in decades, many climate change deniers are taking the opportunity to do their best Nelson Muntz impression.
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When Barack Obama swept into the presidential office, it was because the public believed in his bold idea of Big Change. A year later, he's having a harder time garnering support for his small change results.
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Unless you're a rock dweller, you've no doubt heard about so-called "Climategate": The hacked e-mails from University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) that prove scientists have manipulated statistics to hide the fact that global warming is a hoax.
 
Or, a series of catty e-mails among colleagues, with no bearing whatsoever on the scientific reality of catastrophic climate change.
 
Like many things, it depends on who you ask—which makes it an interesting case study in news coverage.
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