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The EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program requires about 8,000 power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities to report their output each year, representing about 90% of the country’s emissions.

Harnessing the energy released when atoms fuse together could produce vast amounts of low carbon energy but most scientists believe commercial fusion power plants are still a long way off.

From BBC

A swarm of jellyfish has caused major disruption at one of France's largest nuclear power plants, for the second time in a month.

From BBC

Those emissions would have a climate-warming impact roughly equivalent to 27 gas-fired power plants operating year-round, even if the flares burned every molecule of methane released from the wells.

From Salon

An environmentalist, she along with environmental groups and residents worked together to stop the construction of a power plant.

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