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World cooling on biofuel solution to climate change (AFP)

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A palm oil plantation outside Pekanbaru, Riau. Once a golden promise in the fight against climate change, biofuels are fast losing their lustre as high demand for essential crops drives land clearing and pushes up the price of food(AFP/File/Ahmad Zamroni)AFP - Once a golden promise in the fight against climate change, biofuels are fast losing their lustre as high demand for essential crops drives land clearing and pushes up the price of food.


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U.S. suspends IBM from seeking new federal contracts (Reuters)

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A worker is silhouetted in front of a huge screen with the IBM logo ahead of the CeBIT fair inside a hall in Hanover March 1, 2008. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)Reuters - IBM is under investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over an $80 million bid it made in 2006 to modernize EPA financial systems and has been suspended from seeking new contracts with all U.S. agencies, the company said on Monday.


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Gore announces anti-warming effort (AP)

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Former U.S. Vice President and Chairman of The Alliance for Climate Protection, Al Gore delivers his speech to support Milan's winning bid to host the 2015 World Fair during a ceremony of the International Bureau of Expositions in Paris, Monday, March 31, 2008. Milan, Italy and Izmir, Turkey, were the only two cities bidding to host the 2015 World Fair, as Zaragoza, Spain, is hosting the event in 2008, and Shanghai, China, will be hosting it in 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - Former Vice President Al Gore launched a three-year, multimillion-dollar advocacy campaign Monday calling for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.


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US suspends IBM from seeking new federal contracts (Reuters)

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A worker is silhouetted in front of a huge screen with the IBM logo ahead of the CeBIT fair inside a hall in Hanover March 1, 2008. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)Reuters - IBM is under investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over bidding on a financial systems overhaul and has been suspended from seeking new contracts with all U.S. agencies, the company said on Monday.


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Gore announces global warming effort (AP)

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Former U.S. Vice President and Chairman of The Alliance for Climate Protection, Al Gore delivers his speech to support Milan's winning bid to host the 2015 World Fair during a ceremony of the International Bureau of Expositions in Paris, Monday, March 31, 2008. Milan, Italy and Izmir, Turkey, were the only two cities bidding to host the 2015 World Fair, as Zaragoza, Spain, is hosting the event in 2008, and Shanghai, China, will be hosting it in 2010. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - Former Vice President Al Gore launched a three-year, multimillion-dollar advocacy campaign Monday calling for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.


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US suspends IBM from seeking new federal contracts (Reuters)

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A worker is silhouetted in front of a huge screen with the IBM logo ahead of the CeBIT fair inside a hall in Hanover March 1, 2008. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)Reuters - IBM is under investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and has been temporarily suspended from seeking new business contracts with all U.S. agencies, the company said on Monday.


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US attorneys probe IBM-EPA interaction (AP)

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AP - IBM Corp. and certain employees received subpoenas from a federal grand jury seeking testimony and documents relating to a contract it sought with the Environmental Protection Agency, the company said on Monday.

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Gore announces anti-warming effort (AP)

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File photo shows Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chairman of Generation Investment Management at a news conference with Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch (LODH) Private Bank at Cointrin airport in Geneva March 11, 2008. Gore on Monday launched a $300 million, three-year campaign to mobilize Americans on climate change. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)AP - Former Vice President Al Gore launched a three-year, multimillion-dollar advocacy campaign Monday calling for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.


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Fact check: Obama and oil money (AP)

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks at a Town Hall meeting at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in Lancaster, Pa., Monday, March 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has seized on a key feature of voters' economic concerns — rising fuel prices — and is casting himself as the candidate who could bring about energy independence because he is not beholden to energy companies.


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Delaware wins high court fight over NJ (AP)

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AP - Delaware won a Supreme Court fight with New Jersey on Monday, likely killing a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal on the Delaware River.

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