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The Motley Fool January 20, 2012 Alyce Lomax	Investor Action Thumps Government Washington may be slacking on climate change policy, but private investors are stepping up.
Chemistry World January 18, 2012 Rebecca Trager	BASF pulls out of Europe over GM hostility German chemical giant BASF has announced that it will halt the development or commercialization of genetically modified crops in Europe, and move its biotech R&D operations to the US.
HBS Working Knowledge January 18, 2012 Carmen Nobel	Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs Research reveals that a large number of social entrepreneurs are focused on local rather than global change, and on sustainable funding.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2012 Travis Hoium	Online Gaming Pressure Mounting on Feds States will end up forcing the Feds to act on online gaming.
National Defense February 2012 Stew Magnuson	Tough War Lessons Force Military Vehicle Programs To Consider Fuel Efficiency Moving fuel to and around battle zones that have no "front lines" has an extraordinarily high price in terms of money and lives.
National Defense February 2012 Eric Beidel	Improving Bad Driving Habits Can Lead to Fuel Savings in Military Vehicles Experts are focusing on smaller changes -- both to the vehicles and how they are operated. This includes taking a hard look at who is driving them.
Chemistry World January 17, 2012 Rebecca Trager	EPA Publicises Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data The US Environmental Protection Agency has for the first time released comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions data on large facilities and made them available online. But the American Chemistry Council says the new EPA data misrepresents the chemical industry's total GHG emissions.
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Yan Yan	China mulls tax on carbon emissions Following more encouraging sounds from the Chinese government at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, on reducing carbon emissions a proposal to levy a carbon tax is moving up the policy agenda.
Chemistry World January 13, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Ionic polymers open door to greener, safer explosives Highly sensitive explosives could become safer and greener by exploiting newly characterised ionic polymer structures, say chemists in the US.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2012 Dan Radovsky	What Hath Apple Wrought? Machines don't make iPhones; people make iPhones. Mike Daisey began questioning his near-religious Apple fervor after seeing photos of Chinese workers on an iPhone production line.
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