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Chemistry World January 26, 2015 Phillip Broadwith	UK calls for fracking restrictions The UK parliament's Environmental Audit Committee has called for further restrictions of where and how fracking is allowed.
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US methane emissions reduction effort generates sparks The White House has set a new goal of cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40-45% by 2025.
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Katie Lian Hui Lim	Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity.
Information Today January 22, 2015	Amazon Web Services Announces New Wind Power Source The Amazon Web Services Wind Farm (Fowler Ridge) is expected to generate about 500,000 megawatt hours of wind power each year (beginning in January 2016) to help power current and future AWS cloud data centers.
Chemistry World January 16, 2015 Rebecca Trager	MFG Chemical fined after worker dies The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined specialty chemical company MFG Chemical nearly $90,000.
Chemistry World January 15, 2015 Ned Stafford	New EU law set to open door to GM crops After nearly five years of debate the European parliament has finally approved a new law that will allow EU nations to restrict or ban the cultivation of GM crops within their borders.
Chemistry World January 14, 2015 Linda Zajac	Veterinary painkiller threatens Europe's vultures When India, Pakistan and Nepal banned veterinary use of the painkiller diclofenac in 2006, the region's vultures finally had a chance to recover. The rapid decline in their numbers slowed significantly.
Chemistry World January 13, 2015 James Urquhart	Fish sperm spawns rare earth metal recycling idea As strange as it sounds, fish sperm could be a key ingredient for extracting and recycling rare earth elements from ore and materials such as magnets and electronic waste.
Chemistry World January 13, 2015 Emma Stoye	Taj Mahal browning due to light-absorbing particles The pollutants responsible for discoloring the Taj Mahal have been identified by scientists in India and the US, who found that the deposition of particulate matter is responsible for the browning effect on its iconic white marble domes.
Chemistry World January 12, 2015 Rebecca Trager	West Virginia chemical spill inhalation risk overlooked After the massive chemical spill from a tank at a Freedom Industries' storage site in West Virginia in January 2014, water company officials failed to consider the dangers of chemical vapor exposure and advised residents to flush contaminated water from their plumbing systems.
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