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"Lawsuit: Quake Standards Altered at California Nuclear Plant"

"Federal regulators secretly and illegally revised the license for California’s last nuclear power facility — PG&E’s Diablo Canyon — to mask the aging plant’s vulnerability to earthquakes, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by environmentalists."

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 10/30/2014

"U.S. Oil Export Battle Heats Up as Drillers Group To Fight Ban"

"More than a dozen oil producers have joined to lobby the federal government to reverse the 40-year-old ban on U.S. crude exports, a move that supporters say would create jobs and keep the energy boom alive, a spokesman for one of the companies and a lobbyist for another one said on Friday."

Source: Reuters, 10/29/2014

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