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"Apple Deal, Tax Change Could Spark Corporate Solar Stampede" [1]

"Apple Inc's deal to buy nearly $1 billion of power from a massive First Solar Inc plant could be the first of a stampede of contracts driven by the looming change in a solar tax incentive that makes such projects particularly attractive."

Source: Reuters [2], 02/12/2015

"Total, French Oil Giant, Reports $5.7 Billion Loss in Fourth Quarter" [3]

"Total, the Paris-based oil giant, on Thursday reported a loss of $5.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2014 as it struggles with the deep slump in oil prices."

Source: NY Times [4], 02/12/2015

Obama Administration Plans to Aggressively Target Wildlife Trafficking [5]

"Hoping to stem illegal wildlife trafficking, the Obama administration on Wednesday introduced an aggressive plan for taking on traffickers that will include using American intelligence agencies to track and target those who benefit from the estimated $20-billion-a-year market."

Source: NY Times [6], 02/12/2015

UN Deal To Combat Warming Complicated as Length of Draft Text Balloons [7]

"Almost 200 nations complicated a drive for a U.N. deal to combat climate change in 2015 on Wednesday by more than doubling the length of a draft negotiating text to about 100 pages of radically varying solutions."

Source: Reuters [8], 02/12/2015

"Smoking's Death Toll May Be Higher Than Anyone Knew" [9]

"The U.S. Surgeon General lists 21 deadly diseases that are caused by smoking. Now, a study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine points to more than a dozen other diseases that apparently add to the tobacco death toll."

Source: NPR [10], 02/12/2015

"SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Rocket But Calls Off Barge Landing" [11]

"Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX blasted a government weather satellite into orbit on Wednesday, but the company called off its much anticipated attempt at landing the rocket on an ocean barge."

Source: LA Times [12], 02/12/2015

"House Passes Keystone Bill Despite Obama’s Opposition" [13]

"The House on Wednesday passed a bill approving construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, setting up a confrontation with President Obama, who has vowed to veto the measure."

Source: NY Times [14], 02/12/2015

CRS Reports No Longer Secret, Thanks to FAS Secrecy Project [15]

Congress keeps secret the top-notch nonpartisan explainers from the Congressional Research Service. Or tries to. Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project, you can read the reports your tax dollars paid for below.

Legislators from Both Parties Move FOIA Bills Despite Bank Lobby, FTC [16]

The Senate Judiciary Committee, despite changing from Democrat to Republican control, unanimously approved a FOIA bill (S 337) on February 5, 2015. A similar House bill (HR 653) was introduced February 2 and awaits action by the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

State Department Hunkers in Secrecy Bunker over Keystone XL [17]

Is the State Department review of whether to permit the Keystone XL pipeline transparent? Not at all. State spokesperson Jen Psaki stiff-armed the Associated Press' Matt Lee February 3, 2015, when he asked whether all eight agencies invited to comment had done so.

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