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(WBIR-TV) The city is working in conjunction with ECOtality, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville Utilities Board, Tennessee Valley Authority and Knox County, to build the infrastructure needed to keep car batteries charged....6/29
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 (Knoxville News Sentinel) Three new state-of-the-art greenhouses (each of them 1,452 square feet) are almost ready for action at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The new facilities will support ORNL's work on biofuels and other projects....6/29
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DOE
(NPR) Energy Secretary Steven Chu doesn't have the authority to pull the plug on a process that Congress started when it passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act in 1982, the NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board said in a 47-page order issued in Rockville, Md....6/29
East Tennessee
 (Knoxville News Sentinel) Doug Kaylor, a doctoral student from the University of Tennessee's Institute of Agriculture is collecting data this summer on how Fraser fir forests in the Smokies have bounced back from the massive die-offs caused by the balsam woolly adelgid....6/30
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National
(Washington Post) Nominee tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that her political outlook is "generally progressive," but glimpses she offers of her legal views defied GOP efforts to pigeonhole the type of Supreme Court justice she would be....6/30 [Registration Required]
(New York Times) In Montclair, N.J., Yonkers and Cambridge, Mass., spy suspects gardened, raised children, loved dogs and had neighbors who suspected nothing....6/30
(USA Today) Alex has become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and is churning through the Gulf, taking aim at the Mexico-Texas border....6/30
Other Stories
(Washington Post) Once they've plowed through their monthly stack of technical journals, which books do science and engineering professionals read for fun? And which books did they love as youngsters?...6/30 [Registration Required]
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(Christian Science Monitor) The effort to contain the Gulf oil spill has had more twists and turns than a mystery novel. This rundown of events so far also shows what is ahead in the struggle to clean up the Gulf of Mexico....6/29
(BBC News) The notoriously gas-guzzling sport of Formula One is on track to curb its carbon footprint. The Formula One Teams Association is unveiling an analysis that projects emissions cut of 15% in three years....6/30