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KINSTON, N.C. (Reuters) - Rivers swollen by rainfall from Hurricane Matthew rose dangerously higher in North Carolina on Wednesday, prompting officials to go door to door urging residents to leave as a wide swath of the state faced its worst flooding in 17 years.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new United Nations strategy to address the challenges faced by rapidly growing cities lacks sufficient detail to allow cities to act on it, warned a leading government resilience expert from South Africa.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa will experience water rationing if consumers do not heed calls to cut consumption to avoid a collapse of the water system as dam levels fall after a drought, an official in the country's water department said on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. government weather forecaster raised its outlook on Thursday for La Nina conditions in the coming months, saying the weather phenomenon is likely to develop in the Northern Hemisphere fall and favored to persist into the winter 2016-17.

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E.ON says power grids will remain part of its strategy
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The move, which left E.ON with its more profitable networks, renewable energy and retail operations, has failed to lift a discount on its stock, mainly because a capital increase is widely expected to fund the storage of radioactive waste. In addition ...

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E.ON says power grids will remain part of its strategy
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The move, which left E.ON with its more profitable networks, renewable energy and retail operations, has failed to lift a discount on its stock, mainly because a capital increase is widely expected to fund the storage of radioactive waste. German ...

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Members of the European Parliament's industry committee voted in favor of a proposed compromise on reforming the bloc's carbon market that also seeks to protect European businesses.

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E.ON says power grids will remain part of its strategy
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The move, which left E.ON with its more profitable networks, renewable energy and retail operations, has failed to lift a discount on its stock, mainly because a capital increase is widely expected to fund the storage of radioactive waste. German ...
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PARIS (Reuters) - France will offer companies the same tax credit when they buy gasoline cars than the one currently allowed for diesel cars, its energy minister said on Thursday, removing a key tax break that had boosted sales of diesel cars in the past.

PORT-A-PIMENT, Haiti (Reuters) - Foreign medics with orange stretchers and gallons of chlorine are stemming a cholera outbreak on Haiti's hurricane-struck coast but the focus on a disease U.N. peacekeepers brought here six years ago is slowing the delivery of food and shelter for storm victims.  

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has failed to protect residents affected by pollution from contaminated water and mine dumps over more than 130 years of gold mining near Johannesburg, an independent investigation by the Harvard Law School said.

(Reuters) - Extremely dangerous Category Four hurricane Nicole was heading for Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center said late Wednesday.

DENVER (Reuters) - No criminal charges will be filed against a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employee over a 3-million gallon spill of toxic waste from a defunct Colorado gold mine that fouled waterways across three states, federal authorities said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday about 5,000 gallons of low sulfur diesel fuel spilled into the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) near Port Isabel, Texas, on Tuesday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain lacks the policies needed to achieve its domestic emissions targets, and should by February set out new plans to meet them, the government's climate advisers said on Thursday.

NEW YORK/CALGARY (Reuters) - Five oil pipelines disrupted by environmental protesters were back up and running on Wednesday after an unprecedented act of sabotage left policy makers and energy executives from Calgary to Washington mulling how to secure key energy infrastructure.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior State Department officials said on Wednesday they were "optimistic" that a deal on cutting greenhouse gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosols can be struck during meetings in Rwanda this week.

US biodiesel executives plead guilty to over $60 million fraud scheme
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Fred Witmer, 46, and Gary Jury, 58, co-owners of Indiana biodiesel plant Triton Energy LLC, pleaded guilty in an Indiana court on Wednesday to defrauding the U.S. government's renewable fuel support program and a tax credit program, the U.S. Department ...

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A $1.4 billion natural gas line proposed by TransCanada Corp. is pitting two U.S. government agencies against each other and drawing attention to how major ...
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(Reuters) - Nicole may intensify to near major hurricane strength when it approaches Bermuda, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Wednesday.