May 22--Jordan Cove Energy Project filed its formal application Tuesday with federal regulators to build a liquefied natural gas export facility on the north spit of Coos Bay. The project's developers described this week's filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a "major milestone," though the...

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By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON - Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. Meteorologists...

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Tokyo, May 22 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Chubu Electric Power Co. are in talks on their joint construction of a coal-fired thermal power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, east of Tokyo, informed sources said Wednesday. This is a rare move in the Japanese power industry where...

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By YURI KAGEYAMA TOKYO - Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands. Increasingly the plant's operator is struggling to find enough workers, a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to...

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May 10--An Albuquerque supply well that long pumped water up from underground will reverse direction next week in an experiment to pump some of the metro area's water supply underground for later use. At Webster Well No. 1, housed in a small concrete building off Paseo del...

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