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Pieces of wind turbine blades in a landfill in Wyoming. Because there are few options for recycling retired wind turbine blades, most end up buried in landfills, like the one shown here in Casper, ...

From a 25-year-old seeking finances for a small start-up to a billionaire businesswoman, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has come a long way. That small start-up in India, Biocon, is now a globally recognized ...

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Decision in Monsanto v. Durnell holds that states cannot require pesticide manufacturers to add warnings to their products ...

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