Politicians these days, especially Senators Obama and Clinton, routinely bash the oil companies and call for more efforts to come up with cleaner alternative fuels.

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Once the bane of environmentalists, the nuclear industry enjoyed newfound "green" credentials as a cleaner alternative to coal-fired plants that belch greenhouse gases to produce electricity.

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Nuclear fusion, a theoretical way of harnessing power by fusing atoms which is still under development, may one day provide a cleaner alternative to the world's energy problem.

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The alternative, though cleaner, is leadership by wimps.

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The FDA is at the beginning of a ten-year campaign to eliminate salmonella in eggs, and while experts acknowledge pasteurization is one way to do it, they also suggest cleaner processing as an alternative.

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Now for the downside, at least for Davidson's company: The FDA is at the beginning of a ten-year campaign to eliminate salmonella in eggs, and though experts acknowledge that pasteurization is one way to do it, they suggest cleaner processing as an alternative.

FORBES: The Yolk's On Him

Rather we need to invest in cleaner oil and gas exploration and production technologies in the short term, and the commercialization of alternative energy technologies for the longer term.

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