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Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy

While wind energy is marketed as the future's green energy solution, turbines last only about 20 years, and disposing of their behemoth fiberglass blades is both complicated and costly.

The EPA says it aims to eliminate the testing of chemicals and pesticides in animals by 2035. filo/Getty Images hide caption

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EPA Chief Pledges To Severely Cut Back On Animal Testing Of Chemicals

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Antonio Basco, husband of El Paso Walmart shooting victim Margie Reckard, hugs an attendee during his wife's visitation service in El Paso, Texas, in August. Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Poll: Most Americans Want To See Congress Pass Gun Restrictions

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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is under the microscope for reportedly pressuring government scientists to back President Trump over a misleading tweet about Hurricane Dorian. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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Wilbur Ross At The Center Of Another Political Storm, This Time About The Weather

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Since purple sea urchins have eaten up their food supply, many of them are empty inside. Erika Mahoney/KAZU hide caption

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Saving California's Kelp Forest May Depend On Eating Purple Sea Urchins

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Jackie Robinson draws his family close to help him blow out a birthday candle in 1954. From left, his children Sharon, David, and Jackie Jr., with his wife Rachel, above. AP hide caption

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Teen Angst And Civil Rights Meet In A New Memoir — Featuring Jackie Robinson

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Rob Van Vleet secures a wind turbine blade onto an oversize truck at the Kimball Wind Farm in southwest Nebraska. Christina Stella/Harvest Public Media hide caption

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Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy

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Photographer Robert Frank holds a camera in 1954. His photo book, The Americans, changed the way people saw photography and the way they saw the U.S. Frank died on Monday at the age of 94. Fred Stein Archive/Getty Images hide caption

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Influential Documentary Photographer Robert Frank Dies At 94

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