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<title>Google grows, Apple reduces US lobbying cash in 2012</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/13/02/18/major.tech.companies.wield.influence.on.american.government/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn4.macnn.com/news/1108/corruption.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google increased the amount it spent on lobbying the US government 90 percent year-over-year in 2012, according to data compiled by &lt;em&gt;Fortune&lt;/em&gt;.  The company ended up spending $18.22 million, easily beating out any other American technology firm.  Microsoft, in fact, came in second place with $8.09 million, despite likewise increasing its spending.  Other major tec...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google ups renewable portfolio with $200M on wind</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/13/01/13/google.buys.200m.stake.in.west.texas.wind.farm/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1358117740_ScreenShot2013-01-13at3.53.14PM.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Adding to the search giant's &lt;a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/15/googles.investment.in.renewable.energy.approaches.1.billion/"&gt;existing renewable energy portfolio&lt;/a&gt;, Google last week announced a $200 million investment in a wind farm in west Texas. Google's nearly quarter-billion dollar investment in the Spinning Spur Wind Project is the c...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>iFixit casts doubt on EPEAT Gold over Retina MacBook</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/10/16/ifixit.accuses.epeat.of.greenwashing/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1350428814_ScreenShot2012-10-16at7.05.43PM.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[In a caustically-worded piece, the CEO of iFixit has decried both the EPEAT environmental certification program and Apple's Retina MacBook Pro in particular, claiming that the former's Gold certification of the latter constitutes "greenwashing," or a form of spin in which deceptive marketing is used to portray a product as environmentally friendly. He claims that EPEAT bent the definitio...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>iFixit: new iPhones less toxic than previous models</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/10/03/generally.phones.becoming.less.toxic/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Apple reveals details of NC data center energy plan</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/05/21/applying.knowledge.of.cooling.to.buildings/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/apple-maiden2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Some details revealed about how Apple intends to make its Maiden, North Carolina data center almost entirely powered from renewable-energy sources &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/environment/renewable-energy/"&gt;have come to light&lt;/a&gt;, showing a combination of &lt;a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/07/expansion.shows.where.apple.green.tech...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 02:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Parallels 7 updated to support Windows 8, Mountain Lion</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/12/03/05/allows.mac.users.to.try.out.both.beta.environments/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Greenpeace blasts iPad, Dell</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/03/30/group.credits.ipad.with.helping.drive.emissions/</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>US Chamber of Commerce chastises Apple over resignation</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/06/chamber.says.bill.could.cause.us.job.losses/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>e-on software previews Vue 7 at Siggraph</title>
<link>http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/12/new.3d.software.previewed/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Greenpeace pans iPhone 3G "not green," like first</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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