In January the EPA launched a public database of power plants, landfills, and other facilities that emit at least 25,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases annually. In addition to providing eye-popping statistics-for example, the dirtiest 3 percent of these large facilities account for 45 percent of their total emissions-the registry should put pressure on companies to cut emissions and to report them accurately. SINNERS: NUCLEAR LOOTERS Over the last year political turmoil in Egypt has led to looting of shops, restaurants, and museums. Now it has spread to a scarier target: nuclear storage sites. In January, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that unidentified thieves had stolen "low-level radioactive sources" from a safe at El Dabaa, the planned site of Egypt's first nuclear power plant.
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