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‘Fracking’ and ‘Cap-and-Trade’ Added to Dictionary

Associated Press : “Climate change and the environment did not go unnoticed, with the addition of cap-and-trade, a system that limits the amount of carbon emissions companies can produce but allows them to buy extra emissions from others.”  

“Fracking also made it into the update, which has already shipped to retailers. So did e-waste and freegan, one who scavenges for free food in store and restaurant trash bins as a way to reduce consumption of resources.”  

“‘It’s a young word, from 2006,’ Sokolowski said of freegan. ‘It’s one of the youngest in this list. This kind of environmentalism was a Lone Ranger type of activity before but has taken off.’”

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