Category Archives: Environment
Cyprus asks EU, Israel for help fighting huge forest fire
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus asked fellow European Union nations on Saturday to help battle a huge forest fire in a mountainous region of the east Mediterranean island nation that has forced the evacuation of at least seven villages.
New Mexico forest draws crowd for annual ‘Rainbow Gathering’
CARSON NATIONAL FOREST, N.M. (AP) — Across a mile-long stretch of forest in a remote part of northern New Mexico, the party is in full swing.
Under presssure, company cancels Tennessee pipeline
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Environmentalists and activists claimed victory Saturday after a company canceled plans to build an oil pipeline through southwest Tennessee and north Mississippi, and over an aquifer that provides drinking water to 1 million peop...
B.C. coroner says 719 deaths in a week during heat wave, but number could jump
VICTORIA — British Columbia's chief coroner says 719 sudden and unexpected deaths have been reported in the province during the historic heat wave, and that number over a seven-day period is unprecedented. Lisa Lapointe says the number of fatalities is...
Business Highlights: Accelerated hiring, Wall Street records
___ US hiring accelerated in June as workers earned higher pay
Court strikes Trump EPA rule for full-year 15% ethanol sales
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a Trump-era Environmental Protection Agency rule change that allowed for the sale of a 15% ethanol gasoline blend in the summer months.
US Supreme Court backs Minnesota Amish in septic tank fight
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court sided Friday with members of an Amish group in Minnesota who are fighting efforts by authorities to compel them to install septic systems, sending their appeal back to a state court for reconsideration
Researcher says N.L. wrong to ‘double down’ on fossil fuels with offshore subsidies
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador's federally funded subsidies for offshore oil are a "misuse of funds" and another step in the wrong economic direction for the cash-strapped province, says a political scientist who has studied the province'...
Blast at Romania’s biggest oil refinery kills 1, injures 4
BUCHAREST (AP) — An explosion at Romania's largest oil refinery outside the port city of Constanta on Friday killed one person and injured at least four, authorities said.
‘Nobody’s winning’: Drought upends life in US West basin
TULE LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Ben DuVal knelt in a barren field near the California-Oregon border and scooped up a handful of parched soil as dust devils whirled around him and birds flitted between empty irrigation pipes.
