AUSTRALIAN GOV’T FACES CARBON TAX BACKLASH AT POLL
By KRISTEN GELINEAU and ROD McGUIRK Agnes Lee, 52, an IT consultant, reads a paper while having a coffee in Sydney, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. The ruling Labor Party’s probable…
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ALASKA FISHERMEN PROTEST WAL-MART DECISION
By MARK THIESSEN John Renner, a fisherman from Cordova, Alaska, protests outside a Wal-Mart in Anchorage, Alaska, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. He and other fishermen protested against Wal-Mart’s corporate…
MORE TANK LEAKS FOUND AT JAPAN NUCLEAR PLANT
By MARI YAMAGUCHI FILE – In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013 file photo, workers stand on storage tanks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture,…
SMOKE FROM SIERRA FIRE REACHES YOSEMITE VALLEY
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Dense smoke from a wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park on Saturday hampered both suppression efforts and the prized views…
GOV’T REAFFIRMS IT WILL SELL EX-LAB ISLAND OFF NY
FILE – In this Oct. 6, 2013 file photo, Adrienne Esposito, director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, walks to the top of an old battery, previously used for defense,…
CALIF. FIRE PROMPTS UNHEALTHY AIR WARNINGS IN NEV.
By BRIAN SKOLOFF and SCOTT SONNER The Rim Fire burns through trees near Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. Firefighters gained some ground Tuesday against the huge…
WANTED MICH. MAN, 3 KIDS FOUND SAFE AT LAKESHORE
By JOHN FLESHER Searchers gather outside a ranger station at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan, where a search was underway for a man and his three children…
FRACKING HEALTH PROJECT PUTS NUMBERS TO DEBATE
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