Clinton seeks distance from Obama on climate change issues
By JOSH LEDERMAN and KEN THOMAS Hillary Rodham Clinton is voicing opposition to President Barack Obama’s authorization for oil drilling in the Alaska Arctic and his delays on Keystone XL,…
Environmental concerns
China blast zone evacuated over chemical contamination fears
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN New small explosions rocked a disaster zone in the Chinese port of Tianjin on Saturday, as authorities pulled out an additional survivor and began evacuating the area…
Japan restarts reactor after break due to Fukushima
By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH A power plant operator in southern Japan restarted a nuclear reactor on Tuesday, the first to begin operating under new safety requirements following the…
Pope and Congress: Francis is certain to challenge lawmakers
By ANDREW TAYLOR A political pope is sure to seize his opportunity when he addresses a political body. So both Democrats and Republicans are looking forward to Pope Francis’ remarks…
Argentine mayor: Pope Francis is game-changer for climate
The latest developments at the Vatican’s meeting of mayors on fighting climate change and human trafficking. All times local. ___ 4:25 p.m. Monica Fein came all the way from Pope…
BP to pay record $18.7 billion to states affected by spill
By KEVIN McGILL, REBECCA SANTANA and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN More than five years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history fouled beaches, coated seabirds in thick goo and threatened…
Cybertheft adds to US-China tensions ahead of upcoming talks
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON Tensions between the U.S. and China are growing over its island-building in the South China Sea and over suspicions that Beijing was behind a massive hack into…
Pope challenges world to clean up its filth
NICOLE WINFIELD, RACHEL ZOLL ,SETH BORENSTEIN With a poet’s lyricism, a former chemist’s precision and a pontiff’s moral thunder, Pope Francis recast humanity’s relationship with nature in stark ethical terms,…