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In EPA’s grip, coal industry is headed to Washington

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Catholic Diocese of Fargo, N.D., shows John Thomas Folda, bishop of the Fargo Catholic Diocese. Folda contracted the hepatitis A virus from contaminated food while attending a conference for newly ordained bishops in Italy in September, 2013. After returning home, he exposed potentially hundreds of churchgoers at four churches in Fargo and Jamestown, N.D., to the liver disease in late September and early October. The state Health Department has issued an advisory of exposure for anyone who was served communion at services attended by Bishop Folda during that time. (AP Photo/Catholic Diocese of Fargo, File)

North Dakota bishop exposes hundreds to hepatitis A during Communion

Associated Press

A helmeted man walks past the rubbles and a burning building after a powerful earthquake, the largest in Japan's recorded history, slammed the eastern coasts in Iwaki city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

7.3 earthquake hits off Fukushima region of Japan

Associated Press

Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, left, and Deb Markowitz, secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, view an electric car displayed in Sacramento, Calif., following a news conference to announce the signing of an agreement on zero-emissions cars, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

States swoon to push electric cars onto the road

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Burned out: Obama’s first land auction for solar goes bust

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launching station in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, in this image made on Dec. 12, 2012, from video. (Associated Press/KRT via AP Video) ** FILE **

North Korean activity signals plan for another rogue nuclear weapons test

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Pirates kidnap 2 Americans on craft off Nigeria coast

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FEMA wants Hawaii to return misallocated disaster-aid funds

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, Oregon Democrat, complained "the problem is that this Congress has failed to appropriate enough money to keep up with the projects we authorize." He said his amendment will speed up the approval process and help clear the backlog. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

House backs legislation for water projects

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: China a cause for U.S. concern

Department of Energy

Energy Department spends $56 million on waste facility before breaking ground

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe and collected on Thursday, May 14, 2009, shows the area in which North Korea reportedly conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday, May 25, 2009, located about 50 miles northwest of the northern city of Kilju, North Korea, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky said on state-run Rossiya television. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)

Images show new work at North Korean nuclear test site

By Matthew Pennington - Associated Press

Highway 880 is packed with commuters on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. Commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area got up before dawn on Friday and endured heavy traffic on roadways, as workers for the region's largest transit system walked off the job for the second time in four months.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Oregon to tax drivers by mile, rather than fuel fill-up

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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C. Boyden Gray, former special envoy for EU affairs, tells The Washington Times on Thursday that the European Union is "trying to get the world to dance to their tune."

GRAY: EPA’s misguided approach hurts coal’s promising future

By C. Boyden Gray

The Supreme Court, shown Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 in Washington, has agreed to consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority in developing rules aimed at cutting emissions of six heat-trapping gases from factories and power plants. The justices said Tuesday they will review a unanimous federal appeals court ruling that upheld the government's unprecedented regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: The court’s second chance

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Chinese men walk on the street during a day of heavy pollution in Harbin, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Visibility shrank to less than half of a football field, and small-particle pollution soared to a record 40 times higher than an international safety standard in the city as the region entered its high-smog season. (AP Photo)

China smog emergency shuts down city of 11 million people

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A New South Wales Rural Fire Service volunteer puts out a blaze in Bell, Australia, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013. Firefighters are battling some of the most destructive wildfires to ever strike Australia's most populous state. (AAP Image/Paul Miller)

Winds, heat keep wildfire risk high in Australia

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

$Anti-fracking proponents maintain the ballot initiatives in several Colorado cities are needed because of the pro-development bent of Gov. John Hickenlooper and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Any proposal to restrict hydraulic fracturing is likely to be challenged and end up in court. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)$

Cities in Colo. to vote on fracking moratorium

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Age of Global Warming: A History’

By Wayne T. Brough - Special to the Washington Times

In this photo provided by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service, smoke rises from a fire near Springwood, west of Sydney, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Nearly a hundred wildfires are burning across Australia's New South Wales state, more than a dozen of which are out of control, as unseasonably hot temperatures and strong winds fanned flames across the parched landscape. (AP Photo/New South Wales Rural Fire Service)

Australian wildfires kill 1, destroy homes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times