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CHELLANEY: The coming water wars

By Brahma Chellaney

While gas prices decline, heating costs rise

By Alex Hopkins - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

FRAAS AND LUTTER: Rule-making negligence at the EPA

By Art Fraas and Randall Lutter

**FILE** Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House on March 12, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama’s top climate adviser to leave, report says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A wildfire burns in the Lake O'Neill area at Camp Pendleton, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. The blaze has burned more than 1,500 acres and forced evacuation of a military housing area and the base hospital. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps, Cpl. Sarah Wolff Diaz)

Firefighters fight to contain Camp Pendleton blaze

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A beachgoer walks in from the shore during a squall in Gulf Shores, Ala., on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Weather forecasters said that Tropical Storm Karen had dissipated and was just a low pressure area that will bring rain accumulations of 1 to 3 inches to the Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Storm system Karen dissipates off Gulf Coast

By Janet McConnaughey and Stacey Plaisance - Associated Press

C.J. Johnson pulls a shrimp boat out of the water in preparation for the arrival of Tropical Storm Karen, at Myrtle Grove Marina in Plaquemines Parish, La., Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. National Hurricane Center forecasters expect Karen to be near the central Gulf Coast on Saturday as a weak hurricane or tropical storm. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Louisiana evacuation order eased as Tropical Storm Karen closes in

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This image provided by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Karen taken late Thursday night Oct. 3, 2013. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said late Thursday that Karen was about 340 miles (547 kilometers) south of the mouth of the Mississippi River and had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) with higher gusts. The storm was moving north-northwest at 10 mph (16 kph). It could be at or near hurricane strength late Friday and early Saturday, forecasters said, with the center near the coast on Saturday. (AP Photo/NOAA)

Karen nears hurricane status; White House calls for FEMA

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, file photo, moon jellyfish are pictured in an aquarium of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. It wasn't a tsunami, but it had the same effect: A wave of jellyfish was huge enough to force one of the world's largest nuclear reactors to shut down — a phenomenon that marine biologists say could become more common. Operators of the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden had to scramble reactor No. 3 on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013, after tons of jellyfish clogged the pipes that bring in cool water to the plant's turbines. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

Jellyfish wave shuts down one of the world’s largest nuclear reactors in Sweden

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Christopher Harper

HARPER: U.N.’s latest climate report buries inconvenient facts

By Christopher Harper

This image provided by The Daily Californian shows fire and smoke from an explosion on the University of California Berkeley campus on Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, in Berkeley, Calif. At least one person was hospitalized and a mandatory evacuation was ordered after the explosion followed a power outage across campus. Fire crews freed about 20 people trapped in dormitory elevators across campus as a result of the outage, said U.C. Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof. (AP Photo/The Daily Californian, Kelly Fang)

Berkeley University evacuated as explosion injures several people

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Ron Binz (From Ron Binz' Public Policy Consulting website)

White House concedes defeat on Ron Binz, key energy nominee

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Canadiens’ Parros leaves on stretcher after fight

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

DRIESSEN: A model for climate-change fraud

By Paul Driessen

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Protect rain forests; don’t hamstring industry

In this aerial photo, a capsized Japanese freighter Eifuku-Maru No.18 (foreground) as a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat conducts a search operation for missing crew members including the skipper and deputy skipper of the ship, off Izu Oshima, Japan, on Sept. 27, 2013. The ship crashed with the Sierra Leone-registered Jia Hui. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)

5 injured as cargo ship, freighter collide off Japan

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Dec. 16, 2009, file photo, steam and smoke rises from a coal power station in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Scientists are more confident than ever that pumping carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels is warming the planet. By how much is something governments and scientists meeting in Stockholm will try to pin down with as much precision as possible Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in a seminal report on global warming. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Climate panel: Warming ‘extremely likely’ man-made

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

This year's flu vaccine cocktail includes an H1N1-like virus and an H3N2-like virus — the former is associated with swine flu, while the latter is a common strain but also the kind that wreaked havoc last season. (The Washington Times)

Officials prepare for ‘unpredictable’ flu season

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

People rush out their offices after they felt a major earthquake that struck Baluchistan province in southwest Pakistan, 693 Kilometers (430 miles) from Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. A deadly earthquake struck Tuesday in southwestern Pakistan sending poeople fleeing into the streets and praying for their lives as buildings swayed, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistan earthquake leaves hundreds dead, homeless

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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Poachers in Zimbabwe poison 87 elephants for ivory: report

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times