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A building at the Summer Bay Resort in Clermont, Fla., shows damage from collapsing into a sinkhole early Monday Aug. 12, 2013. No injuries or victims, and all emergency responders were safe and uninjured. All guests that were rescued are being moved to a different building on the property. (AP Photo/Alma Rodriquez)

Sinkhole near Disney World in Florida sucks in three-story building

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Peacemaker: "There is no war on coal," Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said last week, contradicting others in the Obama administration who are pushing hard to limit carbon emissions. (Associated Press)

Energy Secretary Moniz leaves dirty work on coal to others

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Villagers look at Merapi volcano Cangkringan, Indonesia, Monday, July 22, 2013. Indonesia's most volatile volcano spewed smoke and ash Monday, forcing hundreds of people to flee their villages along its slopes, a disaster official said. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi)

6 killed by hot lava as Indonesia volcano erupts

Associated Press

Pakistani investigators collect evidence at the site of a bomb attack in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral for a policeman in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing tens of people, including a senior police officer, and wounding over 60, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

U.S. Consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, evacuated under ‘specific threat’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A helicopter drops water over a wildfire on Aug. 9, 2013, near Banning, Calif. Southern California firefighters are facing another day of battle as they try to corral a wildfire that has destroyed 26 homes. (Associated Press)

Sen. Barbara Boxer on L.A.-area wildfires: Climate change to blame

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration: Flex fuel by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Imaginary optimism

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Twin Pines, Calif. resident Dave Clark tells some neighbors their home is OK while his own house burns behind him, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013, near Banning, Calif. A new wildfire has broken out in Riverside County near Banning, sending up a massive plume of smoke and surging toward three communities where people have been told to evacuate. (AP Photo/The Desert Sun, Richard Lui)

Firefighters injured, as Southern Calif. blaze rages and sends residents packing

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Two Sumatran tiger cubs were born at the Smithsonian National Zoo (Photo courtesy of Smithsonian National Zoo)

Sumatran tiger cubs born at National Zoo

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

A Bureau of Land Management helicopter rounds up wild horses near Cold Creek, Nev., in June 2002. A similar operation is under way to capture about 2,500 wild horses in the next two months. (Associated Press)

Wild horse roundup in Nevada is canceled amid outrage, fears over ‘stealth’ slaughter

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Chevy Volt is a gas-electric hybrid. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Get a horse

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Jack N. Gerard of the American Petroleum Institute said Congress should act on bills that would end the renewable fuels standard. (The Washington Times)

EPA cutting alternative fuels goal in bow to market reality

By Edward Felker Special to the Washington Times

This undated image, released by utility company Thames Water company, shows part of a 15-ton lump of fat and other debris coagulated inside a main London city sewer, which they have spent many days clearing from the drain, the company announced on Aug. 6, 2013. (Associated Press)

‘Fatberg’: 15-ton ball of lard extracted from London sewer

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama could grow economy now

The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, the Coast Guard Ice Breaker Healy breaks ice in the Nome Harbor on Jan. 13, 2012. The Healy has been escorting and breaking ice for the Russian tanker Renda since Jan. 3, 2012, on its way to Nome to deliver 1.3 million gallons of fuel. Now comes the tricky part: getting more than a million gallons of diesel and gasoline to shore through a mile-long hose without a spill. Nome and the villages of Noatak and Kobuk face fuel shortages that illustrate the vulnerability of relying solely on deliveries by sea or air, particularly during an especially bitter winter. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen)

Alaska’s harbor of waste: Federal port project behind schedule, badly over budget

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Illustration: Beyond nuclear power

EDITORIAL: $15 billion in the hole

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Pakistani soldiers rescue local residents from an area flooded by heavy rains on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan, on Aug. 4, 2013. Heavy rains that swept across Pakistan brought down more than 100 homes and caved in a factory wall, killing at least a dozen people in the downpours, officials said. (Associated Press)

Deaths from heavy rains up to 53 in Pakistan

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

Judge blocks planned horse slaughter at 2 plants

Associated Press

**FILE** Qatari women activists holding a banner reading "commit to climate justice 4 all" as they march with local and international activists march to demand urgent action to address climate change at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, on Dec. 1, 2012. (Associated Press)

Climate change causes violence, researchers find

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

TANTON: Casualties of the war on coal

By Thomas Tanton

This Monday, July 29, 2013, photo shows the Colockum Pass fire burning in the mountains and which has also burned its way down to the banks of the Columbia River. The Colockum Pass fire has grown to more than 10 square miles burning 5 five homes in addition to other structures 20 miles south of Wenatchee. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Steve Ringman)

1,700 firefighters battle flames in Washington and Oregon as hundreds flee homes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times