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American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of methane gas as the government estimates, according to a new study. Because more than half of those methane emissions are coming from a small number of oil and gas sites, 1 percent or less, that means the problem is [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal airport security officials last week unveiled a passenger self-screening system at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, but said they do not plan to use it in other cities around the country. "How do we step into the future? This is a step," said a system designer, Dimitri Kusnezov, [...]
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A private utility is asking Georgia legislators to change a state law so the company can provide water service to new homes near Hyundai's upcoming electric-vehicle factory without first getting permission from local governments. A state Senate committee in Atlanta last week voted to advance House Bill 1146 a week after [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. — The U.S., Canada and several indigenous groups announced a proposal this week to address pollution from coal mining in British Columbia that officials say has been contaminating waterways and harming fisheries on both sides of the border for years. The proposal would be executed through a century-old U.S.-Canada boundary waters treaty, establishing [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco Bay Area parking lot that sits on top of a sacred tribal shell mound dating back 5,700 years has been returned to the Ohlone people by the Berkeley City Council after a settlement with developers who own the land. Berkeley's City Council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance giving [...]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Whenever bestselling author Robin Cook releases a new medical thriller, the head of the public library in West Haven, Conn., knows demand for digital copies will be high. So will the price. Similar to many libraries, West Haven’s library has been grappling with the soaring costs of e-books and audiobooks. The [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Decades after Philadelphia’s Chinatown was bisected by a sunken expressway, city officials and federal lawmakers said this week that they secured a grant to reconnect the community by building a park over the six lanes of traffic. The $159 million grant to build a three-block-long park over the Vine Street Expressway [...]
MECCA, Calif. (AP) — When Limba Contreras moved to the desert community of Oasis, Calif., about 50 years ago, her family relied on a water cooler to keep temperatures inside their home comfortable. Other times, they sprayed each other with a hose outside. When the heat topped 100 degrees, however, the cooler was futile, and [...]
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just two weeks. The ski plane they study the wolves from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because [...]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Miami Beach is trying to break up with spring break, but it's not yet clear whether spring break will take the hint. After three consecutive years of spring break violence, Miami Beach officials are implementing monthlong security measures aimed at curbing the violence, including parking restrictions for non-residents and closing [...]