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Wary residents return home after toxic train derailment

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Hours after being told she could go home for the first time since a train hauling chemicals derailed and later sent up a toxic plume near the Pennsylvania state line, Melissa Henry nervously walked inside her house.

Feb 9, 2023 6:49 PM Read more >

Australia rejects open-pit coal mine near Great Barrier Reef

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia for the first time has rejected a coal mining application based on environmental law, with the government minister citing the open-pit mine's potential harm to the nearby Great Barrier Reef.

Feb 9, 2023 6:14 PM Read more >

Companies agree to pay $45M over California oil spill

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Shipping companies have agreed to pay $45 million to thousands of Southern California fishermen, tour companies and property owners who sued after an offshore oil spill sent crude washing ashore, attorneys said Thursday.

Feb 9, 2023 4:48 PM Read more >

'Government boondoggle': Opposition mounting for plan to clean up Alberta oil wells

EDMONTON — Alberta's United Conservative Party government is facing growing criticism for a plan to give oil companies a royalty credit for cleaning up their old wells.

Feb 9, 2023 3:51 PM Read more >

Scotiabank says royalty credits for well cleanup would damage industry's reputation

CALGARY — Scotiabank is warning that the Alberta government's plan to give oil companies a royalty credit for cleaning up their old wells could damage the reputation of Canada's oil and gas industry.

Feb 9, 2023 2:34 PM Read more >

Freedom-versus-common-good debate roils New Jersey forests

SHAMONG, N.J. (AP) — Sprawling across 1.1 million acres of pine trees, sandy soil, remote wetlands and home to rare plants and animals, the New Jersey Pinelands is the personification of the free-as-a-bird Great Outdoors.

Feb 9, 2023 1:18 PM Read more >

Firm: Faulty weld, pressure on pipe led to Kansas oil spill

TOPEKA, Kan.

Feb 9, 2023 11:50 AM Read more >

Earthquake hits Indonesia, killing 4 as restaurant collapses

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A shallow earthquake shook Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua on Thursday, killing four people who were unable to escape when a floating restaurant collapsed into the sea. The U.S.

Feb 9, 2023 6:11 AM Read more >

Several universities to experiment with micro nuclear power

If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative: tiny nuclear reactors that produce only one-hundredth the electricity

Feb 9, 2023 6:04 AM Read more >

Air near Ohio derailment safe for residents to return home

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Evacuated residents can return to the Ohio village where crews burned toxic chemicals after a train derailed five days ago near the Pennsylvania state line now that monitors show no dangerous levels in the air, authorities

Feb 9, 2023 3:35 AM Read more >