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A former Hollywood trainer for famous animal actors, like Flipper and Lassie, and co-founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society has died. Pat Derby died at age 69 in her…

The Philippine government has approved an environmental compliance certificate for Xstrata PLC's $5.9 billion copper-gold mine, the global mining company said today. The certificate was one of the hurdles for…

Bulgaria today said it would revoke a licence maintained by a Czech company for power distribution in parts of the Balkan country in the wake of allegations that it habitually…

France has discovered there may be at least five years' worth of a cheaply produced gas in the former coal mining area of Lorraine. But divisions of President Francois Hollande's…

In an attempt to get energy companies to build new nuclear power stations, the British government is proposing deals that will guarantee subsidies through 2050. In 2010, legislators reached a…

Cars, patio furniture and entire homes still clog East Coast waterways several months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the area. "We did a cleanup three weeks ago. Then when we went…

Minnesota's coal-fired power plants have cut their mercury emissions in half during the last 15 years, but residents living nearby still risk unsafe exposure to the toxic metal. Plants cut…

An international women's group is recognizing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood for his efforts to involve women in the transportation industry. WTS International, an international organization dedicated to the professional advancement…

A leak in a fuel oil return line was behind the engineering room fire that left a Carnival cruise ship stranded off the coast of Mobile, Ala., a Coast Guard…

Dry cleaners in the United States first began steering away from traditional chemicals and heading toward natural and organic alternatives about 15 years ago. And since then, organic dry cleaners…

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has raised its sales of local produce to 11 percent, and the company last year said its local focus has saved customers more than $1 billion while…

New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan criticized the author of a controversial article about a test drive on the electric Tesla Model S vehicle for taking "casual and imprecise…

Stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic and would rather read a book instead of paying attention to the car slowly inching ahead of you? There could soon be an app for that.…

The federal government's "consent-based" search for places to deposit nuclear waste doesn't go far enough, the former chief of the Yucca Mountain waste storage site said. In an article published…

Coal workers are struggling as the United States appears to be moving toward cleaner, cheaper natural gas. Thousands of U.S. coal workers have lost their jobs. Some eastern Kentucky counties,…

A week before heading to trial over its involvement in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC has traded its carefully formulated statements of denial…

The Supreme Court asked the Obama administration today for its views on a case that could determine whether the Oneida Indian Nation's reservation in New York has been disestablished. Oneida…

Cars parked at Denver International Airport are faring no better than cabbages as a scourge of rabbits are eating spark plug cables and other wiring. Federal wildlife workers are ousting…

A New Jersey state senator has proposed lifting a ban on fishing horseshoe crabs enacted in 2008 to save the crab and the endangered Atlantic red knot bird. The senator,…

The wrong person was named the winner in the longest-snake-captured category of Florida's Python Challenge, one of the contest's designers said. On Saturday, Ruben Ramirez was deemed the winner for…

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