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  • ** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 21 ** Visitors listen Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, to Michael Gurling, right, of the Forks, Wash., Chamber of Commerce, talk about the bonfire location on a beach in LaPush, Wash., that is portrayed as the place where Bella Swan, the main character in author Stephenie Meyer's vampire-themed "Twilight" books, learns that her high-school friend Edward Cullen is really a vampire. The visitors were taking part in a "Twilight Tour" led by Gurling that takes fans of the books, which are set in the nearby town of Forks, Wash., around to locations central to the plot and characters. The attention is welcome in Forks, which has long suffered by the decline in the timber industry. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

    EDITORIAL: California to ban fire

    Since man first rubbed a pair of sticks together to make a fire, we've gathered around a campfire to cook food, enjoy good company and bask in the warmth of the glowing embers.


  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    LOGOMASINI: Nutritious apples, poisonous claims

    Eat fewer apples, strawberries and grapes, and more corn, onions and pineapples, and you'll protect yourself and your children from "toxic" pesticides, according to the Environmental Working Group's 2013 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce.


  • Sickening fog settles over Salt Lake City area

    Michelle Francis keeps one eye on Utah's air quality index and the other on her 9-year-old daughter's chronic asthma these days. The air pollution is so awful in her Salt Lake City suburb that Francis keeps her daughter indoors on many days to prevent her cough from being aggravated.


  • Sickening fog settles over Salt Lake City area

    Michelle Francis keeps one eye on Utah's air quality index and the other on her 9-year-old daughter's chronic asthma these days. The air pollution is so awful in her Salt Lake City suburb that Francis keeps her daughter indoors on many days to prevent her cough from being aggravated.


  • Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    MILLOY: China's bad air puts the lie to EPA scare tactics

    China's notoriously bad air has recently been especially hard to breathe. It also shows that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) science is especially hard to believe.


  • Illustration EPA House by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    DRIESSEN: Government eyes crippling climate-control measures

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ready to unleash its first wave of carbon-dioxide regulations. Some members of Congress want to tax hydrocarbon use and carbon-dioxide emissions.


  • Illustration: CO2 monster by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    MILLOY: Carbon taxes won't save the planet

    Global-warming alarmists are hoping Hurricane Sandy and President Obama's re-election will force panicky congressional Republicans into agreeing to a "carbon tax" in 2013. If you can do simple math, you can figure out that a carbon tax would have no effect other than an inflationary one.


  • Illustration EPA Skull by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    MILLOY: EPA's illegal human experiments

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued in federal court for allegedly conducting illegal experiments on human beings. The case tests whether a government agency can violate the law and the most sacrosanct ethics of scientific research -- and get away scot-free.


  • ** FILE ** John Fenton and others examine neighbor Louis Meeks' water in 2007 in Pavillion, Wyo., where federal officials indicated people shouldn't drink water from 40 wells in and around this central Wyoming farming and ranching community. (AP Photo/Casper Star-Tribune, Dustin Bleizeffer)

    New data on Wyo. fracking site await interpretation

    The meaning of reams of new data from ground-water testing in a remote Wyoming gas field where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sparked concern last year will be a matter of interpretation.


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