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  • All-new, 38 MPG 2013 Nissan Altima heads to showrooms

    The all-new 2013 Nissan Altima, the first of five all-new models Nissan will introduce in the next 15 months, is on the way to dealers as of yesterday, the same day Nissan began production at its second U.S. assembly plant in Canton, Miss.


  • WHO's cancer agency: Diesel fumes cause cancer

    Diesel fumes cause cancer, the World Health Organization's cancer agency declared Tuesday, a ruling it said could make exhaust as important a public health threat as secondhand smoke.


  • Illustration Florida mercury by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    SOON: Bad science behind Florida mercury phobia

    On May 24, the Environmental Assessment and Restoration Division of Florida's Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) issued a draft report proposing much stricter limits for mercury in Florida's river, stream, lake and coastal waters.


  • China tells US to stop reporting Beijing's bad air

    China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing.


  • China tells US to stop tweets on Beijing's bad air

    China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing.


  • **FILE** A man rides an electric bike in Beijing Jan. 10, 2012, while crossing a street shrouded by haze. (Associated Press)

    China tells U.S. to stop tweets on Beijing's bad air

    China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing.


  • A man rides an electric bike through the haze in Beijing earlier this year. A senior Chinese environmental official told foreign embassies on Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in China, a clear reference to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing. (Associated Press)

    Beijing tells embassies to stop reports on air quality

    China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular U.S. Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing.


  • Wyoming got EPA to defer statement on fracking study

    Wyoming's governor persuaded the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to postpone an announcement linking hydraulic fracturing to groundwater contamination, giving state officials - whom the EPA had privately briefed on the study - time to attempt to debunk the finding, an investigation by the Associated Press has found.


  • Luke Lyon makes notes on fish pulled out of the Anacostia. Joining him (from left) are Christophe Tulou, Donna Henry, Danny Ryan and Nicoline Shulterbrandt. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    Fishing for a cleaner Anacostia River

    There's no doubt the Anacostia River remains far too dirty. Government warnings state that D.C.'s waters are not fishable or swimmable because of a legacy of pollution and toxics.


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