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'); document.write(''); document.write('DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) — This blue-collar suburb on the edge of Los Angeles once helped send men to space. After the collapse of its aerospace industry, its ambitions are now more down-to-earth but still looking toward the future.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WASHINGTON (AP) — After 10 months in office, President Barack Obama on Wednesday granted his first pardon — to Courage, a 45-pound turkey spared from the Thanksgiving table.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WASHINGTON (AP) — Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month\'s Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress over higher costs for businesses and homeowners.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('AP IMPACT: Lobbyists, health care heavyweights visited White House early and often for revamp
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'); document.write(''); document.write('GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Scientists say they believe toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West are harming an endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another obstacle to restoring species that have forced irrigation shutoffs for farmers.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Division of Air Quality is giving the public more time to weigh in on an air pollution permit for a planned coal-to-gasoline plant in the southern coalfields.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday postponed a planned roundup of thousands of wild horses in Nevada because of a lawsuit and to allow time for appeals of its decision.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('WASHINGTON (AP) — Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, new research suggests.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('Ira \"Babe\" Hanford, who as an 18-year-old apprentice rode 20-1 shot Bold Venture to victory in the 1936 Kentucky Derby, has died. He was 91.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A proposed Monsanto Co. phosphate mine slated to produce ingredients for Roundup weedkiller generated nearly 7,000 public comments, including from a former U.S. Interior secretary who urges its approval and the Environmental Protection Agency, which wants additional pollution safeguards.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) — A rare Siberian tiger that Vladimir Putin fitted with a radio-tracking collar is alive and well, the Russian prime minister\'s spokesman said Wednesday, easing concerns raised when an environmentalist said the tracking device had gone silent.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('BEIJING (AP) — China will seek binding pollution targets for developed countries and reject similar requirements for itself at an international climate summit next month, China\'s top climate envoy said Wednesday.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
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'); document.write(''); document.write('NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A global network of aid agencies on Wednesday called on governments to do more to reduce the impact natural disasters caused by climate change will have on poor countries.
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'); document.write(''); document.write('DENVER (AP) — An environmental group and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are seeking to settle a lawsuit aimed at getting Utah to change its air pollution regulations.
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