Montana filed a lawsuit Thursday against Wyoming in the US Supreme Court for allegedly violating a 1950 agreement allocating water rights to two tributaries of the Yellowstone River. In...
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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has unanimously approved a regulation that will prohibit utilities from buying electricity produced by power plants whose emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) exceed the state's standards. The rule [CPUC...
A coalition of businesses and environmental groups on Monday called for federal legislation to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In a letter to President Bush a day before his State of the Union Address [White...
President Bush has cleared the way for drilling of oil and natural gas in parts of Bristol Bay, Alaska, and the central Gulf of Mexico . In a memorandum to the secretary of interior...
Iraqi television is reporting that Saddam Hussein has been executed. The hanging, reported by US-operated al-Hurra TV as having taken place around 6 AM Saturday local time (10 PM Friday ET), fulfills the death sentence handed...
Flavio Sosa , a leader of the popular uprising in the Mexican state of Oaxaca , was arrested late Monday after arriving in Mexico City for negotiations with the federal government. Sosa, a prominent figure in the...
In a letter to the chief judge presiding over his genocide trial, Saddam Hussein has said he would not attend further proceedings because he "wasn't given the chance to speak when I tried to clarify...
An court in India on Monday rendered the final verdicts in connection to the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed more than 250 people and injured more than 700. The six convictions handed down by...
A court in Santiago granted former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bail from house arrest Monday as he remained hospitalized following a severe heart attack a day earlier. One of Pinochet's doctors, describing his condition today as...
The US Supreme Court heard two hours of oral arguments Monday in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 , 05-908, and Meredith...
