Matthew Brown

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In this Oct. 11, 2021, file photo, a family, background, is under an umbrella as workers continue to clean the contaminated beach in Huntington Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

California oil pipeline may have been dragged by massive ship's anchor

Investigators believe a 1,200-foot (366-meter) cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline with crude.

The remains of a burned U.S Postal truck is seen in Greenville, Calif., after the Dixie Wildfires on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021. Photo by The Associated Press/Eugene Garcia

Towns in Montana, California threatened by major fires

Wildfires in Montana threatened rural towns and ranchland, and victims of a California blaze returned to their incinerated town even as the region faced another round of dangerous weather.

Wildfires

A Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks helicopter lands in Ovando, Mont., on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, after searching for a bear that killed a camper early that morning. Photo by: Associated Press/The Missoulian/Tom Bauer

Attack by grizzly in Montana kills woman sleeping in a tent

Several hundred students and youth protesting the Keystone XL pipeline wait to be arrested outside the White House in Washington, D.C., in this March 2, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Keystone XL is dead, but the fight over Canadian oil rages on

The Keystone XL is dead after a 12-year attempt to build the oil pipeline, yet the fight over Canadian crude rages on as emboldened environmentalists target other projects and pressure President Joe Biden to intervene.

In this May 8, 2003, photo, a northern spotted owl flies after an elusive mouse jumping off the end of a stick in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore. Photo by: AP/Don Ryan

Biden undoing Trump damage to protected and threatened species

Indigenous groups press judge to halt US-Canada pipeline work

Indigenous and environmental groups in the U.S. are pressuring a federal judge to shut down work on the disputed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Nebraska less than two weeks after it started, because of fears over workers spreading the coronavirus and worries about a future spill.

Coronavirus in Canada

rail cars, coal, topper agent, Cloud Peak Energy, Antelope Mine,

States cite climate worries in push to stop US coal sales

Four states that say burning coal will hurt their residents as it makes climate change worse are trying to stop the Trump administration from selling vast reserves of the fuel that are beneath public lands.

Race Against Climate Change

coal-fired, Nelson Dewey Generating Station, Cassville,

Report: Coal's tipping point near, but climate goals are not

Declines in coal power plant construction in China, India and the U.S. are projected to push the heavily-polluting fuel over the edge— but not fast enough to meet international climate change goals, environmental groups said on Wednesday, March 21, 2018.

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 7, 2017, visitors look at a model of a city run on clean energy during an international clean energy conference held in Beijing, China.

U.S. bucks trend amid increases for clean energy research

Energy ministers from around the world gathered in Beijing this week to report increased spending to help counter climate change.

California Gov. Jerry Brown, center, talks with reporters after delivering a speech during the Clean Energy Ministerial International Forum on Electric Vehicle Pilot Cities and Industrial Development, at a hotel in Beijing, on June 6, 2017.

California, China sign climate deal after Trump's Paris exit

With President Donald Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, China and California signed an agreement on Tues. June 6, 2017, to work together on reducing emissions.