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He rejected calls to increase oil drilling, saying he wants to free the state “from the grasp of petro-dictators once and for all.”

Residents and businesses in unincorporated areas of San Diego County are eligible for increased water-use efficiency rebates under a partnership announced Tuesday between the county's Watershed Protection Program and the San Diego County Water Authority.

A prolonged 21-year warming and drying trend is pushing the nation’s two largest reservoirs to record lows. For the first time this summer, the federal government will declare a shortage.

Biathlon is the only Winter Olympics sport in which the U.S. hasn't won a medal. Innovations since the last games have Americans hoping to break through in the skiing and target shooting event.

State fire officials say Pacific Gas & Electric power lines sparked last summer’s Dixie Fire in Northern California that swept through five counties and burned more than 1,300 homes and other buildings.

A new U.N. report finds that "more than two-thirds" of those who died were victims of extrajudicial killings by the Taliban or its affiliates.

The east end of Northern California’s Dixie Fire flared up on Tuesday as winds increased in the afternoon. In southeastern Montana, communities in and around the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation were ordered to evacuate as the Richard Spring Fire grew amid erratic winds.

Despite new pledges to cut emissions, the world is not on track to hit a key climate change target of limiting warming. Scientists warn a planet that heats up more than that will look very different.

About 80% of Colorado’s water falls on the western side of the state. But about 80% of Colorado’s people live on the east side of the mountains. Because of gravity, that water doesn’t flow to them naturally. Instead, Colorado’s heavily-populated Front Range relies on a massive plumbing system to keep drinking water flowing to its taps.

On Wednesday, the San Diego/Tijuana District of the Urban Land Institute begins a series of meetings covering how our region can respond to the increased risk of wildfires and other aspects of climate change.