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Regulators: The EPA has commemorated the start of Hispanic Heritage Month with an emailed picture of Marxist thug Che Guevara. Considering the agency's totalitarian energy policies, it's somehow appropriate. The internal email sent by EPA management analyst Susie Goldring was said to have been issued without clearance from higher-ups. EPA said it was "drafted and sent by an individual employee, and without official clearance." But sent it was, a document with a photo of a mural with a visage of the murderous revolutionary that was lifted without attribution from the website, www.buzzle.com. Guevara, of course, was an enemy of the...

(BEIJING) -- China's government said it evacuated the last town to be submerged under the giant reservoir created by the Three Gorges Dam, bringing the project another step closer to its final height of 578 feet. Authorities have dismantled the last of 988 households in the town of Gaoyang, in central China's Hubei province, and cleared related garbage, ending a process that began four years ago, state-run media reported Wednesday. The residents of Gaoyang join some 1.4 million others who have been evacuated to make way for the world's largest hydroelectric project. With the dam structure already completed, authorities have...

Every year, parties to the Kyoto Protocol meet. Every year the future of the protocol is very much in question. And every year the meeting ends with environmental crusaders falsely claiming that the world has finally united behind the goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. This year’s conference in Montreal followed the tired old pattern. The parties agreed to little or nothing — but, hearing the way the conference has been spun, you’d think the environmentalists’ every dream had been fulfilled. Greenpeace hailed the meeting as “historic,” and enviros hither and yon felt the special frisson of Bill Clinton’s saying, in...