Fuel spill reported at New Jersey refinery after Sandy.

Some 7,700 gallons of fuel spilled from Phillips 66’s Bayway refinery in Linden, N.J., after Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday, reporting an apparent second leak at the New York harbor oil trading hub.

An Election Day in New Jersey unlike any other.

After an election year with billions spent on commercials and campaigns – and heated battles in many states over fraud control at polling places – it comes down to this: Storm-ravaged New Jersey is rewriting the playbook on the fly to let as many people as...

22 dead in Indian floods, 60,000 displaced.

Torrential rains in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have killed at least 22 people and displaced tens of thousands of villagers over the past week, an official said Monday.

In India, Delhi chokes on Punjab smoke.

As NASA satellite images over the past few days show, Punjab is literally on fire. In the images, the state is pockmarked with red dots which correspond to blazes deliberately lit by farmers to get rid of their paddy stubbles after harvest.

New tank leak troubling for Hanford nuclear site.

A large, double-walled tank of waste at the United States’ most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington state is leaking into its outer shell, raising new concerns about the long-term storage of the radioactive brew and for the effects on the...

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