Swedish truckmaker Volvo warned on Tuesday that an emissions control component used in its trucks was degrading more quickly than expected, which could cause engines to exceed emission limits for nitrogen oxides.
... An Idaho wildlife official was forced to resign on Monday after photographs of him posing with a family of baboons and other wild creatures he killed in September during a hunting trip in Africa went viral online, igniting a firestorm of criticism.
... U.S. President Donald Trump got a first-hand look on Monday at the “total devastation" that Hurricane Michael brought to Florida, as rescuers searched for scores of missing people and hundreds of thousands of residents remained without power.
... SALMON, Idaho (Reuters - A small group of killer whales in the Pacific Northwest faces extinction unless U.S. government fisheries managers reverse a decline in their main food source, Chinook salmon, scientists said on Monday.
... A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded east of New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, about half an hour after an earlier 6.5 quake in the same area.
... An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 was recorded east of New Caledonia in the South Pacific on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
... President Donald Trump got a first-hand look on Monday at the “total devastation" that Hurricane Michael brought to Florida, as rescuers searched for scores of missing and hundreds of thousands of residents remained without electricity.
... President Donald Trump got a first-hand look on Monday at the “total devastation" that Hurricane Michael brought to Florida, as rescuers searched for scores of missing and as hundreds of thousands of residents remained without electricity.
... The Trump administration's plan to allow year-round sales of higher-grade corn ethanol would have limited impact on the depressed U.S. ethanol market, with record supplies and prices for the fuel hovering near the lowest in a decade, analysts said.
... California's largest public utility cut off electric power to about 60,000 customers to prevent wildfires such as those that erupted in the state's wine country last fall, as high winds threatened to topple trees and power lines this week.
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Volvo warns some truck engines could be exceeding emission limits
Idaho wildlife official resigns over uproar about killing baboon family
Trump surveys Michael’s wrath, rescuers search for bodies
Scientists make plea to save Pacific Northwest killer whales
Second, larger quake recorded off New Caledonia: USGS
Magnitude 6.5 earthquake recorded east of New Caledonia: USGS
Trump sees Michael’s wrath, rescuers search for bodies
Trump surveys Michael’s wrath; rescuers search for survivors
Expanding ethanol sales would have limited U.S. market impact: analysts
California utility puts users in the dark to dampen wildfire threat