Hybrid, electric car battery program funded by federal stimulus beginning to bear fruit

Production of stimulus-aided car batteries revs up

Chavez’s support eroding in slum strongholds as hard times return and an election looms

Chavez’s base, the poor, wobbles as election looms

California once a leader in waste-to-energy technology has fallen behind the rest of the world

Greenest state behind the waste-to-energy race

LA artists fight to save the city’s historic legacy of murals against a tide of graffiti

LA artists fight to save city’s legacy of murals

Cash-strapped state parks eye corporate sponsorships; NH hooks up with outdoor apparel company

State parks explore corporate sponsorship

CONCORD, N.H. — Not every state park in New Hampshire includes a mountain, but all staffers might be wearing pictures of little peaks on their uniforms next summer thanks to a corporate sponsorship the state is exploring with Eastern Mountain Sports.

Sebelius and Baucus rebuffed in Mont. after touting health care coverage for asbestos victims

Sebelius, Baucus rebuked in Mont. over health care

Nevada OKs alternative fuel for fleets that combines natural gas with low-sulfur diesel

Nevada OKs natural gas-diesel alt fuel combination

Republicans, Democrats, industry press to get Texas to issue EPA-approved operating permits

Texas industries press to get EPA-approved permits

Wildlife advocates say Rocky Mountain wolf ruling buys time to create a better management plan

Wildlife advocates hail Rocky Mountain wolf ruling

Judge orders endangered species protections reinstated for gray wolf in Montana and Idaho

Judge orders protections reinstated for gray wolf

Texas attorney general appeals EPA decision to overturn state’s air permitting program

California attorney general sues US government to permit popular renewable energy program

Calif. AG sues feds over renewable energy loans

California boosts enforcement of organic rules in effort to fight fraud at farmers markets

Calif. aims to boost enforcement of organic rules

EPA rejects 16-year-old Texas air permit program, leaves nation’s largest refineries in limbo

AP answers your questions on the news, from reporters in Gaza to using kudzu as biofuel

Ask AP: Kudzu as biofuel, reporting from Gaza

EPA tells 2 more companies to bypass Texas for refinery air permits, go directly through feds

EPA tells companies to bypass Texas air permitting

NYC rodent expert says half of lower Manhattan train lines could have rats or already do

Rodent expert shines light on rats in NYC subways

EPA offers to work with industry to fix faulty Texas air permits

EPA goes to industry to fix faulty Texas permits

Report: Myanmar beginning a nuclear weapons program

Report: Myanmar seeking nuclear weapons

VIENNA AP) — Secret documents and hundreds of photos smuggled out of Myanmar by an army defector indicate its military regime is trying to develop nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, a former senior U.N. nuclear inspector said Friday.