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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he's tackling the country's staggering inflation by lopping three zeros off the increasingly worthless bolivar currency.

___ Trade worries send stock market plunging NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks plunged, driving the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 700 points, as investors feared that trade tensions will spike between the U.S. and China.

The Chinese government has said it would retaliate against the U.S. over the Trump administration’s decision on Thursday to impose hefty tariffs on Chinese imports, and the coal industry could be a prime target.

Hawks, vultures and storks circle overhead as Christopher Sveen points at the heap of refuse rotting in the desert heat, calling it "the mine of the future."

Shares were mixed in Asia on Thursday after U.S. stock indexes finished with small losses following the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike.

Declines in coal power plant construction in China, India and the U.S. are projected to push the heavily-polluting fuel over the edge— but not fast enough to meet international climate change goals, environmental groups said Wednesday.

___ Facebook's Zuckerberg admits mistakes, outlines fixes NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is admitting mistakes and outlining steps to protect user data in light of privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm.

Virginia's largest electric utility asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to overturn a judge's ruling that the company is violating federal law by discharging arsenic through groundwater into surrounding waters from a coal ash storage site.

New Mexico regulators have approved a plan to build two massive wind farms along the Texas-New Mexico border.

A federal judge presiding over lawsuits that accuse big oil companies of lying about global warming to protect their profits is turning his courtroom into a classroom in what could be the first hearing to study the science of climate change.

The Latest on a tutorial on climate change before a federal judge in San Francisco (all times local): 9:15 a.m.

The United States is taking action against 15 South Sudanese oil-related entities in an attempt to stem the financial flow fuelling the country's civil war.

A senior official with Italian company Eni says the fastest and cheapest way to supply East Mediterranean gas to Europe and other regional markets is to utilize idle processing plants in Egypt to liquefy the mineral for transport.

Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday as some markets erased earlier gains ahead of the Federal Reserve's first meeting since the appointment of its new chair, Jerome Powell.

A lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's reversal of a ban on petroleum drilling in most of the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic underwater canyons can move forward.

An Oregon climate change activist has avoided jail time and been ordered to pay $3,775 after he was convicted of illegally shutting down a crude oil pipeline in Montana.

___ Zuckerberg asked to testify in UK; data firm's CEO suspended LONDON (AP) — A British parliamentary committee has summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as authorities stepped up efforts to determine if the personal data of social media users has been used improperly to influence elections.

One of the units at a coal-fired power plant that serves customers in the southwestern United States has been taken offline as officials investigate a structural failure in one of its coal silos.

More time is needed to finish additional court-ordered environmental study of the Dakota Access oil pipeline due to difficulties in getting needed information from American Indian tribes fighting the project in court, according to federal officials.

Turkey's president says the country's new drillship will "very soon" begin exploratory drilling in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in response to an offshore gas search by the government of ethnically divided Cyprus.