Environment

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The Audas family drops off donations at the Atlantic City Rescue Mission in Atlantic City, N.J. on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. They will return to the mission on Friday to volunteer. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Robert Redford is a trustee of Pitzer College, which is creating an environmental studies program in his name. (Associated Press)

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Pulte Homes is building 340 single-family homes at the Hamlets at Red Cedar in Leesburg. The Chastworth model, with 4,589 finished square feet, is priced from $735,990.

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**FILE** Steam and smoke rise from a coal burning power plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Dec. 16, 2009. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar signs an agreement on Colorado River water usage as Mexican Commissioner Roberto Salmon looks on Tuesday. It amends a 1944 treaty granting Mexico 1.5 million acre-feet of river water yearly. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** This aerial file photo from Nov. 11, 2012, shows the two homes that were leveled and the numerous neighboring homes that were damaged from a massive explosion that sparked a huge fire and killed two people in Indianapolis. (Associated Press/The Indianapolis Star, Matt Kryger)

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Waves bash against a sewage outfall structure in Point Pleasant Beach N.J. on Nov. 15, 2012. Before Superstorm Sandy caused massive beach erosion at the Jersey shore, the outfall had about 50 feet of beach between it and the ocean. Superstorm Sandy took a bite out of the Jersey shore, washing away millions of tons of sand and slimming down beaches along the state's 127-mile coastline. (Associated Press)

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U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice is not fit to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state because she misled the nation about the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, according to a letter sent by 97 House Republicans. (Associated Press)

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Protesters carry a mock pipeline past the White House on Sunday, sending a message that President Obama's decision on Keystone XL will be the “pure test” of his commitment to fight climate change. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Cordova, Ala., Fire Chief Dean Harbison (left) and Mayor Drew Gilbert walk through the town’s tornado-damaged downtown on Nov. 13. The area looks much like it did right after tornadoes struck in April 2011 because of the federal bureaucracy, they say. (Associated Press)