FILE - In this July 20, 2013, file photo, an ethanol plant stands next to a cornfield near Nevada, Iowa. The Obama administration has failed to study as legally required the impact of requiring ethanol in gasoline and ensuring that new regulations intended to address one problem do not actually make other problems worse, the Environmental Protection Agency inspector general said Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016. The conclusion in the new audit confirmed findings of an Associated Press investigation in November 2013. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has failed to study as legally required the impact of requiring ethanol in gasoline and ensuring that new regulations intended to address one problem do not actually make other problems worse, the Environmental Protection Agency inspector general said Thursday...

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IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another massive new wildfire forces evacuations for 80,000 in Southern California; Obama Administration issues new rules for heavy duty trucks; New report finds eliminating fossil fuel subsidies won't raise gas prices; PLUS: America gets its first-ever offshore wind farm... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

An abandoned house at the west end of Shishmaref, Alaska, that slid during a storm in 2005. Residents have voted in favor of relocating the community to the mainland. Credit Diana Haecker/Associated Press

Residents of a small Alaskan village voted this week to relocate their entire community from a barrier island that has been steadily disappearing because of erosion and flooding attributed to climate change...

The BIOSPHERE

Scientists on Thursday set the outlines of a report on how to restrict global warming to a limit agreed last year by world leaders - even though the temperature threshold is at risk of being breached already!

Blomstrand Glacier in the Arctic of Norway. Credit: EVAN VUCCI/AFP/Getty Images

Sea ice melting since 1979 is 'enormously outside the bounds of natural variability' and clearly linked to humans burning fossil fuels, research shows...

Property destroyed by the Blue Cut wildfire in Phelan, Calif., on Aug. 17. (Jonathan Alcorn/AFP via Getty Images)

In San Bernardino County, Calif., 82,000 people were ordered to leave their homes Wednesday as an explosive wildfire “hit with an intensity that we hadn’t seen before,” as one fire official said, and surged across 30,000 acres...

Workers install a rooftop solar system on a Van Nuys home. Clean energy advocates say policies for addressing climate change can help create jobs. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Mark Bauhaus used to make a point of avoiding Sacramento. Like other technology executives, he saw state politics as nothing more than a drag on Silicon Valley’s freewheeling innovation...

EPA, by TexasGOPVote.com, via Flickr

On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific advisors finished their review of EPA's national study on fracking and sternly rebuked the EPA for claiming that its draft study had found no evidence of “widespread, systemic” impacts to drinking water...

Dee Vazquez, from left, helped Georgette Centelo and her grandfather Lawrence Roberts in Central, north of Baton Rouge, La., on Monday.Credit David Grunfeld/The Times-Picayune, via Associated Press

DENHAM SPRINGS, La. — Kathryn Morgan, 18, stood on the shore of the neighborhood, waiting for a boat and taking stock...

For the first time, time-lapse footage reveals the nightmarish horror of the heat-induced behavior known as bleaching...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announces at U.N. climate talks in December the Breakthrough Energy Coalition and Mission Innovation efforts to boost clean energy research. Photo courtesy of AP Images.

The Obama administration celebrated the Breakthrough Energy Coalition at last year's Paris climate summit as evidence that some of the world's most successful financiers back the president's agenda of addressing warming...

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The carbon pledges made by 178 nations in Paris to date won’t likely save tropical coral reefs and cloud forests, or prevent mass global extinctions. More is needed...

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For the last five years, the French oil company Total SA has pursued a strategy distinct from other supermajors that sell most of the world's oil. It spent $1.3 billion to buy the United States' biggest maker of solar panels and just spent a billion more to buy a big battery company...

A Greenpeace activist in a hot air ballon ahead of the current UN climate summit in Cancún. WikiLeaks cables expose US use of espionage before the 2009 Copenhagen summit. Photograph: Luis Perez/AFP/Getty Images

(Job One for Humanity OP-ED note: Starting today our Global Warming Blog will begin posting more stories about corporate and government efforts to delay or stop global warming reduction through use of financial or other forms of intimidation and unethical influence. Although this posting is a bit dated, it helps demonstrate the sometimes hidden efforts to intentionally not reduce global warming — often in spite of public statements or positions to the contrary.)

Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord...

In this Aug. 12, 2016 photo, a glacier is seen from inside a bus in Huaraz, Peru. Peru has 70% of the world's tropical glaciers and facing imminent water resource issues while glaciers retreat. Photo: Martin Mejia, AP

 PASTORURI GLACIER, Peru (AP) — The tropical glaciers of South America are dying from soot and rising temperatures, threatening water supplies to communities that have depended on them for centuries. But experts say that the slow process measured in inches of glacial retreat per year also can lead to a sudden, dramatic tragedy...

Global temperature departures from average during July 2016. Image: NASA GISS

Earth just had its hottest month yet, and the record-shattering warmth shows no signs of stopping...