WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Wednesday evening allowing states to opt out of the Obama administration’s plan to regulate emissions from power plants by a vote of 247-180. The legislation would allows governors to decline to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for power plant emissions if they…

From the day that a 14-year-old Ansel Adams first saw the transcendent beauty of the Yosemite Valley, his life was, in his words, “colored and modulated by the great earth-gesture of the Sierra.” Few American photographers have reached a wider audience than Adams, and none has had more impact on…

Reposted from nytimes.com VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Thursday called for a radical transformation of politics, economics and individual lifestyles to confront environmental degradation and climate change, blending a biting critique of consumerism and irresponsible development with a plea for swift and unified global action. The vision that Francis…