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WASHINGTON – The government announced an agreement Friday with a Canadian company that is the world’s largest zinc producer on paying for a study of heavy-metal pollution in the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River. Teck Cominco Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, agreed to put up $20 million for assessing the impact …

Britain and Sweden are on target for reducing global-warming gases, but other countries will have to toughen policies and rely on “carbon trading” to achieve their Kyoto Protocol goals by 2012, says a new U.N. report. In the United States, meanwhile, emissions of so-called greenhouse gases climbed by 16 percent …

SAN FRANCISCO – Federal investigators searched Arizona Diamondbacks reliever Jason Grimsley‘s house Tuesday as part of their investigation of steroid use in baseball. Thirteen agents searched Grimsley’s house in Scottsdale, Ariz., for six hours, according to Internal Revenue Service Agent Mark Lessler, who would not say what they found. In …