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Group criticizes pipeline company's safety record
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — An environmental group says the company whose ruptured pipeline dumped 800,000 gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River has a long history of spills. Wednesday is the second anniversary of the spill near Marshall. The...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Enbridge Incorporated
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Davie designated a Community Wildlife Habitat
It took three years of work by officials and residents, but Davie recently accomplished its mission of becoming a certified Community Wildlife Habitat. The town, only the ninth community in Florida to earn the distinction from the National Wildlife... -
Monarch enthusiasts expect fewer sightings
A suspended, striped body curls into a J-shape and shimmies violently, wriggling itself into pastel green-and-yellow coating and shaking off all its caterpillar parts except its little red heart. And then it stills — waiting for metamorphosis....
Tags: World Wildlife Fund, Mexico, State Parks, Ansell Limited
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Three years later, BP oil cleanup ends in some Gulf Coast states
This post has been updated and corrected, as indicated below.Three years after a cataclysmic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, oil producer BP announced Monday that active oil cleanup had ended in three states hit by the disaster. The gulf, the company said, is getting back to normal, a claim contested by...Tags: Trayvon Martin, Gulf of Mexico, BP Plc, Oil Spills, Mexico
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Program gets kids off the couch and into the tent
Long before Karoline Hurd became involved with the Great American Backyard Campout, she and her young children would pitch tents and make s'mores behind the family's suburban home. "That's not the norm anymore," said Hurd, the senior manager of...Tags: Cecil County, Tourism and Leisure, St. Mary's County, Marketing, Gardens and Parks
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Local couple offers mushroom workshops
In some ways, mushroom hunting and sprouting could be considered a lost art. Berglorbeer Farma proprietor David Sewak is working to revive it. Sewak and his wife Kristin operate a farm with gourmet mushrooms, vegetables, herbs and native plants all...
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Thune, Klobuchar introduce Sodsaver Prairie Protection Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced legislation that would modify crop insurance premium assistance for insured crops grown on native sod converted to cropland and land that a producer cannot...Tags: Wildlife, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Tom Harkin, Agriculture
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Sustainable design alternatives on view at AltBuild
Learn more about sustainable design and green living as Altbuild, the Alternative Building Materials & Design Conference and Expo, opens Friday at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Architects, builders and landscape designers will be among the more...Tags: Architecture, Arts and Culture, Alternative Energy
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Eva C. Johnson, 95
Eva Catherine (Fitzwater) Johnson of Valley Road, Knoxville, Md., passed away at Tranquility at Fredericktowne Assisted Living Home on April 20, 2013, at the age of 95 years. She had been under the care of Carroll Hospice. Eva was born Sept. 11, 1917, in...Tags: Washington, DC, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland)
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Former USDA official to speak at Farm Bill Forum April 29
Sioux Falls - South Dakota's conservation and agricultural leaders will gather on April 29 to discuss the need to tie federal farm payments to conservation practices that protect the state's water, soils and wildlife habitat. Keynote speaker for the...Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Ducks Unlimited, Conservation, Theodore Roosevelt
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New requirements for ballast water dumped by ships
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued new requirements for cleansing ballast water dumped from ships, which scientists believe has provided a pathway to U.S. waters for invasive species that damage ecosystems and...
Tags: Environmental Issues, U.S. Congress, Invasive Species, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Travel
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Environmental groups split on giving farmers more say about bay rules
Environmental groups are split over a bill that would give Maryland farmers more certainty about how Chesapeake Bay restoration regulations will affect them. Under the legislation, farmers would be exempted from new regulations for 10 years if they agree...Tags: Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Waste, Environmental Pollution
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