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Michigan to create aquatic invasive species council
Gov. Rick Snyder signed a package of legislation this week to create an advisory council to oversee ballast water discharges in Michigan.
The legislation, authored by Republican Senators Tom Casperson of Escanaba, Geoff Hansen of Hart and Howard Walker...Tags: Natural Resources, Environmental Issues, Government, Water, Environmental Politics
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Doug Brinkley, Rep. Don Young squabble over Arctic refuge
GreenspaceFamed biographer Doug Brinkley and Alaskan Rep. Don Young clashed bitterly last Friday as Brinkley, a professor at Rice University and the author most recently of “The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom 1979-1960,” testified... -
New drilling could bring highway money, GOP leaders say
Nation NowCongressional Republican leaders are drafting legislation that would steer money from new offshore energy production into highway construction.... -
House bill would put gray wolf under DNR control
A bill introduced Thursday into the U.S. House of Representatives could potentially transfer authority of the Michigan gray wolf population from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Limiting the gray wolf...Tags: Natural Resources, Environmental Issues, U.S. House of Representatives, Government, Conservation
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Battle brewing over expanding wilderness protections in the West
Nation NowThe Obama administration on Thursday recommended stronger protections for federal land in nine Western states, but many of the proposasl are likely to face resistance in the Republican-controlled House.... -
New oil leases in the Arctic: How dumb is that?
Opinion L.A.An Obama administration proposal would open new areas in the Arctic to oil and gas exploration. And these are the guys who are supposed to be friends of the environment?... -
Obama proposal would open Arctic and Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling
GreenspaceThe proposal, which outlines offshore oil and gas leasing from 2012 to 2017, omits areas on the West and East coasts that the Bush administration planned to open to drilling. But it also calls for three lease sales off the coast of Alaska in... -
Gulf oil spill claim payouts reach $5.5 billion
Nation NowA year and a half after the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the administrator of BP’s $20-billion restitution fund told Congress Thursday that he has has paid out about $5.5 billion to more than 213,000 victims of the nation’s worst offshore... -
BP to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico
CNN MoneyFive hundered and fifty-four days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, BP is back in action in the Gulf of Mexico. The company announced Wednesday that it had earned its first permit to drill for oil in the Gulf since last year's oil spill disaster,...Tags: Punishment, Natural Resources, Environmental Issues, Water Pollution, Economy, Business and Finance
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