Bird advocates are protesting after Michigan's House of Representatives voted yesterday to recommend a sandhill crane hunt.
MICHIGAN: Sandhill cranes could become 'rib-eye of the sky'
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ARKANSAS: Phantom turkey drop leads to FAA investigation
A strange turkey tradition in a tiny town in Arkansas brought national attention this year, and now it's prompted an investigation from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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UTAH: Water group alleges misconduct in pipeline project
An advocacy group alleges that backers of a proposed water pipeline from Utah's Lake Powell provided incorrect water use data to state and federal regulators in an attempt to build support for the project.
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MARINE MAMMALS: SeaWorld to cut 350 jobs after attendance drop
SeaWorld will lay off 350 staffers as the number of visitors to its theme parks drops, the company announced yesterday.
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WESTERN WATER: Gov. Brown open to scaling back Calif. tunnels — official
A top California official said Gov. Jerry Brown (D) would consider a smaller, cheaper version of his original proposal to construct twin tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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DRINKING WATER: Bases failed to report contamination — GAO
More than a dozen military bases failed to report drinking water contamination to the Department of Defense, said the government's top watchdog, leaving lapses in Pentagon data as it tries to clean up contaminants spread by military firefighting foam.
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OIL AND GAS: Fire erupts at biggest West Coast oil refinery
A fire broke out late Tuesday at the biggest oil refinery on the West Coast, releasing a thick cloud of black smoke over neighborhoods before crews smothered the blaze.
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ADVOCACY: Al Gore says there's hope for renewables
Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a hopeful message about sustainable energy at a gathering in Pittsburgh this week.
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CITIES: Initiative promotes local planning to curb emissions
The World Bank and others have launched a program to advance local initiatives for reducing heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.
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SUPERSTORM SANDY: Man charged with scamming FEMA out of $250K in relief funds
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with scamming more than $250,000 in government funds meant for recovery from Superstorm Sandy.
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FOREST SERVICE: Enviro lawsuit says sheep grazing threatens bighorns
Environmental groups have launched a lawsuit against the Forest Service, claiming the agency is illegally allowing domestic sheep to graze in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, endangering a bighorn sheep herd in eastern Idaho.
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PUBLIC HEALTH: The world needs a mosquito emoji, Gates Foundation says
There are nearly 3,000 emojis available for various forms of communication, including guns, drugs, country flags and a smiling, anthropomorphic pile of poop.
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WILDFIRES: Calif. victims may be housed in FEMA trailers
As the death toll from Northern California's wildfires grew to 42, officials said yesterday that residents left homeless by the deadliest blazes in state history may be housed temporarily in government trailers.
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OBITUARY: Fire kills former BLM falcon preservationist
A wildlife biologist and former Bureau of Land Management employee who helped preserve the peregrine falcon has been killed at age 81 by the Tubbs Fire in Northern California.
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OBITUARY: Wilderness Society's William Turnage dies at 74
William Turnage, who transformed the Wilderness Society from a small grass-roots group to a powerful foe of the Reagan administration's rollbacks of public lands protections, died Sunday.
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INSECTS: Flying bugs' decline has researchers worried
Biologists have coined a term for the shrinking number of bug guts you see on cars after a long drive: the windshield phenomenon.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Fire devastates key red squirrel population
Arizona's endangered and occasionally infamous Mount Graham red squirrel now seems to be more at risk than ever, a new survey suggests.
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NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Gov. Herbert: Future of Utah sites in limbo
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) today urged President Trump to finalize his decision about the future of a pair of national monuments in the Beehive State, nearly two months after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke advised significant reductions to those sites' boundaries.
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FEDERAL AGENCIES: House watchdogs check records on private flights
U.S. EPA hasn't fully complied with a document request from House watchdogs on the agency's use of military and private jets.
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BLM: Acting spokesman was once Gale Norton's press secretary
The Bureau of Land Management has appointed a new acting communications director with extensive experience at the Interior Department, having once served as Interior press secretary for Gale Norton during the George W. Bush administration.
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