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NEW JERSEY: Officials rescue bear from tree in public park

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A black bear spotted in a northern New Jersey public park was tranquilized yesterday and removed from a tree.

ARIZONA: Slighted snorkeler nabs fake skeletons

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The Arizona snorkler who was the first to find two fake skeletons sitting in lawn chairs on the bottom of the Colorado River earlier this year removed "Bernie" and "Bernadette" to protest the omission of his name from the media firestorm that followed their discovery.

CHEMICALS: Feminine product makers disclose ingredients

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Increased pressure from health advocates at protests and on social media has led several feminine product manufacturers to begin posting full lists of the materials in their products online.

CLIMATE: Warming threatens children's health -- doctors

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Children face a serious health and safety threat from the impacts of climate change, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a new statement.

TOXICS: EPA to propose reporting rule for natural gas plants

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U.S. EPA plans to propose a regulation requiring natural gas processing plants to report releases of toxic chemicals to the air, water and soil, the agency told environmentalists in a letter released today.

TRANSPORTATION: Company aims to be 'Uber of trucks'

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Seattle-based startup Convoy is trying to become the "Uber of trucks" with new technology to link customers with independent contractor drivers.

PUBLIC LANDS: REI cancels Black Friday, urges people to play outside instead

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Outdoor retailer Recreational Equipment Inc. will keep its doors closed the Friday after Thanksgiving.

PESTICIDES: EPA division lacks transparency on petitions -- IG

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U.S. EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs is not as transparent as it should be when dealing with petitions on registrations, the agency's inspector general said in a report today.

FEDERAL WORKFORCE: Union hits 300K members

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The country's largest federal worker union has grown even bigger.

NUCLEAR WASTE: EPA will unveil fix for St. Louis landfill fire by year's end

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U.S. EPA will unveil a plan to stop a St. Louis-area landfill fire from reaching nearby buried nuclear waste by the end of this year, an official said yesterday.

WILDFIRES: Butte Fire victim's daughters sue PG&E

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The daughters of a victim of California's Butte Fire are suing Pacific Gas & Electric Co. on the grounds that the utility's faulty inspection of its power lines led to the fire.

BUSINESS: Companies shell out billions in environmental, safety fines

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Eight corporations and their subsidiaries paid more than $1 billion in environmental, health and safety penalties since 2010, according to a new report.

FISHERIES: NOAA isn't doing enough to protect dusky sharks -- Oceana

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The National Marine Fisheries Service has violated the nation's top fisheries law by not ending the overfishing of dusky sharks, according to a new lawsuit from Oceana.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: Butterflies circumvent Hurricane Patricia

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Hurricane Patricia, the largest storm on record in the Western Hemisphere, tore into rural Mexico last week, but endangered monarch butterflies were nowhere to be found.

WILDLIFE: Lions lose ground across Africa

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Lion populations are disappearing everywhere in Africa except in intensively managed areas, raising concerns about the iconic species' future, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

SCIENCE: Lack of mastodon poop hurts the planet

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The decline of the world's large mammals since the last ice age is starving the planet of vital nutrients, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

PEOPLE: Jon Stewart, wife open animal sanctuary

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Former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart and his wife Tracey, author of the book "Do Unto Animals," are turning their New Jersey farm into a neglected animal sanctuary.

WEATHER: Low-tech balloons still valuable in forecasting

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High-tech equipment is primarily used to forecast and measure weather nowadays, but one of the oldest pieces of meteorological technology is still one of the most useful.

ARCTIC: Army Corps hits 'pause' on Alaska deepwater port plan

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The Army Corps of Engineers shelved plans to study creating Alaska's first deepwater port yesterday, the latest hit to proposed offshore drilling in the Arctic.

OFFSHORE DRILLING: Admin 'grossly underestimated' seismic-study risks -- greens

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Environmental groups say the Obama administration has "grossly underestimated" the risks of seismic surveys on marine mammals, citing new data that update the distribution of whales and dolphins along the East Coast.
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