A draft plan to conserve the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly on lands owned and managed by two northern Indiana utility companies is available for review and comment.
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The European Commission on Thursday hailed a six-nation climate change pact unveiled by the United States and Australia, saying it would boost efforts to fight global warming.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced the launch of a new partnership with Pennsylvania dentists to review voluntary best-management practices for mercury-bearing amalgam wastes and to collect obsolete supplies of elemental mercury to prevent the material from entering the environment.
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The newly reconstructed Stillwell Avenue subway station in Brooklyn has become the city's first solar-powered train terminal, billed as one of the most sustainable mass transportation sites ever built in the U.S.
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Bears may have returned to Switzerland, more than 100 years after disappearing from their Alpine habitat, according to eyewitnesses.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth drew praise from environmental campaigners yesterday with an announcement that Windsor Castle is to be partially run by hydro-electric power.
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Los Angeles California authorities have a plan to end the tangle of trucks at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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California's pioneering electronic-waste recycling law was as confusing for the big recycling operators as it was for collectors and consumers when it went into force at the beginning of the year.
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A garbage treatment plant that is capable of treating 1.2 million units of waste household electric appliances will debut in China's capital Beijing before the end of this year.
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Historic new regulations limiting how much waste gases San Francisco-area oil refineries can burn are a "win-win" for the companies and the environment, air quality officials said Thursday.
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A senior Senate Republican said on Thursday he will pursue legislation that may eventually require U.S. industry to cut gases linked to global warming, a view sharply at odds with the White House and many other Republicans.
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Squadrons of Gray whales could be winging their way across the Atlantic within a decade to restock British waters under plans put forward by two conservation scientists.
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A petition to protect the headwater chub and the Lower Colorado River basin population of the roundtail chub under the Endangered Species Act has been found by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have sufficient merit to warrant further consideration.
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via CNN | GNN staff |
Fri July 22, 2005
Plenty of college kids still subsist on a steady diet of ramen noodles, cold cereal and beer to wash it all down.
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