The end is nearing on debate over how the state's top water-pollution cops will cut back on the Central Valley's top cause of water contamination.
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The Rocky Mountain Arsenal, where sarin nerve gas and other weapons of mass destruction were manufactured for years, has officially been declared free of chemical weapons.
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A unique natural area once the home of Davey Crockett's family and known throughout Tennessee and Alabama as the "Walls of Jericho" was purchased in late December by The Nature Conservancy.
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The Environment Ministry plans to help save the world's forests by cracking down on imports of timber and pulp produced from trees cut illegally in the country of origin.
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 The first year Hawaii's green sea turtle expert counted the animals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, he found 67 nesting females at East Island, French Frigate Shoals. Three decades later, on the same island, George Balazs' research team counted 467 nesting females in a season -- a nearly 600 percent increase.
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For many rural families, the cost of extending a power line to a home or other facility can be time consuming and costly. By using alternative energy sources such as solar, wind and biomass, farmers, ranchers, business owners and homeowners can reduce their utility bills, stabilize electricity supplies and help reduce America's dependence on foreign energy supplies.
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One of the nation's largest wind energy projects is being completed in the rolling hills between San Francisco and Sacramento, where dozens of turbines rising more than 300 feet tower over wheat fields and herds of sheep.
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The Environmental Protection Agency said this week that it might start regulating 15 more pollutants contained in the nearly 6 million tons of sewage sludge used or disposed of in the United States each year.
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The graceful pink and gray chinook began their historic journey through the waters of Putah Creek sometime around the first week in December.
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More than 920,000 chinook salmon passed the Bonneville Dam fish-counting station this year, breaking the 2002 record, according to officials who track the numbers.
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A new biological control developed by Agricultural Research Service scientists may provide an important defense against some of the most destructive insect pests that farmers face.
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Consider the plight of the Utah prairie dog. Found only in the Beehive State, the burrowing rodent was once considered a blight on the landscape, a "varmint" whose only value was the pleasure it gave to whoever viewed it down the sight of a gun barrel. Shot, poisoned, fumigated, its habitat paved over by parking lots or torn up by off-highway vehicles, the prairie pup was pushed perilously close to the brink of extinction.
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Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa authorized a $1 million grant Tuesday toward the purchase of a 277-acre shoreline area at the old Waihee Dairy for preservation.
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An $8.4 billion restoration project, now underway after years of planning, aims to reverse some of that damage. State officials hope the plan -- billed as the world's largest environmental restoration project -- will lure more tourists to discover the rare wilderness.
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