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Paper: Drilling damage in 161 Pa. water supplies
Oil and gas development damaged the water supplies of at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to state records obtained by a newspaper. The (Scranton) Times-Tribune (http://bit.ly/1116fGr ) first requested the records in late 2011 under the Right to Know ...
Lawsuit in Ohio cancer cluster will take years
The wait for answers is far from over for parents who for years have lived with the worry of not knowing what's behind the mysterious cancers that have sickened dozens of children in a rural area of northern Ohio. Despite a federal civil lawsuit that points toward a possible cause, ...
Dallas suburb solar panel fight exposes problems
A legal battle between a suburban Dallas neighborhood association and a homeowner seeking to install solar panels on his house exposed problems with a 2011 Texas law. Jay Squyres and the Wellington of Flower Mound Residential Association have settled their lawsuit, The Dallas Morning News reported Saturday (http://dallasne.ws/19QX0rQ ). But ...
On table in NJ: Using sales tax to preserve land
New Jersey voters have agreed 13 times to allow the state to borrow money to buy land for preservation. Now they could be asked to approve a more farsighted plan — preservation funding for the next 30 years derived from state sales tax revenue. A proposal to put the long-term ...
Comment period ends in mid-June for proposed mine
The U.S. Forest Service expects to close its public comment period in mid-June on a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Roca Honda uranium mine near Mount Taylor. Strathmore Minerals Corp. and Sumitomo Corp. of Japan — known as the Roca Honda Resources LLC Joint Venture — propose to ...
Tours show off habitat management techniques
Nebraska landowners who want to create or protect habitat for wildlife are invited to tour well-managed lands in the state. The Nebraska chapters of Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are hosting tours of 17 different locations in the state this spring and summer. The tours began Thursday with a cedar ...
Idaho Power sticks with coal to meet power demands
Idaho Power Co. will continue to rely on coal to meet the state's energy demands, company officials said. LaMont Keen, president and CEO of Idacorp and Idaho Power Co., said the company will continue to get power from coal plants in Wyoming and Nevada for at least the next two ...
'Laboratory in a can' monitors red tide off Maine
Red tide monitoring is going high-tech with a robotic "laboratory in a can." A garbage can-size canister was deployed in late April in the ocean waters off southern Maine to collect and transmit data about toxin-producing algae blooms, known as red tides, that show up in the Gulf of Maine ...
Cost could sink Cleveland trash plant
A proposal in Cleveland for a trash-to-energy plant could be sunk by rising cost estimates. But mayoral chief of staff Ken Silliman tells The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (bit.ly/13CJbNN) the city has not ruled out the idea. He says the city is still pursuing an air emission permit from the state ...
2012 SPJ NW Excellence in Journalism winners
Winners of the 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest were announced Saturday night. The annual contest is held by Region 10 of SPJ to honor journalism in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. The winners were: Alternative Weeklies Crime and Justice Reporting 1st place Andrea Damewood ...
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