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$3500 reward in fatal poisoning of 2 bald eagles
Federal investigators say someone poisoned and killed two bald eagles in Thibodaux. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are offering $3,500 for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed the national birds. The partly decomposed eagles were found April 11 about ...
RI building electric car charging stations
Rhode Island is building up to 50 electric vehicle charging stations for motorists around the state and also plans to purchase hybrid or electric-powered vehicles for the state fleet whenever possible, the governor announced Tuesday. Gov. Lincoln Chafee said the moves, paid for by federal stimulus money, will help improve ...
Vt.'s GMP says saving bats would cost $4 million
The utility that owns the Lowell Mountain wind power project said it would have to stop its turbines from spinning at night for six months a year to eliminate any risk to the little brown bats known to fly on the mountain. Idling the turbines would cost the utility about ...
NC group offers reward for stolen Venus flytraps
A North Carolina environmental group is offering a $1,500 reward to find the thief who stole more than 1,000 Venus flytraps from a city garden in Wilmington. The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust says it was outraged by the theft at the Stanley Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden where the organization ...
Biologist says Iowa's pheasant numbers likely down
A Department of Natural Resources biologist says Iowa's pheasant population likely will decline this year because of the cool and wet spring. DNR upland wildlife biologist Todd Bogenschutz says Iowa's pheasant population usually increases after mild winters and dry, warm springs. This year, a snowy winter was followed by record-setting ...
Pa. man charged with illegally killing black bear
A northeastern Pennsylvania man has been charged with illegally killing a black bear. The Times-Tribune of Scranton (http://bit.ly/11XhOgG ) reports that Pennsylvania Game Commission officers responded last week to what was first reported as a road-killed bear in Berlin Township, Wayne County. They found the 550-pound bear had been shot ...
NC Senate panel approves energy code rollback
A bill rolling back energy-efficiency standards for commercial builders passed a North Carolina Senate committee Tuesday. The Senate Commerce Committee endorsed a bill that backers say will spur construction by eliminating the 2012 codes in favor of 2009 standards, which are 30-percent lower than today's energy-use benchmarks. Democratic lawmakers and ...
Vt. and Quebec announce electric car corridor
Starting this fall, people who drive electric vehicles should be able to travel the 138-mile route between Burlington and Montreal without worrying they'll run short of a charge thanks to a planned electric vehicle charging corridor, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin and Quebec Premier Pauline Marois announced in Montreal. Initially the ...
Land Institute hires former Kansas ag secretary
Former Kansas Agriculture Secretary Josh Svaty has become a vice president of the Land Institute in Salina, which works to promote a new sustainable agriculture system that minimizes environmental damage. Svaty, 33, a farmer from Ellsworth County who also served in the Kansas Legislature, will work on public policy issues, ...
Appeals court: BLM must story more grazing plans
The Bureau of Land Management must consider a wider range of grazing alternatives, including some that provide more protections for public land, when it reviews permits in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Western Watersheds Project, which brought the lawsuit ...
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