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Senate panel votes to ease landfill restrictions
A state Senate committee voted Wednesday to ease some landfill restrictions imposed six years ago by reducing the distances that dumps must be from protected lands and narrowing the reasons why permit applications can be rejected. The measure would roll back a 2007 law designed at the time to discourage ...
New Colo. wildfire prompts evacuations of homes
A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of dozens of homes Wednesday as hot and windy conditions in much of Colorado and elsewhere in the West made it easy for fires to start and spread. The Lime Gulch Fire in Pike National Forest was small ...
Obama plans major push on global warming
President Barack Obama is planning a major push against the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to follow promises he made at the start of his second term. "This is the global threat of our time," Obama said in a speech Wednesday in Berlin. The plan is to ...
Obama making plans to tackle global warming
President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more — and we will do more," Obama ...
UN: Resources should finance development, not war
The United Nations' deputy secretary-general is urging countries to transform natural resource inequities that have fueled conflicts over oil, diamonds and precious metals and use those resources to finance economic development and provide basic services like health care and clean water. In too many countries, Jan Eliasson said Wednesday, a ...
EPA levies $2.5M penalty against US cement maker
The Environmental Protection Agency levied a $2.5 million penalty against a big cement maker and required the company to invest $30 million in pollution controls at plants in nine states alleged to have violated the federal Clean Air Act. Ash Grove Cement Co.'s penalty was announced Wednesday by the EPA ...
Montana court says bison transfer legal
The relocation of Yellowstone National Park bison to tribal lands in Montana can resume, under a Wednesday ruling from the state's Supreme Court that revives a stalled conservation initiative for the animals. Bison, also known as buffalo, once numbered in the tens of millions across North America, before overhunting drove ...
2nd rabid skunk found in St. Cloud
St. Cloud health officials confirm a second skunk with rabies has been found in the city. St. Cloud Health Director Lisa Schreifels says the skunk had not had any human or animal contact. Schreifels says the skunk found this week was acting lethargic. Animal control officials were able to capture ...
Hawaiian Electric eyeing new solar, wind projects
Hawaiian Electric Co. said Wednesday it has asked the Public Utilities Commission for the authority to negotiate five new solar and wind power contracts. The utility says the projects would charge an average of one-third less for electricity than what Hawaiian Electric now pays for power generated from oil, solar ...
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Bernanke says stronger economy means Fed could slow bond buying this year, end it next year WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move that could send interest rates higher, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by saying the Federal Reserve will likely slow its bond-buying program this year ...
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