TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A ruptured pipe spilled enough oil this week into a northeastern Kansas creek to nearly fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, becoming the largest land-based crude oil pipeline spill in nine years and surpassing all previous ones on the same combined pipeline system, according to federal data. Keystone Pipeline Spill Into a …
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Southern California air regulators have approved a sweeping plan to cut pollution in the country’s most polluted region over the next two decades, but say they can’t meet national quality standards air without federal action. The South Coast Air Quality Management District Board of Directors voted 9-2 on Friday to adopt a nearly 5,000-page plan, …
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“Dog owners” had argued “(1) Pit Bull-type dogs are no more or less dangerous than other dog breeds; (2) neither breed nor physical characteristics are predictive of a dog’s aggressiveness or biting propensity; and (3) the city’s method of identifying dogs as Pit Bulls is inherently unreliable. As for dangerousness, dog owners argued that canine …
YELLOW KNIFE – At an estimated cost of $4.38 billion, the cleanup of Giant Mine, one of Canada’s most contaminated sites, is also expected to be the costliest federal environmental cleanup in the country’s history. The figure, recently approved by the Treasury Board of Canada, covers costs from 2005 to 2038, when active remediation at …
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Federal snipers recently ventured deep into Congaree National Park, seeking to kill a voracious type of animal that threatens the preserve’s fragile forested floodplain southeast of Columbia. Feral pigs traverse South Carolina – and their destructive ways have not spared Congaree National Park, a 27,000-acre swamp forest that is the cornerstone of South Carolina’s nature …
