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February 28,2017
by Wisconsin Gazette
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order to make it easier to destroy and pollute thousands of wetlands, especially in the interior western states.
“Trump just put millions of acres of wetlands on the chopping block and our wildlife and waters will suffer,” said Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “This order is a gift to Trump’s frie....
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February 28,2017
by Wisconsin Gazette
Young environmentalists will be marching March 4 in Whitewater to demonstrate against a proposed pipeline expansion.
Wisconsin already is bisected by five pipelines.
Now Canada-based Enbridge Energy has plans — announced via shareholder letters — to construct Line 66, a pipeline that would run parallel to the existing Line 61.
These pipelines would carry 2 million barrels of oil pe....
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February 28,2017
by Associated Press
Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup.
The plant’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the remote-controlled “scorpion” robot was sent into the Unit 2 reactor’s containment vessel to investigate the area around the core that had melted six years ago, but its crawling ....
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February 23,2017
by Lisa Neff
President Donald Trump can bank on an all-out fight over the Dakota Access pipeline.
Shortly after his inauguration, Trump put the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines on the fast track to approval, despite environmental concerns and widespread opposition to the projects.
The president claimed he had not received “a single phone call” opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would carry....
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Wisconsin
February 20,2017
by Associated Press
Wisconsin hasn't seen the increase in the number of snowy owls this winter that have visited the state in recent winters from their usual nesting grounds above the Arctic Circle.
Many more of the white birds than normal visit some years, creating what the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources calls an irruption, Wisconsin Public Radio reported.
Nearly 240 snowy owls were reported in the....
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February 17,2017
by Associated Press
From jungles to deserts to mountains, the BBC’s epic nature series “Planet Earth II” takes viewers around the world — and around many genres of television.
The fortitude of a penguin family tugs heartstrings like a love story. The snail’s-pace courtship of a three-toed sloth is soothing comfort TV. And a life-or-death contest between baby iguanas and writhing racer snakes is heart-in-....
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February 16,2017
by Reuters
TransCanada Corp, Canada's No. 2 pipeline operator, filed an application with Nebraska authorities to route the Keystone XL pipeline through the state.
Donald Trump cleared the way for the project last month — one of his first actions as president.
In November 2015, the pipeline company withdrew the route application it had made to the Nebraska Public Service Commission after then-Presid....
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February 10,2017
by Associated Press
Construction crews have resumed work on the final segment of the Dakota Access pipeline and the developer of the long-delayed project said the full system could be operational within three months.
Meanwhile, a Native American tribe filed a legal challenge to block the work and protect its water supply.
The Army this week Energy Transfer Partners formal permission to lay pipe under a North Da....
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February 09,2017
by Lisa Neff
Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S. border with Mexico threatens many kinds of life, from humans to endangered species.
Trump announced his administration’s plan to build a barrier on the southern U.S. border on Jan. 25, pursuing an oft-repeated campaign promise. He proposes to build a “contiguous, physical wall” — considered the most expensive way to secure a border — and he ....
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February 09,2017
by Associated Press
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a plan from two Republican Wisconsin state lawmakers that allows companies to pay to delay compliance with strict phosphorous pollution standards.
Under the plan, polluters such as paper and cheese manufacturers and water utilities can apply to the Department of Natural Resources for a variance permit that allows them to postpone compliance f....
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