"National Park in ND Thinning Bison and Elk Herds"
"MEDORA, N.D. — The National Park Service is thinning the bison and elk herds in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, to keep them at manageable levels."
Source: AP, 10/15/2014
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"Wildlife Groups Sue for Wolverine Protections"
"BILLINGS, Mont. — A coalition of advocacy groups on Monday challenged the government's denial of federal protections for the snow-loving wolverine, arguing in a lawsuit that officials disregarded evidence a warming climate will eliminate denning areas for the "mountain devil.""
Source: AP, 10/15/2014
"Toxic-Water Victims at Camp Lejeune Can't Sue"
"RALEIGH -- The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has ruled that Marine veterans and their families cannot sue over groundwater contamination at Camp Lejeune."
Source: WTVD Raleigh, 10/15/2014
"Gold’s Legacy: Abandoned Gold Mines Cost SC"
"McCORMICK — Open-pit gold mines have left a toxic and costly legacy for taxpayers in South Carolina, where contamination is seeping into creeks and groundwater two decades after the mines closed."
Source: Rock Hill Herald, 10/15/2014
"Liquid Nicotine Exposures Up Sharply Among Kids"
"Poison control workers say that as the e-cigarette industry has boomed, the number of children exposed to the liquid nicotine that gives hand-held vaporizing gadgets their kick also has spiked."
Source: AP, 10/15/2014
"At Hanford, Sick Nuclear Workers Await Compensation"
"KENNEWICK, Wash. – On his tiny farm, Terry Wattenburger admired a new cycle of life emerging in his backyard: A blue-eyed American Paint foal grazed next to its mother and a fuzzy, multicolored chick chirped and hopped through the grass."
Source: Aljazeera America, 10/15/2014
"Lost Louisiana: the Race To Reclaim Vanished Land Back From the Sea"
"World’s fastest submerging state is looking to nature in an ambitious plan to turn back the tide, and to BP to fund it – but will it work?"
Source: Guardian, 10/15/2014
"In Wisconsin, Dark Money Got A Mining Company What It Wanted"
"When billionaire Chris Cline's company bought an option to mine a swath of northern Wisconsin in 2010, the company touted the project's potential to bring up to 700 well-paid jobs to a hard-pressed part of the state."
Source: ProPublica, 10/15/2014
"The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons"
"From 2004 to 2011, American and Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and at times were wounded by, chemical weapons that were hidden or abandoned years earlier."
Source: NY Times, 10/15/2014
"The Whale Savers"
"A decades-long quest to save the north Atlantic right whale is helping revive a species that is a bellwether of the health of the oceans."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/14/2014
