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"Smith Islanders Debate Buyout Offered By State"
"EWELL, Md. -- Superstorm Sandy barely laid a glove on Smith Island last fall, to hear residents tell it. Though storm-driven flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Crisfield and the rest of Somerset County, only a couple islanders got any water in their homes from the surging Chesapeake Bay."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 05/14/2013
"Wind Farms Get Pass on Eagle Deaths"
"CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. -- It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground."
Source: AP, 05/14/2013
"Study: N.C. Too Slow To Warn About Yadkin Fish Contamination"
"RALEIGH — Fish in one of North Carolina’s largest watersheds are more polluted by an industrial contaminant than previously reported, and state health officials have failed to expand warnings against eating PCB-contaminated fish, according to a new study."
Source: AP, 05/14/2013
"Feds: Budget Cuts To Make Wildfire Season Tougher"
"BOISE, Idaho (AP) — After another dry winter across much of the West, fire officials are poised for a tough wildfire season that will be even more challenging because federal budget cuts mean fewer firefighters on the ground, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Monday."
Source: AP, 05/14/2013
"Environmental Review to Delay Two Engineered Crops"
"Genetically engineered crops that could sharply increase the use of two powerful herbicides are now unlikely to reach the market until at least 2015 because the Department of Agriculture has decided to subject the crops to more stringent environmental reviews than it had originally intended."
Source: NY Times, 05/14/2013
"Study Finds Possibly Toxic Metals in 32 Lipsticks"
"Lipstick can give your lips color, sheen and texture, but may also put you at risk of ingesting potentially toxic metals, University of California, Berkeley researchers say."
Source: Houston Chronicle, 05/14/2013
"Plans To Export US Natural Gas Stir Debate"
"A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export projects that could set off a renewed frenzy of fracking."
Source: AP, 05/14/2013
"White House Arctic Strategy: What's Next for Oil, Gas Drilling?"
"The tension between conservation and oil and gas drilling is evident in the White House's new Arctic strategy paper. Shifting economic, climatic, and regulatory realities have contributed to what is at least a temporary pause in Arctic oil and gas drilling."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 05/14/2013
"Climate Change Forecast To Shrink Habitat of Common Plants, Animals"
"The habitats of many common plants and animals will shrink dramatically this century unless governments act quickly to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Sunday after studying 50,000 species around the world."
Source: Reuters, 05/14/2013
