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Leech Lake and Fond du Lac sign on for Enbridge Pipeline - Twin Cities Daily Planet

Winona LaDuke — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The Leech Lake Ojibwe and Fond du Lac Ojibwe tribal governments have each accepted payment from Enbridge Pipeline for the right of way through their reservations. Recent negotiations taking place with Fond du Lac have settled for a rumored $17 million, while Leech Lake signed for $l0 million. MORE » By: Winona LaDuke Copyright: ©2010 The ...

Haunted by persecution at home, vulnerable Myanmar refugees face grim future in Bangladesh - Star Tribune: World

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Oak Creek passes moratorium, medical marijuana ordinance - Steamboat Pilot

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The town of Oak Creek approved final regulations governing how medical marijuana dispensaries can be established in the town at a meeting Thursday night, but also doubled the moratorium time on approving land-use changes to allow growing operations.

Idaho vacation-home buyers share the cost, boost resort - Seattle Times: Real Estate

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Different from time shares, a fractional owning plan near an Idaho resort is offering one-eighth of a new million-dollar vacation home at Schweitzer Mountain Resort with three bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and dramatic views of Lake Pend Oreille with the owner guaranteed four weeks during winter and summer.

Editorial: Worse Than Inaction on Climate Change - NY Times: Editorials

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Freezing the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases, as some senators would like to do, makes no sense.

Walk, baby, walk: New rig drills, then moves - Houston Chronicle: Business

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Houston's Global Energy Services unveiled a next-generation rig walking system that it says provides greater mobility and efficiency at drilling sites.

Two Worlds of Argentine Wines - Wall St. Journal: World

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

As big growers thrive with input from abroad, smaller artisanal vintners pose a challenge.

E.E.O.C. Sees Bias in Almontaser Ouster at Khalil Gibran School - NY Times: NY Region

By ANDREA ELLIOTT — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A federal commission has determined that New York City’s Department of Education discriminated against the founding principal of an Arabic-language public school.

Emotion overcomes reason in land management - Boston Globe: Opinion

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Emotion overcomes reason in land management

We need to hear from the foresters - Boston Globe: Opinion

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

We need to hear from the foresters

2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive - Seattle Times: Nation & World

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake and authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.

Tourism Office unveils online scenic byways guide - Salt Lake Tribune

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

To attract more visitors to Utah's 26 state and national scenic byways, a new online guide on the Utah Office of Tourism Web site, www.utah.travel, has been developed.

U. program gets mine-safety donation - Salt Lake Tribune

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Efforts by the University of Utah Department of Mining Engineering to advance mine safety received a boost last week with a second $250,000 donation from Consol Energy Inc.

As Tour of Utah bikers race by, sponsors hope to catch public's eye - Salt Lake Tribune

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

From Zions Bank to the motivated volunteers of teamwise, sponsors have been lined up for all stages of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah bicycle race, which will be held Aug.

Housing still elusive for Haiti quake victims - MSNBC

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

With torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelter they promised for tens of thousands of Haitians left homeless by January's earthquake. ...

Mercury News interview: Energy Secretary Steven Chu - San Jose Mercury News: San Jose/Valley

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a vocal advocate for alternative energy and nuclear power, was in Silicon Valley earlier this week to talk about the role of clean energy in combating global climate change.

Couple headed cross-country on horseback survive near-disaster in Marin County - San Jose Mercury News: Breaking News

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

A Wyoming couple making a yearlong, coast-to-coast fundraising trip on horseback survived a scary fall this week in the hills above Lucas Valley.

In the Region | Connecticut: In Connecticut, a Moratorium on Affordable Housing - NY Times: Real Estate

By LISA PREVOST — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The Town of Oxford has declared an 11-month moratorium on applications for affordable-housing developments.

Everest expedition to find Mallory's camera - MSNBC

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

George Mallory's camera may contain photographic evidence of whether he and Andrew Irvine were the first to summit Everest. ...

2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive - Boston Globe: Latest

Ben Fox and Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writers — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive

Hollywood Donates Big to Rescue an Icon, Stars Flaunt Green Fashion at the Oscars, and More - TreeHugger

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Hollywood Donates Big to Rescue an Icon, Stars Flaunt Green Fashion at the Oscars, and More

Climate Change Imperils Birds, Raises Stakes in Conservation Battle - The Nature Conservancy

Misty Edgecomb — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The 2010 State of the Birds report on climate change ? a collaboration of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and experts from the nation?s leading conservation organizations ? is the first comprehensive vulnerability assessment of bird species to global warming across the U.S. The report shows that climate changes resulting from a warming Earth will have an increasingly disruptive effect on bird species in all habitats, with oceanic and Hawaiian birds in greatest peril.

The Nature Conservancy Preserves 205 Acres in Ashford - The Nature Conservancy

Kerry Crisley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

The Nature Conservancy recently purchased two properties in Ashford, Connecticut totaling 205 acres. The lands represent the final acquisitions in a multi-year project that has protected more than 1100 acres of wetland and upland habitat in the Natchaug River Basin.

2 months after Haiti quake, still no shelter for legions of quake survivors as rains approach - Star Tribune: World

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Shifting portion of Mount Baker Highway will mean road closures, delays - Seattle Times: Local

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT

Roadwork near Glacier will mean road closures this month.