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Tribes in northwestern Montana hope to turn public opinion against the "hollowing out" of a spiritual site, Chicago Peak, where a copper and silver mine is planned.
With a mild winter in much of the country having tamped down gas demand and with production of natural gas thriving due to the success of hydraulic fracturing technology, "the country is running out of storage space and as a result some producers are slowing down, the Associated Press reports.
Google is installing an ice-based cooling system to save money on electricity at its new data center in Taiwan.
A federal rule will require oceangoing freighters entering American waters to install onboard treatment systems to filter and disinfect their ballast water.
A skin fungus in frogs is threatening a species with extinction, but Chinese-American leaders oppose a proposed import ban that could affect their traditional diets.
The average "green" score for council members in 2010-11 was 90, up from 45 five years earlier.
Proposed legislation offers the Navajo and Hopi the service of having water piped into their homes but comes with the caveat that they hand over their rights to the waters of the Little Colorado River.
A report from the World Bank recommends aggressive prosecutions of the masterminds behind illegal logging networks and the corrupt officials who make their activities possible.
Six months after the expiration of a program that backed $16 billion in loans, the Energy Department is subsidizing an existing loan guarantee program to encourage more applications.
A reconstruction of a fire that began with a controlled burn suggests that firefighters failed to ask for a spot weather forecast, that radio communications were inadequate, and that dispatchers were kept in the dark on the gravity of the blaze.


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