TAMPA - Evos restaurants, a popular south Tampa eatery
known for its healthy fast food, plans to start selling franchises
by summer, with an eye toward taking the chain national,
founders said Monday.
-The Tampa Tribune
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You might not know it from looking around Santa Fe,
but prairie dogs are vanishing.
-The Santa Fe New Mexican
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New Texas cases of avian influenza prompted South Korea
to ban all U.S. poultry imports Tuesday as health workers in
the Lone Star State continued testing poultry near a farm
where the highly contagious strain was first detected.
-San Antonio Express-News
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SINGAPORE (AP) -- Life in the balmy tropics has made
polar bears Inuka and Sheba go green with algae.
-Arizona Daily Star
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A plea to find a new home for the 22-year-old African elephant,
a star attraction at the Alaska Zoo in South Anchorage for
more than two decades, went public recently as several
letter-to-the-editor writers debated whether Maggie is lonely,
cold and cramped in her winter compound or actually quite happy.
-Anchorage Daily News
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Forest activists who helped persuade building giants Home Depot
and Lowe's to stop buying products made of wood from some
old-growth forests have set their sights on a new target in
Seattle's back yard: Weyerhaeuser.
-The Seattle Times
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Blankets of powder. Epic conditions. Snowpacks creeping back
up to average. The key ingredients for an excellent ski season
are all in place, and for many snowsliders the first-rate conditions
herald a return to form for winter in Aspen.
But for environmentalists, heavy snowfall serves only to obscure
the real and present danger that is threatening all mountain
communities - global warming.
-Aspen Daily News
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Environmental groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service
over a proposed timber project north of the Grand Canyon
that removes old-growth trees, following up on a rejected appeal.
- Arizona Daily Sun
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On a blustery March night nine years ago, the Mundogas
Europe, a Liberian tanker loaded with 36 million pounds of
deadly chemicals, lost its steering and drifted toward the
Golden Gate Bridge and a potentially catastrophic collision.
- The Mercury News
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Claiming Florida's drinking water and beaches are threatened
by raw sewage discharges, environmental groups Thursday
said President Bush's budget cuts on water projects will create
health dangers and higher utility rates.
- Gainesville Sun
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DENVER - Environmentalists and utilities are clashing over
how much the West should use wind-powered electricity.
- The Durango Herald
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Stumpy, the North Atlantic right whale grandmother of hope,
died last week after being hit by a ship somewhere between
New York Harbor and Chesapeake Bay.
- Cape Cod Times
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More than 100 gopher tortoises were killed and their shells
discarded in a secluded area in Leesburg, Florida.
- The Daily Commercial
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Fire and wood have been used by humankind since early
civilization, but only in the last 30 years have people fully
harnessed the energy created when flame meets flora.
- Santa Fe New Mexican
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The Bush administration's eagerness to give away
public resources is too much for some party faithful.
A new set of critics has started taking umbrage at the
Bush administration. They aren't the usual suspects.
Smoke is curling upward from brush fires on the political
spectrum's starboard side.
- Headwaters News
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Tuesday January 6, 2004--The Clean Air Act was originally
enacted into law in 1970 and was amended in 1990. Since
its passage more than 30 years ago, the Clean Air Act has
helped to significantly improve air quality in many regions
of the country. While our air may be better than it once was,
130 million Americans continue to breathe dirty air, and,
unfortunately, that may get even worse.
If the Bush Administration gets its wish, it will be able to
ease Clean Air Act regulations so that older, coal-fired
power plants will no longer be required to install anti-pollution
technology when they renovate. For a number of years,
federal and state officials have used a provision in the
Clean Air Act that requires older industrial facilities to
install new pollution controls when they make major upgrades.
- The Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel
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The Bush administration budget for 2005 adds nearly $1 million
and eight employees for Yellowstone National Park to deal with
a network of deteriorating roads.
- Billings Gazette
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush is calling for increased spending
for wildfire prevention and salmon restoration, but would cut other
spending for natural resources and environmental programs.
- The Salt Lake Tribune
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