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• Sep 30, 2008 10:00 AM CDT

  DCNR, Partners Sign Pennsylvania Water Trail Agreement

  POCONO MANOR, Pa., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An agreement to encourage the development and enhancement of Pennsylvania Water Trails was signed today by officials from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission, Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the National Park Service.

• Sep 30, 2008 10:00 AM CDT

  FEMA Examines Insurance Plan for Floodplains

  Sep. 30--Development near flood-prone Puget Sound rivers could face significant new restrictions aimed at protecting salmon and orcas.

• Sep 30, 2008 08:51 AM CDT

  Pa. House Hearing Today on Gas Drilling

  Sep. 30--HARRISBURG -- Industry representatives and environmental groups are among those expected to testify at a House committee hearing today at the Capitol on the impact of the natural gas drilling boom in Pennsylvania.

• Sep 30, 2008 08:51 AM CDT

  Prize-Winners As Pioneers of Sustainable Management: Ernst Ulrich Von Weizsacker and Holger Zinke

  OSNABRUCK, Germany, September 30 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2008, the German Environmental Award, presented by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), focuses on the careful treatment of natural resources, an informed use of energy, and sustainable management: Prof. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker (69), Dean of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California (Santa Barbara), and Dr Holger Zinke (45), founder of the biotech company BRAIN AG (Zwingenberg), will receive Europe's most lucrative environmental prize, worth 500,000 euros, in the Rostock Town Hall on 26 October.

• Sep 30, 2008 06:00 AM CDT

  Fighting for Their Life Preservationists Seek Sage Grouse Protection

  With 70,000 to 80,000 sage grouse scampering through thickets of high desert shrubs in Nevada, a casual observer might think the chickenlike bird is hardly a candidate for listing as a threatened or endangered species.

• Sep 30, 2008 04:51 AM CDT

  Climate Experts, Biologists in Orlando to Ponder Climate Change's Effect on Florida Wildlife

  Sep. 30--Enormous pythons gorge on rare wading birds along the Wekiva River.

• Sep 30, 2008 04:51 AM CDT

  It's Ours Now: State Acquires 2,601 Acres, Plans Park; Nonprofit Company Will Manage Bridge

  Sep. 30--GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN -- Two friends from Florida were hiking up a steep backcountry trail at Grandfather Mountain yesterday shortly after the historic agreement was signed to turn the land they were on into North Carolina's newest state park.

• Sep 30, 2008 02:51 AM CDT

  EPA Sets Hearing on Pipe Cleanup

  Sep. 30--ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP -- A public hearing on the water control permit application by the Ashtabula County Port Authority for cleaning out the former Plant C underwater intake pipes will be held at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Ashtabula County District Library, said John Palo, ACPA board president.

• Sep 30, 2008 12:51 AM CDT

  Everglades Restoration 'Bogged Down' By Red Tape, Funding Delays: Report: Red Tape, Lack of Federal Money Stalling Plans

  Sep. 30--Everglades restoration remains "bogged down" by procedural delays and lack of federal funding that threatens to further erode the River of Grass, a team of scientists concluded in a report to Congress released Monday.

• Sep 30, 2008 12:51 AM CDT

  McDonald's Takes Its Food Waste Away ; A Fast Food Chain is Turning Its West Country Waste into Compost As Part of an Eco-Friendly Trial Sta

  A fast food chain is turning its West Country waste into compost as part of an eco-friendly trial starting today.