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ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS: REPORT: DRILLING FLUID SPILLED AT PA. GAS WELL
(AP) - Operators have lost control of a natural gas well in rural northern Pennsylvania, leading to a spill of fluids used in the drilling process. Bradford County emergency officials say thousands of gallons of tainted water have spilled from a Chesapeake Energy Corp. well site near Canton since early Wednesday.
| UN CHIEF: MORE NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS ARE LIKELY
(AP) - The world must prepare for more nuclear accidents on the scale of Chernobyl and Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, the U.N. chief warned Wednesday, saying that grim reality will demand sharp improvements in international cooperation, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and others portrayed the growth of nuclear power plants as inevitable in an energy-hungry world as they spoke at a Kiev conference commemorating the explosion of a reactor at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear reactor 25 years ago.
| NEW CLIMATE CHANGE CASE HEADED TO SUPREME COURT
(AP) - The Obama administration and environmental interests generally agree that global warming is a threat that must be dealt with. But they're on opposite sides of a Supreme Court case over the ability of states and groups such as the Audubon Society that want to sue large electric utilities and force power plants in 20 states to cut their emissions.
| SCIENTISTS: GULF HEALTH NEARLY AT PRE-SPILL LEVEL
(AP) - Scientists judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature's resiliency, an Associated Press survey of researchers shows. More than three dozen scientists grade the Gulf's big picture health a 68 on average, using a 1-to-100 scale.
| PA. WANTS TO CUT OFF GAS-DRILLING WASTEWATER
(AP) - Citing potentially unsafe drinking water, Pennsylvania is calling on companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation to stop taking wastewater to 15 treatment plants by May 19. The Department of Environmental Protection took the major step Tuesday, citing elevated levels of bromide in rivers in western Pennsylvania where gas drilling has rapidly grown in the past three years.
| AP IMPACT: 3,200 GULF WELLS UNPLUGGED, UNPROTECTED
(AP) - More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, with no cement plugging to help prevent leaks that could threaten the same waters fouled by last year's spill. These wells likely pose an even greater environmental threat than the 27,000 wells in the Gulf that have been plugged and classified as "permanently abandoned" or "temporarily abandoned."
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ANIMALS: THOUSANDS OF FISH DIE AFTER SWARMING CALIF. HARBOR
(AP) - Officials say thousands of anchovies and sardines have died in Ventura Harbor after using up all their oxygen. Pat Hummer of the Ventura Harbor Patrol says the fish died Monday, although they moved into the harbor a week ago.
| US JUDGE DENIES BLM BID TO DISMISS WILD HORSE SUIT
(AP) - Horse protection advocates have claimed a rare legal victory as part of a larger effort to end federal roundups of free-roaming mustangs on public lands in the western United States. A federal judge in Sacramento ruled on Wednesday that In Defense of Animals and others can move forward with their lawsuit accusing the Bureau of Land Management of violating U.S. laws that protect the animals on the range.
| NATURAL TOXIN KILLING SOCAL DOLPHINS, SEA LIONS
(AP) - Dolphins and sea lions that have died along the Southern California coast in recent weeks may be victims of a deadly neurotoxin produced by a seasonal algae bloom, experts said Tuesday. The same poison was found in samples from millions of fish that suffocated in a Redondo Beach harbor last month, and researchers hope to determine if it is present in samples from a similar but smaller fish die-off Monday in Ventura Harbor.
| AG, ANIMAL GROUPS ANNOUNCE DEAL ON MO. DOG LAW
(AP) - The effort to repeal a voter-approved Missouri law clamping down on dog breeders has taken a new twist. Several agricultural and animal advocacy groups agreed Monday to support a fresh plan that would repeal some of the law's restrictions and give breeders extra time to comply with its mandates.
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