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Endangered List for Nevada Toad in the Fight Against Geothermal Energy

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RENO, Nev. — A small Nevada toad at the center of a legal battle over a geothermal energy project has been officially declared an endangered species after US wildlife officials temporarily listed it on a rarely used emergency basis in last spring. “This decision makes the listing of the Dixie Valley toad final,” the US …

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Fire plan would cut 2.4 million trees from New Jersey’s Pinelands

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BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, NJ — Up to 2.4 million trees would be felled as part of a project to prevent major wildfires in a federally protected New Jersey forest heralded as a unique environmental treasure. New Jersey environment officials say the plan to kill trees in a section of Bass River State Forest is designed …

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