President Barack Obama announced plans Tuesday to resume full scientific reviews of projects that might harm endangered wildlife and plants. ...more

March 3, 2009

C+ Solid waste system C Bridges C- Parks, rail systems D+ Energy system (up from D) ...more

January 30, 2009

Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants. New regulations, which don't require the approval of Congress, would reduce the mandatory, independent reviews government scientists have been performing for 35 years, according to a draft first obtained by The Associated Press. ...more

August 12, 2008

About 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley. ...more

May 28, 2008