4 States May Divert Conservation Funds
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By BEN EVANS WASHINGTON - Four lucky states were slated to share billions in potential royalties courtesy of an offshore drilling expansion signed into law last year, money that could help reverse decades of environmental damage from coastal industry.
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By Dan Nephin  PITTSBURGH - Fish and wildlife departments around the country are on the hunt - for more wardens.  From California to Pennsylvania to Florida, states are struggling to recruit officers, and habitat and other projects are being delayed.
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Save the species, save a buck. Landowners frustrated by the Endangered Species Act might get a carrot instead of the stick under a proposed revision of the law that would offer them tax incentives to give the critters a home. That approach is emerging as a narrower alternative to a comprehensive overhaul of the endangered species law, a priority for Republicans before Democrats took control of Congress this year.
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Officials in three states have said they will to allow hunting&#8212;which could reduce wolf numbers back to dire levels&#8212;if the creatures lose their protected status.
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U.S. governors, impatient with federal inaction on global warming, are taking matters into their own hands. The result could add impetus to an emerging industry.
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By Tim Carpenter  By Tim Carpenter  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  State attorneys and agriculture officials Tuesday urged legislators to prepare for expensive legal wrangling to force Nebraska and Colorado to comply with court-ordered agreements on water consumption.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 6--The state Senate conservation committee yesterday endorsed a bill, favored by industry, that would strip powers from two state pollution-fighting boards.   The bill goes before the full Senate today.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 2--When it comes to saving many significant tracts of open space in the state -- land that should remain in its natural state to protect Connecticut's quality of life -- it's now or never.
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By Wallace, G K  We must get to the root of eco-problems.  It took threatening to sue, but the Center for Biological Diversity finally prodded the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to add elkhorn and staghorn corals to the federal list of threatened species in June.
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If the Big Apple's initiative helps reduce emissions, other cities and states may follow suit.
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By Daniel Wagner, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 20--With the state legislature expected to wrap up business by the end of Thursday and take a recess, a Long Island group is still working to advance its priorities of environmentally sustainable growth through several bills.
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Congress is on the verge of approving half a dozen bills that would protect as much as 1 million acres of wilderness areas across the West, but the move has infuriated environmentalists who charge that lawmakers are giving away too much pristine public land to real estate developers and local...
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With an epic drought gripping the region, Georgia lawmakers announced plans Thursday for a network of state reservoirs, while the governors of Alabama and Florida warned that Georgia's consumption threatens their downstream states.
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States are considering scrapping side-by-side lineups in favor of a one-at-a-time variety.
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D.C.-area officials gauge proposal that would cut environmental programs but support schools.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.
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By THOMAS J. GILMORE  THE FUTURE of the Garden State Preservation Trust, New Jersey's funding mechanism for open space, farmland and historic site preservation, is uncertain.