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Feds warn Bakken oil may be more volatile than traditional forms of oil

Feds warn Bakken oil may be more volatile than traditional forms of oil

The warning comes after the massive explosion caused by an oil train derailment on Monday near Casselton, N.D. No one was hurt, but worries about toxic fumes prompted the evacuation of hundreds of residents from the small eastern North Dakota town.
by The Associated Press

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How mass-produced meat turned phosphorus into pollution

How mass-produced meat turned phosphorus into pollution

It's a quandary of food production: The same drive for efficiency that lowers the cost of eating also can damage our soil and water. Take the case of one simple, essential chemical element: phosphorus.
by Dan Charles

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Federal flood insurance program is drowning in debt. Who will pay?

Federal flood insurance program is drowning in debt. Who will pay?

Before a disaster, FEMA helps with flood insurance -- cheap flood insurance. You can buy a FEMA flood insurance policy for about half the "actuarial" rate private insurers would offer. (The actuarial rate more accurately reflects the value of a property at risk.) But now FEMA has a problem. "We are $24 billion in debt," its director says.
by Christopher Joyce

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More snowy owls visiting Minn. this winter

Minnesota is getting a few extra visitors from Canada this year: We're in the middle of an irruption of snowy owls.
by Steven John

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Oil company looks to great lakes as shipping demand booms

Shipping the oil by barge brings potential economic benefits and jobs. But there are special environmental risks with heavy crude.

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Time is running out to save Florida's oranges

The culprit is citrus greening, a disease that has devastated Florida's oranges and grapefruits, and has now begun to spread in Texas and California.

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Northwest Minnesota wolf season closes

The overall quota for this year was cut nearly in half from the state's inaugural hunt last year after a winter survey showed the wolf population had dropped between 2008 and 2013.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Corps: Lawsuit against Red River diversion has no merit

Attorneys for the federal government are asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit by a group opposed to a plan to divert high water from the Red River around Fargo and neighboring Moorhead, Minn.
by The Associated Press

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