Group sues to force decision on pygmy rabbits

Ecologists say unrestricted pumping will harm fish

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Idaho, others prepare for California egg exodus

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho is among several states watching to see if a California animal cruelty law drives flocks of big egg farms there to fly the coop. California voters in 2008 approved Proposition 2, banning cramped cages for laying hens by 2015. Neither Idaho nor Nevada, where official ...

Ecologists say unrestricted pumping will harm fish

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Environmentalists say a federal judge's order to temporarily allow unrestricted pumping in the Sacremento-San Joaquin Delta threatens to push an endangered salmon into extinction. Last week's decision by U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger freed up irrigation supplies ...

Group sues to force decision on pygmy rabbits

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service improperly failed to make a decision about protecting the rare pygmy rabbit in eight Western states, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by an environmental group. Western Watersheds Project's lawsuit, which was filed last week ...

Group sues to force decision on pygmy rabbits

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service improperly failed to make a decision about protecting the rare pygmy rabbit in eight Western states, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by an environmental group. Western Watersheds Project's lawsuit, which was filed last week ...

Reverse mergers deserve scrutiny

We have always been amazed at the inventiveness the mainland Chinese have demonstrated in the practice of their unique brand of capitalism. A few weeks ago we reported that Chinese agri-businesses are seeking out non-operating, U.S. public corporations. In a sophisticated maneuver known a ...