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Wyo enviros oppose drilling in 1st national forest
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press Writer CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Environmentalists are questioning the legal justification offered for what would be the only active oil well inside the nation's first national forest.

Wyoming won't try to block park snowmobile plan
By BEN NEARY Associated Press Writer CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - With less than a month to go before snowmobile season roars to life again in Yellowstone National Park, litigation continues to swirl over a new federal cap on the maximum daily number of machines.

Studies: Fighting global warming reduces diseases
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, said U.S. and world officials, as they released studies calculating the health benefits of a less sickly climate.

Ga. task force: 2012 too soon to find new water
By SHANNON McCAFFREY Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) - There are plenty of ways that Georgia can quench metro Atlanta's thirst if the city is cut off from its main reservoir. But most options are costly and, according to a Georgia water task force, none would provide enough water for the city to meet a federal judge's 2012 deadline.

Suit seeks to stop grazing along upper Missouri
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press Writer BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A push to end grazing along a 150-mile stretch of the Missouri River would bar about 10,000 cattle from federal lands in central Montana so that the river valley can be restored to more natural conditions.


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