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For the first time since routine surveillance for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was instituted in 2002 in Ohio, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife has identified a positive test for CWD in a wild Ohio white-tailed deer in Wyandot County. Fawn whitetail deer. Image/Lynn Betts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Officials are gathering additional details about the adult male deer taken by a hunter on private property.  Tissue samples were submitted for...

Nicholas Smith/Getty Images CONSERVATION FUNDING: Ohio agricultural producers with land in the Western Lake Erie Basin may qualify for funding for conservation practices. The application deadline for Ohio producers is Jan. 15. Dec 14, 2020 Ohio agricultural producers with land in the Western Lake Erie Basin may qualify for funding for conservation practices from USDAs Natural Resources Conservation Service. Applications are being accepted through Jan. 15. The WLEB spe...

Highlights The California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District has struck down a state law that limited judicial review of California Energy Commission (CEC) thermal power plants siting approvals to the California Supreme Court, ruling that it impermissibly divested superior courts and courts of appeal of original jurisdiction to review challenges to CEC approvals. Because the California Supreme Court rarely reviews CEC siting approvals, applicants and project opponents have histori...

The First District Court of Appeal held that Public Resources Code section 22531 unconstitutionally restricted judicial review of licensing decisions by the Energy Resources...