Energy
Indiana man appeals sentence in $55 million biodiesel fraud case
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It’s the state’s largest tax fraud case.
Echo
Ohio man pleads guilty to dogfighting-related charges
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After getting caught during a long-term investigation, a man from Columbus, Ohio, plead guilty to conspiring to participate in a dogfighting ring.
Forests
VA bests legal challenge over controversial cemetery expansion
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A proposed expansion of the Indianapolis Crown Hill National Cemetery by the Department of Veterans Affairs survived a legal challenge by the Indiana Forest Alliance and construction preparation is now underway.
Green Gavel
Exotic menagerie runs afoul of Ohio regulators
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Officials obtained a court order and removed 11 animals from Kenneth Hetrick’s property.
Forests
Grinch busted for stealing Christmas — really
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The U.S. Forest Service busts a 70-year-old Minnesota man for stealing thousands of black spruce tree tops from the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota and selling them for Christmas decorations. Edminster — whose birthday coincidentally falls on Christmas Day — pleaded guilty to stealing federal government property and faces sentencing by U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright later this year.
Agriculture
Man spent federal crop loan on boat, Mexican vacation
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A $210,000 federal crop loan wasn’t a big deal at first. Now a former Wisconsinite is on probation.
Echo
Court rules against Sleeping Bear trail critics
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Challengers to a segment of the 17-mile long trailway say the National Park Service failed to fully disclose the environmental impacts of the trail.
Energy
New wind generators a no-go in the U.P.
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Heritage Sustainable Energy’s missing paperwork gave Schoolcraft County a reason to reject a new wind farm.
Nearshore
New York man sinks boat in Black Rock Canal, gets probation, fine
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A yacht club maintenance man who sank a boat in the Black Rock Canal will pay restitution to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Green Gavel
Michigan court upholds penalty for filling wetland
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Couple fined $10,000 and told to remove fill.