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RALEIGH, N.C. — Environmental groups are fighting a planned wind farm near a wildlife refuge in northeastern North Carolina over fears the giant blades will kill migrating swans, geese and other fowl. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Saturday that construction on the 11,000-acre Pantego Wind Energy Facility was planned for next year (http://bit.ly/vYTxg3). Plans for what could be North Carolina's first commercial wind farm call for 49 turbines rising 492 feet, to the blade tip. The 80-megawatt project is planned several miles from the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1963 to attract migrating snowbirds. Several years...

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of 2009. April 22, 2009, 4:00 am Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find it. For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom & Gloom Extravaganza. Ignore them. They’ll be wrong. We’re confident in saying that because they’ve always been wrong. And always will be. Need proof? Here are some...

RALEIGH, N.C. — An evangelical group hopes to turn the car-buying decision into a question of conscience with a campaign that asks: What would Jesus drive? The Wynnewood, Pa.- based Evangelical Environmental Network will begin running television ads this month in North Carolina, Iowa, Indiana and Missouri to urge consumers to park their sport-utility vehicles and buy fuel-efficient cars because Jesus wants the Earth's natural systems preserved. The Rev. Jim Ball, executive director of the Evangelical Environmental Network, sits in the Riverside Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., last week. The network, based in Wynnewood, Pa., will being running television ads...