"Enviro Group Plans Senate Call-In on Climate Bill"
"An environmental group today announced plans to flood Senate offices with calls urging action on climate legislation."
Source: Greenwire, 01/07/2010
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"Science Stories about Arctic Blasts Missing in Action"
The current cold snap in some parts of the globe is making news -- but not generating many science stories about what is going on.
Source: Jack Williams Blog, 01/07/2010
Localizing Recovery Act Spending Is Getting Easier
Use OMB Watch's user-friendly database to track environmentally-related funds in many ways, such as type of project, affiliated federal or state agency, location, dollar amounts, and number of contracts awarded.
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EPA Proposes More Monitors for Airborne Lead
Spurred in part by a petition filed in January 2009, the Agency's new rule, if finalized, could add approximately 240 monitors in about 40 states near known lead emission sources.
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Mapping Tool Allows New Way To Cover EPA Enforcement Actions
With data on ~4,600 civil and criminal enforcement actions in fiscal year 2009, you can determine trends by state and EPA Region for type and extent of enforcement; track down enforcement actions in areas of interest to your audience; and serve as a starting point for stories that are seemingly unrelated to an enforcement action.
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Feds Release New Info on Climate-Plant Connections
Research and policy discussions are focusing on both natural plant systems and domesticated ones, especially agriculture — one possible effect being shifts in water availability.
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"B.L.M. Expedites Review of Energy Projects"
"Thirty–one proposed renewable energy and power transmission projects have been put on the fast track for approval by the Bureau of Land Management, with the aim of getting them paid for with stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."
Source: Green Inc., 01/06/2010
"EPA Enforcement-Related Penalties Plummeted in Fiscal 2009"
"U.S. EPA during the first year of the Obama administration saw deep declines in the amount of penalties assessed against polluters and pounds of pollution slashed through enforcement activities compared with the previous year, according to data released by the agency last month."
Source: Greenwire, 01/06/2010
"U.S. Car Ownership Shifts Into Reverse"
"Americans' infatuation with their cars has endured through booms and busts, but last year something rare happened in the United States: The number of automobiles actually fell."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 01/06/2010
"NOAA Proposes Habitat Protection for Sea Turtles"
"Federal biologists on Tuesday proposed the first open ocean habitat protections for the endangered leatherback sea turtle along the West Coast, an action that could affect future development of offshore renewable energy, aquaculture and desalination plants."
Source: AP, 01/06/2010
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