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Biofuels: The Sequel — The Science Behind Second Generation Biofuels

Making fuel from cellulose? Will it be the fuel of the future and how is the U.S. system promoting or haring it? New political carrots and sticks are leading the biofuels industry into a second generation phase, and many critics of the biofuels industry think it's long overdue. The question for the industry, though, is whether the science is ready to scale up.

An Experiment in Grace: Major Case Covered by New Media Produces Satisfying Results

Winners: SEJ 8th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment

Pollution near schools, longwall mining, biological invaders, climate change, environment and heredity, predator tagging, tar sands: these are just a few of the topics in this year's outstanding reporting being recognized by the SEJ awards.

SEJ's 19th Annual Conference Speaker Information

"World's First Solar City?"

A former NFL player wants to build the world’s first 100-percent solar-powered city in southern Florida.

Source: Environment Report, 07/21/2009

"Colorado Guv Cozies up To Natural Gas"

"Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, is not known for being a friend of fossil fuels. ...So it was a bit of a surprise this month when Ritter told oil and gas executives that natural gas should not be seen as simply a bridge fuel."

Source: High Country News, 07/21/2009

"Government Rejects Oil Drilling Deal in Alaska Refuge"

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected a controversial land trade that would have allowed oil and gas drilling in part of a national wildlife refuge in Alaska."

Source: Reuters, 07/21/2009

"Wanted for Wetlands Pollution, EPA Fugitive Caught in Mexico"

"Robert Wainwright, 65, a fugitive wanted in Indiana for allegedly polluting wetlands, was arrested July 14 in Mexico by U.S. marshals and agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, working with Mexican police."

Source: ENS, 07/21/2009

Missouri To Probe Secrecy on Lake E. Coli Data

"Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is investigating whether a state agency violated the law by not releasing data showing E. coli bacteria above safe levels in the Lake of the Ozarks."

Source: Kansas City Star, 07/21/2009

"EPA Plan for Missouri Lead Waste Worries Residents"

"For generations, people in Leadwood have lived near huge piles of dangerous, lead-contaminated mining waste. Now the EPA has decided the answer to the problem is to pile on more lead-tainted earth. To many folks, that makes no sense at all."

Source: AP, 07/21/2009

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