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"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

"Rainbow Trout Rebound in Renowned River"

"Rainbow trout are rebounding in the Madison River, the world-class fishing stream where Montana's first known outbreak of whirling disease occurred about 15 years ago, devastating the rainbow fishery."

Source: AP, 07/21/2009

"Kentucky Chemical Weapons Leak Detectors Dysfunctional for Years"

"The U.S. Army has acknowleged that the nerve gas leak monitors at a Kentucky chemical weapons storage depot were not working for nearly two years, 2003-2005."

Source: ENS, 07/21/2009

"Senate Agriculture Panel Begins to Stake Its Claim in Climate Bill"

"Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee will vet options this week for the sweeping energy and climate bill, which they are expected to play a significant role in shaping."

Source: ClimateWire, 07/21/2009

"Gulf Waters Imperil Tribes' Way of Life In Louisiana Bayous"

"As Wetlands Shrink, Oil and Gas Jobs Replace Farming, Fishing and Trapping."

Source: Wash Post, 07/21/2009

"Nestlé: Draining America Bottle By Bottle"

"It takes a smart and politically well-connected company like Nestlé to get a drought-stricken state like Florida to give it tens of millions of dollars worth of water to resell at enormous profits to its neighbors in states like the Carolinas and Georgia."

Source: NRNS/Washington Bureau, 07/21/2009

"Meeting Shows U.S.-India Split on Emissions"

Seeking collaboration on climate change in her visit to India, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was met instead with simmering grievances.

Source: NYTimes, 07/21/2009

"Ban Set on Mining Claims Adjacent to Grand Canyon"

"In a modest victory for environmentalists, the Obama administration said Monday that it was designating nearly one million acres of Arizona land near the Grand Canyon off limits to new uranium mining claims for two years."

Source: NYTimes, 07/21/2009

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