SEJ Headlines 
The failure of aging water and sewer pipes damages streets and homes and causes pollution to seep into drinking water supplies in many cities across the country. The only solution may require higher water bills for consumers."Saving U.S. Water and Sewer Systems Would Be Costly"
NYTimes, 03/16/2010
"A federal judge has sided with a Midwestern energy company, agreeing to dismiss allegations of Clean Air Act violations at five Illinois coal-fired power plants and partially dismiss claims of violations at a sixth plant.""Judge Dismisses New Source Review Allegations Against 5 Ill. Power Plants"
Greenwire, 03/16/2010
"Water quality downstream from surface coal-mining operations in West Virginia and Kentucky greatly exceeds recommended toxicity limits, according to previously unreleased sampling data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.""EPA Report: Streams Near Mining Toxic"
Charleston Gazette, 03/16/2010
Three years after "colony collapse disorder," a still-mysterious syndrome that kills whole beehives, commercial beekeepers are struggling to provide pollination for the nation's crops."Bees Are Busier Than Ever as Disease Besieges Colonies"
Wash Post, 03/16/2010
"Do researchers have an obligation to help the general public understand the relevance of their work? One academic thinks so – despite sporting scars from his effort."Opinion: "Translating Science"
Daily Climate, 03/16/2010
"In a move that it says will save money and is a practical strategy for monitoring the state's waterways, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has proposed loosening its water quality standards."Texas Seeks To Ease Water Quality Standards
Austin American-Statesman, 03/16/2010
"A group of 14 Midwestern electric utilities continued its push today for a different direction on global warming legislation, asking the Senate's lead climate negotiators to get a full economic study on their bill for businesses and consumers in coal-dependent states."Midwest Utilities Push Senate Climate Trio for More Allocations
Greenwire, 03/16/2010
"The role of the White House Office of Management and Budget in federal rulemaking is expected to come under scrutiny [Tuesday] as a House panel investigates the regulatory process.""OMB Role in Federal Rulemaking Under Scrutiny"
Greenwire, 03/16/2010
"People are eating an estimated 13 million pounds of fish per year from the Ohio River -- and that doesn’t count fish caught by commercial fishers.""Survey: 13 Million Pounds of Ohio River Fish Eaten Annually"
Louisville Courier-Journal, 03/16/2010
Some Canadian scientists are racing to recover phosphorus from wastewater, where it is a harmful pollutant, for use as a fertilizer, where it can help feed a growing population."Closing the Phosphorus Loop"
Toronto Globe & Mail, 03/16/2010
In Other News Around the Net
CPSC Approves Final Rule on Civil Penalty Factors
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted to approve (4-1) a final rule interpreting factors to be considered when seeking a civil penalty amount for knowing violations of CPSC laws.
2 hours 49 min agoUN climate envoy expects dual-track negotiations
AP - Talks on a new global climate change accord, bogged down for years in contested negotiations among nearly 200 countries, will increasingly move outside the sluggish U.N. framework and focus on a streamlined group of countries, special U.N. envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland said Tuesday.
2 hours 54 min agoChina’s irregular recyclers face scrapheap.
China has a 10m-strong illegal army of rubbish entrepreneurs. But while Beijing has a grand plan for the greening of China, the country’s trash pickers are decidedly not part of it.
3 hours 34 min agoThe hidden side of Somali piracy.
A report of the University of Sonoma in San Francisco says that many of the Somali pirates are bankrupt, outraged fisherman rebelling against the continuous abuse of their fishing grounds by foreign vessels and the dumping of radioactive and toxic waste on their coast.
3 hours 34 min agoArsenic in apple juice: How much is too much?
Independent testing commissioned by the St. Petersburg Times has found levels of arsenic that have caught the attention of scientists and parents.
3 hours 34 min agoScots expertise in water usage can be 'exported to rest of world.'
A climate change consultancy providing services to the UK government says water usage is "at least as big an issue as energy" in ensuring the world's future and that Scotland should nurture its competitive edge in it.
3 hours 34 min agoU.K. faces a major skills shortage as renewable energy deadline looms.
The United Kingdom simply does not have enough engineers, designers, scientists, physicists and mathematicians to do meet its renewable energy goals, experts warn.
3 hours 34 min agoFor renters, solar comes in shares.
What happens if a renter wants solar power? Most of the time, it’s tough luck, unless the home’s owner agrees to add panels. But a new solution is springing up in pockets of the country: community solar arrays.
3 hours 34 min agoClimate predictions shift.
Global warming will change ocean temperature patterns and rainfall rates in the tropics and subtropics, but not in the way most scientists have assumed, says a Hawaii meteorologist.
3 hours 34 min agoAustralia's pension funds lag on carbon risk: Survey.
Australia's pension funds industry, the fifth largest in the world with A$1.2 trillion ($1.1 trillion) under management, is dragging its feet on climate change risk when making investment decisions, a survey has found.
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