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"House GOP Budget Bill Aims To Slash Environmental Regulation" [1]

"The plan to cut $60 billion from the federal budget targets environmental programs so widely it appears to be as much an ideological gambit as a budgetary one. 'The sheer scope of it is overwhelming,' a UCLA environmental law expert says."

Source: LA Times [2], 03/07/2011

"University of Arizona Project Could Bring Clean Water To Navajos" [3]

"Instead of going straight to the faucet, many Navajos in northeastern Arizona have to drive 40 miles to haul water from a well back to their homes." Now a University of Arizona project may offer some help.

Source: Green Valley News [4], 03/04/2011

"House Oversight Democrats Bait GOP Over Troubled Oil-Lease Program" [5]

Some House Democrats, citing a GAO report, say Republicans should start their efforts to reduce the deficit by collecting the money legally owed the Treasury by oil and gas companies who profit from taxpayer-owned resources they extract. For decades, oil companies have been underpaying.

Source: Greenwire [6], 03/04/2011

"Decades After Spill, Exxon Valdez Case Back In Court" [7]

"More than two decades after the Exxon Valdez supertanker struck a reef and unleashed the nation's biggest tanker spill, a lingering legal dispute about the disaster heads back to court on Friday."

Source: Reuters [8], 03/04/2011

"DOE Approves $102 Million Loan Aid For Maine Wind Farm" [9]

"The Department of Energy said on Thursday it has offered a conditional $102 million loan guarantee to support a wind farm in Maine. The financial aid will support the Record Hill wind project, a 50.1 megawatt wind power plant and transmission line in Maine."

Source: Reuters [10], 03/04/2011

"Scientists Want To Help Regulators Decide Safety of Chemicals" [11]

"Groups representing 40,000 researchers and clinicians are urging federal agencies responsible for the safety of chemicals to examine the subtle impact a chemical might have on the human body rather than simply ask whether it is toxic."

Source: Wash Post [12], 03/04/2011

"Federal Jury in Utah Convicts Environmentalist" -- Movement Galvanized [13]

"Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher knew what he was doing when he made $1.8 million in false oil and gas drilling bids at a federal auction. He knew he couldn't possibly pay for them. And he knew he could end up behind bars. But he did it for the cause. On Thursday, a federal jury convicted him on two felony counts of interfering with and making false representations at a government auction."

Source: AP [14], 03/04/2011

"Pressure Limits Efforts to Police Drilling for Gas" [15]

Past efforts to regulate toxic and polluting waste from oil and gas drilling operations were thwarted when back-room industry pressure subverted the law and science that justified it. Today, history may be about to repeat itself.

Source: Grist [16], 03/04/2011

"Report Details MSHA Lapses Prior To Disaster" [17]

"Federal mine safety regulators quietly warned lawmakers just two weeks before the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster about serious enforcement lapses, including incomplete inspections and inadequate enforcement actions, according to a previously unpublished report to Congress."

Source: Charleston Gazette [18], 03/04/2011

"In Price of Farmland, Echoes of Another Boom" [19]

"As prices for agricultural land surge across America’s grain belt, regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming."

Source: NY Times [20], 03/04/2011

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