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"World Leaders Tackle a Tall Order: How To Preserve Life on Earth" [1]

"It might as well be called the God conference. Over the next 11 days, 193 national delegations will descend on Nagoya, Japan, in pursuit of a vexing goal befitting a deity: how to preserve life on Earth."

Source: Toronto Globe & Mail [2], 10/18/2010

"EPA Closing in on Spruce Mine Veto" [3]

"The Obama administration has moved another step closer to blocking the largest mountaintop removal permit in West Virginia history, with a veto recommendation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regional administrator."

Source: Charleston Gazette [4], 10/18/2010

"EPA Faulted for Not Disclosing Coal Ash's Recycling Risks" [5]

"The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general reported this week that the EPA had improperly used an official website to promote ways of recycling the waste that's left over when power plants burn coal, commonly known as coal ash."

Source: McClatchy [6], 10/18/2010

"The Mighty American Chestnut Tree, Poised for a Comeback" [7]

The American chestnut, which was virtually wiped out by an exotic blight, may be making a comeback.
 

Source: Wash Post [8], 10/18/2010

"After the Pakistan Deluge, Blackouts Spread" [9]

The floods that devastated much of Pakistan have brought more blackouts in the nation's already inadequate electric power industry.

Source: ClimateWire [10], 10/18/2010

"Forests Soak up Carbon, But for How Long?" [11]

"New government data show forests play a key role in offsetting U.S. industrial emissions, but the ability of Western lands to sequester carbon is shrinking as the planet warms."

Source: Daily Climate [12], 10/18/2010

New Jersey Gov. Aggressively Pursues Privatized Site Cleanup [13]

"If there is one policy left over from the Corzine administration that has been fully and enthusiastically embraced by Gov. Chris Christie, it is a program privatizing the cleanup of the tens of thousands of contaminated waste sites in New Jersey."

Source: NJ Spotlight [14], 10/18/2010

Steep Costs in Pilot Could Mean Some Riskier Corps Levees [15]

"Four years after redrawing its levee-design assumptions to ensure that the failures of Hurricane Katrina were never repeated, the Army Corps of Engineers  has embarked on a study that threatens to relax the new, more stringent standards in ways that would reduce costs — and result in less protection in some areas."

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [16], 10/18/2010

"Canada Declares BPA, a Chemical in Plastics, to Be Toxic" [17]

"OTTAWA — The government of Canada formally declared bisphenol A, a chemical widely used to create clear, hard plastics, as well as food can liners, to be a toxic substance on Wednesday."

Source: NYTimes [18], 10/15/2010

Reform of Toxic Chemicals Law Collapses as Industry Flexes Muscles [19]

Tighter regulation of toxic chemicals that often threaten people's health isn't going to happen in the current Congress. The reason: a strong industry lobbying effort.

Source: Politics Daily [20], 10/15/2010

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