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"Long-Abandoned Nuclear Reactors Eyed for Restart" [1]

"Alongside a multitude of pending applications for new nuclear reactors, there is a move to restart construction at sites where the work began decades ago only to be abandoned before completion." The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering reinstatement of construction permits for the Tennessee Valley Authority's two Bellefonte nuclear reactors, started near Hollywood, Ala., in 1974 but never finished.

Source: SolveClimate [2], 03/05/2010

"Cancer Kills Many Sea Lions, and Its Cause Remains a Mystery" [3]

"For 14 years, since they first reported that a disturbing proportion of deaths among rescued California sea lions were caused by metastatic cancer, researchers have been trying to pinpoint the source of the illness."

Source: NYTimes [4], 03/05/2010

"Glacier Melting A Key Clue To Tracking Climate Change" [5]

The pace at which glaciers are melting in many places around the world from Asia to Alaska. An error in an estimate of Himalayan glacier melting in a 2007 UN report has been seized on by climate change deniers. But the evidence of widespread and rapid glacial melting is overwhelming.

Source: Reuters [6], 03/05/2010

"Lawmakers Want NOAA's Law Enforcement Chief to Quit in Wake of Scandal" [7]

"The chairwoman of the House panel that oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday called for the agency's director of law enforcement to step down in the wake of a scandal over heavy-handed fisheries enforcement."

Source: Greenwire [8], 03/05/2010

Environmentalist Prods Fellow African-Americans to Join in Her Crusade [9]

"No one can accuse Naomi Davis of lacking ambition. She wants simultaneously to rebuild black America and save the planet -- one neighborhood at a time. She knows she cannot do either alone. Her plan is to recruit and train an army. A green army."

Source: NYTimes [10], 03/05/2010

"Lawmakers Move To Restrain EPA on Climate Change" [11]

As Congress has gridlocked on climate change, the Obama EPA has pushed forward to regulate greenhouse emissions under its Clean Air Act authority. Now some Congress members are proposing legislation to prevent EPA from doing that as well. The key question is how much support they can win from coal- and oil-state Democrats.

Source: Wash Post [12], 03/05/2010

"Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way" [13]

"Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases in global warming. Now researchers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and elsewhere say this change is under way in a little-studied area under the sea, the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, west of the Bering Strait."

Source: NYTimes [14], 03/05/2010

"White House Announces Road Map for Coastal Restoration in La., Miss." [15]

"A White House working group of Cabinet-level officials on Thursday outlined a road map for speeding the design and construction of coastal restoration projects in Louisiana and Mississippi, and pledged to give coastal restoration the same priority as navigation and flood protection in future federal decision-making."

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune [16], 03/05/2010

"Japan Says It Won't Comply With Bluefin Tuna Ban" [17]

Japan said it won't comply with a ban on international trade of endangered bluefin tuna supported by the U.S.

Source: Wash Post [18], 03/05/2010

"DOE Disputes Senators' Claims of Stimulus Grants Flowing Overseas" [19]

"The Energy Department official overseeing DOE stimulus spending said today that suspending renewable energy grants as urged by Senate Democrats would hurt domestic job creation."

Source: Greenwire [20], 03/05/2010

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