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"Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data" [3]

""The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing -- that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations are already strong -- are challenged by the same data and reports the industry is using to bolster its position."
Source: ProPublica [4], 07/09/2009

"Pickens Still Gung-Ho On Wind Farm Despite Delay" [5]

T. Boone Pickens postponed a plan to create the world's largest wind farm in Texas. The billionaire had spent $60 million advertising his plan to combat what he calls the United States' addiction to foreign oil.
Source: NPR [6], 07/09/2009

Greenpeace Climate Climbers Busted on Mt. Rushmore [9]

"Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change."
Source: AFP [10], 07/09/2009

"Global Deal on Climate-Warming HFCs Hinges on Secret White House Policy" [11]

"Hydrofluorocarbons ... are ... many thousands of times more potent than CO2 as climate warming agents, and scientists say their spread could become as much as 50 percent of the global greenhouse gas problem by 2050. Yet the public is barely aware of the issue, and as the White House works to hammer out its policy, it seems to want to keep it that way."
Source: SolveClimate [12], 07/09/2009

"Group of 8 Agrees On a Ceiling for Temperature Rise" [13]

"The world's leading industrial nations tentatively agreed Wednesday to try to prevent global temperatures from rising above a fixed level, after a more far-reaching proposal to slash production of greenhouse gases fizzled... ."
Source: WashPost [14], 07/09/2009

NOAA Fishery Advisers Have New Look [18]

If you report for a coastal region where fisheries are important, it's a good time to investigate the membership makeup of your regional Fishery Management Council.

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