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"100 World Lawmakers Agree to Take Climate Action Now" [1]

"COPENHAGEN -- Legislators from 16 of the world's major economies and most major political parties have agreed on key guiding principles to enact climate change legislation in their home countries that will drive the move to a global low carbon economy. Meeting this weekend, the lawmakers agreed to act right now in their own legislative bodies, even before the key UN climate deal in Copenhagen, now just six weeks away."

Source: ENS [2], 10/27/2009

"Montana Wolf Hunt Is Stalked by Controversy" [3]

"The demise of a much-studied pack raises questions about lifting the hunting ban in areas bordering Yellowstone park."

Source: LA Times [4], 10/27/2009

"EPA Commits To Set Air Pollution Rules by 2011" [5]

"Oil- and coal-fired power plants would be forced to reduce mercury emissions under a deal that ends a long-standing suit by environmentalists."

Source: LA Times [6], 10/27/2009

"Obama Plans Big Smart Grid Announcement" [7]

"President Barack Obama will announce the largest investment of economic stimulus funds in clean energy during a visit to Florida, an Obama administration official said on Monday."

Source: Reuters [8], 10/27/2009

"Statisticians Reject Global Cooling" [9]

A popular theory, put forth by anti-regulatory groups and non-scientists, that the earth is cooling rather than warming is just bunk, the AP has found. Independent statisticians, given global temperature data without knowing what it was, said there was no such cooling.

Source: AP [10], 10/27/2009

This AM: "Senate Panel Kicks off Climate Bill Drive" [11]

"A Senate committee on Tuesday launches three long days of hearings on a Democratic climate bill in a bid to further convince an international summit in December that Washington is serious about tackling global warming."

Source: Reuters [12], 10/27/2009

Unearthing Unpublished Reports to Congress from Federal Agencies: The Birth of a New Journalism Research Technique [13]

Attorney and journalist Michael Ravnitzky offers a strategy for accessing unpublished reports: direct a public records request to agencies of interest for all reports not posted on the agency's website, within a specific time frame and not limited by topic.

"Tired from a Tough Hike? Rescuers Fear Yuppie 911" [14]

Hikers using GPS beacons are calling rescuers to get them out of situations they should never have gotten into -- and overtaxing rescuers with nuisance requests.

Source: AP [15], 10/26/2009

"Energy Dept. Aid for Scientists on the Edge" [16]

"The federal Energy Department will make good on a pledge for a bolder technology strategy on Monday, awarding research grants for ideas like bacteria that will make gasoline, enzymes that will capture carbon dioxide to counter global warming and batteries so cheap that they will allow the use of solar power all night long."

Source: NYTimes [17], 10/26/2009

"Portland Harbor Contamination Poses Risk To Humans, Environment, Study Shows" [18]

"Decades of industrial pollution in the Portland Harbor Superfund site have left high levels of contaminants in river sediment, an exhaustive survey concludes, posing risks to wildlife, fish and humans who eat fish from the nine-mile stretch of the Willamette River."

Source: Portland Oregonian [19], 10/26/2009

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