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"Fla. Water Managers Approve $533M Everglades Deal" [1]

The South Florida Water Management District approved Gov. Charlie Crist's deal to buy 73,000 acres of farmland from U.S. Sugar Corp. for $536 million to restore the Everglades.
Water & Oceans [2]
Public [3]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [4]
Source: AP [5], 05/14/2009

"Obama Orders EPA to Take the Lead in Bay Cleanup" [6]

President Obama issued an executive order empowering EPA to set a more demanding timetable for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and to penalize states that fail to meet it.
Water & Oceans [2]
Public [3]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [7]
Source: WashPost [8], 05/13/2009

Iowa Set To Spend Millions on Water Quality [9]

"Iowa is about to launch its biggest assault ever on river and lake pollution -- a $455 million campaign."
Water & Oceans [2]
Public [3]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [10]
Source: Des Moines Register [11], 05/11/2009

"The Unnatural History of the Sea" [12]

BookShelf

 

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Fish & Fisheries [14]
Water & Oceans [2]
Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Winners [15]
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A River Close To Home Flows Through His Work [16]

 

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Journalism & Media [18]
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EPA Targets Utility Waste [19]

EPA may regulate runoff from the coal ash and sludge from air-pollution-control that power plants store in ponds and piles.
Water & Oceans [2]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [20]
Source: Washington Post [21], 05/04/2009

EPA Moves To Cut Shipping Emissions at US Ports [22]

Proposed emission standards in a proposed control area around the US coastline would cut sulfur in fuel by 98 percent, particulate matter emissions by 85 percent, and nitrogen oxide emissions by 80 percent from the current global requirements.
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Air [24]
Water & Oceans [2]
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National (U.S.) [20]
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Public [3]

Water Utilities Get Huge Increase in Federal Funding [25]

The Obama administration pumps up support for thousands of drinking water systems in the US with about $2B.
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Water & Oceans [2]
Government [26]
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National (U.S.) [20]
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Investigating Water: So What Happens When Water Turns Black? [27]

 By RON SEELY

 

 Water, of all the natural resources upon which we rely, is perhaps the one that we take most for granted. We turn on our faucets and out it comes, clear and cool and always there.

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Water & Oceans [2]
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National (U.S.) [20]
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Undersea Reporting: Reporting Live From Inside Aquarius [28]

By JEFF BURNSIDE

When I heard the anchor in my earpiece introducing me reporting live from an undersea research lab, I could hardly believe all the technical aspects were working.

But they were. So I figured I'd better stop being amazed and actually start talking. On Sept. 20, I was the first reporter ever to broadcast live from Aquarius, the world's only undersea lab, nine miles off Key Largo, Fla. next to a coral reef about 60 feet deep. Don't screw it up, I told myself.

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Water & Oceans [2]
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