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"Citizen Scientists On A Mission To Find Frogs" [1]

"Summer is high season for 'frogging.' The North American Amphibian Monitoring Project has hundreds of volunteers crisscrossing the country to get a better handle on the fate of the nation's frogs.""

Activism [2]
Wildlife [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: NPR [6], 09/04/2014
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"Ethanol's Next Generation Powers Up Amid Resistance" [7]

"Wednesday is biofuel's big moment: The first of three commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants comes online in Iowa. It took years of tricky engineering to get to this point. But that may prove the easy part, for the fuel's promise as a climate solution hinges heavily on federal policy."

Agriculture [8]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Daily Climate [11], 09/04/2014
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Water Allocation An Issue at Fracking Locations Across US And Globe [12]

"Extracting natural gas for energy from shale rock deep underground requires lots of water, but much of the world's shale gas is in regions where water is already scarce, including part of California, according to a study issued Tuesday."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Water & Oceans [13]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
International [14]
Source: McClatchy-Tribune [15], 09/04/2014
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"White House Won't Use NEPA Effectively on Climate And Clean Energy" [16]

"The White House won’t use the law on federal environmental impacts assessments as an effective tool for executive action on climate and clean energy projects. The Council on Environmental Quality has let four years go by without acting on proposed guidance to federal agencies on permitting of energy projects under the National Environmental Policy Act, rejecting appeals to take stronger action and leaving the playing field tilted in favor of the fossil fuel industry."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Climate Science Watch [19], 09/03/2014
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FutureGen Construction Begins; But Financing, Other Challenges Remain [20]

"Construction has begun on the stalled FutureGen 2.0 carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project in western Illinois, according to project officials, but major hurdles remain for the $1.65 billion first-of-its-kind power plant."

Climate Change [17]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Bloomberg BNA [21], 09/03/2014
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"NY Times Adds Climate Editor After Slashing Environmental Coverage" [22]

"About 19 months after closing down its special team of environmental reporters, the New York Times has named Adam Bryant as editor overseeing climate change and environmental issues for the paper's science coverage."

Journalism & Media [23]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Mashable [24], 09/03/2014
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"New U.S. Rules Protect Giant Bluefin Tuna" [25]

"In an effort to reduce the number of giant bluefin tuna killed by fishing fleets, the U.S. is putting out new rules about commercial fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and parts of the western Atlantic. The rules have special protections for giant bluefin — fish that have grown to 81 inches or more."

Fish & Fisheries [26]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: NPR [27], 09/03/2014
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Enviros, Food Groups Want Endangered Listing for Monarch Butterfly [28]

"A coalition of environmental and food-safety groups is asking the Fish and Wildlife Service to grant endangered species protection to the monarch butterfly, whose U.S. population, the groups say, last year fell to 90 percent below its 20-year average."

Agriculture [8]
Biodiversity [29]
Chemicals [30]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch [31], 09/03/2014
  • Read more about Enviros, Food Groups Want Endangered Listing for Monarch Butterfly [28]

"Panel Members Get Consulting Cash From Labs They Oversee" [32]

"Certain members of the Department of Energy's panel reviewing its national laboratories are paid consultants to some of the same labs that they are charged with overseeing."

Environmental Politics [10]
Government [33]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Greenwire [34], 09/03/2014
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"What Is Idaho Wilderness in a Changing World?" [35]

"The future will require tough trade-offs over protecting species, wildness and the way humans experience the backcountry"

Forests [36]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Natural Resources [37]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Idaho Statesman [38], 09/03/2014
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