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"California: Urging Water Rules Change"

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke asking them to reverse the federal government’s restrictions on water use intended to protect fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta."

Source: NYTimes, 09/03/2009

"More Delays at Finnish Nuclear Plant"

"Areva, a French nuclear construction company, said this week that its project to build the world's most powerful reactor remained mired in delays and was over-budget by 2.3 billion euros, or about $3.3 billion."

Source: NYTimes, 09/03/2009

"Enviros Blast Obama's Choice for Office of Surface Mining"

"Environmental groups are speaking out against the man President Barack Obama has chosen to run the Office of Surface Mining, which has jurisdiction over mountaintop removal coal mining."

Source: ENS, 09/03/2009

"White House Initiates Task Force to Restore Damaged Gulf Coast"

"President Barack Obama is creating a new federal interagency task force to coordinate the "economic and environmental resiliency" of Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf Coast region."

Source: ENS, 09/02/2009

"'Pacific Garbage Patch' Expedition Finds Plastic, Plastic Everywhere"

"Scientists who returned to the Bay Area this week after an expedition to the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" brought piles of plastic debris they pulled out of the ocean — soda bottles, cracked patio chairs, Styrofoam chunks, old toys, discarded fishing floats and tangled nets."

Source: San Jose Mercury News, 09/02/2009

California Water Wars Continue

"San Francisco Bay and the delta are dying. Salmon runs are collapsing. Droughts are getting worse. And big agriculture still wants more water."

Source: SF Bay Guardian, 09/02/2009

Enviros Demand That EPA Toughen Chesapeake Pollution Rules

"Environmental groups presented a federal official with more than 19,000 signed letters and postcards Tuesday asking the U.S. government to set stricter rules to prevent pollution in the Chesapeake Bay."

Source: Wash Post, 09/02/2009

"As Hybrid Cars Gobble Rare Metals, Shortage Looms"

"The Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements .... That makes Toyota's market-leading gasoline-electric hybrid car and other similar vehicles vulnerable to a supply crunch predicted by experts as China, the world's dominant rare earths producer, limits exports while global demand swells."

Source: Reuters, 09/02/2009

"Nations Plan to Undertake Global Climate Forecasting"

"A Global Framework for Climate Services that would provide climate forecasting the way that weather forecasting services do is in the works."

Source: ENS, 09/02/2009

"World Must Plan For Climate Emergency: Report"

"Humans may have to reset the Earth's natural thermostat and develop new technologies like reflecting sunlight back into space if climate talks fail, Britain's top science academy said on Tuesday."

Source: Reuters, 09/02/2009

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