"U.S. Overhauls Oil, Natural Gas Drilling Policy"
"Interior Secretary Ken Salazar [announced] new drilling policies to protect the environment on western federal lands."
Source: Reuters, 01/07/2010
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"Enviro Group Plans Senate Call-In on Climate Bill"
"An environmental group today announced plans to flood Senate offices with calls urging action on climate legislation."
Source: Greenwire, 01/07/2010
"Video Views of a Violent Clash Over Whaling"
A Japanese whaling vessel hit and sunk a stealth-technology trimaran speedboat used by the Sea Shepherd Society to harass that nation's "research" whaling, which supplies the nation's appetite for otherwise-illegal whale meat. All the activists were rescued and none were seriously injured, according to early reports. Two videos show the incident from two perspectives, as each side blamed the other.
Source: Dot Earth, 01/07/2010
Special Report: "The Agent Orange Boomerang"
"A dark legacy of the Vietnam War is creating a whole new set of problems. ...Why hundreds of thousands of Vietnam vets with Agent Orange–related diseases have been made to suffer without VA health care."
Source: Washington Monthly, 01/07/2010
"Science Stories about Arctic Blasts Missing in Action"
The current cold snap in some parts of the globe is making news -- but not generating many science stories about what is going on.
Source: Jack Williams Blog, 01/07/2010
"Rustlers Ride Wide Open Range of Great Basin"
"Out of pride and a reluctance to point a finger at neighbors, ranchers in the vast Great Basin outback where Oregon, Idaho and Nevada come together have been slow to admit that someone in their midst, perhaps even someone they know from barbecues and brandings, has been stealing cattle. Just who is doing it, and how they have gotten away with it for at least three years, remains a mystery."
Source: AP, 01/06/2010
"B.L.M. Expedites Review of Energy Projects"
"Thirty–one proposed renewable energy and power transmission projects have been put on the fast track for approval by the Bureau of Land Management, with the aim of getting them paid for with stimulus funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."
Source: Green Inc., 01/06/2010
"EPA Enforcement-Related Penalties Plummeted in Fiscal 2009"
"U.S. EPA during the first year of the Obama administration saw deep declines in the amount of penalties assessed against polluters and pounds of pollution slashed through enforcement activities compared with the previous year, according to data released by the agency last month."
Source: Greenwire, 01/06/2010
"U.S. Car Ownership Shifts Into Reverse"
"Americans' infatuation with their cars has endured through booms and busts, but last year something rare happened in the United States: The number of automobiles actually fell."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 01/06/2010
"Tests Find Antibiotic, Other Contaminants in Tampa's Drinking Water"
"The tap water that Tampa residents consume is contaminated with low levels of antibiotics, nicotine byproducts and a chemical used to produce firefighting foams."
Source: Tampa Tribune, 01/06/2010
