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"150 Chemicals Are No Longer Incognito"

"This month the Environmental Protection Agency made public the names of 150 chemicals that were investigated in health and safety studies but whose identities were withheld as confidential business information."

Source: Green (NYT), 06/14/2011

"Administration Issues New Rules for Fish Farms"

"The Obama administration released new guidelines that would make it easier to farm fish in federal waters, a move that could transform the nation's coasts and the food Americans will consume in years to come."

Source: Wash Post, 06/14/2011

"E.P.A. Delays Rule on Power Plant Emissions"

"The Environmental Protection Agency, facing intense opposition from Congressional Republicans and industry over a broad range of new air quality regulations, said Monday that it was delaying by two months the release of a proposed rule on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major pollution sources."

Source: Green (NYT), 06/14/2011

"Italians Vote to Abandon Nuclear Energy"

"Italians voted to abandon nuclear power for the foreseeable future, turning out in droves to cast ballots in a packet of referenda whose outcome is a sign of growing popular discontent toward Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government."

Source: Wall St. Journal, 06/14/2011

12th Report on Carcinogens

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' 12th Report on Carcinogens, released June 2011, includes 8 new substances: industrial chemical formaldehyde and a botanical known as aristolochic acids, as well as captafol, cobalt-tungsten carbide, certain inhalable glass wool fibers, o-nitrotoluene, riddelliine, and styrene.

"Killing One Owl Species To Save Another"

"Spotted owls are on the decline despite two decades of work to bring them back. So, later this month, wildlife officials are releasing a new plan to protect the owls, and it includes a controversial new approach: eliminating their cousins."

Source: NPR, 06/13/2011

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