"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
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"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
Localizing Recovery Act Spending Is Getting Easier
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EPA Proposes More Monitors for Airborne Lead
Spurred in part by a petition filed in January 2009, the Agency's new rule, if finalized, could add approximately 240 monitors in about 40 states near known lead emission sources.
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Mapping Tool Allows New Way To Cover EPA Enforcement Actions
With data on ~4,600 civil and criminal enforcement actions in fiscal year 2009, you can determine trends by state and EPA Region for type and extent of enforcement; track down enforcement actions in areas of interest to your audience; and serve as a starting point for stories that are seemingly unrelated to an enforcement action.
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Feds Release New Info on Climate-Plant Connections
Research and policy discussions are focusing on both natural plant systems and domesticated ones, especially agriculture — one possible effect being shifts in water availability.
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"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
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