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NOAA Fishery Advisers Have New Look

If you report for a coastal region where fisheries are important, it's a good time to investigate the membership makeup of your regional Fishery Management Council.

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EPA: Most US Residents Exposed to Excessive Air Pollution Risk

While it does have limitations, the updated National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment offers risk estimates for each of 180 substances, and three separate combined assessments.

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Bark Beetles Seen as Natural Event

The bark beetles devastating millions of acres of western pine forests are actually a native insect whose destruction -- like that of wildfire -- is part of a natural cycle of forest regeneration.

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Source: NYTimes, 07/08/2009

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Did EPA's Jackson Try To Suppress NJ PFOA Study?

An environmental advocacy group has charged that EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, when she headed New Jersey's environmental agency, sought to block publication of a study on the health effects of toxic chemical PFOA on grounds that it had not been sufficiently peer-reviewed. She later relented.

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Source: Charleston Gazette, 07/08/2009

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"The Pentagon’s War on America: Toxic Bureaucracy"

During the Bush administration and earlier, the Pentagon waged a war to keep EPA from regulating perchlorate, a rocket fuel that has widely contaminated drinking water, by fudging the science about its health effects. Now the defense industry is pushing the same case to the Obama Office of Management and Budget.

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Source: NRNS, 07/08/2009

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"EPA Attorneys Criticize Obama Nominee"

President Obama's nominee for the top Justice Department environmental enforcement job, Ignacia Moreno, has come under fire from EPA staff attorneys for her previous work defending GE -- a major polluter prosecuted by EPA. Backers say Moreno was tough on polluters in a previous stint at Justice.

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Source: ProPublica, 07/08/2009

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"Government Tightening Food Safety Standards"

"The White House is trying to make Americans' food safer after recent recalls of popular products like peanut butter and cookie dough."

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Source: AP, 07/08/2009

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"Senate Begins Push for Climate Change Bill"

"Democrats in the Senate on Tuesday began a drive to advance climate change legislation, a top Obama administration priority, amid warnings that a bill recently passed by the House of Representatives to reduce carbon emissions would have to be changed."

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Source: Reuters, 07/08/2009

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'Carbon Black' Report Shows Impacts On Native Americans

By MIKE DUNNE

An effort to document the lives of Oklahoma Indians introduced reporter Vicki Monks to a story that begged to be told: how a carbon black plant affected the health of a neighboring Ponca Indian community.

Carbon black, made by the burning of waste oil, is used primarily to strengthen the rubber in tires.

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"Smart Grid: Digging The Foundations"

"President Obama's energy team is mandating up-front standards for smart grid technology to ensure that what is built by the disparate forces involved works and is efficient."

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Source: SolveClimate, 07/07/2009

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