Government

Sunshine Week Starts March 14 with Focus on Local Heroes [1]

Journalism groups, including key organizer American Society of News Editors, will honor individuals whose open-government work in 2009 has made their communities better places to live.

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WatchDog TipSheet [2]

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"Rep. Moran Likely to Lead Panel That Funds Environmental Agencies" [7]

"Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) is poised to take the chairmanship of the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, as current Chairman Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) is expected to move over to the coveted Defense subpanel."

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Source: Greenwire [8], 02/10/2010

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Feb. 16 Briefing Helps Prep for Release of New US Ocean Policy [9]

RSVP by 4:00 p.m. February 12, 2010, to learn about the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force's proposed marine spatial planning framework for coordinating many ocean and coastal activities by multiple agencies and actors.

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TipSheet [10]

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Planning & Growth [11]

Water & Oceans [12]

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100s of New Federal Datasets Released, Many Environmental [13]

Environmental reporters who use databases to find and build stories have a fresh windfall, including three new datasets from EPA, plus many others relevant to the EJ beat.

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TipSheet [10]

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Government [3]

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Feds Ready To Designate Bald Eagles As "Recovered" [14]

After intense recovery efforts resulting in an increase from ~400 nesting pairs in 1963 to the current count of >7,000, the bald eagle may soon be removed from the USFWS list of endangered and threatened species, with monitoring ongoing for at least five more years.

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TipSheet [10]

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Biodiversity [15]

Government [3]

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Public [6]

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Will Appliance Rebates Match Cash for Clunkers? [16]

States and territories are each designing and running their own unique rebate program, with funding from the US DOE for development and implementation.

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TipSheet [10]

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Economy & Business [17]

Consumer [18]

Energy & Fuel [19]

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National (U.S.) [5]

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Obama's Budget Impacts Environment in Many Ways [20]

President Obama's $3.8 trillion fiscal 2011 budget proposal, released Feb. 1, funds private nuclear plants, Great Lakes and Chesapeake cleanup, and acquisition of land for conservation. It cuts Yucca Mountain, fossil subsidies, and EPA. It still hopes to get revenue from cap-and-trade ... and affects the environment in myriad other ways.

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Source: Wash Post [21], 02/02/2010

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"Profile: Environmental Justice Comes Naturally to New EPA Region 9 Administrator" [22]

"Jared Blumenfeld, the newly appointed director of the U.S. EPA's Pacific Southwest region, Region 9, is pledging to make life difficult for polluters, especially those who despoil the environment in underserved and vulnerable communities."

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Source: ENS [23], 01/29/2010

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"EPA Probes Its Actions in Town With Toxic-Waste Dump" [24]

"The federal agency's internal investigation will run concurrently with a state and local inquiry into health and environmental issues facing Kettleman City, Calif."

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Source: LA Times [25], 01/29/2010

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"Climate, Energy Programs Could See Boosts Despite Budget Freeze" [26]

"Climate change and clean energy programs, which the Obama administration has championed, are expected to remain priorities at U.S. EPA and the Energy Department in the president's fiscal 2011 budget request despite a request to freeze non-military discretionary spending for the next three years."

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Source: Greenwire [27], 01/28/2010

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