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November 25, 2009

EPA Develops "Green Home" Site

This new tool is broken out by space type (e.g., kitchen, bathroom, garage, yard), and covers a wide range of indoor and outdoor energy, toxicity, consumption, and environmental impact issues — even topics such as finding a greener mortgage.

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1st National Criteria For Sustainable Landscapes Released

The nation's first set of voluntary criteria for planning, design, construction, and maintenance of landscapes.was announced Nov. 6, 2009.

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Fossil Fuel Basics: Two Good, Current Primers From CRS

The Federation of American Scientists has posted these reports online: "Fossil Fuel Resources: Terminology, Reporting, and Summary" and "Unconventional Gas Shales: Development, Technology, and Policy Issues."

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November 11, 2009

Natural Gas Case Sparks Change in Air Pollution Assessments

Dogging the resulting developments of a new EPA policy could lead to many stories that focus on both the specific cases and the underlying principle of cumulative assessments of pollutants.

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Report: 100s of Millions of Pounds of Toxics Dumped into US Waters

Advocacy group Environment America based its conclusions on 2007 US EPA Toxics Release Inventory data, while overcoming some of the errors and limitations embedded in TRI.

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Study: Many Forests Vulnerable to Climate Change

An international team has pulled together what it says is the first global assessment of tree deaths linked with drought and heat stress. They cite 88 cases since 1970 on six continents.

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Coal-Ash Disposal Remains A Front-Burner Issue at EPA

Most of the 580-plus coal-ash impoundments and landfills in the U.S. would make a good local environmental story, and the information available on them is growing.

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October 28, 2009

Feds Begin To Quantify Hidden Climate Change Costs

As debate over climate legislation rages, reporters will encounter many confusing and seemingly contradictory statements about the costs of changing US energy practices. You may help your audience with an understanding of how incomplete the cost figures cited by companies and politicians often are.

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Report Documents Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farm Lands

Foreign ownership of privately-held US agricultural lands, on the rise for the second year in a row, can affect the local economy, politics, culture, foreign investment in the US, food security, and agricultural subsidies.

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Creek Daylighting: A Stormwater Management Trend

Strenuous local battles sometimes erupt over "daylighting" (freeing streams from culverts and paved channels), an increasingly popular method for state, county, and local governments to improve stormwater management and water quality.

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Latest TipSheet Items

November 25, 2009

EPA Develops "Green Home" Site

1st National Criteria For Sustainable Landscapes Released

Fossil Fuel Basics: Two Good, Current Primers From CRS

November 11, 2009

Natural Gas Case Sparks Change in Air Pollution Assessments

Report: 100s of Millions of Pounds of Toxics Dumped into US Waters

Study: Many Forests Vulnerable to Climate Change

Coal-Ash Disposal Remains A Front-Burner Issue at EPA

October 28, 2009

Feds Begin To Quantify Hidden Climate Change Costs

Report Documents Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farm Lands

Creek Daylighting: A Stormwater Management Trend

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