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[Coloradoluis.typepad.com] Colorado Luis: Environment: Yes it is, say the Western Resource Advocates (formerly the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies, just another environmental group that didn't hire me after law school) in their new Balanced Energy Plan.

 [Scienceblog.com] Science Blog -- USGS NEWS: Metal concentrations were found to be elevated in riverbed sediments and fish tissue samples at sites downstream from significant natural mineral sources associated with hard-rock mining activities in the Clark Fork and Spokane River basins, according to scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior. Arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, and zinc in bed sediments were elevated relative to national median concentrations, and some concentrations were at levels that can adversely affect aquatic life, according to a recently released USGS report that summarizes information on metal contaminants in riverbed sediments and tissue of fish from the Clark Fork and Spokane River Basins in Montana, Idaho, and Washington.

[Webapp.utexas.edu] Sarkar Lab WebLog: War against the Environment Archives: After Labour canditate Mark Latham offered an increased protection plan, driven by conservation research, the ultra-conservative Prime Minister John Howard launched his strategy. I suppose I do not have to elaborate on its content, considering that the CEO of Forest Industries Tasmania (aka the head wood-chipper) has "likened its release yesterday to an act of god amidst a federal campaign again dominated by talk of more reservation of Tasmania's old-growth forests".

 [Inthesetimes.com] Hostile Environment -- In These Times: They could tap the Rockies’ oil, coal, shale oil and, if you believe the .2 position at Interior: Stephen Griles, an oil and mining industry lobbyist.

[Marciaoddi.com] The Indiana Law Blog: June 2003 Archives: To reduce future harm, the administration proposed better coordinating the state and federal agencies that regulate "mountaintop removal mining" and developing better procedures for monitoring its effect.According to the Times story, the report was issued by the "Office of Surface Mining, an agency of the Interior Department. In addition to the Office of Surface Mining, the other agencies involved in the draft were the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection."

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