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An Ominous Warning on the Effects of Ocean Acidification

2/15/10 A new study says the seas are acidifying ten times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred. And, the study concludes, current changes in ocean chemistry due to the burning of fossil fuels may portend a new wave of die-offs. Read Full Article

Feinstein's Rider Doesn't Make the Cut

2/26/10 The federal jobs bill passed off the Senate floor this week without the contentious rider proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein, which would have weakened endangered species protections in the Delta. Read Full Article

Farmworkers against California water bond

2/23/10 Op-Ed by United Farm Workers president Arturo Rodriguez, who says the UFW's reason for opposing the bond: We don't believe that the giant agriculture corporations should get more subsidized water until farmworkers get the right to protect themselves, including the right to clean and fresh drinking water. Read Full Article

Rulings Restrict Clean Water Act, Foiling E.P.A.

2/28/10 Thousands of the nation’s largest water polluters are outside the Clean Water Act’s reach because the Supreme Court has left uncertain which waterways are protected by that law, according to interviews with regulators. As a result, some businesses are declaring that the law no longer applies to them. And pollution rates are rising.

About 117 million Americans get their drinking water from sources fed by waters that are vulnerable to exclusion from the Clean Water Act, according to E.P.A. reports. Read Full Article

Too much pavement, too little oversight: EPA to tackle stormwater runoff

2/17/10 Across the country, stormwater runoff hammers thousands of rivers, streams and lakes. Communities are left to struggle with the consequences of too much pavement and too little oversight. Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is gearing up to tighten federal stormwater rules that have been criticized by environmental groups and deemed ineffective by a national panel of researchers. Read Full Article

An Ominous Warning on the Effects of Ocean Acidification

Feinstein's Rider Doesn't Make the Cut

Farmworkers against California water bond

Rulings Restrict Clean Water Act, Foiling E.P.A.

Too much pavement, too little oversight: EPA to tackle stormwater runoff

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