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		<title>Nice try GM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 21:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Where to track Northwest Environmental Bills</title>
		<link>http://naturallyinteresting.com/2009/03/24/where-find-environmental-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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OREGON:

Salem Watch
Environment Oregon &#8211; Legislative Agenda
Bills Relating to Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Waterwatch of Oregon
Oregon Water Bills at Tualatin Riverkeeper

WASHINGTON:

Washington Environmental Council &#8211; Hot List also at

Washington Conservation Voters

Environmental Priorities Coalition



Sierra Club &#8211; Cascade Chapter
Washington State House Democrats Environmental News

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		<title>Bad News for Salmon from Fisheries Management Council</title>
		<link>http://naturallyinteresting.com/2009/03/13/bad-news-for-salmon-from-fisheries-management-council/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Pacific Fisheries Management Council&#8217;s press release indicates commercial salmon fishing is likely to be closed south of Point Falcon, Oregon again this year.
At its April 5-9 meeting in Millbrae, the Council will narrow the three options to a single season recommendation to be forwarded to National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for their final approval before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naturallyinteresting.com&blog=3163456&post=336&subd=naturallyinteresting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regulated Industries under EPA’s proposed GHG rules</title>
		<link>http://naturallyinteresting.com/2009/03/13/regulated-industries-under-epas-proposed-ghg-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[via JD Supra
Under the proposed rule, affected facilities and suppliers would be required to begin collecting data on January 1, 2010. The first emissions report would be due on March 31, 2011, for emissions emitted during 2010.
The following industries will likely be regulated under the EPA&#8217;s proposed greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting regulations:
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		<title>Environmental Google Tech Talks Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw this interesting talk on Liquid Fluoride (Molten Salt) Reactors on youtube:

Afterwards I clicked through to the Google Tech Talks channel. There are currently 1040 videos, I didn&#8217;t browse them all, but here a few of the interesting ones I found. The Google Tech Talks Energy and Environment Playlist can be found Here.
How to Count [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naturallyinteresting.com&blog=3163456&post=328&subd=naturallyinteresting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invasive Fish Eating All Our Salmon?</title>
		<link>http://naturallyinteresting.com/2009/03/02/invasive-fish-eating-all-our-salmon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From March 2009 BioScience via Enn.
Predation by six nonindigenous fish species: catfish, black and white crappie, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, walleye, and yellow perch. Hundreds of thousands to millions of juvenile salmonids were being consumed by these species

salmon, fish
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		<title>Are we over spending on cancer research if most cancer is preventable?</title>
		<link>http://naturallyinteresting.com/2009/02/27/are-we-over-spending-on-cancer-research-if-most-cancer-is-preventable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a third of the most common cancers in developed countries could be prevented by healthy eating and exercise, says a report by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
These figures do not include smoking, which alone accounts for about a third of cancers. Source.
So over 2/3 of all cancer is preventable?
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		<title>Chevron Manipulated Lab Results</title>
		<link>http://naturallyinteresting.com/2009/02/24/chevron-manipulated-lab-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a remarkable finding, Beltman discovered that in Ecuador Texaco [now Chevron] used a clean-up standard of 1,000 mg/L of oil that leaches into water from soil in the TCLP test to determine whether it had properly remediated the soil &#8212; a threshold level physically impossible to reach because the water solubility of crude oil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=naturallyinteresting.com&blog=3163456&post=319&subd=naturallyinteresting&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting BPA Facts</title>
		<link>http://naturallyinteresting.com/2009/02/23/interesting-bpa-facts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just five companies make BPA in the United States: Bayer, Dow, Hexion Specialty Chemicals, SABIC Innovative Plastics (formerly GE Plastics), and Sunoco. Together, they bring in more than $6 billion a year from the compound. Each of them referred questions about BPA&#8217;s safety to their Arlington, Virginia &#8212; based trade association, the American Chemistry Council.
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		<title>Environmental Idealism Taken too Far</title>
		<link>http://naturallyinteresting.com/2009/02/23/environmental-idealism-taken-too-far/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sunrise Powerlink: A proposed  power line from the California coast to the solar, wind, and geothermal rich Imperial Valley.
The Route: Would likely be extended to avoid a state park, an Indian reservation and most of a forest, in addition to avoiding harm to any endangered species.
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