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  • VIDEO: Member of Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future praises the discovery of hydraulic fracturing in relation to questions of extended, temporary, onsite nuclear storage
  • VIDEO Interview: "You're killing me": How whales and dolphins sacrifice for national security
  • The Navy refutes two incidents in Hawaii widely reported as being caused by sonar.
  • "You're killing me": How whales and dolphins sacrifice for national security
  • VIDEO: The Marcellus Shale: The Politics of Gas
  • Tomb of Toxins: Part III: Unearthing the Toxic Tomb
  • Tomb of Toxins: Part II: Toxic Waste by another name
  • Tomb of Toxins: Part I: Noxious Encounters
  • Conflicts of Interest – New York Style: Senator George Winner’s Shale Play
  • The Ocean Regulators of Last Resort
  • Poseidon's Desalinization Plant: Dream Water Supply or Draining the Pacific and Taxpayers?
  • DESAL TIMELINE
  • New York DEC Staff Shorthanded to Reply to 14,000 Marcellus Shale Comments – Environmental Inspectors Down to 16
  • PA Politician Calls for Moratorium on Gas Drilling Permits
  • Alaska Lawmakers reward Cruise line Lobbyist
  • Saving A Dam To Save Waterfront Homeowners
  • Congressman Denies Knowing His Wife Lobbied For Landman Group
  • Dirty Waters: The Politics of Ocean Pollution
  • Dirty Waters: Cashing in on Ocean Pollution
  • The Marcellus Shale: New York is the Natural Gas Industry’s New Lab Rat
  • What is hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking)
  • What is the Marcellus Shale?
  • The Atlantic Water Summit …After These Messages
  • Fish and Paint Chips Part II: The Politics of Ocean Trash
  • Fish and Paint Chips Part I: The Science of Trash
  • California Fights Shipping Pollution As International Shippers Push Back
  • No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry’s Pollution Problem Part III: Off The Hook
  • No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry’s Pollution Problem Part II: A Lack of Authority
  • What is Bunker fuel?
  • No Safe Harbor: The Shipping Industry’s Pollution Problem Part I: Low-Hanging Fruit
  • The Pentagon's Toxic Sites
  • What are TCE and PCE?
  • Nestlé: Draining America Bottle By Bottle: How Nestlé Got Millions and Millions of Dollars From a $230 Permit.
  • Nestlé: Draining America Bottle By Bottle: Creating and Marketing the Demand for Water
  • Nestlé: Draining America Bottle By Bottle: Rural communities take a stand
  • Nestlé: Draining America Bottle By Bottle: Nestlé builds an empire at the expense of rural communities
  • The Pentagon’s War on America: Toxic Bureaucracy: Burned in Effigy
  • The Pentagon’s War on America: Toxic Bureaucracy: The Rollback
  • The Pentagon’s War on America: Toxic Bureaucracy: Accusations of Bias
  • The Pentagon’s War on America: Toxic Bureaucracy: Confronting the EPA
  • The Pentagon’s War on America: Toxic Bureaucracy: The Balance of Power
  • The Pentagon’s War on America: Poisoned Patriots: Running the Gauntlet
  • The Pentagon’s War on America: Poisoned Patriots: The Cover-up
  • The Pentagon’s War on America: Poisoned Patriots: Through the Looking Glass
  • Bate and Switch: How a free-market magician manipulated two decades of environmental science
  • WSJ: Deserted Building Sites Add to Property Bust's Toll
  • President-elect Barack Obama's Transition Teams
  • Washington Post: High Weedkiller Levels Found in River Checks
  • Vibrio Bacteria a Bigger Threat to Swimmers than Sharks as Northern Waters Warm
  • Update: Key Congressional Committee Eyes Perchlorate
  • TCE Victim Featured in LA Times Series Dies
  • Oklahoma-Arkansas Dispute Exposes National Problem
  • EPA Vindicated on Deadly Widespread Contaminant
  • Stream Gauges Threatened by Budget Cuts
  • Washington Post: Bush Administration Opposes Montana Pollution Rules; EPA Study Suppressed
  • LA Times: Pentagon blocks EPA; Deadly solvent still threatens millions
  • Pollution Threatens Chesapeake's Rockfish
  • EPA Raises White Flag on Perchlorate
  • Blowhard States
  • Bay's Rockfish Wasting Away
  • Canada Cooling on Climate Change
  • EPA Plan to Cut Chemical Hazard Info Draws Fire
  • Drought Worries Moving East
  • A Rash of Mysterious Fish Kills
  • EPA's Most Controversial Leader Its Most Memorable
  • Warming and Frogs and Ducks, Oh My!
  • States Challenging Energy Bill’s Clean Water Exemption
  • It's Another Salty Winter
  • Partisanship Sinking Oceans Progress
  • Bad News for Great Lakes
  • Oceans Treaty Being Drowned by Far Right
  • The NEPA/Katrina Link: Bordering on Urban Legend
  • Fish Reproduction Linked to Wastewater
  • DOE Predicts More Coal Plants
  • Bush Brother’s Landfill Creates Mess in Virginia
  • DEA May Spell Relief for Rivers in Maine
  • One EPA Basher Replaced By Another
• National Security
  • VIDEO: The Secret History of the CIA: The CIA in business with the parent group to Al Qaeda?
  • ABC: Nuclear Waste From SRS Will Go To Nevada Site
  • The Secret History: The United States and South Africa
  • Decision to Shut Yucca Mountain to Savannah River Weapons Waste brings Lawsuit from Aiken County
  • The Secret History Part II: The C-802 Cruise Missile: How the CIA left the Navy Defenseless against an Iranian Missile
  • The Secret History Part I: The C-802 Cruise Missile: Iran’s Threat in the Persian Gulf
  • START/CTBT Mired in Shifting Politics
  • On Prioritizing Terrorism
  • The No-Fly List: Americas Maginot Line Part II - How The CIA Lets Terrorist Fly
  • The No-Fly List Part I: America’s Maginot Line
  • Vietnam Reconsidered
  • Disgraced USA Today Reporter Makes Comeback as the Kurds’ DC Flack
  • No Contractor Left Behind Part IV: Congress’s Powerless Probe
  • The Army's Suspicious Science
  • No Contractor Left Behind: Part III: “Just Suck It Up and Move On”
  • No Contractor Left Behind Part II: KBR’s Negligence
  • TOO BIG TO FAIL: The KBR-AIG Dream Team
  • No Contractor Left Behind Part I: KBR, the Pentagon and the Soldiers Who Paid
  • Unsafe At Any Altitude Part IV: Chaos and Cover Up
  • Unsafe At Any Altitude Part III: Hell Over Earth
  • Unsafe At Any Altitude Part II: 9.11.01 - The Morning of the Hijackings
  • Unsafe At Any Altitude Part I: The Night Before - September 10, 2001
  • The United States and Iran: Part X: Bombs R US - How America Looked The Other Way As Pakistan Sold Nuclear Technology To Iran
  • The United States and Iran: Part IX: Pan Am 103: More Americans Dead and Iranian Military Escalation
  • The United States and Iran: Part VIII: A Tragic Mistake, A Cover-up and Escalation
  • The United States and Iran: Part VII: The CIA’s Solution –GOLDENROD
  • The United States and Iran: The Secret History:Part VI: The Enemy Is The Enemy
  • The United States and Iran: The Secret History:Part V: Secret Deals with Iran: Opportunities or Apparitions
  • The United States and Iran: The Secret History Part IV: Failure and Fate: A Failed Rescue and Iranian Double Dealing
  • The United States and Iran: The Secret History: Part Three: Carter’s Bargain - The Islamic Bomb
  • The United States and Iran: The Secret History Part Two: A Murder In Washington
  • The United States and Iran: The Secret History Part One: Carter and the Shah
  • Baghdad’s Ambassador Confronts a Fragmented Iraq in the Washington Front of the War
  • Unlicensed “New- Fields Exhibitions” Claims To Provide Clients Easy Access in Iraq
  • Poll: Iraq Still “Most Important Issue” Influencing Arab World’s Opinion of the U.S.
  • What Are an Iraqi CIA Agent and His Novice Lobbyist Up to in Washington?
  • Pentagon's Pulling of IG Report Undercuts Times's Critics
  • The Illusion of Stability
  • Whatever Happened to the Darling Chalabi?
  • Under Siege in Kurdistan, Can the Talabanis Keep Their Influence In Washington?
  • NBC News: Where PR triumphs over the Truth
  • FOIA Documents Released from Times Exposé on Military Talking Heads
  • Defending the Indefensible - AFIO's Mission: Protecting the CIA Myth
  • Secrets and Lies: The Intelligence Services and Atif Amin
  • America and the Islamic Bomb Authors to Appear on the Leonard Lopate Show
  • Did West Blow Chance to Halt Iran's Nuke Plans?
  • Former FBI Agent Still in Iran According to Salahuddin
  • Everybody is Talking About the "No-Fly List"
  • Levinson May Be In Iraq; Release Will Be Announced After Summit
  • News Bulletin: Levinson Release is Ordered by Iran
  • Spy Wars: Levinson is Trade Bait in Iran
  • An Expat's Letter from Iran: A Super Cop, a Revolutionary Prosecutor and Dumb Diplomacy
  • Remembering Sally Lilienthal
  • NPR Chronicles Saga of CIA Smuggler
  • News Analysis: Beating the Bush on North Korea
  • News Analysis: If a Bomb Drops in the Forest...
  • ACLU Calls for End of No-Fly List
  • The No Fly List: America's Maginot Line
  • A.Q. Khan’s Daughter Disputes Pakistani President’s Claims
  • 60 Minutes Grills Pakistani President on Nuke Smuggling
  • Custer Battles Case Highlights War Profiteering in Iraq
  • Challenger: Twenty Years Later, Lessons Never Learned
  • Retribution at Homeland Security
  • Radioactive Cargo Uncovered in Bulgaria
  • Is Pakistan Motivated To Find Bin Laden?
• Trento's Take
  • Trento’s Take: Atif Amin Sacked For Trying to Shutter the A.Q. Khan Nuclear Proliferation Network
  • WikiLeaks.org: New Media or Source?
  • Trento's Take: Russian spy ring not up to KGB standards
  • Trento’s Take: Dumbing Down Fire and Ice to Stop C02 Regulation
  • Trento’s Take: Murdoch and Prince Bin Talal Demonstrate Money Is More Important Than Fighting Terrorism
  • Trento’s Take: Dubai Cops: “Round Up The Usual Suspect: Israel…”
  • Trento’s Take: Fox News Can’t Upset Murdoch’s Saudi Prince
  • Trento's Take: The CIA and Airline Security: The Dots No One Wants to Connect
  • Trento’s Take: KBR: The Pentagon’s Imaginary Friend
  • Trento's Take: The Perils of New York’s Gas For Cash
  • Trento's Take: Who Kept Major Hassan In The Army and For What Real Purpose?
  • Eye Candy For The Masses
  • Is Obama Putting Lipstick On The Pentagon’s Toxic Pig?
  • Frustrated With Bush Lite Secrecy? Let Obama Know.
  • Pandemic with your slice of smoked Virginia (by way of Mexico) ham?
  • How do Brian Williams and Steve Capas Sleep at Night?
  • A Country and World Praying We Finally Have A Real President
  • Obama's Challenge: The Saudi Princes and Afghanistan
  • NBC is to the Pentagon what FOX is to the GOP
  • No Good Choices for the President-Elect in Afghanistan
  • 44-Year-Old U.S. Navy Cover-Up Continues
  • The Truth Lost A Champion
  • 9/11 - Seven Years - So Many Lost, So Many Mistakes
  • Control Information and You Control the Battlefield, We’'re the Battlefield
  • Trento's Column: Big Pharma’s Real Discount Drug Program
  • Trento's Column: The BBC Demonstrates Cowardice. NBC, ABC, and CBS Just Hew to the Bottom Line
  • Trento's Column: The CIA and MI6 Protect A.Q. Khan as the British Government Destroys a True Hero
  • Trento's Column: "Get Me Tom Hanks, Get Me Julia Roberts...But Who Will Play AQ Khan?"
  • Trento's Column: Letter From Challenger Whistleblower Roger Boisjoly
  • Trento's Column: NASA - President Bush’s Other New Orleans
  • Guest Column: D-Day
  • Trento's Column: Bobby and J. Edgar - A New Secret History
  • Trento's Column: The Silence of Ira Silverman
  • Trento's Column: Levinson Had Damaging Information on Iranian Leadership
  • Trento's Column: Families of Air Disaster Victims Decry Cover-ups
  • Trento's Column: More Reassuring Bunk From The Head of TSA
  • Book Excerpt: Five Years After 9/11, No-Fly Lists Mismanaged, Out of Date
  • Trento's Column: Using Passengers As Bait To Catch Al Qaeda
  • Trento's Column: Al-Qaeda Re-run in London
  • Trento's Column: How Iran Lost Lebanon and the United States Inherited Another Nightmare
  • Trento's Column: The Arrogance of the Neocons
  • Denver Court Hands Down Rocky Flats Decision
  • More on Sarkis Soghanalian
  • The Vice President and Arms Control
  • A Stupid Snub on Human Rights
  • A Deadly Shell Game
  • Protecting The Saudi’s Privacy and Losing Ours
  • Why www.storiesthatmatter.org?
  • A Reporter Who Mattered
  • Secret Bases Being Built in Iraq
  • Classified and Internal Studies Call US War a Victory for Iran
  • CIA Fronts or Real Private Contractors
  • The Truth About President Karzai and Afghanistan
  • The Bob and Judy Show
  • Miller’s Crossing
  • The Times and Judith Miller
  • Abramoff
  • Groundhog Day at NASA and A Very Big Happy Hour at the Contractors Lounge At The Pentagon…
  • Beirut Rules
  • You Gotta Love This Administration for The Chutzpah
  • CAR TALK: The Truth about Hybrids and Hydrogen
  • Another Failed Attempt to Gag The Arms Dealer Who Supplied Saddam
  • The A. Q. Khan Problem; Troubles at the CIA; Bush I's Arms Dealer Threatens to Tell All
  • Assuming al-Qaeda is a Nuclear Power
  • The Pan-Islamic Bomb and Mr. Khan
  • Forget the Election Mr. President, Just Tell Us the Truth
  • Money Can't Buy Love, Just Time
  • Hubris is the Only Word that Fits
  • Pakistan & Iran's Scary Alliance
  • The Real Intelligence Cover-Up: America's Unholy Alliance
  • Bush Not A Convincing Movie President
  • Warning Signs From Paris
  • Sy Hersh, Jayson Blair and The Times
  • The Price of Cooking the CIA Books
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  • Fluoride from Municipal Water Supplies is Toxic to Fish
  • Whales À la carte
  • America’s Secret Prisons
  • California plastic carryout bag ban movement gaining ground
  • Geoengineering Unmonitored
  • Battle over farm animal manure continues
  • Secret Potion #9 – Fracking Fluids Still a Mystery
  • A BP Cover-up?
  • Austin, TX: America’s Largest Water Fluoridation Fight
  • Alternative Energy and You
  • Jazz, Oil and Money: N.O.’s Addiction
  • Libraries vs. Country Club Memberships
  • The Two Americas
  • What’s the Matter with Alaska?
  • It is Time To Create The Green Corps
  • Before the Massa Meltdown: An interview on the Marcellus Shale
  • An Argument for killing the EPA
  • KBR Denied $20 million; Less than a Time Out but More than a Slap on the Wrist
  • Thank you internet trolls: Or how to stop worrying and learn to love anonymous attacks from complete hacks on forums
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  • Why Obama isn’t as vulnerable on National Security as Roger Ailes would have you believe
  • How Scott Brown Murdered Climate Change Legislation in the Face
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  • NRC Says Mox Plant Is Safe Same Day Worker Is Electrocuted
  • Closing The Nuclear Circle Hits A Moxblock
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  • New York State Senate Moves Closer to Temporarily Banning Natural Gas Drilling
  • All That Nuclear Waste And No Hole to Bury It In
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  • WSJ: BP to begin testing on newly installed oil well cap
  • Union Leader: Water in some NH wells is worrisome
  • Huffington Post: BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants
  • AP: Monsanto fined $2.5 million for mislabeled cotton
  • National Science Foundation: U.S. songbirds found to be carriers of bird flu virus
  • Mercury News: Los Angeles River granted status that offers protection
  • EPA: Proposal to reduce power plant emissions in 31 states and D.C.
  • EHS: Traffic air pollution near school associated with onset of asthma
  • AP: Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells
  • ENN: Study finds deep sea life is more plentiful than previously thought
  • EPA: New greenhouse gas reporting requirements for four source categories
  • ProPublica: Photographer Was Followed by BP Security and Then Detained by Police
  • NYT: Louisiana and Scientists Spar Over How to Stop Oil
  • The Bakersfield Californian: Dry wells in California city
  • Reuters: Kyoto may encourage more pollution and spending
  • ENS: Deaf to 'Music Saves Mountains,' EPA Approves New Surface Coal Mine
  • News Service: Group Says Coal Isn't A Cash Cow for KY
  • NPR: Inventor Takes Tip From Whales To Clean Oil
  • Mother Jones: How BP Ended Democracy in Iran
  • Guardian: Drop in rich countries' emissions caused by recession in 2009 was nullified by steep increases from China and India
  • Grist: Latest podcast: How cancer-causing methyl iodide snuck past the EPA and onto farm fields
  • NYT: Genetically Altered Salmon Get Closer to the Table
  • ENN: EPA toxicity test results for dispersants
  • Guardian: Carbon emissions hold steady for first time since 1992
  • AP: Recall on children's jewelry due to toxic cadmium
  • NYT: Banned Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster
  • VIDEO: Reuters: Iceland: Whaling Season Begins
  • AP: Rough Seas From Hurricane Alex 2010 Pushing Oil Closer To Gulf Coast Beaches
  • World-Wire: Reckless Self-Interest of the Fragrance Industry
  • ENS: EPA Forced to Review Pesticide Testing on Humans
  • North County Times: Freight truck traffic in the San Diego region expected to quadruple
  • AP: Natural Gas Drilling: 80 Chemicals Possibly Contaminating Water Systems
  • AOL News: Gulf Seafood: Who Decides How Safe Is Safe?
  • ENN: More Fraud Within the Clean Development Mechanism
  • Reuters: Canada to phase out high-emitting coal-fired energy plants
  • Jordan Times: Arab countries will be greatly affected by climate change
  • Guardian: Paris seeks to generate energy using turbines beneath the Seine
  • ProPublica: Is Chinese drywall making Habitat for Humanity’s houses uninhabitable?
  • The Daily Green: Kellogg's Cereal Recall Highlights a New Concern: Chemicals Leaching from Food Packaging
  • LA Times: G-20 climate pact erases word 'voluntary' from efforts to cut oil-firm subsidies
  • Matter Network: U.S. Study Questions Research Expertise of Climate Change Skeptics
  • AP: Anti-whaling boss on Interpol wanted list: Japan
  • Guardian: India fury over US 'double standards' on BP and Bhopal
  • Discovery News: Scientists' Find Hints at Coming Antarctic Garbage Patch
  • Guardian: Whaling talks break down
  • WaPo: Apparent suicide by fishing boat captain underlines oil spill's emotional toll
  • AP: San Francisco board passes cell phone emissions law
  • Reuters: Very high methane levels in the Gulf of Mexico
  • SFGate: Several popular California trails found to be toxic
  • ABC: BP Oil Spill Disaster: Two Killed in Accidents; Containment Cap Removed After Robot Sub Collision
  • Mother Jones: Hey EPA: How Are Those Dispersant Tests Going?
  • Guardian: Judge who overturned drilling bans had shares in the oil industry
  • News Service: Taxpayers Group: Nuclear Resurgence Not Exactly Good News for NM
  • Times-Tribune: Natural gas inspectors find hundreds of violations
  • Guardian: International Whaling Commission considers lifting 25-year ban
  • Guardian: Plans to pump water into dwindling Dead Sea
  • Huffington: Egypt oil spill from leaking offshore rig
  • AFP: BP fought off two U.S. demands on oil clean-up
  • WaPo: BP, Transocean tap a well of Washington lobbyists and consultants
  • News Service: Shale Gas Conflict Renews Call for Better Disclosure
  • Yale Environment 360: The Nuclear Power Resurgence: How Safe Are the New Reactors?
  • VIDEO: Sky News Exclusive: BP Chairman Talks To Sky
  • LA Times: Head of BP rejects taking blame
  • NOAA: Closed fishing area in Gulf to be expanded
  • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Vote expected on Marcellus pollution
  • BBC: Can painting a mountain restore a glacier?
  • NYT: Far From Gulf, a Spill Scourge 5 Decades Old
  • ABC: BP 'Excited' Over Kevin Costner's Oil Cleanup Machine, Purchases 32
  • AP: EPA concerned about Monsanto pollution control dam
  • AP: $300 million needed for Agent Orange in Vietnam
  • National Post: The IPCC consensus on climate change was phony, says IPCC insider
  • NYT: Estimates of Oil Flow Jump Higher
  • News Service: San Francisco Passes 1st-Ever Ordinance On Cell Phone Radiation Levels
  • AFP: Thousands of Peruvian workers launch blockade over environmental regulation deadline
  • DRBC: Marcellus Shale drilling in the Delaware River basin halted
  • BBC: Climate panel chief welcomes climate debate
  • EPA: DuPont penalized for mercury discharges into the Neuse River
  • Guardian: Rising food prices expected in the next decade
  • NYT: As Mess Is Sent to Landfills, Officials Worry About Safety
  • LA Times: Foreign flagging of offshore rigs skirts U.S. safety rules
  • EHN: Prenatal PAHs linked to lower cognition at age five
  • Times Online: America leaves Iraq a toxic legacy of dumped hazardous materials
  • NOLA: BP buys search engines' top spot for words 'oil spill'
  • VIDEO: ABC: Exclusive: Kevin Costner on Oil Spill Device: 'I've Got a Life Preserver'
  • NYT: A Clash in Texas Over Air Pollution
  • ENN: Chesapeake Bay Acid Affected Oysters
  • News Service: Scientists: Dispersant Health Impacts a "Failure of Chemicals Policy"
  • BBC: Experts double estimate of BP oil spill size
  • Grist: How the agrichemical industry turns failure into market opportunity
  • News Service: Former Aracoma Inspector: Massey Fought, Violated Ventilation Rules
  • ENN: China and Nepal sign pact to protect biodiversity and the environment
  • EPA: Insecticide endosulfan to be phased out from all uses
  • CNN: State health officials reporting spill-related sickness
  • News Service: Undersea Oil Plumes Confirmed in Gulf
  • ENN: Aerosols
  • NYT: A Last Line of Defense? National Parks at Sea
  • CBS Affiliate: Rendell: Marcellus Shale Incidents 'A Warning'
  • Texas A&M News: Déjà vu: 1979 Oil Spill Like Today’s, But Took 10 Months To Cap
  • WaPo: In gulf oil spill's long reach, ecological damage could last decades
  • Guardian: Market economics a greater threat to bees than ‘colony collapse disorder’
  • TribLIVE: Upper Burrell residents, officials clash over Marcellus Shale drilling
  • Environmental Health News: New test can measure toxicity of traffic dust
  • ‘Gasland’ documentary probes the effects of gas drilling
  • WSJ: Oil drilling should be resuming soon
  • AP: Authorities investigate Texas natural gas explosion
  • ENS: INTERPOL, U.S. EPA and 20 Countries Target Illegal E-Waste Trade
  • ENS: EPA Requires Permit for Pesticide Application to U.S. Waters
  • Reuters: Rescuing Ecosystems Can Save Trillions Of Dollars: U.N.
  • MSNBC: Skeptical public fears oil-spill health issues
  • ENS: Animal Waste on Factory Farms Comes Under Closer EPA Scrutiny
  • ABC: Progress on BP Spill Containment, But Is It Safe to Swim?
  • WSJ: EPA Finalizes One-Hour Limits for Sulfur-Dioxide Emissions
  • ENN: New Study Examines the Effects of Development Intensity on Stream Health
  • AP: Cap collects some Gulf oil; crude washes into Fla.
  • News Service: Groups File Suit Against MMS: BP Cheated on Clean-Up Plan
  • The Times-Picayune: Formaldehyde causes cancer, EPA declares
  • CNN: Toxic town's advocate sees victory ahead
  • NYT: Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Says
  • NYT: California is one step closer to banning plastic bags
  • News Service: Study Links Power Plant Fish Kills to Economic Damages in Northwest Ohio
  • AOL: Civil and criminal investigations on Gulf spill are being pursued
  • Bloomberg: Worst case scenarios for Gulf spill
  • VIDEO: MSNBC: Oil seeps deep into marshes
  • AP: Effort to contain Gulf oil stalls with stuck saw
  • The Times-Tribune: Too much gas on Marcellus
  • News Service: NY River Country's Most Endangered
  • NPR: Geoengineering: 'A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come'
  • Nat Geo: Coast Pipelines Face Damage as Gulf Oil Eats Marshes?
  • Huffington Post: Hurricane season presents an additional complication for Gulf cleanup
  • AFP: Battling climate change in Africa is important, but promised funds will be needed
  • Guardian: Radioactive leaks and safety issues at Sellafield nuclear plant
  • ENN: Dust storms not sole reason for Phoenix air quality
  • USA Today: Gulf oil leak prompts hundreds of lawsuits
  • NY Times: BP Tries Again to Divert Oil Leak With Dome
  • Monitoring factory farms
  • Newsweek: Photographers prevented from covering the Gulf oil spill
  • NYT: Top kill’ strategy appears to have stemmed oil flow
  • AP: U.S. oil agency chief quits
  • NY Times: Colo. Lawmaker Withdraws Natural Gas 'Fracking' Amendment to Water Bill
  • VIDEO: CBS News: BP’s Criminal Past
  • NPR: BP Begins 'Top Kill' Maneuver To Try To Seal Oil Leak
  • BP Top Kill Attempt LIVE
  • Fox News: Louisiana Fishermen Helping in Spill Cleanup Report Getting Sick
  • News Service: New Study Warns Consumers of Risks Related to BPA in Food Cans
  • NY Times: Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons
  • WSJ: Regulators Accepted Gifts From Oil Industry, Report Says
  • UPDATED: LIVE: Oil Spill in the Gulf - Live Cam from GlobalWarming.House.gov
  • ABC News: Under the Water: Diving to See the Disaster
  • Environmental Health News: Exposure to PCBs destroys cell connections in the gut
  • CBS News: BP Played Central Role in Exxon Valdez Disaster
  • The Washington Post: U.S. agency overseeing oil drilling ignored warnings of risks
  • NY Daily News: Salazar: If BP can't clean up its 'mess,' we will kick them out, do it ourselves
  • NY Times: Despite Moratorium, Drilling Projects Move Ahead
  • Bangor Daily News: Chemicals and Cancer
  • 60 Minutes: Phthalates: Are They Safe?
  • Public News Service: Clock Ticking on Public Comment for Smith Plant Coal Ash
  • The New York Times: Conflict of Interest Worries Raised in Spill Tests
  • The Wall Street Journal: BP Challenges Accuracy Of Higher Estimates Of Gulf Oil Leak
  • The Times-Picayune: Costly, time-consuming test of cement linings in Deepwater Horizon rig was omitted, spokesman says
  • Huffington Post: Human Health Tragedy in the Making: Gulf Response Failing to Protect Peop
  • NPR: Scientist: BP's Oil Spill Estimates Improbable
  • NY Times: Scientists Fault U.S. Response in Assessing Gulf Oil Spill
  • CBS News: Coast Guard Threatens CBS Journalists with Arrest for Filming Oil Spill
  • Friends of the Earth: Cruise Lines Graded on Environmental Impacts
  • Mother Jones: Why Is the EPA Letting BP Use Dirty Dispersants?
  • Science Daily: Long-Lasting Sensory Loss in World Trade Center Workers from Airborne Toxins After 9/11 Attacks
  • McClatchy: Tar balls, new forecast raise fears oil spill reaching Florida
  • ENN: The Myth of Mountaintop Removal Reclamation
  • EHN: Few people know their name, but these chemicals have become EPA priority
  • AP: Research Links Pesticides With ADHD In Children
  • CBC.CA: BP oil pipe not final solution: U.S. officials
  • 60 Minutes: Details of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
  • Guardian.co.uk: Bill Gates' cloud-whitening trials 'a dangerous experiment'
  • NYT: U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits
  • USA Today: Gulf oil spill could be larger than U.S. estimates
  • Reuters: U.S. lags China on climate change: Europe climate chief
  • ENN: EPA Announces Thresholds for Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements
  • WSJ: Transocean to Petition to Limit Liability in Gulf Rig Blast
  • BP Releases Videos of Main Gulf Oil Leak
  • The Orange County Register: Poll: Orange County split on global warming
  • Mother Jones: A Strike Against Oil Spill Lawsuits
  • The Daily Green: Kerry-Lieberman Climate and Energy Bill Update: 'Disaster' or a 'Jumpstart'?
  • ENN: The new, improved Senate climate bill
  • NY Times: Energy Interests Spend Millions for Their Seat at the Climate Table
  • AP: Oil spill threatens already weakened wetlands
  • The Daily Green: The Health Effects of Oil Spills
  • CNN: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: BP Pursuing Multiple Uncertain Fixes
• National Security
  • NYT: Troubles at Afghan Bank Jolt Financial System
  • WaPo: Worried Afghans yank Kabul Bank deposits
  • AP IMPACT: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq
  • NYT: Seven U.S. Soldiers Die in Afghan Attacks
  • Rogue Navy Drone Tries to Penetrate Closed Airspace in Washington
  • McClatchy: From one Afghan setback, U.S. strategy finds success
  • NYT: Key Karzai Aide in Corruption Inquiry Is Linked to C.I.A.
  • NYT: U.S. General Cites Goals to Train Afghan Forces
  • President Obama Wants to Increase Weapons Sales
  • Iraq Veterans Still Suffering from Burn-Pit Exposure
  • Start Tready Insanity
  • Senate wants to exclude WikiLeaks from Shield Laws
  • Controversy over Time Magazine cover on Women and Afghan War
  • Afghanistan War – The What Ifs
  • CFR: Can sanctions bring Iran to the table?
  • NYT: Electrical grid is failing the Iraqi people
  • Newsweek: Power and Light
  • Former Pakistan ISI Chief says Obama Is Part of Wikileak Plot Against Pakistan
  • BBC: US 'fails to account' for Iraq reconstruction billions
  • Foreign Policy: Hostage to Events
  • Iran Shops For Nuclear Bomb Parts In Canada
  • Read the Wikileaks Documents Yourself
  • BBC: America's secret war
  • Al-Jazeera: UK admits using Depleted Uranium ammunition in Iraq
  • NYT: Pentagon faces political and economic pressures to cut budget
  • The Washington Post: The secrets next door
  • THE WASHINGTON POST LAUNCHES 'TOP SECRET
  • World Affairs Council: Nuclear tipping point- film screening and discussion
  • Plan to build new base in Afghanistan
  • TIME: U.S. Missiles Deployed Near China Send a Message
  • AP: Ahmadinejad brands US world's dictator ahead of summit
  • The National: Suicide bomber strikes Pakistan office
  • NYT: Smugglers in Iraq Blunt Sanctions Against Tehran
  • Emirates Tribune: US eyes UN troops for Iraq after 2011
  • The Straits Times: Atom plant set for launch
  • NYT: NATO Airstrike accidentally kills Afghan troops
  • NYT: Roundup on Iraqi Politics and Security
  • Channelnewsasia: US lawmakers pass Afghan war funding
  • AP: Iran sends EU letter on conditions for nuke talks
  • LA Times: Afghans see change in U.S. command as a threat to safety
  • CNN: Israeli soldiers face criminal indictments in Gaza incursion
  • Foreign Policy: Counting Al-Qaeda
  • Newsweek: This New Pat Tillman Documentary Will Make McChrystal's Retirement Less Pleasant
  • Gulf Times: Petraeus vows to spare civilians in Afghan war
  • CNN: Anti-terrorism chief: Discusses Targeting U.S. Citizen for Assassination Without Trial
  • Hudson Institute: Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
  • Danger Room: Al-Qaeda Goes Conde Nast With New Lifestyle Mag – in English
  • ALJAZEERA: Afghanistan: Funding both sides
  • Threat Level: Too Scary to Fly, Not Scary Enough to Arrest
  • WaPo: Some Afghan military officers to get training in Pakistan
  • The Atlantic: The Legacy Media And Torture
  • Wired: ACLU Study: The Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and Law Enforcement are Watching You
  • AFP: US attorney general in Kabul for corruption talks
  • AP: 8 militants killed in gun battle at Afghan airport
  • NYT: In Rewriting Its History, Iraq Treads Cautiously
  • Rolling Stone: Lara Logan, You Suck
  • LA Times: West worries China may undermine Iran sanctions efforts
  • NYT: In Ordinary Lives, U.S. Sees the Work of Russian Agents
  • Telegraph: Britain will not defeat Taliban and should open talks, says head of Army
  • Live Video: General Petraeus Confirmation Hearing
  • WSJ: Corruption Suspected in Airlift of Billions in Cash From Kabul
  • WaPo: U.S. officials say Karzai aides are derailing corruption cases involving elite
  • McClatchy: Feds won't charge Blackwater in Sudan sanctions case
  • NYT: A Year at War: One Battalion’s Wrenching Deployment to Afghanistan
  • LA Times: Germans question involvement in Afghanistan
  • Danger Room: To Reach Afghans, Pentagon Drafts Mimes, Storytellers, Wizard of Oz
  • NYT: Boss’s Firing May Result in Departures From Kabul
  • AFP: US to deploy drones to shore up border with Mexico
  • Mother Jones: McChrystal Saga Provides Cover for Another Army Scandal
  • ProPublica: Leader of Military’s Program to Treat Brain Injuries Steps Down Abruptly
  • Guardian: Ex-SAS man recruited to General Stanley McChrystal's team likely to leave with him
  • NYT: Pakistan Jails Five American Men in Terrorism Case
  • SpyTalk: CIA gives Blackwater firm new $100 million contract
  • WSJ: Petraeus to Replace McChrystal
  • MSNBC: McChrystal leaves White House after meeting
  • NYT: McChrystal’s Fate in Limbo as He Arrives at White House
  • Rolling Stone: The Runaway General
  • Reuters: U.S. indirectly funding Afghan warlords: House report
  • WaPo: Shahzad pleads guilty in failed Times Square bombing, warns of future attacks
  • AP: High court upholds anti-terror law prized by Obama
  • LA Times: Helicopter crash, bombings kill 6 Western troops in Afghanistan
  • AP: Iran bans 2 UN nuclear inspectors from entering
  • Guardian: Iraqi asylum seekers claim they were beaten on flight to Baghdad
  • AP: Iran says UN sanctions show double standard
  • NYT: Iraqi Sunni Leader and His Family Are Killed in an Ambush
  • WaPo: Pentagon to continue development of conventional weapons after ratification of START
  • Wired: Osama-Hunter Only the Latest Terror-Fightin’ Wannabe
  • VIDEO: Guardian: Gaza flotilla attack: activist releases new footage
  • AFP: Israel approves plan to ease Gaza blockade
  • BBC: EU leaders approve fresh sanctions against Iran
  • NYT: American Man in Limbo on No-Fly List
  • AP: 2 US service members killed in Afghanistan
  • Reuters: U.S. needs tougher North Korea nuclear strategy: report
  • Newsweek: Bracing for an Israeli-Iranian Faceoff in the Waters off Gaza
  • Time: Will Kyrgyzstan Violence Draw in Russia or the U.S.?
  • Wired: ‘Human Terrain’ Chief Ousted
  • WaPo: American claiming to be hunting bin Laden arrested
  • VIDEO: AP: 2 people detained with weapons at MacDill AFB
  • NYT: Setbacks Cloud U.S. Plans to Get Out of Afghanistan
  • LATIMES: At least 24 killed as gunmen storm Iraq's Central Bank
  • WaPo: U.S. adopts reintegration strategy to subdue Afghan insurgency
  • NYT: U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan
  • AP: Rights groups criticize restrictive federal prison units that they say house mostly Muslims
  • WaPo: CIA unit's wacky idea: Depict Saddam as gay
  • Guardian: Afghan president 'has lost faith in US ability to defeat Taliban'
  • Reuters: North Korea denies sinking South ship in letter to U.N.
  • NPR: Pressure Builds On Israel To Lift Gaza Blockade
  • Reuters: Obama urges Israel work with all parties on Gaza
  • LATimes: Suicide bomber kills 40 at Afghan wedding
  • CNN: Mexico asks for probe into teen's shooting death by U.S. border agent
  • AP: General: Kandahar operation will take longer
  • Wired: Military Can’t Keep Tabs on Pill-Popping Troops, Senate Says
  • WaPo: U.N. Security Council approves Iran sanctions on 12 to 2 vote
  • PBS FRONTLINE: The Wounded Platoon
  • Newsweek: Bibi Is the New Bush
  • Wired: Senate Panel Zaps Pentagon Mad-Science Agency
  • NYT: Russia, Turkey and Iran Meet, Posing Test for U.S. Diplomacy
  • MSNBC: Bomb kills 2 US troops; NATO losses at 24 for June
  • WaPo: Turkey's foreign policy moves raise concern in West and at home
  • WASHINGTON POST: At least $500 million has been spent since 9/11 on renovating Guantanamo Bay
  • NYT: Rule of the Gun — Convoy Guards in Afghanistan Face an Investigation
  • AP: N.J. Men Accused in Terror Plot Due in Court
  • AFP: Pace of US drawdown from Iraq on schedule: Pentagon
  • Guardian: Israeli PR machine won Gaza flotilla media battle
  • NYT: New Ship Heads to Gaza, and Israel Vows to Stop It
  • WaPo: U.S. 'secret war' expands globally as Special Operations forces take larger role
  • WaPo: FBI is sole Justice agency prepared for terror attack, report says
  • Obama meets with top U.S commander for Iraq
  • AP: US-Mexico Border Isn't So Dangerous
  • Militant attacks disrupt President Hamid Karzai’s peace conference in Kabul
  • AP: Bush defends waterboard Khalid Sheik Mohammed
  • NYT: U.N. Report Highly Critical of U.S. Drone Attacks
  • CNN: Another Gaza showdown is coming
  • GolbalPost: Caribbean re-emerges as a drug corridor
  • LA Times: Afghanistan peace jirga comes under attack
  • VIDEO: WaPo: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns
  • NY Times: After Israel Raids Flotilla, U.S. Is Torn Between Allies
  • WSJ: Turkey's Minister Criticizes U.S.
  • WaPo: Iraq's Sunni insurgent groups gather to plot comeback amid political crisis
  • TIME: Ft. Hood Shooting Suspect to Appear in Court
  • LA Times: Al Qaeda's No. 3 believed killed in Pakistan
  • WaPo: Okinawa Marine air base to stay
  • WaPo: Two Arab Israeli activists charged
  • WaPo: Pakistan mosques attacked
  • ABC News: Battle for Kandahar: If Afghan Gov't Doesn't Improve, 'We're Going to Lose'
  • AP: Obama's new security strategy breaks with Bush
  • AFP: US Offers Iran, North Korea "Clear Choice" Of Engagement Or Isolation
  • LA Times: Obama to send 1,200 additional National Guard troops to the border
  • NY Times: U.S. Is a Top Villain in Pakistan’s Conspiracy Talk
  • McClatchy: McChrystal calls Marjah a 'bleeding ulcer' in Afghan campaign
  • Washington Times: Obama to send troops to U.S.-Mexican border
  • ABC News: Battle for Kandahar, Heart of Taliban Country
  • NY Times: U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast
  • AP: Clinton: US, China share responsibility for Koreas
  • Reuters: Obama tells military: prepare for North Korea aggression
  • Global Post: Okinawa: The U.S. Marine base stays
  • AP: U.S. backs Seoul cutting trade with North
  • NY Times: Clinton and Geithner Face Hurdles in China Talks
  • CBS News: Cops Take Gun off JetBlue Pilot at Logan Airport
  • AP: Federal Appeals Court Bars Bagram Detainees From Civilian Trials
  • Wired: DARPA Wants Code to Spot ‘Anomalous Behavior’ on the Job
  • The Washington Post: Dennis C. Blair to resign as director of national intelligence
  • Time: Dealing With Tehran: The Return of Diplomacy
  • The Washington Post: 3 American hikers jailed in Iran meet with their mothers
  • BBC News: North Korea faces anger over sinking of South's warship
  • Anwar Al-Awlaki: An American Citizen, A CIA Target
  • Global Post: Special Report: How the White House learned to love the drone
  • NY Times: Grim Milestone: 1,000 Americans Dead
  • AP: NATO, Russia to Link Tactical Anti-Missile Systems
  • AP: Taliban attack key US base in Afghanistan
  • Washington Post: Conn. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to address Vietnam-era service
  • AP: Taliban suicide bomb hits NATO convoy, kills 18
  • NY Times: Major Powers Have a Deal on Sanctions for Iran, U.S. Says
  • Reuters India: SNAP ANALYSIS - Iran nuclear deal could put Obama in bind
  • NYT: Taliban Hold Sway in Area Taken by U.S., Farmers Say
  • Wired: Report: Secret Space Plane Likely an Orbiting Spy
  • Global Post: Is Syria arming Hezbollah with Scuds?
  • AP: Suicide car bomb kills 10 in north Iraq
  • Washington Post: Pakistan arrests man with militant ties who says he aided Times Square bomb suspect
  • McClatchy Newspapers: Pentagon rethinking value of major counterinsurgencies
  • Washington Post: Holder: Several individuals in custody following raids connected to Times Square investigation
  • LA Times: Obama may embrace plan to reconcile with Afghan Taliban
  • TIME: Karzai and Obama: Whose Strategy for Afghan Endgame?
  • LA Times: U.S. puts financial sanctions on group tied to Christmas Day bomb plot
  • Time: Israel: Iran, Syria, NKorea New 'Axis of Evil'
  • NY Times: Drone Strikes Pound West Pakistan
  • The Wall Street Journal: Karzai, Clinton Emphasize Ties
  • LA Times: Even terrorism suspects have rights
  • ABC: Bloomberg in London to study security system
  • NYT: Bloodiest Day in Iraq: 95 Killed in coordinated attacks targeting security forces