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• 25% of Wild Mammal Species Face Extinction
  Washington Post--At least a quarter of the world's wild mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to a comprehensive global survey released here Monday. [Read more]
• Business Cool Towards McCain's Health Coverage Plan
  NY Times--American business, typically a reliable Republican cheerleader, is decidedly lukewarm about Senator John McCain's proposal to overhaul the health care system by revamping the tax treatment of health benefits, officials with leading trade groups say. [Read more]
• Energy Lessons From the '70s
  NY Times--The presidential candidates claim to see America’s energy future, but their competing visions have a certain vintage quality. They’ve revived that classic debate: the hard path versus the soft path. [Read more]
• EPA proposal won't regulate perchlorate in drinking water
  The Sun--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it does not intend to set a national drinking-water standard for perchlorate, a common contaminant in Southern California drinking water. [Read more]
• West putting climate treaty in jeopardy, China warns
  New Scientist--Negotiations seeking a global pack to tackle global warming are troubled and could end in disastrous failure, China's top climate change envoy warns, saying rich countries are failing to deliver on promises. [Read more]
• Deal to require U.S. to designate polar bear habitat
  LA Times--Under an agreement reached with 3 conservation groups that could restrict drilling off Alaska's coast, the Interior Department has until 2010 to designate critical habitat for the threatened species. [Read more]
• Future of Giant Turtle Still Uncertain
  NY Times--Scientists trying to save one of the world’s most endangered species of freshwater turtles say waiting is their only recourse after a complicated attempt to mate two elderly turtles during this year’s breeding season ended without producing any offspring. [Read more]
• Coal and votes
  LA Times (Opinion)--Obama and McCain's embrace of coal is mostly about pandering to swing-state voters. [Read more]
• Decision on accepting Italy's nuclear waste delayed
  The Tennessean--The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Monday that it will delay a decision on whether to allow 20,000 tons of low-level nuclear waste from Italy to be shipped to Tennessee until a court case pertaining to the controversy is resolved. [Read more]
• Studies Lift Hopes for Great Lakes Wind Turbine Farms
  Washington Post--Picture 100,000 wind turbines rising from the Great Lakes off Michigan's shores, casting spinning shadows on the water and producing electricity for the entire Upper Midwest. [Read more]
• Cut the Sprawl, Cut the Warming
  NY Times (Opinion)--For years, while Washington slept, most of the serious work on climate change has occurred in the states, and no state has worked harder than California. The latest example of California’s originality is a new law — the nation’s first — intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by curbing [Read more]
• 1 American, 2 Japanese Share Nobel Physics Prize
  NY Times--An American and two Japanese physicists on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work exploring the hidden symmetries between elementary particles that are the deepest constituents of nature. [Read more]
• Why Clean Tech Is Taking Biotech's Shine
  BusinessWeek--It's simple: Alternative energy is where the venture capital is these days. Plus, the skill sets are similar, and researchers are making the jump [Read more]
• The Carbon Conundrum
  Forbes--CO2 capture and sequestration could help save the world, if anyone's got the stomach to risk it. [Read more]
• EU vote backs increase in domestic climate action
  Reuters--European Union lawmakers backed more domestic action to fight climate change, cutting import limits on carbon offsets from developing countries through 2020, in a vote on Tuesday which will carry into EU negotiations. [Read more]
• Cities aren't the only culprits in climate change
  New Scientist--CITIES are shouldering too much of the blame for heating up the planet, while the effects of deforestation, agriculture and wasteful lifestyles are not getting the attention they deserve. [Read more]
• Obama attacks McCain's healthcare proposal
  L.A. Times--It's a shift in focus after weeks sparring on the economy. McCain, preparing to debate, has no public events. [Read more]
• Bailout Provides More Mental Health Coverage
  N.Y. Times--More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses. [Read more]
• Bush signs Great Lakes Compact
  UPI--A decade-long push to protect the U.S. Great Lakes water supply came to fruition with the signing of the Great Lakes Compact, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle said. [Read more]
• Best and the Brightest
  Newseek--A Tennessee congressman says with the energy crisis we face another Sputnik moment. [Read more]
• Embryo legislation, by state
  L.A. Times--Proposed bills that would change the legal status of frozen embryos. [Read more]
• Biotechs Race for New Vaccine
  Washington Post--Developing a next-generation anthrax vaccine is not for the weak of heart --or wallet. [Read more]
• FDA Sets Safety Threshold for Contaminant Melamine
  Washington Post--The Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that consuming a very small amount of the chemical poses no serious risk. [Read more]
• Everglades restoration bogged down by poor planning
  New Scientists--Restoration of the Florida Everglades is stuck in a bureaucratic quagmire. [Read more]
• One Way Up: U.S. Space Plan Relies on Russia
  N.Y. Times--From 2010 to 2015, NASA expects to have no human flight capacity and will depend on Russia to get to the $100 billion station, buying seats on Soyuz craft as space tourists do. [Read more]