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• McCain stresses energy policy, slams Obama
  McClatchy Washington Bureau-- McCain gives a speech on how energy policy is tied to national security. [Read more]
• Western governors offer greenhouse emissions plan
  AP-- Seven Western states are joining four Canadian provinces to propose a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions through use of a "cap and trade" system. [Read more]
• The American Energy Act: Supply Side Solutions
  The Heritage Foundation-- Congressman Boehner of Ohio is set to introduce The American Energy Act, which will most importantly increase America’s energy supplies. The bill calls for leasing regulations for offshore natural gas by 2010, removing restrictions for outer continental shelf drilling, and opening up sections of ANWR for drilling. [Read more]
• Sununu Pushes for Comprehensive National Energy Policy
  Politicker NH-- Senator John Sununu discusses the need for comprehensive energy reform and his plan that will effectively address our energy challenges. [Read more]
• Targeted members are on energy work-group
  The Hill-- A bipartisan group of lawmakers seeking to craft a compromise on energy legislation includes politically vulnerable members. [Read more]
• Senate GOP issues ultimatum to expand oil drilling
  The Hill-- Senate Republicans have threatened to block nearly all other bills pending before the August recess if Democrats refuse to vote with them on expanding offshore drilling. [Read more]
• Engel legislation would require timetable for flex fuel vehicles
  Mid-Hudson News-- Congressman Eliot Engel of Rockland and Westchester Tuesday introduced legislation that would require half of all cars made in America to be flexible fuel vehicles, able to run on gasoline or alcohol or a combination of both, by the year 2012 and rising to 80 percent by 2015. [Read more]
• Small businesses could gain insurance options
  The Wichita Eagle-- The U.S. House Small Business Committee on Wednesday introduced what it calls a landmark bill that would allow small businesses to form cooperatives to purchase health insurance. [Read more]
• House Passes Air Safety Bill To Limit FAA, Industry Ties
  Washington Post-- The House has passed legislation aimed at preventing the FAA from having too warm of a relationship with the airline industry. [Read more]
• Lawmakers greet Grate Lakes bill with fanfare
  Fond du Lac Reporter-- Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Capitol Hill lawmakers held a bipartisan pep rally for the Great Lakes Compact which would protect the Great Lakes watershed from major withdrawals of water that could be sent outside the region. [Read more]
• US-India nuclear deal moves forward
  Nature News-- A deal for nuclear cooperation between the United States and India is back on track after a crucial vote yesterday in India's parliament. [Read more]
• F.D.A. Urges Genetic Test Before Giving AIDS Drug
  N.Y. Times-- Seeking to prevent life-threatening side effects, the FDA is urging doctors to use a genetic test to screen patients before prescribing a drug widely used for H.I.V. infection and AIDS. [Read more]
• Salmonella Outbreak Exposes Food-Safety Flaws
  Wall Street Journal-- The twisting road that led federal investigators to announce Monday that they found a single contaminated jalapeño pepper grown in Mexico and sitting at a distribution center in McAllen, Texas -- the smoking gun in the continuing salmonella outbreak long blamed on tomatoes -- has exposed problems in the U.S. food-safety system. [Read more]
• OMB's high-risk list drops slightly
  FCW-- As the Bush administration winds down, the Office of Management and Budget is making plans to persuade the incoming administration to maintain the management watch list and high-risk list for information technology projects. [Read more]
• Gulf "Dead Zone" Threatens Ocean Life
  CBS News-- A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned. [Read more]
• The Carbon Curtain
  Forbes-- What we really need from the climate modelers is an accurate 50-year projection of global politics. Will people believe the computer's dire prophecy enough to change their lifestyles? [Read more]
• Corporate America: We Want Climate Action, Just Not Sure How
  Wall Street Journal-- Big U.S. companies obviously want a seat at the table when it’s time to draw up America’s plan to fight climate change. [Read more]
• Think tank reveals plan to manage tropical forests
  Nature News-- A high-profile group of thinkers has come up with a straightforward way to integrate long-term forest management into an international agreement on halting deforestation. [Read more]
• China: Stoking the fire
  Nature News-- China burns more coal than any other country; how it does so in the future will determine our planet's climate. [Read more]
• Renewables mandate 'undermined'
  BBC-- The UK's business department, BERR, has been accused of trying to sabotage Europe's rules on renewable energy. [Read more]
• Solar power from Saharan sun could provide Europe's electricity, says EU
  Guardian-- A tiny rectangle superimposed on the vast expanse of the Sahara captures the seductive appeal of the audacious plan to cut Europe's carbon emissions by harnessing the fierce power of the desert sun. [Read more]
• Nanotech grows up, but is it safe?
  Medill Reports-- Products made using nano-particles are already part of our lives. But the growth of this new industry has some scientists worried that the minuscule particles may be carrying health and safety risks, particularly since many come from toxic materials. [Read more]
• High-Stakes Race to Unlock a Wider Web
  Washington Post-- The nation's top technology companies have spent millions of dollars and nearly two years building devices, poring over laptops and working in federal labs trying to come up with a new way of providing high-speed Internet to bandwidth-hungry cities as well as hard-to-reach rural regions. [Read more]
• Tennessee to help build biofuel plant
  The Tennessean-- A pilot project of the University of Tennessee and a private company to create ethanol from switchgrass could begin producing biofuel by next year, a fledgling effort that leaders hope will make the state a leader in alternative fuel production. [Read more]
• It's not politics stalling oil shale
  Denver Post-- For decades, oil shale has been promised as the answer to our energy needs. Once the price of oil got too high, many figured it would finally be financially feasible to go after oil shale, one of the largest untapped sources of energy in the U.S. Yet after all of these years, there's [Read more]