http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/washington/19cnd-energy.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
In Bali, the US finally agreed to consider working with the rest of the world on planning how to curb greenhouse-gas emissions…provided definitive cuts aren’t in the deal. (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/15/bali.agreement/#cnnSTCText
A government plan long (and quietly) in the making would pipe large amounts of water from a Mississippi river to hollow out a salt dome for storing oil, then send the very salty water to the Gulf of Mexico via lots of pipes through wetlands. This is touted as a job-creator, but certain people have a problem with it. (Mississippi Sun-Herald)
http://www.sunherald.com/278/story/220497.html
The newly-resumed Japanese humpback-whale hunt has been suspended for the next year or so under pressure from the International Whaling Commission (Associated Press)
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/japan-suspends-humpback-whale-hunt/20071221082509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
By a new law, Washington State denied a utility company permission to build a coal-gasification power plant until it can store the resulting carbon underground [though some say such sequestration doesn’t work]. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/341387_coalplant28.html
New York Times
California and other states hoping to set their own, stricter, car-emission standards were denied permission...by the EPA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/washington/20epa.html?ref=science
In Canada, sea lice infestations in aquaculture pens are indicated as a major threat to juvenile wild salmon nearby.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/science/earth/14salmon.html?ref=science
Elk populations in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park are deemed overpopulated and will be systematically culled annually, starting next year, until stabilized. (Legalized hunting and wolf reintroduction were considered and discarded).
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/us/16elk.html?ref=science
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