Employees within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have a more realistic moniker for their agency – Everything’s Polluted Anyway, a name which explains EPA’s cautious inaction in the face of serious pollution threats.

Senate Passes Eminent Domain Prohibition Aimed at Northern Pass

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/stomach-contents-of-trophy-buck-help-convict-wyoming-poachers/article_5b60bc24-54a9-5865-bced-ef96786e3961.html

(Washington, D.C., February 16, 2012) A bird species known only from two records and thought possibly to be extinct is again making news. Scientists have announced that they have evidence -- found in the last decade but only recently confirmed -- of small numbers of Bryan’s Shearwaters on islands in Japan.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Hawaiian-monk-seal-sent-to-Waikiki-to-save-species-3333370.php

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/science/earth/in-heartland-institute-leak-a-plan-to-discredit-climate-teaching.html?pagewanted=2&emc=eta1

http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/following-the-wolf-pack/?emc=eta1

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/02/jobs_vs_environment_at_oregon.html

http://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws-cp-nasa-ceres-20120214,0,7368808.story

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Mining-firm-s-Mount-St-Helens-plan-sparks-fight-3323448.php