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1. Norwell takes first step towards community farm
   Norwell - On the first night of Town Meeting – Monday, June 8 - residents supported a Community Preservation Committee Article requesting the creation of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Norwell.
   Although the measure was passed by a majority of voters, a second and separate Article, which asked that the CSA be established at 134 Main Street, on the site of the former Stone House Gardens business, was defeated after the property was called into question for contaminated soil.
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2. Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Extends Certain Conservation Reserve Program Contracts
   WASHINGTON, May 1, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) will offer certain producers the opportunity to modify and extend their Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts that are scheduled to expire on Sept. 30, 2009.
   USDA can only extend approximately 1.5 million acres out of a total 3.9 million acres expiring this year. This extension will ensure that FSA meets the statutory CRP acreage limitation of 32 million acres established in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.
   "President Obama is committed to safeguarding the nation's natural resources and this program will help protect millions of acres of American topsoil from erosion and enhance the quality of our water," said Vilsack.
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3. Libby Montana: EPA Ordered Cleanup and Intervention is Dramatic 180 Degree Turn in Policy | The Moderate Voice
   The Obama administration has a new take on the duties and budgets of the EPA, not only different, but startlingly so, from previous admins who used the stalling technique for decades to deal with citizens very real chargers re
   1. Agent Orange exposure during Nam
   2. Black Lung out of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and more
   3. Radiation exposure deaths in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona
   4. Water contamination of cadmium and other heavy minerals, Brownsville
   5. Land contamination by uranium heaps, Rocky Flats, Colorado
   6. Johns Manville, asbestos contamination
   7. Trailer industry, formaldehyde contamination
   8. Libby Montana, asbestos contamination.
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4. The future of Louisiana
   Coastal erosion causes remapping of coastline

   By Charles Nunmaker

   Louisiana is home to some of the most unique landscapes in the country. With this unique land, though, comes a great price for the residents of the state. With Lake Pontchartrain located near New Orleans, the Mississippi River flowing down through the whole state, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana is constantly threatened by rising waters.
   Louisiana is now finding itself in crisis. As hurricanes hit and global water levels continue to rise, Louisiana's wetlands and coastal areas are constantly receding and leaving the state to deal with the threat of massive land loss.
   From Hurricanes Katrina and Rita alone, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported in a release from July 2007 that the coastal water areas increased by 217 square miles. The USGS also reported that this increase in coastal water areas and eradication of coastal lands is directly caused by the removal of wetlands.
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5. Polk adopts ordinances to help preserve developed land
   When it rains, “sediment runs like blood onto neighboring land,” Walker added. She said the catastrophe served as a catalyst to the newly adopted ordinances.
   In addition, commissioners approved an Erosion and Sedimentation Control ordinance, giving the county more authority over administration and enforcement of already existing state rules pertaining to development on mountains.
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6. Erosion control recommended by commissioners

   By Joel Davis
   of The Daily Times Staff
   Originally published: June 26. 2009 3:01AM
   Last modified: June 26. 2009 12:08AM

   The Blount County Planning Commission is recommending that erosion control standards be added to the county's subdivision and zoning regulations.
   All commissioners present voted Thursday to recommend the changes that, if approved by the County Commission, would return some oversight authority to the County Stormwater Department in the non-urbanized sections of the county.
   "This puts some minimal monitoring in place without going back to the full standards we had in place that the County Commission felt uncomfortable with," Planning Commission Chairman Ed Stucky said.
   On March 19, the County Commission voted to weaken county stormwater regulations concerning grading, erosion and sedimentation. The regulations now only apply within the urban growth boundaries of Maryville and Alcoa and only require grading permits for disturbing an acre or more of land.
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7. Okaloosa County Recycling Division Hosts Recycling Demo
   Okaloosa County Recycling hosted several Florida counties for debris separator equipment demonstrations on Wednesday, June 24.
   Three companies provided demonstrations on how to extract plastic and fines (fines is a material used for top soil like in flower beds or lawns), from processed yard waste, creating compost material for reuse and oversized materials for reuse in an erosion control technology.
   GeoHay of Crestview provided samples of Erosion Control Logs they produce.
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8. The cost of lake restoration
   Our environment provides, for free, the basic elements required for life – drinkable water, eatable food and breathable air. If we disrupt these basic elements, we face an enormous cost. In 1997, Ecological economist Dr. Robert Costanza attempted to answer the question: What is our environment worth in dollars? The answer was published in the journal Nature. Costanza estimated that the biosphere provides $33 trillion worth of services on an annual basis, an amount greater than the annual gross national products (GNP) of all the world’s economies combined.
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9. Erosion control and repair for green landscaping
   Keeping water close to where it falls and letting it soak in to support natural vegetation will almost always keep erosion from getting started in the first place.
   Unprotected soil without plant cover erodes rapidly because water runs off immediately. When you see little channels called “rills” that form gullies you can be sure that these are signs that your landscaping need attention.
   To control and repair erosion on your property, always start at the ...
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10. UK launches climate manifesto
    

    Richard Van Noorden

    An international fund of US$100 billion a year will be needed by 2020 to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today.
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