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"Rainbow Trout Rebound in Renowned River"

"Rainbow trout are rebounding in the Madison River, the world-class fishing stream where Montana's first known outbreak of whirling disease occurred about 15 years ago, devastating the rainbow fishery."
Source: AP, 07/21/2009

"Nestlé: Draining America Bottle By Bottle"

"It takes a smart and politically well-connected company like Nestlé to get a drought-stricken state like Florida to give it tens of millions of dollars worth of water to resell at enormous profits to its neighbors in states like the Carolinas and Georgia."
Source: NRNS/Washington Bureau, 07/21/2009

"Ban Set on Mining Claims Adjacent to Grand Canyon"

"In a modest victory for environmentalists, the Obama administration said Monday that it was designating nearly one million acres of Arizona land near the Grand Canyon off limits to new uranium mining claims for two years."
Source: NYTimes, 07/21/2009

"Genetically Engineered Corn Causes Concern"

The agricultural giant, Syngenta, has petitioned the USDA to grant its new genetically modified corn a non-regulated status. Some experts fear that the strain, meant solely for producing ethanol, could end up in the food supply.
Source: Living on Earth, 07/20/2009

"Outbreak of Fungus Threatens Tomato Crop"

"A highly contagious fungus that destroys tomato plants has quickly spread to nearly every state in the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic, and the weather over the next week may determine whether the outbreak abates or whether tomato crops are ruined."
Source: NYTimes, 07/20/2009

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