Environment Management Newsletter
December 23, 2009

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Copenhagen ends, finger-pointing begins
The patient may not have quite died, but the inquest is already under way. The Copenhagen Summit formally closed on Saturday, immediately sparking off a round of bitter recriminations over who was to blame for the failure to deliver a more ambitious agreement.  A number of developing economies joined with industrialised nations to criticise a small group of nations, made up of Sudan, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Cuba, for refusing to recognise the agreement that had been brokered late on Friday by the US, China and other large emerging economies.  Amid increasingly bad tempered ...
EPA releases first-ever baseline study of US lakes
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released its most comprehensive study of the nation’s lakes to date. The draft study, which rated the condition of 56 percent of the lakes in the United States as good and the remainder as fair or poor, marked the first time EPA and its partners used a nationally consistent approach to survey the ecological and water quality of lakes. A total of 1,028 lakes were randomly sampled during 2007 by states, tribes and EPA. “This survey serves as a first step in evaluating the success of efforts to protect, preserve, and restore the quality of our nation’s ...
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