Brown pelican no longer endangered: U.S. The brown pelican, listed as an endangered species even before the 1973 U.S. Endangered Species Act existed, is officially back from the brink of extinction, the Interior Department said on Wednesday. [News Source]

US takes brown pelican off endangered species list. Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican Wednesday was taken off the endangered species list, US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said. [News Source]

Portland in potentially costly tussle with EPA over sewer plant. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning that Portland may need to spend up to $147 million more on sewage plant improvements to boost treatment of the sewage/stormwater blend and better safeguard the Columbia River. [News Source]

China confronts global warming dilemma. China awoke to climate change with a storm in late January 2008. This was the worst storm in decades--and was an illustration of what a changing climate may herald for the future. As such, it was a tipping point in the country’s environmental awareness. [News Source]

Sceptics anger Arctic scientists. As the world climate summit closes in, scientists monitoring the impact of global warming in the far north have grown frustrated by public apathy and disbelief about the extent of the problem. [News Source]

After the recession, an energy crisis could loom. To avoid an energy crisis, the IEA says the world needs to spend about $10.5 trillion in extra money from 2010 to 2030 to foster new low-carbon energy sources. Expensive, yes. But if the IEA is right, the alternative is far worse. [News Source]

New Army Corps policy forces project designers to consider rising seas. The Army Corps of Engineers must consider the effects of climate change as it draws up plans for flood control, navigation and other water projects under a new agency policy. [News Source]

Water management lessons for the world from Down Under. A decade of drought is parching landscapes, devastating farmers, killing gum trees, and forcing a new definition of conservation into the continental nation's colorful lexicon. Could Australia see a day when a bottle of water is worth more than a bottle of Shiraz? [News Source]

Gov’t takes brown pelicans off endangered list. After nearly 40 years of struggling for survival, the brown pelican is coming off the endangered species list. The pelican’s recovery is largely due to a 1972 ban on the pesticide DDT, and conservation groups' efforts to protect its nesting sites and monitor its population. [News Source]

Brown pelican no longer endangered: U.S. The brown pelican, listed as an endangered species even before the 1973 U.S. Endangered Species Act existed, is officially back from the brink of extinction, the Interior Department said on Wednesday. [News Source]

US takes brown pelican off endangered species list. Nearly 40 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction by pesticide use, habitat loss and hunting, the brown pelican Wednesday was taken off the endangered species list, US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said. [News Source]