Washington DC - March 11 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced new details about the functions and objectives of USDA’s Office of Environmental Markets, now part of USDA’s Natural Resources and Environment mission area.

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Washington DC - March 10 - Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that $13.4 million will be distributed to the fish and wildlife agencies of the Midwestern states including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin to help conserve and recover imperiled fish and wildlife.

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Washington DC - March 9 -  The formation of the new Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Advisory Committee will inaugurate a new level of collaboration between the USDA Forest Service and the American people in the restoration of forested landscapes.

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Washington DC - March 9 - Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will distribute more than $76.5 million to the fish and wildlife agencies of the 50 states, commonwealths, the District of Columbia, and territories to help conserve and recover imperiled fish and wildlife.

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ashington DC - March 8 - Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the Department of Energy has offered a conditional commitment for a $72 million loan guarantee to SAGE Electrochromics,  developers of the world’s only commercially available, electronically “tintable” window glass.

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Washington DC - March 5 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking project proposals that will improve water quality and the overall health of the Mississippi River in 41 eligible watersheds in 12 states.

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Washington DC - March 5 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Department of the Interior has selected the University of Alaska as the first of eight planned regional Climate Science Centers in the nation.

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Washington DC - March 3 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will distribute more than $862 million to support hunting, sport-fishing, and fish and wildlife conservation and education programs across the country.

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Washington DC - February 25 - U.S. utilities increased their spending on energy efficiency programs by 43% in 2009, according to a new report from the nonprofit Consortium for Energy Efficiency, which represents energy efficiency program administrators from across the United States and Canada.

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Washington DC - February 23 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar signed a Secretarial order establishing a new water sustainability strategy for the United States. The “SMART” in WaterSMART stands for “Sustain and Manage America’s Resources for Tomorrow.”

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Washington DC - February 23 - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has released an action plan to guide the Obama Administration’s historic efforts to restore the Great Lakes. The  plan lays out the most urgent threats facing the Great Lakes and sets out goals over the next five years to help restore the lakes.

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Washington DC - February 17 - Fisheries biologists from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will begin intensive sampling operations in multiple locations within the Chicago Area Waterway System this week.

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Washington DC - February 10 - Federal officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Coast Guard unveiled a strategy that outlines over 25 short and long-term actions and $78.5 million in investments to combat the spread of Asian carp.

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Washington DC - January 29 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service announced the release of new satellite images depicting agricultural land cover across most of the nation for the 2009 crop year.

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Washington DC - January 19 - Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced more than $37 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support high-efficiency solid-state lighting projects, with the potential to be ten times more energy-efficient than traditional incandescent lighting.

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