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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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 - Scientists from the NOAA-funded Gulf of Maine Toxicity project issued an outlook for a significant regional bloom of a toxic alga that causes ‘red tides’ in the spring and summer of this year, potentially threatening the New England shellfish industry.

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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 5 - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced a request for project proposals to protect, restore and enhance Great Lakes fish habitat under the Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat Partnership.

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Washington DC - December 31 - A judge halted construction of a primate-breeding facility in the Puerto Rican town of Guayama that has raised serious health and environmental concerns among local residents.

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Washington DC - December 30 - The National Saltwater Angler Registry will provide a comprehensive list of the nation’s saltwater anglers that will be used to improve surveys of fishermen to assess the health of fish stocks and to estimate the economic contributions of anglers.

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Washington DC - December 30 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the award of $19.2 million to support 25 conservation projects benefiting fish and wildlife on more than 6,100 acres of coastal habitat in 11 states through the 2010 National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program.

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