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<item><title><![CDATA[ Gore Delivers a Boost -- To Obama and a Pet Cause ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082900108.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082900108.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER, Aug. 28 -- In the past three decades, Al Gore has come to the Democratic National Convention in many roles -- as an ambitious young senator, a vice presidential candidate, a vice president and a presidential nominee. On the last night of the 2008 convention, he came as a Nobel Prize-winning proselytizer against the perils of climate change, linking Barack Obama's candidacy to his own cause of the past decade. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alec MacGillis]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delivers]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boost]]></category><category><![CDATA[--]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cause]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Plouffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Feldman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Browner]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[Invesco Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monica Lewinsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Schools Set Sights On Truants ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082701929.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082701929.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Now that Prince George's County schools are back in session, the Board of Education is taking aim at one of the district's most serious problems: truancy. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nelson Hernandez]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category><category><![CDATA[Set]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sights]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Truants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat Fletcher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Kelley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosalind Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Deasy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beltsville]]></category><category><![CDATA[College Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vansville]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Green Building Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vansville Elementary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Largo (Maryland)]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Scientists Report Further Shrinking of Arctic Ice ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603014.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603014.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Arctic sea ice has shrunk to the second-lowest level since record-keeping began three decades ago, a group of international researchers determined yesterday, a revelation underscoring how rapidly climate change is transforming ecosystems in northern latitudes. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Scientists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Report]]></category><category><![CDATA[Further]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shrinking]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julienne Stroeve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Margaret Williams]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chukchi Sea]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Wide Fund for Nature]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dirk A. Kempthorne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melanie Duchin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beaufort Sea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greenpeace International]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Arctic Research Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laptev Sea]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Snow and Ice Data Center]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Power-Sector Emissions Of China To Top U.S. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603096.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/26/AR2008082603096.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The carbon emissions of China's electric power sector will jump by about a third this year and surpass the total emissions of the U.S. electric power industry for the first time, according to a report by the Center for Global Development, a Washington-based think tank.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925642991" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925642991" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Mufson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Power-Sector]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emissions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Top]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Ting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Global Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Ummel]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Wheeler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Li Peng]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Huaneng Power International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eskom Holdings Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southern Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Whale-Protection Cuts Sought ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502224.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502224.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration yesterday proposed scaling back protected zones for endangered whales in the Atlantic Ocean, yielding to cargo companies' concerns about new speed limits for ships in these areas. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David A. Fahrenthold]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Whale-Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sought]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anson Franklin]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cape Cod]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Knowlton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brunswick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conrad Lautenbacher]]></category><category><![CDATA[New England Aquarium]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Shipping Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pacific Regions Considered for Protections ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082501978.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082501978.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 25 -- President Bush announced Monday that three isolated stretches of the Pacific Ocean are under consideration for national monument status, a designation that could provide vast new protections for the regions' fragile coral reefs, seabirds and ocean creatures. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rosalind S. Helderman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pacific]]></category><category><![CDATA[Regions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Considered]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Protections]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joshua S. Reichert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Mariana Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaiian Islands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mariana Trench]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pacific Ocean]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grand Canyon National Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yellowstone National Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Samoa]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Wind Power's Energetic Fans ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103434.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103434.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After years of battling the owners of the massive coal-fired power plant near his Charles County home, Ken Robinson decided that he wanted to reduce his dependence on their electricity. Now, he's taking a most unusual step. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Megan Greenwell]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Wind]]></category><category><![CDATA[Power's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energetic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Robinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mirant Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fernandez Bueno]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Dylan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carroll County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Mercurio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morgantown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheryl Elliott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Dennison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Potomac River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Swan Point Property Owners Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bloomberg Calls for Alternative Energy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003663.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003663.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK -- Outlining his vision for a dramatic reconfiguration of urban energy sources, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg says he is exploring potential for installing turbines and other alternative energy generators throughout New York City, in the water and on bridges and skyscrapers.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925643417" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925643417" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robin Shulman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Calls]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alternative]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gallagher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johanna Partin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roosevelt Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston Logan International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brooklyn Navy Yard]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Attorney General Announces Suit to Enforce Cleanup ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081902625.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081902625.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Maryland attorney general announced plans yesterday to sue the Army to enforce a federal environmental order to clean up pollution at Fort Meade. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Wan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Attorney]]></category><category><![CDATA[General]]></category><category><![CDATA[Announces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suit]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enforce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleanup]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fort Meade]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Gansler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Austin Schlick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tad Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Redstone Arsenal]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Defense]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Field Studies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081900599.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081900599.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ This Sunday, 80 Yale University freshmen will take their first step toward higher education. But there'll be no reading list or, for that matter, showers. On the syllabus: digging up carrots, picking tomatoes and building chicken coops. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Black]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carolyn de la Pena]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warren Belasco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of New Hampshire]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kris Baxivanos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Waters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Winans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Schlosser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melissa Caldwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Pollan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morgan Spurlock]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Reichl]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephanie Hartman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Catholic University of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gourmet Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slow Food's University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Santa Cruz]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland, Baltimore County]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Anti-Regulation Aide to Cheney Is Up for Energy Post ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081801994.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081801994.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A senior aide to Vice President Cheney is the leading contender to become a top official at the Energy Department, according to several current and former administration officials, a promotion that would put one of the administration's most ardent opponents of environmental regulation in charge of forming department policies on climate change. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Anti-Regulation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aide]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Post]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spencer Abraham]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason K. Burnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Francesca Grifo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lea Anne McBride]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Knowlton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duval County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juleanna R. Glover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Fredriksen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bush-Cheney 2000 Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[New England Aquarium]]></category><category><![CDATA[Royal Dutch Shell plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union of Concerned Scientists]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Renewable Power's Growth in Colorado Presages National Debate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081702193.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081702193.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ DENVER -- When Colorado voters were deciding whether to require that 10 percent of the state's electricity come from renewable fuels, the state's largest utility fought the proposal, warning that any shift from coal and natural gas would be costly, uncertain and unwise.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925647855" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925647855" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Slevin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Renewable]]></category><category><![CDATA[Power's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Presages]]></category><category><![CDATA[National]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Prager]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Ritter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Collins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Madden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Nielsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Edison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Plant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado Public Utilities Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[ConocoPhillips Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gas Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Renewable Energy Laboratory]]></category><category><![CDATA[Xcel Energy Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Luis Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Potential for Conflict Grows With Government's Use of Contractors ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081702013.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081702013.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For years, Science Applications International Corp. served as an adviser to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the development of rules for when radioactive materials could be released from nuclear facilities for recycling. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert O'Harrow Jr.]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Potential]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grows]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Government's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Contractors]]></category><category><![CDATA[SAIC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Tiefer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Guttman]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association of Radioactive Metal Recyclers]]></category><category><![CDATA[British Nuclear Fuels plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johns Hopkins University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Pentagon]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Baltimore School of Law]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ IOC to Keep Air-Quality Numbers Under Wraps ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502338.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081502338.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, Aug. 15 -- The International Olympic Committee will not publish the air-quality data it receives during the Summer Games after reaching an agreement with Chinese authorities. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Shipley]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[IOC]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keep]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air-Quality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Numbers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Under]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wraps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arne Ljungqvist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jacques Rogge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kenneth Fitch]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Health Organization]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Effects of Beijing's Pollution Are Seen As Hazy by Experts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503396.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503396.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the Olympic Games move outdoors in earnest with the start of the track and field and triathlon events, the question in the air is whether the air will make a difference. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Brown]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Effects]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seen]]></category><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hazy]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[Experts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[David B. Peden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giuseppe Lippi]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greg Whyte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[British Broadcasting Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nature Publishing Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olympic Green]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Verona]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Health Organization]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Going Solar Goes Mainstream ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081501916.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081501916.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Nancy Elam and Dave Levinson didn't intend to become human guinea pigs. They just needed a new roof.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925648223" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925648223" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Sowers]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Going]]></category><category><![CDATA[Solar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Goes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mainstream]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lisa Swanson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Wurtz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ajay Chitnis]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Peabody]]></category><category><![CDATA[District's Department of the Environment]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Levinson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Elam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Reinhardt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Loosle-Ortega]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Koester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harford County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janet Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karen Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reinhardt Architects]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rockville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Friendship Heights]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[BlackBerry Mobile Devices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Traditional Energy's Modern Boom ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403321.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081403321.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ AMWELL, Pa. -- The guys on the derrick, filthy with mud and grease, have the best view in the county. Their drilling rig rises from a bulldozed, flattened patch of meadow near the top of a hill. To the south is an old farmhouse and a white barn. Hay bales dry in the sun. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Achenbach]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Traditional]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Modern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcellus Shale]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nathaniel Keohane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Rupert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Huber]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Drake]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Lash]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oil City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Nida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rodney Waller]]></category><category><![CDATA[T. Boone Pickens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Sarkus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Titusville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elbert Hubbard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Environmental Defense Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foundation Coal Holdings Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[State University of New York at Fredonia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Edison]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appalachia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 'Dead Zones' Appear In Waters Worldwide ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401910.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401910.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the latest sign of trouble in the planet's chemistry, the number of oxygen-starved "dead zones" in coastal waters around the world has roughly doubled every decade since the 1960s, killing fish, crabs and massive amounts of marine life at the base of the food chain, according to a study released yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Achenbach]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA['Dead]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zones']]></category><category><![CDATA[Appear]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worldwide]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Diaz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas N. Rader]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremy Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rutger Rosenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltic Sea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Environmental Defense Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gothenburg University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hudson River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Erie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Long Island Sound]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Academy of Sciences]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puget Sound]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scripps Institution of Oceanography]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Institute of Marine Science]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida Keys]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Endangered Species Act Changes Give Agencies More Say ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102299.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102299.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration yesterday proposed a regulatory overhaul of the Endangered Species Act to allow federal agencies to decide whether protected species would be imperiled by agency projects, eliminating the independent scientific reviews that have been required for more than three decades. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Endangered]]></category><category><![CDATA[Species]]></category><category><![CDATA[Act]]></category><category><![CDATA[Changes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Give]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agencies]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Say]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Sweet Ride? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081101323.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081101323.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Having just reentered the world of car ownership a week ago, I read with some amusement about how Terry Box revels in driving his '07 Mustang Shelby GT despite its obvious contribution to global warming. Faced with a middle-aged man's car fetish in all of its glory, I had one basic thought: Get over it.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925648591" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925648591" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sweet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ride?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry Box]]></category><category><![CDATA[MINI Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Mustang]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adams Morgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missoula]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reid Ewing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honda Civic]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Center for Smart Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C. Metro Area]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Honda Motor Co. Ltd.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Snake's Impact on Guam Appears to Extend to Flora ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/10/AR2008081001798.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/10/AR2008081001798.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the most infamous examples of what can happen when a nonnative species is introduced into a new environment involves the brown tree snake -- a voracious, semi-venomous species that in less than 50 years all but destroyed bird life on the northern Pacific island of Guam. Introduced inadvertently from the South Pacific just after World War II, apparently on a cargo ship, the snake has killed off 10 bird species on the island and is in the process of wiping out the remaining two. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marc Kaufman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Snake's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Impact]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Appears]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Extend]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flora]]></category><category><![CDATA[Haldre Rogers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saipan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory Butcher]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Audubon Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Ecological Society of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Geological Survey]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Pacific]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Strong Energy Measures Wanted ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080901556.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080901556.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A new national poll shows broad public support for government action in the face of $4-a-gallon gas and other energy concerns, giving Republicans a rare opening to go on the offensive against congressional Democrats and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Cohen and Paul Kane]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Strong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Measures]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wanted]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Roe]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Spectacular Opening to the 29th Olympiad ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080801134.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080801134.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, Aug. 9 -- They did it. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Cody, Maureen Fan and Jill Drew]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spectacular]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opening]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[29th]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olympiad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Athens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carmelo Anthony]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kobe Bryant]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adam Duvendeck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hu Jintao]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jacques Rogge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Stribling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Li Ning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oakland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Menard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Santa Barbara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sydney (Australia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Torino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zhang Yimou]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zhu Dake]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Shipley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Abramowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air China Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver Nuggets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japanese Transport Ministry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Lakers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ming Pao Enterprise Corporation Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Northwest Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Pacific Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Western Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders]]></category><category><![CDATA[Students for a Free Tibet]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turkestan Islamic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Welcoming Wildlife to Your Garden ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080801886.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080801886.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A young bunny munching on grass is barely aware of the audience he attracts while he eats lunch.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925648979" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925648979" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathy Van Mullekom]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Welcoming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wildlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Your]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denise Greene]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gloucester]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Clayton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Busch Entertainment Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Busch Gardens Williamsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Wildlife Federation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Native Plant Society]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ EPA Denies Texas Temporary Easing Of Ethanol Rules ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080702758.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080702758.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday denied a request by Texas to temporarily cut federal ethanol requirements for the nation's fuel supply, saying the state had not proved that the recent rise in corn prices is severely hurting its economy. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Temporary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Easing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ethanol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Schubert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Environmental Working Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Renewable Fuels Association]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Concerns, Questions Hang in The Air ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703549.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/07/AR2008080703549.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, Aug. 8 -- Chinese organizers hope to unveil one of the most spectacular Olympic parks in history during Friday night's Opening Ceremonies, with its red-glowing National Stadium, shimmering swimming venue, rainbow-lit pavements and blushing light poles. But athletes, organizers and denizens of Beijing awoke hours before to a haze so thick venues could not be seen from less than a half mile away. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Shipley]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Concerns,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Questions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hang]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Roush]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Athens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jacques Rogge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barcelona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drew Ginn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erinn Smart]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seoul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sydney (Australia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zhang Heping]]></category><category><![CDATA[China's Ministry of Environmental Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Xinhua News Agency]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Cleanup Effort, Beijing Moved Factories to Clog Air Elsewhere ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080602871.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080602871.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TANGSHAN, China -- Seven years ago, when Beijing won the privilege of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, the Chinese capital promised to fix its environmental problems. Among the toughest measures it took was to eliminate hundreds of highly polluting factories. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariana Eunjung Cha]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleanup]]></category><category><![CDATA[Effort,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moved]]></category><category><![CDATA[Factories]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clog]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elsewhere]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tangshan]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hebei Province]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crissie Ding]]></category><category><![CDATA[Li Zunhua]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liu Yue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wu Meng]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zhang Xiuping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tiananmen Square]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Geoffrey Ballard, 76; Developed Hydrogen Fuel Cells ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603760.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603760.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Geoffrey Ballard risked bankruptcy and his professional reputation to get the internal combustion engine off the streets and its smog out of the skies.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925649712" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925649712" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Sullivan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Geoffrey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballard,]]></category><category><![CDATA[76;]]></category><category><![CDATA[Developed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hydrogen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fuel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cells]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What the World Is Coming To ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080602941.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080602941.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ THE DOMINANT ANIMAL ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Ruse]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[World]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coming]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne H. Ehrlich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul R. Ehrlich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Cyclists Apologize For Wearing Masks ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603829.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603829.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, Aug. 6 -- Four U.S. cyclists who were photographed wearing anti-pollution masks while arriving at Beijing International Airport on Tuesday offered a joint statement of apology Wednesday to organizers and the Chinese people. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Shipley]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Cyclists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Apologize]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wearing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Masks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Scherr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Ueberroth]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobby Lea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennie Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Friedman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Hammer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Roush]]></category><category><![CDATA[China's Ministry of Environmental Protection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reuters Group plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama Urges Opening Up Oil Reserves ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080400477.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080400477.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LANSING, Mich., Aug. 4 -- Sen. Barack Obama called Monday for using oil from the nation's strategic reserves to lower gasoline prices, the second time in less than a week that he has modified a position on energy issues, as he and Sen. John McCain seek to find solutions to a topic that is increasingly dominating the presidential race. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael D. Shear]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opening]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reserves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucker Bounds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Friends of the Earth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montana]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Clouded Issue ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080402108.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/04/AR2008080402108.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, Aug. 4 -- When Olympic athletes threw open the curtains of their Olympic Village dormitory rooms Monday, they were surprised to find that the blue skies that had brightened the city during the weekend had turned milky white. A thick haze obscured nearby buildings and blotted out distant ones.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925652534" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925652534" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy Shipley]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clouded]]></category><category><![CDATA[Issue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Coates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ryan Lochte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing Normal University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Schacht]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dalian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erin Smart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natalie Cook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randy Wilber]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reid Priddy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tianjin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Australian Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Olympic Committee for U.S. Olympians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hebei Province]]></category><category><![CDATA[Komatsu Ltd.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Senate Passes Bill That Would Protect Great Lakes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR2008080201389.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR2008080201389.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CHICAGO -- Efforts to protect the Great Lakes from those who may covet their vast quantities of water for an increasingly thirsty world took a major step forward Friday as the Senate passed legislation endorsing the Great Lakes Basin Compact. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kari Lydersen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Passes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Would]]></category><category><![CDATA[Protect]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lakes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cameron Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bart Stupak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andy Buchsbaum]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rahm Emanuel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southwest (Washington, DC)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Basin Water Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mississippi River]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Wildlife Federation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natural Resources Defense Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Lawrence River]]></category><category><![CDATA[St. Lawrence Seaway]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Notre Dame]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama Says Energy Compromise Is Necessary ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR2008080201538.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/02/AR2008080201538.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TITUSVILLE, Fla., Aug. 2 -- Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday said a shift in his stance on offshore oil drilling is a necessary compromise with Republicans to gain their support for his broader goals of energy independence. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Weisman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Compromise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Necessary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel J. Weiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tucker Bounds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for American Progress Action Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Congress Adjourns Without Action on Energy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080101183.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080101183.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After two months of fever-pitch debate over how to deal with the soaring price of oil, Congress left town yesterday without doing anything on energy. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Mufson and Paul Kane]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adjourns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Without]]></category><category><![CDATA[Action]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steny Hoyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory Wetstone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mel Martinez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Red Cavaney]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Petroleum Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Wind Energy Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for American Progress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commodity Futures Trading Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ If That Doesn't Clear the Air . . . ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/31/AR2008073101251.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/31/AR2008073101251.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, July 31 -- Eight days before the 2008 Summer Olympics kick off in Beijing, the city's air quality is still so unpredictable that officials were forced Thursday to announce emergency contingency plans.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925652859" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925652859" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maureen Fan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[If]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doesn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clear]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Air]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tianjin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hebei Province]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zhu Tong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing University]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Health Organization]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Harold Green; Drafted Oppenheimer Disloyalty Charges ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080100144.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080100144.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Harold P. Green, 86, who drafted disloyalty charges against controversial Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer and then resigned over the Atomic Energy Commission's handling of the case, died of congestive heart failure July 19 at the Life Care Center of Evergreen, Colo. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Sullivan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Harold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Green;]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drafted]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oppenheimer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Disloyalty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charges]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Drop In for Some Hold-Your-Nose Fun ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/31/AR2008073100717.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/31/AR2008073100717.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Explaining that giant garbage trucks take your trash to the dump: not so hard. Explaining what happens to cans and bottles once they're hauled away from the curb: better to show while you tell. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Seiler Neary]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Drop]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hold-Your-Nose]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fun]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ IOC Allows China To Limit Reporters' Access to Internet ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073000747.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073000747.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, July 30 -- The International Olympic Committee and the Chinese government acknowledged Wednesday that reporters covering the Olympics will be blocked from accessing Internet sites that Chinese authorities consider politically sensitive. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward Cody]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[IOC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allows]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Limit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reporters']]></category><category><![CDATA[Access]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amnesty International]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dennis Wilder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevan Gosper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Allison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Eggen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jill Drew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing International Media Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[British Broadcasting Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Communist Party of China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Main Press Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reporters Without Borders]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wikimedia Foundation Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ College Greening ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073000897.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073000897.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The greening of the dorm room is underway. As college students move into their new homes in the coming weeks, they'll be mixing organic cotton towels and abaca fiber hampers with the usual plastic shower caddies and guitars.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925653200" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925653200" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jura Koncius]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greening]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nebraska Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[American University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craigslist Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northeastern University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Can Chefs Cozy Up to Frozen Fish? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072900707.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072900707.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In this era of globalization, restaurant menus from New York to San Francisco boast fresh fish with distant origins: blackfin tuna from Tobago, mahi-mahi from Hawaii and black grouper from the Bahamas. But a group of chefs and food service vendors (aware that such jet-setting comes at a heavy environmental cost) is promoting a radical shift in practice: Increase the amount of fish that is frozen at sea so it can be transported by ship or truck instead. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Can]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chefs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cozy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frozen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fish?]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Katz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Monterey Bay Aquarium]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barton Seaver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleveland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helene York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Pahk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trinidad and Tobago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alton Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Andrew Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bahamas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cape May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dallas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fedele Bauccio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silverado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bon Appetit Management Co. Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Television Food Network, G.P.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Central America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Napa Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ EPA Managers Warned Not to Answer Inquiries ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/28/AR2008072801198.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/28/AR2008072801198.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A senior official in the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement office has warned managers they should direct inquiries from reporters, congressional investigators and the agency's inspector general to designated officials rather than answering the questions themselves, according to an e-mail obtained by The Washington Post. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Managers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warned]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Answer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inquiries]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robbi Farrell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Francesca Grifo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roxanne Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union of Concerned Scientists]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ About That Clean, Fresh Scent . . . ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502684.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072502684.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The fumes that waft from top-selling air fresheners and laundry products contain dozens of chemicals, including several classified as toxic or hazardous, according to a recent University of Washington study. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sandi Doughton]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[About]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clean,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fresh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scent]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Steinemann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Gilbert]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathy Cook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lance Wallace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fragrance Materials Association of the United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Research Institute for Fragrance Materials]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Slow to Wave 'Green' Flag ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601737.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601737.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Indianapolis Motor Speedway hosts the biggest race-day crowd in the country twice each year, but the giant oval was built in 1909 as a testing ground for automobile manufacturers.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925653847" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925653847" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Clarke]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Slow]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wave]]></category><category><![CDATA['Green']]></category><category><![CDATA[Flag]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASCAR]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ray Evernham]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianapolis Motor Speedway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sunoco Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Yates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kyle Busch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Concord (North Carolina)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evan Bayh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmie Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Thune]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Harvick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Le Mans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marcus Jadotte]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Fisher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Atherton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brickyard 400]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chevrolet Corvette]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[General Motors Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gillett Evernham Motorsports]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianapolis 500]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indy Racing League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASCAR Nationwide Series]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASCAR's Research and Development Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Kroger Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Air Pollution Worsens After Controls Kick In ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072501238.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/25/AR2008072501238.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, July 25 -- Beijing's air pollution index rose steadily this week at the same time the city has tried to cut traffic volume in half. Readings Thursday and Friday were over 100 and considered unhealthy for children, seniors and those with allergies or asthma. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maureen Fan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Air]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category><category><![CDATA[Worsens]]></category><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[Controls]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kick]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Du Shaozhong]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Olympic Committee]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Surprise Move, EPA Bans Carbofuran Residue on Food ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403495.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403495.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that it will no longer allow residue of the toxic pesticide carbofuran on domestic or imported food, a decision that would effectively remove the chemical from the U.S. market. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Surprise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Move,]]></category><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carbofuran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Residue]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Fitzwater]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Gulliford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Bradbury]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natural Resources Defense Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Fry]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Bird Conservancy]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ What Makes Northern Lights Dance ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072402620.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072402620.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The mysterious sudden brightening and wavelike movements of the aurora borealis, also called the Northern Lights, are caused by periodic explosions of magnetic energy 80,000 miles above Earth, NASA researchers reported. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marc Kaufman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[What]]></category><category><![CDATA[Makes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Sibeck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASA Goddard Space Flight Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of California-Los Angeles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ EPA E-Mail Concluded Global Warming Endangers Public Health, Senator Says ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403423.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/24/AR2008072403423.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Under a subpoena threat from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Environmental Protection Agency late Wednesday sent the panel a copy of its Dec. 5 proposal to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act -- as a brief loan.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925656835" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925656835" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[E-Mail]]></category><category><![CDATA[Concluded]]></category><category><![CDATA[Global]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Endangers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public]]></category><category><![CDATA[Health,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senator]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Shradar]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ben Cardin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pedaling the Local Food Movement ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072301013.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR2008072301013.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Where do gardening, small-scale agriculture and the future of planet Earth converge? For three Washington women, it's on a road less traveled, on byways unseen from the gotta-get-there, high-speed chaos of the interstate. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrian Higgins]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pedaling]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Local]]></category><category><![CDATA[Food]]></category><category><![CDATA[Movement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kat Shiffler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lara Sheets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liz Tylander]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montreal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mount Pleasant]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marion Nestle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Trubek]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill McKibben]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michel Wattiaux]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Princeton (New Jersey)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodley Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[American University]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Madison University]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York University]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Vermont]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verrazano Narrows Bridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hudson Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[New England States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Ex-EPA Official Says White House Pulled Rank ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202683.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202683.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A former Environmental Protection Agency official yesterday contradicted EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson's congressional testimony on one of the administration's key global warming decisions, saying the White House ordered Johnson to block California's bid to regulate vehicles' tailpipe emissions. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Ex-EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Official]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[White]]></category><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pulled]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rank]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason K. Burnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Shradar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey R. Holmstead]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rudolph Giuliani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[EPA Office of Air and Radiation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ India's Government Wins Parliament Confidence Vote ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072200161.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072200161.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW DELHI, July 22 -- The Indian government survived a crucial vote of confidence Tuesday, clearing the way for the contentious nuclear energy deal with the United States, after a debate peppered with dramatic allegations of backroom lobbying and bribery. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rama Lakshmi and Emily Wax]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[India's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Government]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Parliament]]></category><category><![CDATA[Confidence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bharatiya Janata Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manmohan Singh]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Delhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Atomic Energy Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brinda Karat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rahul Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shahnawaz Hussain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon Squassoni]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ved Prakash]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]></category><category><![CDATA[Communist Party of India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute of Security Studies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nuclear Suppliers Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Congress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Medicine Gears Up for a Code Green ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802755.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802755.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tossing out everything from plastic bandages and cotton swabs to hospital robes after a single use, the U.S. medical industry generates more than 2 million tons of waste per year, environmental advocates say. Some of that waste makes its way to incinerators and, when burned, releases dioxin, mercury and other toxins.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925701977" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925701977" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Minnema]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gears]]></category><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Code]]></category><category><![CDATA[Green]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Sattler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy Kilgore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Niyati Desai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ravindra Gupta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stacy Malkan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Environmental Health Education Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Going Green Committee for the Inova Health System]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inova Fairfax Hospital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teleosis Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Clorox Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Green Building Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Wellness Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Warming Alters Predator-Prey Balance ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001591.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072001591.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ISLE ROYALE, Mich. -- For six decades since they loped across frozen Lake Superior to reach this rocky island, wolves have roamed 45-mile-long Isle Royale, the nation's least-visited national park. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kari Lydersen]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Warming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Predator-Prey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Vucetich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rolf Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Park Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Durward Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lake Superior]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan Technological University]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Science Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Purdue University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Fresh Face For the Olympics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072000257.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/20/AR2008072000257.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIJING, July 20 -- Beijing, a city of 16 million that never seems to stop, slowed down Sunday and in some ways was unrecognizable. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Maureen Fan]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fresh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Face]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Green Becomes Official Color of Baseball ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901578.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901578.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK -- When baseball's legendary greats came rolling up Sixth Avenue this month for the annual Hall of Fame parade, the familiar red carpet was distinctly green. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Keith B. Richburg]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Green]]></category><category><![CDATA[Becomes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Official]]></category><category><![CDATA[Color]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allen Hershkowitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cincinnati Reds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Declan Mullin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[National League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[NL Central Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natural Resources Defense Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nationals Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pittsburgh Pirates]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lauren Connelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minneapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[AL West Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[American League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Houston Rockets]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Basketball Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Southwest Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBA Western Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC South Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia Eagles]]></category><category><![CDATA[PNC Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle Mariners]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Green Building Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Warming Is Major Threat To Humans, EPA Warns ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701557.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701557.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Climate change will pose "substantial" threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday -- issuing its warnings about heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens just days after the agency declined to regulate the pollutants blamed for warming.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925705076" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925705076" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Warming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major]]></category><category><![CDATA[Threat]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Humans,]]></category><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warns]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason K. Burnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Shradar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joel D. Scheraga]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joel Kaplan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristie Ebi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Petroleum Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tokyo's Cantankerous Boss Takes On Global Warming ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071702660.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071702660.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ TOKYO -- In a long, fabulous and cranky life, Shintaro Ishihara, the three-term governor of Tokyo, has specialized in the art of giving offense. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Blaine Harden]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tokyo's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cantankerous]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takes]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Global]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shintaro Ishihara]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Pole]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yasuo Fukuda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Akiko Yamamoto]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Carbon Action Partnership]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gore Urges Fast Energy Makeover ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071700244.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071700244.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former vice president Al Gore yesterday called on Americans to convert all electricity generation to wind, solar and other renewable sources within 10 years and end their reliance on fossil fuels for the sake of the U.S. economy and the world's climate. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Mufson]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Urges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Makeover]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michele LaFrerriere]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip R. Sharp]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nobel Peace Prize]]></category><category><![CDATA[Persian Gulf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resources for the Future]]></category><category><![CDATA[The George Washington University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U2]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lincoln Town Car]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toyota Prius]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Great Global Schemer ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602453.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602453.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ COMMON WEALTH ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel W. Drezner,]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Great]]></category><category><![CDATA[Global]]></category><category><![CDATA[Schemer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey D. Sachs]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Penguin Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bono (Musician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doha]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hernando de Soto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Stiglitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Earth Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Institutes of Health]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Student Reaches for the Sun and Succeeds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071503282.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071503282.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Even with an overcast sky, the solar panels on the roof of George Mason High School in Falls Church were absorbing enough sun on a recent morning to power the air conditioner in a classroom.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925706038" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925706038" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Alison Chandler]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Student]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reaches]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sun]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Succeeds]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rachel Gutter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Snee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleveland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaithersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lexington (Massachusetts)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lois Berlin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rachel Carson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert C. Nissen]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troy (New York)]]></category><category><![CDATA[BP plc]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church City Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hayfield Secondary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Green Building Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Grocers' Rules Follow Wave Of Sustainably Farmed Fish ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502898.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071502898.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There is organic milk. Free-range chicken. Grass-fed beef. Now make room in the fridge for sustainably farmed Arctic char. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ylan Q. Mui]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Grocers']]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[Follow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wave]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sustainably]]></category><category><![CDATA[Farmed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fish]]></category><category><![CDATA[Whole Foods Market Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Johan Andreassen]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Hocevar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Environmental Defense Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greenpeace International]]></category><category><![CDATA[World Wide Fund for Nature]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carrie Brownstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jill Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Teresa Ish]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Heart Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aquaculture Certification Council Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barents Sea]]></category><category><![CDATA[Global Aquaculture Alliance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harris Teeter Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marine Stewardship Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[NOAA Fisheries Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category><category><![CDATA[Royal Ahold NV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Recent Bush Victories Smell of Compromise ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR2008071201616.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/12/AR2008071201616.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The decider has become the compromiser. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Eggen and Paul Kane]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Recent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Victories]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smell]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Compromise]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicare]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Thune]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Schumer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Cornyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kay Bailey Hutchison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicholas Calio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roy Blunt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas E. Mann]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Brookings Institution]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Judges Toss EPA Rule To Reduce Smog, Soot ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071101476.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071101476.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal appeals court yesterday threw out a major component of the Bush administration's effort to reduce unhealthy levels of soot and smog in Eastern and Midwestern states, a decision that environmental groups worry will delay action on air pollution well into the next administration. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Del Quentin Wilber and Marc Kaufman]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Judges]]></category><category><![CDATA[Toss]]></category><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rule]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reduce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smog,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soot]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Carper]]></category><category><![CDATA[William M. Bumpers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duke Energy Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[David B. Sentelle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Janice Rogers Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Walke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baker Botts LLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Midwestern States]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Resources Defense Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ EPA Seeks Comment on Emissions Rules, Then Discredits Effort ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071101703.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071101703.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration yesterday unveiled but immediately disparaged a proposal to seek public comment on whether the government should regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, declaring at the outset that the proposed approach would be unworkable.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925707241" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925707241" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Comment]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emissions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Then]]></category><category><![CDATA[Discredits]]></category><category><![CDATA[Effort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Walke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan E. Dudley]]></category><category><![CDATA[William L. Kovacs]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natural Resources Defense Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ EPA Won't Act on Emissions This Year ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071003087.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071003087.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressure from the Supreme Court and broad accord among senior federal officials that new regulation is appropriate now. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin and R. Jeffrey Smith]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Act]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emissions]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason Burnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey A. Rosen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Dudley]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Economic Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Shradar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cato Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council on Environmental Quality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Motor Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft PowerPoint]]></category><category><![CDATA[Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House Council on Environmental Quality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ USDA Rule Change May Lead To Crops on Conserved Land ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002550.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002550.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Under pressure from farmers, livestock producers and soaring food prices, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is weighing a policy change that could lead to the plowing of millions of acres of land that had been set aside for conservation. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Achenbach]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rule]]></category><category><![CDATA[Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[May]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lead]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crops]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conserved]]></category><category><![CDATA[Land]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Schafer]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Agriculture]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Grassley]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Wildlife Federation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Ray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dave Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Sibbing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ralph Heimlich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Stephens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Bakers Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ducks Unlimited Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Environmental Defense Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Pork Producers Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[The American Meat Institute]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Readers' Joy Speaks Volumes ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070901088.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/09/AR2008070901088.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Two decades ago, a fire destroyed the public library kiosk where Burke Centre residents checked out books. In the 1990s, economic woes forced officials to close a satellite library in a local shopping center. Now, with last month's opening of the Burke Centre Library, the planned community in central Fairfax County has a full-fledged branch of its own. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Karin Brulliard]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Readers']]></category><category><![CDATA[Joy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Speaks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Volumes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patti Marcus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burke Centre]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulova Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dora the Explorer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Craven]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Schlekau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Megan Murphy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon Bulova]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Reed]]></category><category><![CDATA[McDonald's Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pizza Hut Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[T.C. Williams High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Green Building Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. Joins G-8 Plan To Halve Emissions ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070800285.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070800285.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RUSUTSU, Japan, July 9 -- The United States for the first time joined the major industrialized countries Tuesday in committing to try to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. President Bush immediately began promoting the plan with skeptical developing country leaders who would be crucial to its success.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925709981" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/8;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=352925709981" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Abramowitz]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joins]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Halve]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emissions]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael A. Levi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel M. Price]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Mugabe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kyoto Protocol]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alden Meyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colum Lynch]]></category><category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Mittler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hu Jintao]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jos Delbeke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manmohan Singh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marthinus van Schalkwyk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vitaly Churkin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yasuo Fukuda]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[European Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[France]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greenpeace International]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S Council on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union of Concerned Scientists]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hokkaido]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony On Warming ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070801442.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070801442.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Members of Vice President Cheney's staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official about health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Cheney's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Staff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Testimony]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason K. Burnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Gerberding]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank O'Donnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Shradar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council on Environmental Quality]]></category><category><![CDATA[OVP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Packard]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Marburger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lea Anne McBride]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Skinner]]></category><category><![CDATA[David and Lucile Packard Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ EPA Enforcement Is Faulted ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702418.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702418.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An official administration guidance document on wetlands policy is undermining enforcement of the Clean Water Act, said a March 4 memo written by the Environmental Protection Agency's chief enforcement officer. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet Eilperin]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faulted]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Granta Y. Nakayama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Grumbles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Schaeffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Waxman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Oberstar]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Shradar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert B. Propst]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greenpeace International]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bush Facing Rebuffs On Key Issues at G-8 ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070700488.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070700488.html?nav=rss_nation/special/8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RUSUTSU, Japan, July 8 -- President Bush has worked hard over the past few years to cultivate good relations with many world leaders, but as a summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations got underway Monday, he was once again discovering the limitations of those efforts. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Abramowitz]]></dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Facing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rebuffs]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Key]]></category><category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[G-8]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jakaya Kikwete]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Mugabe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]>