From the Wonk Room.
The first group of what will become a 15,000-photo set from the Documerica project from the 1970s, when the Environmental Protection Agency “sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large,” are now available on Flickr Commons.
“My my guess is there will be a clamoring for an energy bill when gas prices go up, as they normally do, as we get closer to more driving as we get closer to the summer,” Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs said in a briefing yesterday.
Scientists report that aquatic dead zones are exacerbating the impacts of global warming and contributing to ozone depletion, a increase in corn-based ethanol would change land use ” enough to cancel out the benefits,” and peak oil may come in 2014.