Speed Blogging

• Electric utilities set up Middle Delaware Mitigation Fund for impacts from new Susquehanna-Roseland power line, running from Berwick PA to Roseland NJ. Planning on adding land to National Parks to the tune of $30-$40 million (cost of land purchases). http://bit.ly/wQVXOt
• Please don’t bring out the caviar… Atlantic Sturgeon make the endangered species list http://on.wsj.com/xJQYBK
• State protection for California species: Sierra mountain yellow-legged frogs are now protected as threatened species and Southern mountain yellow-legged frogs are designated as endangered. http://bit.ly/ypIOak  Reduced trout stocking (fish eat tadpoles) could impact angling industry. http://bit.ly/xCmNwG
• LA landowner pissed about critical habitat designation of endangered Mississippi gopher frog on his land. Says will cost him $36 mill. http://bit.ly/wVVqTK
• Timber industry pissed about marbled murrelet critical habitat in Oregon – files lawsuit with US FWS http://bit.ly/xCKUJR
• MN ag-only wetland mitigation bank “for farmers who either want to do a project that will impact a wetland or who want to develop a wetland without participating in a publicly funded conservation program.” http://bit.ly/yRAlbT
• Carbon offset revenue for Southern US forests – WRI report.  http://bit.ly/zPcKZv
• Queensland Australia’s first biodiversity offset: a 140-hectare land swap to effectively extend Noosa National Park. Local environmental council doesn’t like it, local government minister does. http://bit.ly/ykrSzg
• EPA draft guidance calls for municipalities to use green infrastructure and water quality trading to satisfy CWA permit requirements for storm water and waste water discharges. Article: http://bit.ly/xe8t8L, actual guidance http://1.usa.gov/zlmtEW