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The council recommends that the Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates stormwater discharged by cities, shift its focus from chemical pollutants in stormwater to the runoff problem. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN  
Scientific American  

Runoff remedy

'Radical change' needed to stormwater disposal

Federal environmental regulators must make "radical change" to the U.S. stormwater program to clean up the nation's water and reverse degradation, a new report says. The report by the National Research Council highlights the problem of combined sewage systems that attempt to dispose of both rainwater and waste. (Scientific American)
Smoke rises over the bay from the 400-acre Angel Island fire on Monday. FREDERIC LARSON/Chronicle  
Chronicle  

Vicious circle

Heavy pollution so far from this year's wildfires

More lives were lost and more homes were destroyed in 2007, but more acres have burned in Calfornia so far this year, meaning more carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds were spewed into the atmosphere. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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• Summit fire area may face threat from winter rains

Everything you need to know about mussels but were afraid to ask. DEPARTMENT OF FIGH AND GAME  
DFG  

Don't move a mussel

State reminds boaters, water users to fight invaders

A state multi-agency taskforce today unveiled a guidebook to help water managers and recreationalists take part in the fight against invasive quagga and zebra mussels, showing how aquatic mollusks can devastate waterways. (DFG)
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• Invasive Mussel Guidebook for Water Managers and Users

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