environmental news link dump

Good news:

• Everglades to benefit from purchase of U.S. Sugar property (with caveats).
• Brazil's new environmental head seizes cattle grazing on illegally deforested Amazonian land; seizure will also benefit government's food program for the poor.

Bad news:

• Invasive mussels found in Lake Mead. Bad, very bad.
• Fancy toilets use  4% of household energy in Japan.

No news:

• The White House refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened. Remember when you were a child and you didn't want to hear what your parents were telling you? You put your hands over your ears and loudly chanted nonsense words. Yep.
• McCain releases vague green government plan, 8 months after Obama outlines his broader and more specific proposal.