As a result of months of discussion between NRDC and Bank of America, BoA has made a public commitment to phasing out funding for companies that predominantly use mountain-top removal for coal mining; the New York Times Green Inc. reports and drives readers to Rob Perk’s blog entry on how NRDC persuaded the banking giant to change it’s ways… And in the print edition of the New York Times, the paper talks about NRDC’s disappointment with a destructive mountain-top mining regulation approved by the Bush administration this week…

In their weekly “Just one Thing” segment, Good Morning America gives energy efficiency advice and talks about facts from our recent game console energy-use report [Watch]… The Los Angeles Times cites NRDC’s role in a settlement that will further protect California’s condors from lead poisoning… Along with being the top story on Grist.org today, the Charlotte Observer reports on the decision by a federal judge to require Duke energy to fully analyze expected emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants from its expanding Cliffside power plant; Ben Longstreth explains the implications of the decision…In Wired Mae Wu faults the Bush administration for its adamant resistance to regulating the neurotoxin perchlorate in drinking water…