Rob Perks chats with Ronald Reagan (son of President Reagan) on Air America about the Bush administration’s willful neglect of environmental protections to the benefit of industries that supported Bush politically [Audio attached]… Forbes magazine focuses on the political power of online networking sites, highlighting NRDC’s ties to the band Green Day and the success of NRDC’s recent Facebook campaign that prompted so many e-letters to be sent to a certain congressman that his email server almost crashed…

Today’s New York Times editorial calls on the Obama administration to set higher fuel standard requirements for Detroit… USA Today contemplates the mixed benefits of cellulosic biofuels, utilizing NRDC facts and figures… Allen Hershkowitz chides Long Island for failing to address the underlying cause its garbage dilemma in Newsday and warns that newly popular waste-to-energy plants can have severe global warming impacts… NRDC facts also help inform a Washington Post piece looking at the future of US nuclear arms in Europe.