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1. Evidence of another oil plume has been found by the University of South Florida.

2. California takes the great step of banning plastic bags from retail stores and imposes a minimum fee on paper ones.

3. New study shows Arctic see ice is at its lowest point in thousands of years.

4. OpenPeak gets $52 million in funding for energy management products, with a focus on touch screen interfaces.

5. BP buys up the adds on Google for searches related to the oil spill to direct traffic to their website, rather than 3rd parties.  Witness a simple search for “Oil Spill”.

1. Ethical consumers less likely to be kind and more likely to steal, study finds – Guardian.

2. Bluefin tuna fails to make UN’s list of protected fish.

3. NYTimes reports that more Saudi Oil goes to China Than to U.S

4. Could McDonald’s replace beef burgers with seitan?

5. Advancements made by Canadian company in CO2 capture by algae.

1.  China, the good: NYTimes claims China is leading the renewable energy race.

2. China, the bad: Mark Lynas asks, ‘How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room‘.

3. Apple launches environmental accountability section on their site: http://www.apple.com/environment.

4. Water supplied to more than 49 million people since 2004 has contained illegal concentrations of chemicals.

5. The Onion ponders the effects of throwing away a single plastic bottle, by asking 30 million people.