EPA, NOAA SAY EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM WILL HAVE DRAMATIC EFFECT

EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt and National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher last week announced a 10-year plan to link the systems that monitor the Earth and the people that monitor such systems -- from satellites, to buoys, to radar, to air and water monitors. These efforts are expected to result in an unprecedented ability to forecast climate, weather and atmospheric events, administration officials say. However, Leavitt cautioned that improving human communications as part of the effort will...