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16 Items, Some Controversial, Set to Expire at End of Year BALTIMORE, July 20 -- President Bush visited this city's busy port Wednesday and renewed his call for Congress to extend the expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act, which gives government wide latitude in investigating suspected terrorists.

From the Associated Press via the Environmental News Network, by Curt Anderson From the air, the endless Everglades appear to teem life. Graceful, pure white egrets glide above green native sawgrass. Dark alligator trails meander through the swamps, which sparkle in the bright sunlight.

From Medical News Today, by Cheryl Dorschner Amid the recent hoopla over the EPA and Bush administration's plans to make it easy for power plants, oil refineries and chemical factories (major sources of acid rain nationwide) to expand without installing new pollution controls and the Senate's consideration of Clean Power Act, there's an important new wrinkle to the story.

From Reuters via Yahoo News International Paper (NYSE:IP - news), the world's largest forest products company, on Tuesday set a massive restructuring and may shed businesses that generate almost a third of its sales to focus on its main paper and packaging divisions.

From the BBC UK Wading birds in south-east England look set to be amongst the casualties of this year's drought, the RSPB has said. The numbers of lapwing, redshank and snipe have dropped by about 80% at five reserves around Kent and Sussex. The birds need boggy grassland or damp meadows in which to nest and find food.

From Eureka Alert, by Ryan Smith Changing environmental conditions in the Canadian Rockies are stifling the mating choices of butterflies in the region, say University of Alberta researchers.

From Greenbiz.com Office Depot has announced that 65% of its 2004 U.S. paper sales came from recycled paper -- a 373% increase from 2003.

From the Duluth News Tribune, by John Meyers Legislation proposed in the U.S. Senate would override states' efforts to stop exotic species from invading the Great Lakes, critics said Tuesday. Senate bill 363, called the Ballast Water Management Act of 2005, has been introduced to coordinate ballast regulation under a single federal rule.