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From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, by Dennis McCann If you think life is tough on us, imagine being a tree.

From the Associated Press via the Detroit News and Free Press DETROIT (AP) -- The National Football League says it plans to plant acres of trees in metropolitan Detroit to offset carbon emissions caused by traffic generated by next year's Super Bowl.

WASHINGTON (March 9) - Wal-Mart and other retailers are lobbying Congress to extend the workday for truckers to 16 hours, something labor unions and safety advocates say would make roadways more dangerous for all drivers.

From the New York Times by Michael Janofsky Efforts to pass a bill to control power-plant emissions crumbled in the Senate on Wednesday amid charges of partisan intransigence. The day's developments sidelined - and possibly doomed - action this year on the legislative centerpiece of President Bush's environmental policy.

From the Albuquerque Journal, By Wren Propp LAS VEGAS, N.M.- Ralph Barela used his hands to brush away a layer of wood chips from one of the huge heaps that dot his Barela Timber Management Yard west of here. The wood chips provide so much insulation, there was a crust of well-preserved snow a couple of inches down from the surface of the chips.

From The Boston Herald via The World Business Council for Sustainabile Development Companies shouldn't feel obligated to "give back" to the community, because they haven't taken anything away, the Austrian-born chief of the world's largest food company told local executives yesterday.

From the Christian Science Monitor, by Mark Clayton

From Yubanet, by American Forests