Top Stories

2. COMMODITIES:
Soaring prices have world on 'brink of a severe economic downturn' -- U.N.

3. ETHANOL:
DuPont teams with Danish group to produce non-food biofuel

4. CHINA:
Soldiers deployed to repair weakened dams

Energy Policy & Markets

5. OIL AND GAS:
Refinery blast prompts guideline revisions

6. ENERGY MARKETS:
Willbros fined in bribe case

Business, Finance & Technology

7. AVIATION:
Honeywell to develop biofuel with JetBlue, Airbus

8. BUSINESS:
GE announces sale of appliance unit

9. AVIATION:
United, Continental enter alliance talks

10. STEEL:
Rapid price spikes stall major construction projects worldwide

Air, Water & Climate

11. WATER:
L.A. pushes wastewater reuse as part of conservation plan

Wastes & Hazardous Substances

12. LEAD:
Bullet fragments in meat pose human health risk -- study

13. SUPERFUND:
Federal report blames EPA, cleanup companies for contamination at Muskego site

Natural Resources

14. FORESTS:
Court blocks Sierra Nevada logging

15. GREAT LAKES:
Mich., Wis. sign onto protection pact

16. OCEANS:
Mass. leaders reach agreement on nation's first ocean zoning plan

17. EVERGLADES:
Wildfire threatens endangered sparrows

States

18. WEST VIRGINIA:
Ties to coal exec prove damaging to top state judge

19. STATE LINES:
Ind., Mont., Nev., Ore. and Va.

E&ETV's OnPoint

20. AVIATION/CLIMATE:
Airline group's James May urges SPR suspension to help lower fuel costs