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Eat American seafood. 
A much greater variety than we currently do. 
Mostly farmed filter feeders.

—Paul Greenberg, author of American Catch and Four Fish, offers his Pollan-esque “Three Simple Rules for Eating Fish.”

The United States says it will list all chimpanzees as endangered. -

That would include the country's 2,000 chimps living in captivity. The designation will limit the import, export, and scientific use of the animals, which are increasingly threatened in the wild by deforestation, poaching, and the pet trade. Time 

Nowadays you have computers running everything…You can create blackouts or oil spills and hurt a lot of people.

—Alvaro Cardenas, a computer science professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, on a study that says hackers pose a huge threat to the energy industry

Organic farmers aren't impressed with Whole Foods' new rating system. -

Based on suppliers' answers to questions about soil quality, water and pesticide use, and worker treatment, the store's new Responsibly Grown program labels produce as Unrated, Good, Better, or Best. Some farmers, however, say the system devalues the difficult-to-earn organic label. NPR

New protections may be in store for Mid-Atlantic coral reefs. -

A regional fishery-management council voted yesterday to restrict trawling and dredging in biologically diverse deep-sea ecosystems. If approved, the plan would protect more than 38,000 square miles—what would be the largest trawl-free zone in U.S. Atlantic waters. The Baltimore Sun

Santa Barbara oil spill cleanup has cost $69 million so far. -

That comes out to around $3 million every day. More than three-quarters of the 97 miles of the fouled coastline has been cleaned, but Plains All American Pipeline, the company responsible, doesn't know how much longer the effort has to go. Mashable