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NPR's David Welna reports that Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton has won widespread backing in the Senate Energy Committee, which approved her nomination by an 18-2 vote. It now goes to the full Senate. The vote was a defeat for many environmental groups, who have organized a stop-Norton campaign. Meanwhile, the Senate has confirmed several more Bush Cabinet officials.

NPR's David Welna reports on the Senate's approval of Gale Norton's nomination for Secretary of the Interior. Environmental groups had complained that she was an "extremist" in the mold of James Watt, who stirred up controversy as President Reagan's Interior Secretary. But, despite protests and TV ads attacking Norton, her nomination sailed through the Senate with ease.

There are plans to open the U.K.'s first new coal mine in three decades — just as the government is trying to tout its environmental record as host of the U.N.'s climate meeting.

A Biden administration review could curtail copper mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota — an area known for its pristine nature.

NPR's A Martínez talks to Carroll Muffett, president and CEO of the Center for International Environmental Law, about President Biden's involvement in next week's COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

Andrea Bernstein reports on a federal plan that would force General Electric to spend nearly half a billion dollars dredging PCBs from New York's Hudson River. The company says the contamination is best left in the river bottom, and it's vowing to fight the Environmental Protection Agency proposal.

North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports on the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to clean toxic sediment from New York's Hudson River. The EPA wants General Electric to pay for the project because the company LEGALLY dumped PCB's into the river for 30 years. GE is waging a public relations campaign against the expensive plan.

Having worked the West Coast earlier in the week, Texas Governor George W. Bush was bearing down on the Midwestern states again today, campaigning in Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin. Bush warned that Gore's plans for seniors were just a "hop, skip and a jump" from nationalizing the U.S. health care system. Gore, meanwhile, campaigned in Illinois as well and had plenty of warnings of his own. In Chicago he told a crowd that "prosperity is on the ballot," and warned against Bush's environmental record. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Bob Edwards talks with Paul Eisenstein, publisher of TheCarConnection.com about Ford's new plans for their historic Rouge manufacturing plant in Dearborne, Michigan. William Clay Ford, great-grandson of Henry Ford, wants to turn what has become a toxic waste dump into an environmental success story.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on Starlink, a genetically engineered corn which has been approved for livestock feed. The corn became the pariah of grains earlier this year when it made it's way into human food. Starlink contains a protein that could cause allergic reactions. The EPA is still considering if the corn is safe for human consumption, a situation that's upset environmentalists and put many farmers in a bind.