EDITION: Monday, August 18, 2008 -- 04:09 PM

1. OIL AND GAS:
Stronger CAFE standards trump offshore drilling, consumer group says

Boosting automobile fuel economy standards based on current gasoline price trends would save 13 times as much oil as lifting drilling bans on the outer continental shelf, an advocacy group said today. Go to story #1

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2. NANOTECH:
EPA funds health study of engineered nanoparticles

U.S. EPA announced today the award of $2 million, the agency's largest single nanotechnology research grant, to the University of Kentucky to study the effects of engineered nanoparticles on the human body. Go to story #2

3. FISHERIES:
NOAA counsel among new appointments to int'l management panel

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's general counsel is among five new U.S. appointees to an international commission that oversees management of tuna and other Pacific migratory fish stocks. Go to story #3

4. GRAND CANYON:
Evacuations continue in flooded corridor

Helicopter crews plan to evacuate more than 120 tourists and residents by day's end in Supai Canyon, an offshoot of the Grand Canyon that flooded yesterday after heavy rains breached an earthen dam. Go to story #4