Environment

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Flood survivors search for their belongings amid the rubble of their houses destroyed by heavy floodwaters in Charsadda, near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. Many of about 20 million people affected by flooding in Pakistan have yet to receive any assistance, despite a growing international relief effort, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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"Our decision-making must be fully informed by an understanding of the potential environmental consequences of federal actions," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said.

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Containers are stacked at a shipping terminal Friday night in Tokyo. Japan's economy in the second quarter grew less than a fifth what was expected pushing it into third place behind the U.S. and China. (Bloomberg)

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Yuliyan Bodurov is working this summer in Wychmere Harbor, where he unloads containers of conch on the Peggy B. Fishermen faced with low catch limits are starting to sell out to larger interests. (Associated Press)

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Ground fishing has virtually disappeared in Wychmere Harbor in Harwich, Mass. Rules enacted in May have fishermen at New England's major ports worried about their historic fishing communities. (Associated Press)

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Expedition 24 astronauts Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Douglas Wheelock work outside the International Space Station on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, as they prepare to install a cooling pump module, replacing one that failed. (AP Photo/NASA)

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Soldiers take part in firefighting operations at a fireworks factory in the city of Yichun in northeast China's Heilongjiang province on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. A massive explosion ripped through the factory, killing 13 workers, damaging nearby buildings and causing secondary blasts. (AP Photo/Xinhua News Agency, Wang Jianwei)

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Pakistani flood survivors shift their belongings to safer areas on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010, in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani flood victims jostle to get relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Pakistani flood survivors jostle for a sack of flour distributed by volunteers Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh, near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani flood victims fight for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Pakistani flood victims fight with each others for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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Pakistani flood victims fight for relief food distributed by volunteers in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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A Pakistani flood survivor floats his mother to safer area Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani flood survivors shift their belongings to safer areas on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani army soldiers rescue villagers from flooded areas Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Khangarh near Multan, Pakistan. Heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Pakistani flood survivors return to their village devastated by heavy floods in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. A forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

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In this photo provided by the United Nations, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's helicopter flies over the flood waters in the Province of Punjab, near the city of Multan in Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he has never seen anything like the flood disaster in Pakistan after surveying the devastation and urged foreign donors to speed up assistance to the 20 million people affected. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Echneider)

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Pakistani villagers chase relief supplies dropped by an army helicopter at a flooded area of Jampur, in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

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Pakistani villagers approach to pick up food packets dropped by an army helicopter at a flooded area of Jampur, in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)