“Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is continuing a Bush-era approach of denying protections to species based on an incomplete and selective interpretation of the science. The decision reads like a laundry list of excuses to avoid acting to protect the ashy storm-petrel rather than a solid evaluation of the science.”

Shaye Wolf, of the Center for Biological Diversity, isn’t happy that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected pleas for nine species to be placed on the endangered species list (LA Times).

“There was a problem in the automatic launch sequence that caused the launch to be called off.”

Lee Joo-jin, head of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, explains why South Korea’s first attempt to launch a satellite was abandoned with 8 minutes on the clock (Xinhua).

“Former CEO Martin Eberhard voluntarily requested that the suit be dropped on Aug. 7, according to his lawyer, Yosef Peretz. Peretz declined to comment further on Tuesday, other than to say that more may become public about the case late in September.”

The San Jose Business Journal reports on the legal case brought by the former head of electric car firm Tesla against the company.