To the general public, President-elect Obama's impending choice of the next Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) probably lacks the sense of urgency or drama of other cabinet selections. But for the regulated community and environmentalists alike, the identity of the next head of EPA is no...

Next week, the long-awaited Hawaii state quarter will jingle and jangle into hands, pockets, and coin purses across the United States. Its inscription will remind Americans that "the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness"; its engraving of Hawaii's historic King Kamehameha the Great will remind them that it...