Causation, Prediction, and Search by Spirtes and Glymour is much more accessible than Pearl's Causality, and they cover a lot of similar material.

Video lectures has a workshop from NIPS '08 with talks by Pearl, Spirtes, et al at http://videolectures.net/coa08_whistler/

The UAI and NIPS conferences are a common venue for this research to be published in if you're interested in the latest results.