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Environment News Service AmeriScan Index June 2002
AmeriScan: June 28, 2002
- California Spends $59.8 Million to Protect Wetlands
- Senate Bill Would Ban Mercury Thermometers
- Groups Sue Over Experimental Longlining in Hawaii
- National Plan Combats Chronic Wasting Disease
- Navy Exercises May Be Harming Right Whales
- Data Buoy Offers Weather, Biological Information
- Mixed Vegetation May Help Cool Climate
- Repair Begins on Damaged Coral Reef
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AmeriScan: June 27, 2002
- Yucca Mountain Shipments Called Mobile Chernobyl
- Cheetah Supercomputer Improves Climate Modeling
- Chilean Sea Bass Seizures Make Small Dent
- Planting Clover Among the Cotton Helps Birds
- New Coal Burners May Reduce Pollution
- USFWS: Cutthroat Trout Population is Safe
- Seal Skin Shipment Seized in New Jersey
- Students Help Measure Air Pollution
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AmeriScan: June 26, 2002
- Lost Fuel Rods Prompt Fines
- U.S. Approves Vicuna Wool Imports
- Dying Trees Release Air Polluting Chemical
- Environmentalists Challenge Nevada Land Sale
- Grants Support Clean Car Research
- Prairie Dogs Need Protection on BLM Lands
- Cleanup Begins in Ohio's Little Scioto River
- House Subcommittee Supports Efficiency Funding
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AmeriScan: June 25, 2002
- Federal Funds Support New Nuclear Licenses
- 2,618 Fish Consumption Advisories Issued in 2001
- California State Fish Gets Endangered Review
- Mining Company Must Get License for Dams
- Successful Satellite Programs Monitor Earth
- Deep Drilling Monitors for California Earthquakes
- Indiana Bats Protected During Airport Expansion
- Tiny Nuclear Detector Produced at DOE Lab
- Georgia-Pacific Addresses Wisconsin PCBs
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AmeriScan: June 24, 2002
- Mercury Found Around Danbury Hat Factories
- Natural Gas Power Plant Launched in California
- Environmental Justice Applied to Outdoor Recreation
- Diazinon Levels Drop in Two California Rivers
- Habitat Homes in Tennessee Built Energy Efficient
- New Index Warns of Impending Heat Waves
- Urban Heat Islands Increase Downwind Rains
- Oregon Deer May No Longer Need Protection
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AmeriScan: June 21, 2002
- North Carolina Restricts Power Plant Emissions
- Activists Jailed for Montana Logging Protest
- Colorado Fire May Have Been Set Deliberately
- UV Radiation Linked to Deformed Amphibians
- Glacier Threatens to Block Alaskan Fiord
- GMOs Could Wipe Out Natural Species
- Fungi Bring Calcium to Acid Rain Damaged Trees
- Critical Habitat Proposed for Two Larkspurs
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AmeriScan: June 20, 2002
- Abraham: U.S. Must Not Be Held Hostage by Oil Need
- Giant Dumbells on Trucks? It's Radioactive Waste!
- Arizona, Colorado Towns Evacuated Ahead of Fires
- L.L. Bean Funds Buses in Acadia National Park
- Birder's Hudson River Paradise Now a Park
- Bioengineered Tomato Fights Cancer
- Common Bacteria Killing Florida's Elkhorn Coral
- Federal/NGO Team Restores Coastal Ecosystems
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AmeriScan: June 19, 2002
- HALO Trust Celebrates Removing One Million Mines
- No Military Exemptions, Grassroots Groups Demand
- California Fire Claims Three Lives
- Lawsuit Forces Tennesse to Issue Power Plant Permits
- Unique Carnivore Rediscovered in Tanzania
- Boston Drinking Water Supply Protected
- Noisy Oceans Shrink Whales' World
- Atlantic White Marlin May Get Endangered Listing
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AmeriScan: June 18, 2002
- Klamath Basin Farmers Get $50 Million in Aid
- Missouri River Management Reforms Stalled
- Bill Would Sell Federal Land to Church Group
- Alabama Power Updates Emissions Controls
- Solar Power Promoted at Annual Conference
- Los Alamos Team Wins Recycling Award
- Insects Used to Control Washington Weeds
- Scented Flakes Confuse Gypsy Moths
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AmeriScan: June 17, 2002
- DOE Steps Up Plans for Plutonium Shipments
- Companies Solicited to Produce Medical Isotopes
- 16 Species Added to Possible Protection List
- Bumper Crop of Florida Panthers Born
- Illegal Waste Disposal Has Serious Consequences
- Hotels Can Compare Energy Performance Nationwide
- Critical Habitat Proposed for Hawaiian Moth
- Environmental Groups Launch Orphan Orca Fund
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AmeriScan: June 14, 2002
- Fires, Drought Threaten American West
- Bush Withdraws U.S. From Missile Treaty
- Device Turns Contaminants into Harmless Byproducts
- Chiricahua Leopard Frog Listed as Threatened
- Activists Protest Dams at Hoover
- Los Angeles School Buses Get Tailpipe Filters
- No Sign Found of Ivory Billed Woodpeckers
- Reward Offered in Killing of California Sea Otter
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AmeriScan: June 13, 2002
- Pesticide Review Finds Little Risk
- Patriotic Automakers Urged to Boost Fuel Economy
- Air Pollution Affects Tree Growth
- Shade Grown Coffee Benefits from Pollination
- Humans Decimated Hawaiian Goose 500 Years Ago
- Satellites Peer Underground to Monitor Aquifers
- $20 Million Funds Pennsylvania Parks Projects
- Burt's Bees Supports Maine Woods
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AmeriScan: June 12, 2002
- Groups Seek Ban on Arsenic Laden Fertilizer
- Smart Urban Design Reduces Auto Use
- Lakeshore Development Affects Birds
- Beached Sperm Whale Headed for Museum
- Tomato Based Chemical Repels Insects
- Devil's Canyon Ranch Protected in Wyoming
- Bacteria Toxin Kills Zebra Mussels
- Flooded Fields Benefit Ducks, Rice Farmers
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AmeriScan: June 11, 2002
- Administration Will Not Buy Back California Leases
- Budget Office Will Help Craft Diesel Rules
- Interior Department Supports Native Whaling
- EPA Grant Supports Tribal Research
- Diversa Will Mine Biodiversity in Hawaii
- Rio Grande Called Critical for Silvery Minnow
- Texas Hosts Endangered Sea Turtles
- Princeton Students Map U.S. Natural Hazard Risks
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AmeriScan: June 7, 2002
- Counterterrorism Study Has Environmental Focus
- Polluter Pays Bill Addresses Superfund Costs
- Bette Midler Honored with Parks Award
- Fewer Toxics Used on U.S. Open Greens
- Public Transportation on the Decline
- Conservation Helped Californians Avoid Blackouts
- Hatchery Fish Learn Traits that Wild Salmon Adopt
- Human Activities Linked to Sea Otter Diseases
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AmeriScan: June 6, 2002
- Studies of Soot Pollution Were Flawed
- Greenpeace Maps Potential Chemical Catastrophes
- Gulf Sturgeon Could Get Huge Critical Habitat
- Diverse Plant Communities Resist Invasion
- Exotic Insect Prefers Native Plants
- Turtles Could Move From Threatened to Endangered
- Snowmobiles Stress Out Elk, Wolves
- Oceana Nets Comments Favoring Ocean Protection
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AmeriScan: June 5, 2002
- Brownfields Legislation Passes the House
- Olympic, Shell Fined for Pipeline Explosion
- Climate Change Depletes Ozone Layer
- Environmental Problems Linked to Political Instability
- Coalition Aids Imperiled Butterflies
- African Energy Training Gets U.S. Support
- Texas Opens New Coastal Research Center
- U.S. Sites Featured as Whale Watching Hotspots
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AmeriScan: June 4, 2002
- Appeals Court Upholds TMDL Rule
- California Asks Bush to Buyback Offshore Leases
- Global Warming Threatens California Water Supplies
- High Protein Corn Produced Without Engineering
- Wildfire Season Strikes Across the Nation
- Fuel Cell Will Power Yellowstone Ticket Booths
- Fine Levied in Waterfowl Hit and Run
- New Award Honors Renewable Energy Research
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AmeriScan: June 3, 2002
- Leased Supercomputer Will Improve Forecasting
- Colorado Roadless Area Logging Challenged
- EPA, Chemical Industry Study Environmental Effects
- Study Targets Vanishing Lake Michigan Sturgeon
- Petroleum Industry Causes Houston Smog
- Rainforest Clearings Damage Ecosystems
- Scientists Reject Plan to Remove Wolf Protections
- Taxidermist Admits to Selling Tiger Meat
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