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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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