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AmeriScan: May 5, 2004

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Damaged Davis-Besse Reactor Could Have Lasted 13 Months

WASHINGTON, DC, May 5, 2004 (ENS) - The Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Ohio that was closed in February 2002 when a hole was found in a reactor head could have operated safely for an additional two to 13 months, the latest analysis and testing conducted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has found. The plant is now open again and generating power.
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Mad Cow May Have Slipped Through Crack in Testing

SAN ANGELO, Texas, May 5, 2004 (ENS) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is fielding criticism of an employee's decision not to test a cow for mad cow disease after it was seen to stagger and fall April 27 at Lone Star Beef in San Angelo, Texas.
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Farmers, Ranchers Can Apply for Renewable Energy Grants

WASHINGTON, DC, May 5, 2004 (ENS) - For the second year, the Bush administration is giving millions to agricultural producers or rural small businesses to develop renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements to their operations.
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New York Senators Would Save Puerto Rican Forest Wilderness

WASHINGTON, DC, May 5, 2004 (ENS) - A bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would designate much of Puerto Rico's Caribbean National Forest El Yunque as the El Toro Wilderness. If passed into law, the designation would prohibit logging, road construction, power lines, and other development that would hurt rare species and spoil drinking water.
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Discovery of PCBs Keeps Ex-Naval Ship from Chinese Scrapyard

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 5, 2004 (ENS) - On a tip from the Basel Action Network, a global toxic waste watchdog organization, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has moved to halt the export of a decommissioned World War II ship from Mare Island at Vallejo, California to China for scrapping.
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Kittlitz's Murrelet a Candidate for Endangered Listing

WASHINGTON, DC, May 5, 2004 (ENS) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has named an Alaskan seabird known as the Kittlitz’s murrelet as a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The Service periodically publishes an updated Candidate Notice of Review to solicit new information on the status of candidate species and the threats to their survival.
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NASA Satellites Track Asia-Atlantic Smog Train

GREENBELT, Maryland, May 5, 2004 (ENS) - Scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have found that ground level air pollution created in one region of the world can be swept up by air currents and travel halfway around the globe. The pollution appears to catch an airborne wind current from Asia to the southern Atlantic Ocean.
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Environmental Satellite to Be Burned in Space

WASHINGTON, DC, May 5, 2004 (ENS) - Today the eighth satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series will be boosted into a higher orbit than the one on which it has circled the Earth since 1994 and officially burned up.
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