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AmeriScan: May 10, 2004

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California Wildfire Season Starts Three Weeks Early

SACRAMENTO, California, May 10, 2004 (ENS) - San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside units of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) went on fire season status on May 3, about three weeks earlier than usual, but none too soon for two large wildfires that struck the state that same day.
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New Englanders Offered Free Smog Forecasts and Alerts

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 10, 2004 (ENS) - To help the public prepare if there is poor air quality this summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is offering free air quality forecasts and alerts. Current air quality conditions and next day forecasts are available each day at the agency’s website.
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New Reservoir Keeps Mine Waste Out of Sacramento River

REDDING, California, May 10, 2004 (ENS) - In a ceremony Thursday at the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site in southwest Shasta County, local, state and federal officials celebrated the completion of the Slickrock Creek Retention Reservoir, which will cut the amount of pollutants flowing to the Sacramento River by 95 percent from historic levels.
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California Energy Executive Convicted of Fraud

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, May 10, 2004 (ENS) - The president of a failed California energy company has been found guilty of fraud after a two week jury trial in Fort Lauderdale. E. Douglas Mitchell, who was the president of Los Angeles based PowerSource Corporation, was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud. Mitchell faces up to five years in prison.
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DC Health Official Guilty in Asbestos Extortion Case

WASHINGTON, DC, May 10, 2004 (ENS) - A former asbestos inspector with the District of Columbia Department of Health has been convicted of bribery and extortion charges for demanding and taking money to relax environmental asbestos rules.
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Rhode Island Landlords Hit for Lead Paint Violations

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 10, 2004 (ENS) - Three large Rhode Island property owners are accused of violating federal lead paint disclosure rules involving dozens of houses and apartments in Providence, Pawtucket, Woonsocket and several other Rhode Island communities.
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Excited Nanocrystals Yield More Solar Power

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, May 10, 2004 (ENS) - University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have demonstrated a process that could lead to a new generation of solar cells producing up to 35 percent more electrical output than current solar cells.
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Fire Ants Vulnerable to Microscopic Organism

STEPHENVILLE, Texas, May 10, 2004 (ENS) - Texas A&M University entomologists have found a microorganism that kills imported red fire ants, but they are reluctant to set it loose in U.S. fire ant colonies.
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