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AmeriScan: May 21, 2004

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Sierra Club Challenges Judge Pryor's Recess Appointment

ATLANTA, Georgia, May 21, 2004 (ENS) - The Sierra Club and another environmental organization have challenged the legality of President George W. Bush's recess appointment of former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
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Air Pollution Suit Seeks Clarity for Montana, Wyoming Parks

MISSOULA, Montana, May 21, 2004 (ENS) - A coalition of four conservation organizations has filed suit against the U.S. Department of the Interior over its failure to minimize the air pollution predicted to result from oil, gas and coalbed methane development authorized in a 33 million acre zone in Montana and Wyoming.
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States Pursue Allegheny Coal Plant Case Abandoned by EPA

ALBANY, New York, May 21, 2004 (ENS) - New York and three other states will sue the owner of five coal fired power plants in West Virginia for violating the Clean Air Act over more than a decade, after the federal government dropped its investigation of the power plants late last year.
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Black Cherry Tree Farming in Allegheny Forest Appealed

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 21, 2004 (ENS) - Conservationists are appealing a federal district court decision to allow the largest timber sale in the eastern United States to go ahead. The appeal claims the the logging of 8,100 acres of native hardwoods in the Allegheny National Forest is planned to clear the area for plantations of black cherry trees.
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Lawmakers: Hatchery Salmon Are Not Wild

WASHINGTON, DC, May 21, 2004 (ENS) - More than 70 members of the House of Representatives from both sides of the aisle joined Congressman Mike Thompson, a California Democrat, in asking NOAA Fisheries to abandon its proposed policy to include hatchery fish when deciding federal protections for wild salmon.
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Klamath Whistleblower Leaves Fisheries Service

SACRAMENTO, California, May 21, 2004 (ENS) – The biologist who filed a federal whistleblower complaint concerning political interference in setting water levels prior to the massive Klamath fish kill in the fall of 2002 has resigned from his post with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries.
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Gulf Council Pins Snapper Recovery on Shrimper Bankruptcies

KEY LARGO, FLorida, May 21, 2004 (ENS) - The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has unanimously approved a rebuilding plan for red snapper in the Gulf that counts on half of the area's commercial shrimpers going out of business.
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Irradiated Food Barred From DC School Lunches

WASHINGTON, DC, May 21, 2004 (ENS) - District of Columbia students will not be eating irradiated hamburgers any time soon. The District of Columbia Board of Education voted eight to one on Wednesday night in favor of a resolution that forbids the 167 schools in the DC system from purchasing irradiated food for any of its meal programs for five years.
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