The following news articles all relate to PCBs,
dioxin, rivers, lakes, fishing, water use and quality, and the paper industry.
PCB
articles are flagged with [PCB] in bold. Sediment-related articles, and
other important articles are marked with bold. Over time,
some news articles are taken off-line by the host newspaper.
May 2004
PSC
Schedules Forums on Wisconsin's Energy Future - May 5, 2004 Wheeler Report
(PDF)
State
expecting less funding to distribute to counties for 2004 beach monitoring
- May 5, 2004 NC
Drive
is on to stamp out asthma - May 5, 2004 PG
Conditional
OK on Sturgeon Bay-area marina extensions sought - May 5, 2004 PG
Judge
upholds retaining wall lawsuit - May 5, 2004 ON
DNR
boat certification class set for Saturday - May 5, 2004 PC
Letter:
Magnolia project wastes city reserves - May 5, 2004 MHT
Editorial:
Cold water can be paralyzing in Wisconsin - May 5, 2004 MHT
[PCB]
9-11 study: New Yorkers poisoned by WTC plume - May 5, 2004 Salt Lake Tribune
[PCB]
Study shows 9-11's harmful environmental aftermath - May 5, 2004 Bradenton
Herald
[PCB] Change
is coming, but when? - May 5, 2004 ENN
[PCB]
EPA halts export of WWII ship to China, citing toxic chemicals - May 5,
2004 Fredericksburg
[PCB]
Discovery of PCBs Prevents Bay Area "Artship" From Being Scrapped in China:
Finding Raises Questions About Fate of Navy "Ghost Fleet" - Common Dreams
[PCB]
NWE to clean PCB spill after wind damages transformer - May 5, 2004 Billings
Gazette
[PCB]
Wild Salmon Prices Boosted by Campaigns - May 5, 2004 ABC 7 News
[PCB]
Demand gone wild Salmon fishermen are profiting as health-conscious consumers
pick ocean-caught over farmed - May 5, 2004 Oregonian
[PCB]
Tainted soil stymies Morton East plan - May 5, 2004 Chicago Tribune
[PCB]
Kits take guesswork out of dinner - May 5, 2004 Mercury News
[PCB]
Students document the documentarians - May 5, 2004 Poughkeepsie Journal
[PCB]
Treated Nerve Gas May Flow Into Bay - May 5, 2004 Herald News
[Dioxin]
Report: Government Failed to Curb Pollution - May 5, 2004 The Ledger
[Dioxin]
Grand jury blasts agencies over tainted water supply - May 5, 2004 Pensacola
News Journal
USDA
Limits Green Payments, Is Accused of Skimping - May 5, 2004 Planet Ark
Lawmakers
Seek to Remove Lead from Tap Water - May 5, 2004 Planet Ark
Study:
Top U.S. Air Polluters Are Closely Tied to Bush Fundraising, Pollution
Policymaking Process - May 5, 2004 EMS
U.S. petitioned to protect
225 species - May 5, 2004 MSNBC
U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Indoctrination Proclaims Its "Scientific Excellence;"
All Staff Required to Watch Video and "Dialogue" - May 5, 2004 EMS
United Nations
wakes up to sustainable coffee - May 5, 2004 ENN
[PCB] Environmentalists
Against the Environment: The Lost Sierra Club - May 4, 2004 CounterPunch
DNR
wrapping up contamination investigation - May 4, 2004 NC
Treml
family seeks ‘permanent corrective measures’ - May 4, 2004 DCA
New
plan for national forest reduces logging, expands ATV access - May 4, 2004
MilwJS
Hazardous-spill
pad spells success - May 4, 2004 PG
Bridge,
marina projects bump heads - May 4, 2004 PG
Commission approves
general plan design - May 4, 2004 MEH
Whooping
cranes win fans - May 4, 2004 WSJ
Tree planting takes
serious planning - May 4, 2004 MEH
Representative
Spencer Black: A tale of two Legislatures - May 4, 2004 FightingBob
[PCB]
Study: WTC air was 'intensely toxic' - May 4, 2004 New York Newsday
[PCB]
Sprawl, disease harm birds' habitats - May 4, 2004 Poughkeepsie Journal
[PCB]
EarthTalk: Are there any safe, nontoxic garden herbicides? - May 4, 2004
ENN
[PCB]
Toxic World War II Ship Will Stay Docked In Vallejo - May 4, 2004 VallejoNews
[PCB]
Joint Genome Institute Decodes Wood & Toxic Waste-degrading Fungus
Genome - May 4, 2004 ScienceDaily
[Dioxin]
Public Health Consequences of World Trade Center Disaster - May 4, 2004
Newswise
[Dioxin]
DuPont emissions, production up for discussion - May 4, 2004 Sun Herald
Searching
for safer seafood - May 4, 2004 ENN
Arsenic
used in chicken feed may pose threat - May 4, 2004 Baltimore Sun
Bush
Supports Defense Department Exemption From Environmental, Health Protections
- May 4, 2004 Bush GreenWatch
ACC to Lauch
Environmental Website - May 4, 2004 C&EN
Global Warming's
Dollar Effects - May 4, 2004 SpaceDaily
Global
warming's bottom line - May 4, 2004 Boston Globe
Unexpected
repairs to delay restart of nuclear plant reactor - May 3, 2004 MilwJS
Botanical
Garden sets class schedule - May 3, 2004 NC
Lakeshore
Update: Invasive exotic plant focus of presentation - May 3, 2004 MHT
Project
cost is soaring - May 3, 2004 ON
War
on mosquitoes proposed - May 3, 2004 WSJ
Duck decline
blamed on fragmented habitat - May 3, 2004 GLRC
Editorial:
Ozone pollution is a reality we have to accept, attack - May 3, 2004 SP
Editorial:
Gard's cash constituents - May 3, 2004 CapTimes
[PCB]
Housy label hinges on ‘rest of river’ - May 3, 2004 Register Citizen
[PCB] -
Upper Newport Bay Revitalized - May 3, 2004 University of California Online
[Dioxin]
New Research Outlines Public Health Consequences of World Trade Center
Disaster - May 3, 2004 NIH News
[Dioxin]
- Burning issue in Albany - May 3, 2004 Daily Freeman
[Dioxin]
Tennis champ rallies against meat dangers - May 3, 2004 Ka Leo O Hawaii
Breastfed
Babies Less Likely to Die, Study Finds - May 3, 2004 Washington Post
New
Data To Reveal Top 50 U.S. Polluters, Political Contributions Made By Same
Companies - May 3, 2004 EMS
The Toxic EPA
- May 3, 2004 TomPaine
Supreme
Court declines to review Bush administration appeal over pollution - May
3, 2004 NJ.com
In
the sky, more than meets the eye - May 3, 2004 EMS
The
Oceans are Dying - May 3, 2004 Washington Post
8 counties
fail air pollution test - May 2, 2004 MilwJS
Proposed
power plan would be costly - May 2, 2004 PG
The
Paper Report: Papermakers confront global competitors [Push for more deregulation]
- May 2, 2004 PC
State
working to teach people to fight invasive species - May 2, 2004 NC
DNR
aims at invasive species - May 2, 2004 PC
Silver
Lake Park project moving along - May 2, 2004 MHT
Green
Bay pro Grunwaldt wins RCL walleye tourney - May 2, 2004 Wisconsin Outdoors
Cutter
built in Marinette carries lots of maritime tradition - May 2, 2004 PG
Opinion:
Indian School offers a design at peace with the earth - May 2, 2004 MilwJS
Editorial:
The EPA should stand fast - May 2, 2004 MilwJS
Letter:
State's environment is getting healthier [NOT!] (Scroll down) - May 2,
2004 MilwJS
Letter:
We should be addressing our own pollution (Scroll down) - May 2, 2004 MilwJS
Ed
Culhane column: Making a run for white bass - May 2, 2004 Wisconsin Outdoors
[PCB]
Pollution cleanup blitz planned - May 2, 2004 Press & Sun Bulletin
[PCB]
FINN (COM) Daily Record: 29 April 2004 - May 2, 2004 Falkland Islands News
Network
[Dioxin]
Trash talk about energy - May 2, 2004 Newsday
[Dioxin]
Tire-fire plan roils small-town Preston - May 2, 2004 StarTribune
[Dioxin]
Mary McGrory: Veterans have lost a true friend - May 2, 2004 Boston Globe
[Dioxin]
A call for an eco-revolutionary protest camp in Perm - May 2, 2004 InfoShop
Wal-Mart's
New Political Strategy - May 2, 2004 Planetizen
[PCB]
Katers article omitted key facts - May 1, 2004 PG
[PCB]
Law no barrier to invasive bighead carp - May 1, 2004 MilwJS
Water
Authority picks project manager - May 1, 2004 PG
Public
hearings on proposed power plant to be held this month - May 1, 2004 SP
Carmody
County Park and Boat-launch plans put on hold - May 1, 2004 PG
Couple sue over
mineral interests - May 1, 2004 MEH
Fishing
season off to good start - May 1, 2004 MilwJS
Outdoor
notes - May 1, 2004 MilwJS
Gov. Doyle:
Dedicates Stewardship Purchase of Land on Big Timber Island in the Chippewa
Flowage - May 1, 2004 WisPolitics
Opinion:
Law breaks new ground in protecting state's water - May 1, 2004 MilwJS
Wisconsin
Diary: A tree for later - May 1, 2004 CapTimes
Editorial:
Protecting priceless land - May 1, 2004 MilwJS
Opinion: Eye?
Aye -Aye, Legislators continue to blink at exposure - May 1, 2004 Waukesha
Freeman
Optimistic
opening weekend - May 1, 2004 MilwJS
[PCB]
Health Of Housatonic - May 1, 2004 CTNow
[PCB]
GE can't elude cleanup duty - May 1, 2004 Poughkeepsie Journal
[PCB]
Struggles of the polar bear- May 1, 2004 TheStar
[PCB]
Pronova Biocare AS - May 1, 2004 NPI Center
[Dioxin] The Paper
Chase - May 1, 2004 EMagazine.com
[Dioxin]
Firefighters battle fire at Sand Island recycling-yard - May 1, 2004 Honolulu
Advertiser
Backsliding
on the environment - May 1, 2004 Boston
April 2004
Free Public Programs - April
2004
EPA Whistleblower on Wisconsin
Tour: 9/11 Cover-up by the Bush Administration Exposed
[PCB]
Katers rips group that criticizes her (Scroll down) - April 30, 2004 PG
[PCB] The
Lost Sierra Club - April 30, 2004 Press Action
178
take Georgia-Pacific buyouts - April 30, 2004 PG
Georgia-Pacific
closes in on employment-reduction goal - April 30, 2004 PC
County
flunks air test - April 30, 2004 MHT
Relicense
effort likely at Kewaunee Nuclear Plant - April 30, 2004 PG
DNR
report will clear farm named in suit, attorney says - April 30, 2004 PG
Renewable
energy sites are sought (Scroll down) - April 30, 2004 PG
Coverage
of gulls was incomplete (Scroll down) - April 30, 2004 MHT
Manitowoc
County: You love those trails - April 30, 2004 MHT
Farmers
dispose chemical barrels - April 30, 2004 ON
Appleton
CEO to retire in 2005 - April 30, 2004 PC
Gypsy
moth season is now here - April 30, 2004 Shawano Leader
Cranes'
flight to Wisconsin stalled by Lake Michigan - April 30, 2004 MilwJS
Rep.
Pocan: Legislative Leadership Stalling of Wisconsin Eye Programming
Recipient
of April "Golden Turkey" Award - April 30, 2004 WisPolitics (PDF)
Editorial:
Towns have model for ‘Smart Growth’ in Dane County - April 30, 2004 SP
[PCB]
Towns on EPA list begin to fight - April 30, 2004 TimesUnion
[PCB]
Cleanup location gets flak - April 30, 2004 Saratogian
[PCB]
Parks board gathers plans for Cos Cob site - April 30, 2004 Greenwich Time
[PCB]
Progress Slow On Housatonic - April 30, 2004 Litchfield County Times
[PCB]
Change is coming, but when? - April 30, 2004 Whistler Question
[PCB]
State: Eels found in local ponds unsafe to eat due to DDT levels - April
30, 2004 Daily Item
[PCB]
State Testing Surface Water, Sediments At Phelps Dodge Site - April 30,
2004 Queens Chronicle
[PCB]
LANL loses water appeal - April 30, 2004 Lamonitor
[Dioxin]
Newly Identified Contaminant May Delay EPA's Plan for Surham Meadows Superfund
Site - April 30, 2004 Town Times
[Dioxin]
JP Morgan Chase Deflects Criticism with New Environmental Policies - April
30, 2004 GreenBiz News
Michigan
Developer May Go to Prison - April 30, 2004 Yahoo
Solar Power
To Stop Being A Luxury Item - April 30, 2004 Planetizen
Art leaves
a positive stamp on the Earth - April 30, 2004 ENN
Most Livable
States - April 30, 2004 Planetizen
AWWA:
More federal funds required to meet drinking water needs - April 30, 2004
WaterTech
Report
Predicts Asthma Epidemic from Pollution - April 30, 2004 PlanetArk
Senate
Fails to Resurrect Stalled Energy Bill - April 30, 2004 Planet Ark
U.S. EPA delays
mercury utility rule until March 2005 - April 2004 30, ENN
Global
warming linked to high asthma rates - April 30, 2004 Globe and Mail
[PCB]
Dewatering process should have low impact - April 29, 2004 PC
[PCB]
PCB operations site changes - April 29, 2004 PC
[PCB]
Preserve seeks PCB funds for projects - April 29, 2004 PG
[PCB]
Anglers don't have to cast far for hot spot: State reminds public about
mercury concerns as fishing season opens - April 29, 2004 MilwJS
[PCB]
The Lost Sierra Club - April 29, 2004 Dissident Voice
Treml
family seeks 'permanent corrective measures' at Stahl farm - April 29,
2004 NC
Family
sues farmer over tainted water - April 29, 2004 PG
Silver
Lake cleanup begins next phase - April 29, 2004 MHT
USDA
program signup continues (Scroll down) - April 29, 2004 MHT
Sturgeon
spawning gives wildlife officials chance to check, tag fish - April 29,
2004 PG
Bay’s
west shore is ‘hidden treasure’ - April 29, 2004 Wisconsin Outdoors
Changes
to CWD policies approved - April 29, 2004 PC
DNR
alters CWD plan, takes flak from hunters - April 29, 2004 CapTimes
Air
here is state’s worst - April 29, 2004 SP
Palmer Johnson shows signs
of vitality - April 29, 2004 DCA
Got
a line & a pole? Saturday's the day - April 29, 2004 WSJ
Wisconsin
Clean Air News: Eastern Wisconsin Air, Counties Flunk, Says Lung Associate
- April 29, 2004 WisPolitics
Bush
mercury plan snubs Wisconsin on eve of fishing opener - April 29, 2004
(PDF)
Pat
Durkin column: Anglers never know what’s on the line - April 29, 2004 Wisconsin
Outdoors
Stora
Enso reports net profit up on down sales - April 29, 2004 PC
Great
Outdoors Almanac - April 29, 2004 Wisconsin Outdoors
Sierra
Club: More Than 450,000 Americans Tell Bush Admin. to Clean Up Toxic Mercury
- April 29, 2004 WisPolitics
[PCB]
Science Matters: Change is coming, but when? - April 29, 2004 Community
Press Online
[PCB]
Hazardous materials will be buried in Lead - April 29, 2004 Aberdeen News
[PCB]
EPA list stirs anger along river - April 29, 2004 TimesUnion
[PCB]
EPA picks treatment-plant sites - April 29, 2004 Journal News
[PCB]
County sites not EPA picks - April 29, 2004 Saratogian
[PCB]
Work to begin on Occum Park - April 29, 2004 Norwich Bulletin
[PCB]
Cleaning up our act - April 29, 2004 Isreal News
[PCB]
Grytviken Waste Removal: An Exercise in Preservation - April 29, 2004 Falkland
Islands News Network
[PCB/Dioxin]
Court rejects LANL appeal of water standard - April 29, 2004 4KOBTV
[Dioxin]
EPA studying several dioxin testing methods - April 29, 2004 Saginaw News
[Dioxin]
Cascades Park gets closer to cleanup - April 29, 2004 Talahassee Democrat
[Dioxin]
Fish industry sees a catch-22 in new regulations - April 29, 2004 Baltic
Times
Lung association
ranks most polluted cities - April 29, 2004 CNN
Most
Americans Face Smog Danger - April 29, 2004 CBS News
Most Americans live in bad
smog areas - April 29, 2004 MSNBC
Report:
nearly half the nation lives in high smog regions - April 29, 2004 SFGate
Senate
Rejects Disastrous Energy Bill - April 29, 2004 EMS
E.P.A.
Will Not Withdraw Its Mercury Plan - April 29, 2004 NYTimes
Driller
vs. Community Conflicts Rising As Bush Opens Rocky Mountain Lands - April
29, 2004 Bush GreenWatch
Food
Prices Rising - Decades of Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in
Key Countries - April 29, 2004 ENN
Farming is
biggest global environmental threat, says new book - April 29, 2004 ENN
U.N. conference
finds little progress on reaching global development goals - April 29,
2004 ENN
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Abbreviations
PG
Green Bay Press Gazette
NC
Green Bay News Chronicle
PC
Appleton Post Crescent
ON
Oshkosh Northwestern
MilwJS
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
WSJ
Wisconsin State Journal
DCA
Door County Advocate
OCE
Oconty County Reporter
SP
Sheboygan Press
WDH
Wausau Daily Herald
Pesh
Peshtigo Times
MHT
Manitowoc Herald Times
MES
Marinette Eagle Star
EPA
Environmental Protection
Agency
DNR
Wisconsin Dept. of
Natural Resources
USFWS
U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service (Dept. of Interior)
ENN
Environmental
News Network
ENS
Environmental
News Service
EMS
Environmental
Media Service
RPA
Reuters Planet Ark
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