And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE (ENS) SENATE VOTES DOWN TIMBER SALE SUBSIDY CUTS TOXIC MERCURY RAINS ON U.S. MIDWEST (SEE PREVIOUS MESSAGE) FOREST CONSERVATIONISTS FIGHT TARIFF ELIMINATION AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 14, 1999 ********************** E-WIRE * Russia Halts First-Ever International Trade in Beluga Whale Meat, Decision * Lake Superior Hospitals Take the Lead to Eliminate Mercury in the Home & Workplace * Mexico City & IMPCO Convert Thousands of Vehicles to Clean the City's Air For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com *************************************************************************** SENATE VOTES DOWN TIMBER SALE SUBSIDY CUTS WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 1999 (ENS) - The U.S. Senate today voted against a proposal to reduce taxpayer subsidized logging in America’s National Forests. Environmental groups criticized lawmakers for putting the interests of the forest industry over those of the taxpaying public and the forests themselves. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-14-07.html *************************************************************************** FOREST CONSERVATIONISTS FIGHT TARIFF ELIMINATION SEATTLE, Washington, September 14, 1999 (ENS) - Forest conservationists today called on Clinton administration trade negotiators to uphold United States environmental standards by immediately withdrawing one of their key agenda items for the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting scheduled to start November 30 in Seattle. The WTO Ministerial is expected to launch a new round of global trade negotiations. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-14-02.html *************************************************************************** ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 14, 1999 Family of Forest Activist Sues Over Wrongful Death DuPont Plans 65% Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions $18 Million Available for Carbon Storage Proposals Energy Department Promises Faster Cleanup at Four Sites Drivers Would Pay Premium for Cleaner Vehicles Paducah Safety Shutdown Finds No Major Problems $1.2 Million Water Supply for 27 New Hampshire Homes Royal Caribbean Pays $3 Million in Los Angeles Concerns Voiced Over Manatee Winter Habitat Wetlands Grant Applications Now Online Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-14-09.html *************************************************************************** E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE *************************************************************************** TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDITOR: Russia Halts First-Ever International Trade in Beluga Whale Meat, Decision Heralded by Environmentalists World-Wide MOSCOW, Sept. 14 -/E-Wire/-- The Russian government has today taken swift action to halt the first-ever international commercial trade of beluga whale meat, putting a stop to the export of 200 metric tons of meat and blubber to Japan, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (www.ifaw.org) announced from its Moscow office. /CONTACT: Masha Vorontsova of IFAW, Russia, +7-095-726-5934, or Jennifer Ferguson-Mitchell of IFAW, USA, 508-744-2076/ /Web site: http://www.ifaw.or For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com/e-wire/Sept99/14Sept9906.html *************************************************************************** E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE *************************************************************************** TO BUSINESS, MEDICAL AND STATE EDITORS: Nine Lake Superior Hospitals Take the Lead in Binational Effort to Eliminate Mercury in the Home and in the Workplace DULUTH, Minn., Sept. 14 -/E-Wire/-- On September 16th, many health care workers in the Lake Superior basin will be bringing thermometers to work. No, there isn't a supply shortage in their hospitals. They are participating in "mercury thermometer round-ups" being held at nine hospitals around Lake Superior on Thursday, September 16. These nine hospitals and their employees are committed to reducing mercury pollution both at home and in the workplace. The round-ups have been organized to assist hospital staff with the proper disposal for the mercury fever thermometers from their home medicine chests and to replace them with non-mercury thermometers. /CONTACT: Jamie Harvie of Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, 218-722-3336, ext. 307, Jackie Hunt Christensen of Health Care Without Harm, 612-870-3424, Tony DeFalco or Molly Chidsey of National Wildlife Federation Great Lakes Natural Resource Center, 734-769-3351/ /Web site: http://www.wlssd.duluth.mn.us / /Web site: http://www.noharm.org / For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com/e-wire/Sept99/14Sept9903.html *************************************************************************** E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE *************************************************************************** TO BUSINESS, ENVIRONMENTAL AND TRANSPORTATION EDITORS: Mexico City and IMPCO to Convert Thousands of Vehicles In a Committed Effort to Clean the City's Air Mexico City's Air Pollution Under Attack as First of 70,000 Vehicles Are Targeted for Conversion CERRITOS, Calif., Sept. 14 -/E-Wire/-- IMPCO Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMCO) today announced that it has signed agreements with two transportation agencies in Mexico to convert over four-thousand transportation vehicles from gasoline to clean burning Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG). /CONTACT: Dale Rasmussen of IMPCO Technologies, Inc., 206-575-1594/ (IMCO) /Web site: http://www.impcotechnologies.com/ For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com/e-wire/Sept99/14Sept9901.html Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
