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GLOBAL WARMING COULD FLOOD MANHATTAN, TOKYO
FREED LAB ANIMALS JUMPSTART GORE CAMPAIGN
AMERISCAN: OCTOBER 19, 1999
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GLOBAL WARMING COULD FLOOD MANHATTAN, TOKYO
GLAND, Switzerland, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - The consequences of global
warming for the United States include the flooding of New York City, Boston
and Miami, the World Wide Fund For Nature warns. The Japanese cities Tokyo,
Osaka and Nagoya also face the risk of flooding.
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FREED LAB ANIMALS JUMPSTART GORE CAMPAIGN
By Catherine Lazaroff
WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - After five months of negotiations
and highly visible campaigning, animal rights activists have won major
concessions from the federal government over the use of animals in chemical
safety testing. The agreement announced last week could save the lives of
hundreds of thousands of laboratory animals, and offer a needed boost to
the troubled presidential campaign of Vice President Al Gore.
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ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: OCTOBER 19, 1999
Presidential Panel Recommends Resumed Bombing at Vieques
WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - A Presidential panel has recommended that the
U.S. military be allowed to resume training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of
Vieques, including the firing of live ammunition and bombing runs. Training on the
Navy property was shut down in April, after a bomb released by a Marine pilot went
astray and killed a Puerto Rican guard. The panel also recommended Monday that the 58
year old range be permanently shut down in five years. Hillary campaigning in New York
with a large Spanish population says "not".<><<<<<<<<<<
Meetings Seek Public Comment on Bioengineered Foods
WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will
hold a series of public meetings this fall to address concerns about bioengineered
foods. The meetings are part of a new initiative to gather public input on FDA
policies regarding modified foods. At the public meetings, the public will be informed
about current FDA policy for assuring the safety of bioengineered foods, and asked
whether this policy should be modified. The FDA is also interested in finding new ways
to provide information to the public about bioengineered products in U.S. foods.....
The public meetings will be held: November 18 in Chicago, Illinois, from 9 am to 6 pm
at One Prudential Plaza; November 30 in Washington, DC, from 10 am to 7 pm at the
Grand Hyatt Washington; December 13 in Oakland, California, from 9 am to 6 pm at the
Elihu Harris State Office Building. <><<<<<<<<<
Plum Creek Takes I-90 Land Exchange to Court
SPOKANE, Washington, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - Lawyers representing Plum Creek Timber
have asked that the I-90 Land Exchange, in western Washington state, be endorsed by
the courts. In legal documents filed Thursday in federal district court in Spokane,
Plum Creek attorneys said land swap opponents may sue to block the deal, and asked the
court to rule on its legality now. The company claims opposition from
environmentalists is causing expensive delays, and asked that the environmental groups
be forced to pay the company’s costs. "This is bizarre," said Janine Blaeloch,
director of the Seattle based Western Land Exchange Project, which opposes the
exchange. "Plum Creek is trying to portray itself as a victim when they have bullied,
manipulated and engineered every step of the proposed I-90 Land Exchange for the last
three years.
Blaeloch said Plum Creek’s legal filing is a form of a "SLAPP suit" - a strategic
lawsuit against public participation - designed to circumvent the public’s right to
protection under U.S. environmental laws.<><<<<<<<<<<<
Fire Kills One, Burns Homes in California
REDDING, California, October 18, 1999 (ENS) - A 25,000 acre fire has destroyed as many
as 100 structures in Jones Valley, near Redding, California. No injuries from the fire
have been reported, but a female volunteer firefighter died after being struck by a
fire vehicle. The fire, known as the Jones fire, started in the Shasta Lake
campground. California state officials believe an unmonitored campfire was the source
of the fire. There are more than 1,000 firefighters battling the blaze, which
continues to threaten property and lives.
Some 2,500 residents have evacuated from the nearby communities of Millville, Jones
Valley and Palo Cedro.<><<<<<<<<<<<
Government Spends Millions to Buy Back Coal Leases
WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - The federal government plans to pay
PacifiCorp $5.5 million for the company’s federal coal leases in the Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. "This is another follow-through by the
Administration on President Clinton's proclamation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument," said Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. ~Congress has not yet
appropriated the funds for the buyback<><<<<<<<<<
National Parks Polluted by Power Plants
BOONE, North Carolina, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - Great Smoky Mountains National Park
(NP) is the most polluted national park in the U.S., a new report by a nonprofit group
reveals. Boone, North Carolina based Appalachian Voices compiled National Park Service
air pollution monitoring data from ten national parks for the period 1991-1998, and
analyzed ozone pollution, acid precipitation and visibility. Four of the five most
polluted parks are in the East: 1) Great Smoky, in Tennessee and North Carolina; 2)
Shenandoah, in Virginia; 3) Mammoth Cave, Kentucky; 5) Acadia, Maine. Sequoia/Kings
Canyon in California had the fourth most degraded air. All ten parks in the study are
considered Class I areas under the Clean Air Act, giving them the greatest degree of
air quality protection in the country....The full report is available online at:
http://appvoices.org/air/parks99.htm <><<<<<<<<<<<<
Climate Prediction: Muggy Areas May Get Muggier
PRINCETON, New Jersey, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - New climate projections suggest that
global climate change may make warm, humid regions even more warm and humid,
increasing risks to human health and safety. In a study published in the October issue
of "Climatic Change," scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) say substantial increases in the Heat Index - a measure of
stress placed on humans by elevated atmospheric temperature and moisture levels - may
occur in humid regions of the tropics and sub-tropics. The findings suggest that
regions such as the southeastern U.S. may have particular problems during future
summers. "We found that while summer near-surface air temperature increases are
largest over midlatitude continental interiors such as the Great Plains, differences
in ‘moisture induced stress,' are more closely linked to coastal and oceanic regions,
like the southeastern United States," said Thomas Delworth, a meteorologist at NOAA's
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ysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GDFL) in Princeton, New Jersey....For more
information on climate change research,
visit the GFDL web site at: www.gfdl.gov/gfdl_research.html <><<<<<<<<<<
Grants Support Energy Efficiency in Prefabricated Housing
WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded
$800,000 in grants to improve the energy efficiency of factory built housing. The
grants will support research into reducing the energy costs of prefabricated housing
by up to 50 percent, and assist in the construction of thousands of energy efficient
industrialized houses. Industrialized housing includes mobile homes, modular housing,
and houses constructed on site with factory built components. "Investment in this
project will result in thousands of new energy efficient, high-quality and affordable
factory built homes," said Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. "These homes will cut the
$1,300 average annual utility bill for a factory built house by up to 50 percent, a
dramatic savings for their owners."<><<<<<<<<<
Scientists Seek Vanishing Abalone for Breeding Program
SANTA BARBARA, California, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - Scientists are working to learn
how to breed white abalone in captivity, a process that may be the species’ only
chance of survival. White abalone, once abundant in the Pacific Ocean off the
California coast, have been almost wiped out by overfishing. The fishery was closed in
1996, and in 1997, the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed listing the abalone
under the Endangered Species Act, which would make it the first marine invertebrate to
be granted that level of protection. "People thought it was impossible to take such a
fecund animal - a single female can produce 10 million eggs in a season - and drive it
to extinction through fishing," said Gary Davis, a senior scientist at the Channel
Islands National Park.<><<<<<<<<<<<
Canoeist Sends Spokane Up the Creek for Polluting
SPOKANE, Washington, October 19, 1999 (ENS) - In August, an alert canoeist was the
first to spot raw sewage flowing into the Spokane River from the city of Spokane's
sewer system. His tip to a local television station has led to a $15,000 fine issued
this week by the Washington state Department of Ecology (Ecology). The raw sewage came
from a pipe on the north shore of the river that was estimated to be discharging
between 50 and 200 gallons per minute for up to three days. The storm overflow pipe
was designed to protect the rest of the sewage system from backups.
The spill was reported to the city on August 23, but the city did not find it until
Ecology staff and KXLY-TV of Spokane showed it to them on August 24.<><<<<<<<<<
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