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The following articles all relate to water use and quality, and the paper industry.  PCB- and sediment-related articles are marked with bold. Over time, some articles are taken off-line by the host newspaper.  ProQuest articles may be inaccessible through certain Internet Service Providers, for more information see the Appleton Public Library website.)
 
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December 2004

Expansion boosts ethanol plant capacity - Dec 10, 2004 PC
DNR wants $21.2M in fee hikes - Dec 10, 2004 PC
Emergency training prepares for disasters - Dec 10, 2004 MHT
Fuel quality declining, auto industry asserts - Dec 10, 2004 MilwJS
Editorial: A win for the lakefront - Dec 10, 2004 MilwJS
Stewing in Filth: EPA to Reverse Sewage Standard, Allow Massive Dumping - Dec 10, 2004 ENN
Forest and the Trees: Dec 10, 2004 Truthout
Nobel prize awarded to environmentalist - Dec 10, 2004 MSNBC
Bill Moyers: The Delusional Is No Longer Marginal - Dec 10, 2004 TomPaine
Top Scientists Launch RealClimate.org: Team of Renowned Climate Experts from Europe and the US Create First-of-a-Kind Climate Weblog - Dec 10, 2004 EMS


[PCB] Cleanup team trucks sediment to landfill - Dec 9, 2004 PC
Clean Wisconsin, Sierra Club: EPA to Reverse Sewage Standard, Allow Massive Dumping, Putting the Great Lakes at Risk - Dec 9, 2004 WisPolitics
Green Bay council OKs ball diamonds at old landfill - Dec 9, 2004 PG
Fishing, hunting fees may increase - Dec 9, 2004 PC
DNR board approves higher hunting, fishing license fees - Dec 9, 2004 NC
DNR approves water regs, baiting and feeding rules [Environmental Deregulation] - Dec 9, 2004 NC
Summary box: DNR budget - Dec 9, 2004 NC
Environmental group sues DNR over dairy farm expansion - Dec 9, 2004 NC
Group sues DNR over dairy farm expansion - Dec 9, 2004 PG
DNR grants review of power plant air permit - Dec 9, 2004 Duluth News Tribune
Group aims to quash Weston's 4th generator - Dec 9, 2004 WDH
Overnight at MacKenzie Environmental Center - Dec 9, 2004 CapTimes
Great Outdoors Almanac - Dec 9, 2004 Wisconsin Outdoors
Letter: How about thinking outside the box? (Scroll down) - Dec 9, 2004 MilwJS
Letter: Safety isn’t minor issue in Wal-Mart proposal - Dec 9, 2004 SP
[PCB] EU project looks into effects of neurotoxicants - Dec 9, 2004 Cordis
[PCB] Illness linked to area ZIP codes - Dec 9, 2004 Democrat & Chronicle
[PCB] Killer whale pod has not produced a calf in 20 years - Dec 9, 2004 Presss-Telegram
[Dioxin] Dioxin study participation high - Dec 9, 2004 Saginaw News
[Dioxin] Yushchenko Confirmed Poisoned During Ukraine Presidential Campaign - Dec 9, 2004 MensNewsDaily
Study: Return of Wolves Changes Ecosystem - Dec 9, 2004 Yahoo
Details of $36 Billion Bipartisan US Energy Plan - Dec 9, 2004 PlanetArk
EPA May Allow the Discharge of Partially Treated Sewage: Guidelines That Are Near Release Would Permit Blended Waste - Dec 9, 2004 Washington Post
No Escape From Dependency - Dec 9, 2004 AlterNet
Panel Pushes for Energy Security Funding - Dec 9, 2004 Guardian


Board passes new waterway rules [Environmental Deregulation] - Dec 8, 2004 MilwJS
Calumet County tilts at windmill planning - Dec 8, 2004 PC
Water Authority plans for loss of industries - Dec 8, 2004 PG
Source of creek pollution unknown - Dec 8, 2004 MHT
Dairy, county leaders learn about manure application - Dec 8, 2004 MHT
Fees, rules to change at parks - Dec 8, 2004 MilwJS
Utica Energy doubles production capabilities with expansion - Dec 8, 2004 ON
Editorial: Water could drown warmer urban/suburban relationship (Scroll down) - Dec 8, 2004 Waukesha Freeman
Letter: What’s the rush? Let’s get some answers - Dec 8, 2004 MilwJS
Letter: Wal-Mart in Town of Sheboygan is more than a rezoning issue - Dec 8, 2004 SP
Clean Wisconsin: WE Energies Uses Scare Tactics to Divert Attention From the Real Issue: A Flawed Plan - Dec 8, 2004 WisPolitics
USDA is killing marauding wolves - Dec 8, 2004 CapTimes
Weekly fishing report - Dec 8, 2004 MilwJS
[PCB] You are what they eat - January 2005 ConsumerReports
[PCB] Woods: Love that dirty water - Dec 8, 2004 Weymouth News
[Dioxin] Report warns of PVC waste crisis looming - Dec 8, 2004 Waste News
[Dioxin] Buyers urged to avoid 'poison plastics' - Dec 8, 2004 Maine Today
[Dioxin] Doctors Suspect Dioxin as Cause of Yushchenko's Illness - Dec 8, 2004 PolitInfo
[Dioxin] Cause of Yushchenko's illness still unclear - Dec 8, 2004 CNEWS
[Dioxin] No conclusive evidence Yushchenko poisoned, hospital says - Dec 8, 2004 Star Tribune
Exposure study of household chemicals and kids - Dec 8, 2004 ES&T
I Won't Take the Cod, Thank You - Dec 8, 2004 AlterNet
No Escape from Dependency: Looming Energy Crisis Overshadows Bush's Second Term - Dec 8, 2004 Common Dreams
Tomgram: Michael Klare on the Coming Energy Crisis - Dec 8, 2004 TomDispatch
Global trade affects natural world - Dec 8, 2004 TorontoStar
Bill Moyers: Battlefield Earth - Dec 8, 2004 AlterNet


Deals would add 5,625 public acres - Dec 7, 2004 MilwJS
Wisconsin board weighs dumping job devoted to cranes - Dec 7, 2004 NC
DNR weighs dumping job of helping cranes migrate - Dec 7, 2004 PG
DNR mulls shutdown of facilities - Dec 7, 2004 PC
Wisconsin trails could lose funds for workers in 2007 - Dec 7, 2004 NC
Power from the people -- Racine alderman wants to form public utility - Dec 7, 2004 Racine Journal Times
Hunters and anglers are environmentalists, too - Dec 7, 2004 STLToday
Jim Beal: Madison lake researchers certainly deserve our trust - Dec 7, 2004 CapTimes
Mike Ivey: Just turn Wisconsin into a state of lab rats - Dec 7, 2004 CapTimes
[PCB] Males more prone to commit crimes but whys elude - Dec 7, 2004 Japan Times Online
[Dioxin] Public health group warns about impending plastic problem - Dec 7, 2004 KnoxStudio
Clinton Urges Effort to Address Energy - Dec 7, 2004 Truthout
U.S. Firmly Anti-Kyoto as U.N. Climate Talks Start - Dec 7, 2004 Truthout


Water line gets closer to being a done deal - Dec 6, 2004 MHT
Nature center closer to goal, thanks to gift - Dec 6, 2004 PC
American Naturalist to share vision of Iraq - Dec 6, 2004 SP
Oneida County recycling on the rise - Dec 6, 2004 RDN
A.G. Lautenschlager: Announces Sam's Rotary Well Drilling to Pay $100,000 in Environmental Lawsuit Settlement - Dec 6, 2004 WisPolitics
A.G. Lautenschlager: Announces Air Pollution Case Against Bostrom in Waukesha County - Dec 6, 2004 WisPolitics
Tribal governments demand role in Annex 2001 - Dec 6, 2004 GLRC
Letter: Lake Michigan water should not be diverted (Scroll down) - Dec 6, 2004 MilwJS
[PCB] Organochlorines Reduce Bone Density in Polar Bears - Dec 6, 2004 Innovations Report
[PCB] The ghosts of Bass Pro yet to come - Dec 6, 2004 Buffalo News
EPA Stifles Objections to Bush Roadless Plan; Water Quality, Habitat and Other Concerns Cut from Comments to Forest Service - Dec 6, 2004 Truthout
We Pledge Allegiance to the Mall - Dec 6, 2004 NYTimes
21st Century Fuel: A New Mission for America - Dec 6, 2004 Truthout
Dreaming of a Green Christmas? Shop Debra's List - Dec 6, 2004 ENN


Students tune in to environmental health with frog sounds - Dec 5, 2004 MilwJS
Waste not, want not? - Dec 5, 2004 MHT
Ed Garvey: Be careful not to win - Dec 5, 2004 FightingBob
Editorial: Two Rivers is proactive in sale of plant - Dec 5, 2004 MHT
Jim Lee column: Superior targets city deer - Dec 5, 2004 Wisconsin Outdoors
Susan Stansbury column: Paper converting market where it’s at - Dec 5, 2004 PC
Editorial: Households know to recycle; businesses should do the same - Dec 5, 2004 PG
[PCB] Executive (mansion) privilege - Dec 5, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times
Bush Sets Out Plan to Dismantle 30 Years of Environmental Laws - Dec 5, 2004 Truthout


[PCB] Cleanup of PCBs could take 10 years - Dec 4, 2004 PG
[PCB] Fox River cleanup still in early stages - Dec 4, 2004 PC
City makes pitch for former landfill - Dec 4, 2004 PG
DNR proposes permanent rules for development along waterways - Dec 4, 2004 NC
DNR wants development rules eased - Dec 4, 2004 PC
Roland Klug column: New trail would promote recreation - Dec 4, 2004 PG
Ruling nips energy plans, WE chief says - Dec 4, 2004 MilwJS
Outdoors news and notes - Dec 4, 2004 MilwJS
People's Legislature - Dec 4, 2004 FightingBob
Sunday Symposium: Power struggle - Dec 4, 2004 MilwJS
Preserve our Climate Coalition: As global warming threat grows, individuals can make a difference - Dec 4, 2004 CapTimes
Leaders vow joint effort to protect Great Lakes - Dec 4, 2004 Chicago Sun-Times
Editorial: Great Lakes' water must be protected - Dec 4, 2004 Toronto Star
Editorial: Appeal Oak Creek ruling - Dec 4, 2004 MilwJS
Letter: Move Wisconsin toward cleaner, safer energy (Scroll down) - Dec 4, 2004 MilwJS
Opinion: Ever wonder: Feeding gulls isn’t illegal in Appleton, but isn’t the best idea either - Dec 4, 2004 PC
[PCB] MBA students push the ethics envelope - Dec 4, 2004 STLToday
[PCB] Lake cleanup plan faces skepticism - Dec 4, 2004 Berkshire Eagle
[PCB] PCBs muddle river water plan - Dec 4, 2004 Saratogian
Battlefield Earth: The environment is in trouble and the religious right doesn't care. It's time to act as if the future depends on us – because it does - Dec 4, 2004 - AlterNet
 


[PCB] Officials to discuss PCB cleanup plans today - Dec 3, 2004 PG
WPS buys Alliant's energy management services business - Dec 3, 2004 NC
DNR budget would increase deer-hunt, fishing fees - Dec 3, 2004 NC
DNR eyes hunting, fishing fee hikes - Dec 3, 2004 PC
DNR budget would boost deer-hunting, fishing fees - Dec 3, 2004 PG
Pact to protect, restore Great Lakes signed - Dec 3, 2004 MilwJS
Great Lakes Declaration signed - Dec 3, 2004 WaterTech
Editorial: Plan to build turbines two miles from Horicon Marsh needs study - Dec 3, 2004 Fond Du Lac Reporter
Editorial: So, deer hunting is about population management? - Dec 3, 2004 PG
Letter: Let everyone in Town of Sheboygan vote on Wal-Mart - Dec 3, 2004 SP
Letter: Wind turbines in blighted areas - Dec 3, 2004 Milwaukee Business Journal
[PCB] Grants raise hope for mill cleanups - Dec 3, 2004 MaineToday
[PCB] Opinion: Ghost fleet - Dec 3, 2004 DailyPress
[PCB] As soon as we build roads, wildlife hits the highway - Dec, 2004 Bay Journal
[Dioxin] Disaster still shakes industry - Dec 3, 2004 Saginaw News
[Dioxin] Federal lawsuit pending against Carbide - Dec 3, 2004 NewKerala
[Dioxin] Greenpeace alert over dioxin risk - Dec 3, 2004 Stuff
[Dioxin] Groups Protest Against Dioxin at Parliament - Dec 3, 2004 Scoop
The Godmother of Green Health Care - Dec 3, 2004 AlterNet
Bush Administration Rejecting Strong State Environmental Laws - Dec 3, 2004 Bush GreenWatch


Speaker: Clean air, water should be priority - Dec 2, 2004 Wausau Daily Herald
Water-quality problems improve in Suamico - Dec 2, 2004 PG
Fishermen want to change channel in De Pere - Dec 2, 2004 PG
Energy report: Go 10 percent renewable by 2015 - Dec 2, 2004 NC
We Energies to appeal court ruling against Oak Creek plants - Dec 2, 2004 NC
DNR proposes fee increases - Dec 2, 2004 MilwJS
Ed Garvey: PSC or USC? - Dec 2, 2004 FightingBob
The perfect partner: Wisconsin’s land trusts connect the conservation goals of individuals with the landscape at large - Dec 2004 Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine
Outdoors in brief - Dec 2, 2004 Wisconsin Outdoors
Great Outdoors Almanac - Dec 2, 2004 Wisconsin Outdoors
[PCB] Former mill area in York and Oxford counties eyed for redevelopment - Dec 2, 2004 Foster's Online
[PCB] Industrial site to get new life - Dec 2, 2004 Detroit News
[PCB] Protesters decry toxic cleanup efforts - Dec 2, 2004 ContraCostaTimes
[PCB] The Godmother of Green Health Care - Dec 2, 2004 AlterNet
[PCB] Organochlorines Reduce Bone Density in Polar Bears - Dec 2, 2004 Newswise
[Dioxin] Dynamite in the Center of Town: Bhopal at Twenty - Dec 2, 2004 CorpWatch
[Dioxin] 20 years later, Bhopal still isn't settled - Dec 2, 2004 MSNBC
Deadly Hot Summers 'to Become the Norm' - Dec 2, 2004 Common Dreams
Battle Scars: Global Conflicts and Environmental Health - Dec, 2004 EHP
Power giant endorses greenhouse gas curbs - Dec 2, 2004 MSNBC
North American birds on the decline - Dec 2, 2004 Christian Science Monitor
No decline in Amazon deforestation - Dec 2, 2004 MSNBC


[PCB] A river and region face a toxic past - Dec 1, 2004 Christian Science Monitor
Permits prompt new timeline on pipeline - Dec 1, 2004 PG
Two Rivers faces new costs from old landfills - Dec 1, 2004 MHT
Wal-Mart thwarted - Dec 1, 2004 SP
Waukesha offers to be water test case: City hopes to win approval for diversion from Great Lakes - Dec 1, 2004 MilwJS
State energy recommendations finalized - Dec 1, 2004 MilwJS
PSC to appeal judge's ruling against power plant approval - Dec 1, 2004 NC
PSC to appeal recent ruling on power plant - Dec 1, 2004 PC
PSC to appeal judge's power plant ruling - Dec 1, 2004 CapTimes
PSC to appeal Oak Creek decision - Dec 1, 2004 Racine Journal Times
Area residents react to coal plant decision - Dec 1, 2004 Racine Journal Times
Cost of coal plants could increase - Dec 1, 2004 MilwJS
UWO takes part in science study - Dec 1, 2004 ON
Weekly fishing report - Dec 1, 2004 MilwJS
Analysis -- We Energies loves its Oak Creek site; here's why - Dec 1, 2004 Racine Journal Times
Opinion: Francie McGuire Winkler: Hooray to judge for power plant ruling - Dec 1, 2004 CapTimes
WISPIRG: Praises release of a plan for a clean energy future - Dec 1, 2004 Wheeler Report (PDF)
[PCB] Pollution cleanups to continue - Dec 1, 2004 Poughkeepsie Journal
[PCB] Keith Middle School site earns 'Dirty Dozen' tag - Dec 1, 2004 South Coast Today
[PCB] Love that dirty water - Dec 1, 2004 Marshfield Mariner
[Dioxin] Silent Night, Deadly Night - Dec 1, 2004 AlterNet
Bill Moyers: On Receiving Harvard Med's Global Environment Citizen Award - Dec 1, 2004 Truthout
Builders Turn More Toward Environmentally-Friendly Products as Costs Fall - Dec 1, 2004 ENN
The Gap Between Delhi and Dallas - Dec 1, 2004 AlterNet
Rocket fuel chemical found in lettuce, organic milk - Dec 1, 2004 PlanetSave
Environmentalists See Trouble for Air, Wildlife in Bush's Second Term - Dec 1, 2004 ENN
Scientists tie heat waves to greenhouse gases - Dec 1, 2004 MSNBC
'The age of cheap oil is over' - Dec 1, 2004 Guardian

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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

DCA
Door County Advocate

OCE
Oconty County Reporter

SP
Sheboygan Press

WDH
Wausau Daily Herald

Pesh
Peshtigo Times

Eagle
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


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