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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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January 11-20, 2005

Kaukauna power plant on schedule - Jan 20, 2005 NC
Officials ask Coast Guard to stay in control of river - Jan 20, 2005 PC
Replacement urged for Fisk Park Pool - Jan 20, 2005 PG
Winter sport shows let you dream on - Jan 20, 2005 PG
Hunters, anglers resigned to fee hikes - Jan 20, 2005 SP
Gov. Doyle: Announces Major Stewardship Purchase in Vilas, Oneida, Ashland, & Bayfield Counties - Jan 20, 2005 WisPolitics
Proposal would require ethanol in gas sold in state - Jan 20, 2005 WSJ
Great Outdoors Almanac - Jan 20, 2005 Wisconsin Outdoors
Dane County got it right - Jan 20, 2005 NC
US Forests Cost-Effective vs Global Warming -- Study - Jan 20, 2005 PlanetArk
[PCB] Lawsuit seeks ghost fleet disposal - Jan 20, 2005 DailyPress
[PCB] Big Spring Creek fish contaminated - Jan 20, 2005 BillingsGazette
[PCB] Concerns aired on PCB cleanup facility - Jan 20, 2005 Albany, NY
[PCB] Army Seeks Test Burn Permit For Old Buildings - Jan 20, 2005 NewsNet5
[PCB] Plans to burn Ravenna plant spark fears among neighbors - Jan 20, 2005 Plain Dealer
[PCB] Drum find suggests widespread dumping - Jan 20, 2005 NorthJersey
[PCB] Bills, bills and more bills that impact outdoorsmen - Jan 20, 2005 Roanoke Times
[PCB] Paoli redevelopment takes step forward - Jan 20, 2005 WayneSuburban
[PCB] State makes $508,500 grant to clean up former city dump - Jan 20, 2005 Princeton Union-Eagle
[PCB/Dioxin] State lays out dioxin cleanup plan - Jan 20, 2005 Saginaw News
[Dioxin] Dow agrees to begin cleanup - Jan 20, 2005 Michigan Daily
Nation Makes Progress Fighting Cancer but Still No. 1 Killer of Those Under 85 - Jan 20, 2005 SeniorJournal
Airline water getting worse, EPA warns - Jan 20, 2005 Philadelphia Inquirer
Nuclear Power Makes a Comeback - Jan 20, 2005 ENN
U.S. opposes tying disasters to warming: Delegation seeks to remove text from global plan - Jan 20, 2005 MSNBC


[PCB] Dread, as in dredging - Jan 19, 2005 NC
County to negotiate power line: Washburn rescinds its opposition to project - Jan 19, 2005 MilwJS
Immediate action sought to protect Great Lakes from invaders - Jan 19, 2005 NC
Water Authority to consider fees for new users - Jan 19, 2005 PG
Falling water table may raise costs - Jan 19, 2005 PC
Talks over Bambi's fate called fruitful - Jan 19, 2005 CapTimes
Not everyone aware of wind tower issue - Jan 19, 2005 MHT
Ship's arrival today sets new port record - Jan 19, 2005 NC
Cana Island Lighthouse ownership transfer hits snag - Jan 19, 2005 PG
Sturgeon Bay council passes ban on pier permits - Jan 19, 2005 PG
1000 Islands registers for winter programs - Jan 19, 2005 PC
Weekly fishing report - Jan 19, 2005 MilwJS
Coalition Against Government Gasoline Mandates: Group Opposes Government Gasoline Mandate that is Costly, Unnecessary and Inefficient - Jan 19, 2005 WisPolitics
John Imes: Wisconsin blends environmental innovation and commitment to economic growth - Jan 19, 2005 WisBusiness
[PCB] Foes outnumber friends in battle over ship - Jan 19, 2005 MilwJS
[PCB] Expert: lab needs additional testing - Jan 19, 2005 MorningCall
[PCB] Suit revives toxic waste scourge - Jan 19, 2005 Phillipine News
[PCB] Study: Playing in Big Spring Creek OK, but don't eat the fish - Jan 19, 2005 BillingsGazette
[Dioxin] DEQ promises information today - Jan 19, 2005 Saginaw News
[Dioxin] Two Midland legislators hope to limit 'facility' designation - Jan 19, 2005 Saginaw News
[Dioxin] Environment: Commission pursues legal action against Austria and Germany - Jan 19, 2005 Europa
[Dioxin] Court asked to reject request for cancellation of dioxin lawsuit - Jan 19, 2005 VNAgency
Water industry in desperate need of federal funds - Jan 19, 2005 WaterTech
Leaks Make up Big Part of Toxics Released by Industry - Jan 19, 2005 ENN
It's My EPA and I'll Cry If I Want To - Jan 19, 2005 AlterNet
Environment’s Critical Role in Defeating Poverty, Disease and Hunger Outlined in UN Millennium Project Report - Jan 19, 2005 ENN
Dead-end for natural gas, electric cars? - Jan 19, 2005 MSNBC
Sierra Club Response To President Bush's Statements Regarding Nuclear Power - Jan 19, 2005 Common Dreams
Apocalypse Soon: Has Environmental Abuse Finally Gone too Far? - Jan 19, 2005 Common Dreams


Heather LaRoi column: Want to get away from it all? Consider winter camping - Jan 18, 2005 Wisconsin Outdoors
Letters: Attacks on Ald. Perez are pure politics - Jan 18, 2005 SP
[PCB] Puget Sound report card - Jan 18, 2005 Seattle PI
[PCB] Cleanup Work to Begin at Contaminated Site in Attleboro - Jan 18, 2005 EPA
[PCB] Hydro action on toxin alert - Jan 18 (19), 2005 Mercury
[PCB] DEQ seeks comments on Wah Chang - Jan 18, 2005 Democrat Herald
[PCB/Dioxin] Fat-free potato chips may rid the body of dioxin - Jan 18, 2005 NewsTarget
[Dioxin] Commission to Consider Outlawing Fireplace Use - Jan 18, 2005 Berkeley Daily Planet
U.S. Officials Accuse DuPont of Concealing Teflon Ingredient's Health Risk - Jan 18, 2005 Truthout
Bush: Nuclear Energy Is 'Clean' And 'Renewable' - Jan 18, 2005 Planetizen
Earth to environmentalists ...- Jan 18, 2005 TheStar


Fox River issues hinge on DOT budget - Jan 17, 2005 PG
Green Lake Conservancy Acquires Mitchell’s Glen - Jan 17, 2005 ON
Walleye had modest comeback in Milwaukee, but state wants more - Jan 17, 2005 NC
World's largest iceboats to race on Lake Winnebago - Jan 17, 2005 NC
Regatta to glide around icy lake - Jan 17, 2005 PC
Editorial: Mad approach to mad cow - Jan 17, 2005 CapTimes
Opinion: Pick up the pace of mad cow response - Jan 17, 2005 WSJ
New hearings possible on Great Lakes water use - Jan 17, 2005 WaterTech
Air Pollution Probable Cause of Most Childhood Cancers, Says Study - Jan 17, 2005 Daily News Central
[PCB/Dioxin] Citizens Organize To Oppose Burning Of Buildings - Jan 17, 2005 NewsChannel5
[Dioxin] Exposed: The Government is facing calls for a public inquiry into chemical weapons tests carried out on soldiers at Porton Down during the 1950s - Jan 17, 2005 The Lawyer
[Dioxin] 80% response rate not enough - Jan 17, 2005 Saginaw News
[Dioxin] Dioxin found in German eggs - Jan 17, 2005 BBC
[Dioxin] Germany seeking to cut dioxin in free range eggs - Jan 17, 2005 Reuters
OSHA Finds its Own Inspectors Damaged by Deadly Beryllium; First Screenings Yield Disturbing Results, Whistleblower Vindicated - Jan 17, 2005 Common Dreams
Do environmental groups have death wish? Authors of controversial essay interviewed about their thesis - Jan 17, 2005 MSNBC
Home-Made Biofuels Are Best, Group Says - Jan 17, 2005 Reuters
Federal Judge Upholds Alaska Oil-Lease Sale - Jan 17, 2005 Planet Ark
Pollution during pregnancy is linked to childhood cancer - Jan 17, 2005 Independent
Americans Are Trying to Discredit Me, Claims Chief Scientist - July 17, 2005 Truthout


Paper sludge fuels mills - Jan 16, 2005 NC
Manitowoc Co. considered for more wind turbines - Jan 16, 2005 PG
Manitowoc County may see three more wind farms - Jan 16, 2005 PC
Students get hands-on work with science - Jan 16, 2005 NC
Program puts focus on use of biosolids on farms - Jan 16, 2005 PC
Conference for woodland owners planned Saturday - Jan 16, 2005 PG
Woodland Dunes program to feature natural landscaping - Jan 16, 2005 MHT
Researchers continue study of cormorants - Jan 16, 2005 MHT
Conservation Congress challenges DNR - Jan 16, 2005 Wisconsin Outdoors
Outdoors in brief - Jan 16, 2005 Wisconsin Outdoors
Toward a Great Lakes Awareness Center in Sturgeon Bay - Jan 16, 2005 DCC
Letter: Meeting with local government was very disappointing - Jan 16, 2005 MHT
Adria Ramos column: Energy independence up to us - Jan 16, 2005 PC
Editorial: Let sleeping ANWR lie - Jan 16, 2005 MilwJS
[PCB] DEC approves Henrietta land sale - Jan 16, 2005 Democrat & Chronicle
Bush’s Choice for Energy Secretary Was One of Texas’ Top Five Worst Polluters - Jan 16, 2005 Common Dreams
Monsanto pursues ‘pirates' over saved seeds - Jan 16, 2005 Corvallis Gazette-Times


Test your home for deadly radon soon - Jan 15, 2005 WRDT
Gov seeks $2 million for alternative fuels - Jan 15, 2005 CapTimes
Doyle tags $2 million for biofuels - Jan 15, 2005 PC
Willie Nelson hawks biodiesel - Jan 15, 2005 WSJ
Garbarge in, garbage out? - Jan 15, 2005 Racine Journal Times
The future of your garbage - Jan 15, 2005 RJT
Program under fire: Deer management concerns are rising - Jan 15, 2005 MilwJS
County to battle invasive lake plant - Jan 15, 2005 SPJ
More wind farms coming to county? - Jan 15, 2005 MHT
Common good says extend water to all - Jan 15, 2005 MNH
Walleyes no longer fish out of water - Jan 15, 2005 MilwJS
Outdoors news and notes - Jan 15, 2005 MJS
Opinion: Honoring the legacy of the Great Lakes by protecting its water - Jah 15, 2005 MJS
[PCB] PDQ store owners want suit dismissed - Jan 15, 2005 MilwJS
Practical Regional Solutions To Address Global Warming - Jan 15, 2005 Planetizen
Monsanto ”Seed Police” Scrutinize Farmers - Jan 15, 2005 Common Dreams
Out of Touch With Nature: Should We Celebrate Life  and Our Universe Or Subdue, Dominate and Destroy the Natural World? - Jan 15, 2005 Common Dreams


Regulators to reconsider Wisconsin nuke plant sale - Jan 14, 2005 NC
PSC revisits Kewaunee Nuclear Plant sale - Jan 14, 2005 PG
Reaction mixed to reviving plant - Jan 14, 2005 SP
Utica weighing options for plant - Jan 14, 2005 SP
Supper club to drill new well after illnesses - Jan 14, 2005 NC
Port's workload heaviest since 1979 - Jan 14, 2005 NC
A fish tale worth retelling - Jan 14, 2005 Racine Journal Times
[PCB] Bad news, good news from Ford dump tests - Jan 14, 2005 NorthJersey
[PCB] Camp Evans' Army cleanup will continue - Jan 14, 2004 AsburyParkPress
[PCB] NCC's Scott Paper site oozes chemicals - Jan 14, 2005 Ottawa Citizen
[PCB] Airport clean- back online - Jan 14, 2004 Canton Journal
[PCB] Family takes battle to EU parliament - Jan 14, 2005 icWales
[Dioxin] Groups warn of dioxin danger in New York Harbour - Jan 14, 2005 Edie


[PCB] Panel OKs PCB settlement spending  - Jan 13, 2005 NC
[PCB] City urged to take over Renard Isle - Jan 13, 2005 PG
[PCB] Letters: Trucks hauling PCBs cleaned repeatedly - Jan 13, 2005 PC
State will reconsider Kewaunee plant sale - Jan 13, 2005 MilwJS
PSC: Reopens Case on Sale of Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant - Jan 13, 2005 WisPolitics (PSC)
Fox, Wolf rivers’ bridge control undecided - Jan 13, 2005 PC
Cormorant study fuels the fire - Jan 13, 2005 Wisconsin Outdoors
Georgia-Pacific on a roll with towel dispenser [Total waste of energy!] - Jan 13, 2005 PG
Ban on feeding Is it working in city? - Jan 13, 2005 Rhinelander Daily News
Owls from far north gather in state - Jan 13, 2005 WSJ
Scientists say 'clean' rain runoff is polluting beach - Jan 13, 2004 MilwJS
Letters: City leaders have been too free with taxpayers’ money [Sheridan Park] - Jan 13, 2004 SP
Citizens Utility Board: PSC Must Stand Firm and Deny Sale of Nuke Plant - Jan 13, 2005 WisPolitics
Great outdoors almanac: A look at what’s going on afield - Jan 13, 2005 Wisconsin Outdoors
[PCB] Hudson linked to illnesses: PCBs could be a factor, study offers - Jan 13, 2005 Poughkeepsie Journal
[PCB] New report backs old findings on cancer increase - Jan 13, 2005
[PCB] Some nutritional ideas that you can count on - Jan 13, 2005 Sun-Sentinel
[Dioxin] UZBEKISTAN: Drainage water polluting the Amudarya - Jan 13, 2004 IRINnews
Monsanto suing farmers over piracy issues - Jan 13, 2004 Boston Globe
Why the Sun Seems to Be 'Dimming' - Jan 13, 2005 Truthout
Opinion | U.S. Infant Mortality Rate 'Unacceptable,' Suggests 'Failures' in Health System, Columnist Says - Jan 13, 2005 KaiserNetwork
Poverty, Disease, Environmental Decline Are True 'Axis of Evil': State of the World 2005 Calls for New Approach to Global Security - Jan 13, 2005 Common Dreams


[PCB] Editorial: Hearing needed on Renard Isle - Jan 12, 2005 PG
[PCB] CWAC: Renard plan needs changes - Jan 12, 2005 NC
Text of the governor's State of the State address - Jan 12, 2005 MilwJS
Initial look finds soil samples clean [Sheridan Park] - Jan 12, 2005 SP
City chops trees into chips - Jan 12, 2005 SP
Whoo's here? Owls arrive - Jan 12, 2005 MilwJS
Power plant to get water discharge permit - Jan 12, 2005 MilwJS
CRG Network to hold college seminar on grassroots organizing - Jan 12, 2005 Wheeler Report (PDF)
Weekly fishing report - Jan 12, 2005 MilwJS
Nino Amato, David Benforado, Forrest Ceel and Charlie Higley: PSC should deny bid to sell Kewaunee plant - Jan 12, 2005 CapTimes
Editorial: No to Kewaunee sale - Jan 12, 2005 MilwJS
Guest Column: Sale of Kewaunee plant positive for all - Jan 12, 2005 MHT
Opinion: State of the State - Jan 12, 2005 FightingBob
[PCB] North Bergen speeds up new pool plan - Jan 12, 2005 NorthJersey
[PCB] We're all in this together - Jan 12, 2005 Macon Telegraph
[PCB] County asks MPCA to force study on tire plant impact - Jan 12, 2005 Winona Daily News
[Dioxin] Cleanup may be completed by fall - Jan 12, 2005 Sun Herald
EPA seeks review of Teflon ingredient - Jan 12, 2005 CNN
Might chemical in Teflon pose health risk? - Jan 12, 2005 MSNBC
Bush looks to promote nuclear power - Jan 12, 2005 Portsmouth Herald


[PCB] Renard Isle proposal raises environmental concerns - Jan 11, 2005 PG
Residents upset over wind farm issue - Jan 11, 2005 MHT
Lakeshore Update: Wind systems to be focus of LTC class - Jan 11, 2005 MHT
New hybrid may affect already weedy lakes - Jan 11, 2005 MilwJS
Cormorant diet is subject of study - Jan 11, 2005 PG
Committee can't reach decision on power line - Jan 11, 2005 Superior Daily Telegram
Movement of the People - Jan 11, 2005 FightingBob
Letters: An ode to Sheridan Park - Jan 11, 2005 SP
Letters: Perez understands budgets and listens to the people [Sheridan Park] - Jan 11, 2005 SP
DNR: Weekly News and Outdoor Report (Education efforts help slow spread of aquatic invasive species) - Jan 11, 2005 Wheeler Report (PDF)
Solar Photovoltaic Breakthrough Taps Infrared Light - Jan 11, 2005 Truthout
[Dioxin] Make it a bhogi sans smoke - Jan 11, 2005 News Today
Nature: A Real Moral Value - Jan 11, 2005 AlterNet
Who Pollutes? - Jan 11, 2005 TomPaine


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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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