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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 1-10, 2005

Packerland Packing cited for odor - Jan 10, 2005
Ice fishing: Good, cold fun - Jan 10, 2005 MHT
[PCB] Trouble by ZIP code: Don't panic, says author of study, but demand cleanup of toxic sites - Jan 10, 2005 Democrat & Chronicle
[PCB] River towns look for dredging perks - Jan 10, 2005 Record
Bad Medicine: Attacking patients or their lawyers won't cure what ails the health care industry - Jan 10, 2005 AlterNet
White House, Pentagon, Industry Secretly Colluded to Skew National Academy of Sciences Perchlorate Report, Documents Show: Chemical Attacks Thyroid, Poses Significant Threat to Infants - Jan 10, 2005 Common Dreams
U.S. Tried to Bury Pollutant Study, Group Say - Jan 10, 2005 Truthout


Blueprint to focus on preserving wildlife - Jan 9, 2005 PG
Two whooping cranes from state found dead in Alabama - Jan 9, 2005 PC
Oshkosh couple earns national award for living on the wild side - Jan 9, 2005 Wisconsin Outdoors
Master Angler fishing contest: Green Bay’s Jossart among early ice fishing leaders - Jan 9, 2005 Wisconsin Outdoors
Editorial: PSC shouldn't backtrack - Jan 9, 2005 MilwJS
[PCB] The record that got slimed - Jan 9, 2005 Birmingham News
[PCB] Shipyard cleanup costs: Who pays if Navy ships out? - Jan 9, 2005 Foster's Sunday Citizen


Tax credits help fuel growth of wind power - Jan 8, 2005 WDH
Ice fishing: Ask the experts - Jan 8, 2005 MilwJS


CUB still opposed to Kewaunee nuke plant sale - Jan 7, 2005 CapTimes
2005-07 Legislative Calendar - Jan 7, 2005 WisPolitics
Two endangered cranes dead during migration - Jan 7, 2004 NC
A.G. Lautenschlager: Announces State Settles Environmental Lawsuit Against Milwaukee Electroplating Operation $150,000 - Jan 7, 2005 WisPolitics
Spear maker is hooked on hobby - Jan 7, 2005 ON
David Benforado: Don't sell Kewaunee nuclear plant - Jan 7, 2004 WSJ
Editorial: Apostle Islands/Brokering new wilderness - Jan 7, 2005 Minneapolis Star Tribune
Letter: Science can be corrupted for profit - Jan 7, 2005 ON
[PCB] Pollution-eating bacteria gives up genetic secrets - Jan 7, 2005 Science & Technology
[PCB] Pollution, Monitoring & Control: 2004 in review - Jan 7, 2005 - EDIE
[PCB] Waste dug up at former Ford site - Jan 7, 2005 NorthJersey
[Dioxin] $74M contract for deepening Arthur Kill goes to N.J. firm - Jan 7, 2005 Staten Island Advance
[Dioxin] Opinion: Take another look at Adams Mine - Jan 7, 2005 TheStar
[Dioxin] Meeting tonight about toxic waste pile - Jan 7, 2005 DelawareOnline
Playing Politics With Mad Cows - Jan 7, 2005 AlterNet
S.C. train wreck, leak kill 8, injure 220 - Jan 7, 2005 TheState
Effort Under Way to Weaken US Endangered Species Law - Jan 7, 2005 ENN
Science Vital to Cut Scale of Disasters - UN Report - Jan 7, 2005 PlanetArk


Water Authority may have route across Manitowoc River - Jan 6, 2005 PG
Revised Kewaunee sale opposed - Jan 6, 2005 NC
Wisconsin Supreme Court agrees to hear power plant appeal - Jan 6, 2005 NC
WisBusiness: Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Oak Creek Appeal - Jan 6, 2005 WisBusiness
Bird deaths on wind farm strike local chord - Jan 6, 2005 Fond du Lac Reporter
Park Falls paper mill sold to Ohio company - Jan 6, 2005 PC
Communities eye joint trash efforts - Jan 6, 2005 CapTimes
State plans voluntary conservation efforts - Jan 6, 2005 NC
Great Outdoors Almanac - Jan 6, 2005 Wisconsin Outdoors
Lying by numbers - Jan 6, 2005 FightingBob
People's Legislature resolutions - Jan 6, 2005 FightingBob
Citizens Utility Board: PSC Should Reject Request to Sell Nuclear Power Plant - Jan 6, 2005 WisPolitics
Editorial: Speak up now on energy issues - Jan 6, 2005 PG
Dierk Polzin: Under-the-radar coal plants could doom air pollution control for decades - Jan 6, 2005 CapTimes
John Oncken: Farming news always food for thought - Jan 6, 2005 CapTimes
[PCB] Contamination Cleanup To Begin At Former Con Ed Site - Dec 6, 2005 Queens Chronicle
[PCB] PCBs found at High St. site - Dec 6, 2005 MaineToday
[PCB] Bacteria adapt to eat varieties of sludge - Dec 6, 2005 MSNBC
[Dioxin] Shoppers expected to pay 7c for plastic bags - Dec 6, 2005 di-ve News
Poverty fight 'neglects science' - Jan 6, 2005 BBC
In melting Arctic, warming is now - Jan 6, 2005 Christian Science Monitor
Mining Town Rises in Anger: After Boy Is Killed by Boulder, Va. Residents Cite Disregard for Safety Jan 6, 2005 - Washington Post
Political science: Union of Concerned Scientists' director addresses research and Bush administration - Jan 6, 2005 MSNBC


DNR proposes allowing higher landfills with longer pipes - Jan 5, 2005 NC
Point Beach gets new plant manager - Jan 5, 2005 PG
‘People’s Legislature’ holds first session - Jan 5, 2005 PC
The People's Legislature  - Jan 5, 2004 CapTimes
WDC: People's Legislature Draws over 1,100 - Jan 5, 2005 WisPolitics
More than 1,100 form People's Legislature - Jan 5, 2005 WSJ
The homeless build a nest - Jan 5, 2005 FightingBob
Columbus couple sues DNR to keep Bambi - Jan 5, 2005 CapTimes
Protein plays heart attack role [So do PCBs?] - Jan 5, 2205 MilwJS
Concordia raising funds to save shore - Jan 5, 2005 MilwJS
CWD Eradication Zones: DNR To Conduct Aerial Deer Herd Survey - Jan 5, 2005 WDNR
US Plans Tidal Wave of Nuclear Proliferation - Jan 5, 2005 Common Dreams
Weekly fishing report - Jan 5, 2005 MilwJS
Letter: Remember council’s actions at election time - Jan 5, 2005 SP
[PCB] PCBs and hazardous wastes linked to respiratory diseases - Jan 5, 2005 News Target Network
[PCB] Jerry's Electric announces new transformer reclamation facility  - Jan 5, 2005 Madison Daily Leader
[PCB] Blast rips HECO transformer room - Jan 5, 2005 Honolulu
[Dioxin] Enviro groups: No dredging! Vow to sue to prevent disturbing dioxin site under bay, Kill Van Kull - Jan 5, 2005 Jersey Journal
[Dioxin] What Bush Hopes to Achieve with Tort Reform - Jan 5, 2005 NPR
Tsunamis and a Nuclear Threat - Jan 5, 2005 AlterNet
Slide Into Disaster is Man-Made - Jan 5, 2005 Common Dreams
Race for the Arctic - Jan 5, 2004 Truthout


How much trash is too much? Proposed landfill regulations spark debate over height of piles, length of waste pipes - Jan 4, 2005 MilwJS 
Program trades spent Christmas trees for seedlings - Jan 4, 2005 PG
Location, potential prompt purchase of converting plant - Jan 4, 2005 PG
Editorial: People's legislators - Jan 4, 2005 CapTimes
John Nichols: Courageous AG deserves support - Jan 4, 2005 CapTimes
[PCB] Olestra seen as antidote to toxins - Jan 4, 2005 Cincinnati Post
Looking Beyond Enforcement at the EPA - Jan 4, 2005 Washington Post
Ex-EPA Head Whitman Recounts Frustrations with Right Wing Ideologues - Jan 4, 2005 Bush GreenWatch
How Societies Destroy Themselves - Jan 4, 2005 Planetizen


GB Converting's Santaga buys Mississippi paper mill - Jan 3, 2005 NC
Some dislike state law ordering cabin removal from public lands - Jan 3, 2005 NC
Power to the people is goal of 'legislature' - Jan 3, 2005 CapTimes
Registration open for woodland conference - Jan 3, 2005 PC
Coal fuels debate - Jan 3, 2005 MHT
Energy use in Lakeshore area - Jan 3, 2005 MHT
Coal power hot topic: Supporters say it reduces oil imports; foes worry about environment - Jan 3, 2005 Wausau Daily Herald
Harvesting the wind (Part I) - Jan 3, 2005 GLRC
Wind Turbines Stir Up the Neighbors (Part 2) - Jan 3, 2005 GLRC
Letter: : We must be concerned about our air quality (Scroll down)  - Jan 3, 2005 MilwJS
Letter: People must be wary of power crisis scare (Scroll down)- Jan 3, 2005 MilwJS
[PCB] Zebra mussels among invasive species harming Lake Michigan - Jan 3, 2005 Duluth News Tribune
[PCB] Controversy Over Development of Toxic Richmond Site Continues Into New Year - Jan 3, 2005 Berkeley Daily Planner
Study links kids' lower test scores to secondhand smoke - Jam 3, 2004 USAToday
When Nations' Decisions Cause or Intensify Environmental Damage In Ways that Hurt Humans, Is There An International Legal Remedy? - Jan 3, 2005 FindLaw.com


Mold is health problem, not just aesthetic issue - Jan 2, 2005 MHT
Few answers on autism [Because relationship to PCBs not sufficiently explored?] - Jan 2, 2005 MilwJS
Editorial: Colorado’s TABOR lesson - Jan 2, 2005 MilwJS
Opinion: TABOR is an idea whose time has come in Wisconsin - Jan 2, 2005 MilwJS
Joel Patenaude column: ATVs, nonmotorized users don’t belong on same trail - Jan 2, 2005 PC
[PCB] Rowland, Schaghticokes Top County News in '04 - Jan 2, 2005 Litchfield County Times
[PCB] A blueprint for 2005 - Jan 2, 2005 Kalamazoo Gazette
The Prosperous Way Down - Jan 2, 2005 Truthout


DNR plans deer shoot to reduce Green Lake herd - Jan 1, 2005 ON
Seminar to focus on livestock, fertilizers - Jan 1, 2005 SP
Private cabins, public land - Jan 1, 2005 MilwJS
As power plants go up, so does demand: Concerns build over whether slow-growing supply will keep up - Jan 1, 2005 MilwJS
Sand gains as source of oil: Use of synthetic crude grows with concerns about world’s reserves - Jan 1, 2005 MilwJS
Letter: Great Lakes - Let’s protect resource collectively, individually (Scroll down) - Jan 1, 2005
[PCB] U.S. Food Supply Is Not As Safe As It Could Be: What You Can Do - Jan 1, 2005 Kansas City InfoZine
This Can't Go On Forever - So It Won't - Jan 1, 2005 Truthout


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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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