News Articles About PCBs and River Issues

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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Nov 11- 20, 2006

Nov 21- 30, 2006

November 1-10, 2006

Editorial: Let's talk to Michigan - Nov 10, 2006 MJS
[PCB] World to run out of seafood by the year 2050 - Nov 10, 2006 Daily Vidette
[PCB] Pollution poisons children - Nov 10, 2006 Daily Telegraph
[PCB] County to kick in $2.5M for Waukegan Harbor cleanup - Nov 10, 2006 Lake County News-Sun
[PCB] Dredging's life after Sweeney - Nov 10, 1006 TimesUnion
[PCB] Milltown cleanup / Residents air traffic concerns - Nov 10, 2006 Missoulian
[PCB/Dioxin] Cooking oil poisoning claims new victims - Nov 10, 2006 Daily Yomiuri
Carbon turning oceans acidic, experts warn - Nov 10, 2006 MSNBC
Voters Approve Record Amount For Land Conservation - Nov 10, 2006 ENN
Arsenic water safety breakthrough - Nov 10, 2006 BBC
Dirty Water Kills 5,000 Children a Day - Nov 10, 2006 Common Dreams
Global Action on Climate Change - Nov 10, 2006 Common Dreams

Help Environment By Using Your Clothes Line - Nov 9, 2006 WSJ
Great Outdoors Almanac - Nov 9, 2006 PG
[PCB] Chemical spill wipes out power in Village - Nov 9, 2006 BrooklineTab
[PCB/Dioxin] Dioxin testing progressing - Nov 9, 2006 Midland Daily News
Green Building Conference The Largest, Greenest Of Its Kind - Nov 9, 2006 ENN
Energy: An Acceleration Toward Alternative Fuels? - Nov 9, 2006 Truthout
How Green Was My Election? Activists say environmental issues helped push green candidates through tough races - Nov 9, 2006 Truthout

Wind turbine workshop gives people a hands-on experience - Nov 8, 2006 PG
Power Study Passes - Nov 8, 2006 CapTimes
Lights, Camera, Wildlife: Knowing What Animals Are On Your Land And Where They Frequent Is Easy With Trail Cameras - Nov 8, 2006 CapTimes
Weekly fishing report - Nov 8, 2006 MJS
Editorial: Car vs. deer collisions a serious traffic danger that can be curbed - Nov 8, 2006 ON
[PCB] Scientists link Industrial pollution to ‘silent pandemic’ of brain damage - Nov 8, 2006 TheMoneyTimes
[PCB] Exposure to chemicals may harm young brains: Yet only a few substances are controlled to protect children, experts say - Nov 8, 2006 MSNBC
[PCB] Chemicals could be harming harm kids' brains: researchers - Nov 8, 2006 CBC
Superbug Brought Back by Iraq War Casualties - Nov 8, 2006 Common Dreams
Chemical Pollution 'Harms Children's Brains' - Nov 8, 2006 Common Dreams
On Thin Ice: Could "wild laws" protecting all the Earth's community - including animals, plants, rivers and ecosystems - save our natural world? - Nov 8, 2006 Truthout
Nature 'can help people keep fit' - Nov 8, 2006 BBC
UN Talks Split on Date for Climate Fight Rules - Nov 8, 2006 ENN
Carbon Intensity Targets Can Be Effective Tools for Reducing Emissions, Says New WRI Report - Nov 8, 2006 ENN
Stern vision 'needs new targets' - Nov 8, 2006 BBC
Kofi Annan: As Climate Changes, Can We? - Nov 8, 2006 Common Dreams

Air pollution warning issued - Nov 7, 2006 PG
Wind-turbine project review faces another delay - Nov 7, 2006 PG
Live Ammo Zones Give Boaters Jitters - Nov 7, 2006 CapTimes
Be alert for dashing deer - Nov 7, 2006 ON
[PCB] Industrial chemicals linked to ADHD, autism - Nov 7, 2006 CTV
[PCB] Bloomington Factory Contaminated with PCBs Being Demolished - Nov 7, 2006 WISH TV
[PCB] Icelandic company plans to start exporting fin whale meat to Japan - Nov 7, 2006 International Herald Tribune
[PCB] Who's On First? Officials in suburban Detroit point fingers over contaminated park - Nov 7, 2006 GRIST
[PCB] Kids played among poisons - Nov 7, 2006 Detroit Free Press
[Dioxin] Marina dredging to begin soon - Nov 7, 2006 Eureka Reporter
[Dioxin] Team: Male births have continued to drop since '70s - Nov 7, 2006 Daily Yomiuri Online

World risks 'dirty' energy future - Nov 7, 2006 BBC
Clean energy is 'cost effective' - Nov 7, 2006 BBC
Global Warming Said Threat to World Heritage - Nov 7, 2006 ENN
U.S. Reaffirms Emissions Cap Opposition - Nov 7, 2006 ENN

Panel seeks comments on nuke-reactor safety - Nov 6, 2006 PG
Water protection grants available - Nov 6, 2006 PG
ATC 'being Brutes,' Power Line Foes Say: Questions About Electrical Use Raise Ire - Nov 6, 2006 CapTimes
Power Line Referendum Gets Support: American Transmission Co. Backs Request For An Independent Study But An Executive Says It's Not Needed - Nov 6, 2006 WSJ
Fisherman gets a bonus with his perch - Nov 6, 2006 PC
Bonus catch: Man pulls up perch, rod, reel - Nov 6, 2006 ON
DNR: Not Enough Deer Killed, CWD Continues; Not Making A Difference In CWD Yet - Nov 6, 2006 WISC-TV
Water Authority Pipeline update - Nov 6, 2006 PG
Letter: It will be up to lawmakers to control out-of-state waste - Nov 6, 2006 PG
[PCB] Picatinny to clean up contaminants - Nov 6, 2006 Daily Record
[PCB] Editorial: Healthy cooperation - Nov 6, 2006 Spokesman Review
[PCB/Dioxin] USGS at Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Nov 6, 2006 EurekAlert
See the world with 'green' eyes - Nov 6, 2006 CNN
The birth of a quieter, greener plane - Nov 6, 2006 BBC
U.S., Africa are the talk of climate conference - Nov 6, 2006 MSNBC
UN Summit Seeks Ways to Stave off Climate Disaster - Nov 6, 2006 Common Dreams

Trashing Wisconsin Low tipping fees bring in mountains of out-of-state garbage - Nov 5, 2006 MJS
If you need it, here are five reasons to vote Tuesday - Nov 5, 2006 PC
Door County author keys on safe water - Nov 5, 2006
Land enlisted to fight floods: MMSD makes purchases in areas near rivers, creeks - Nov 5, 2006 MJS
Editorial: Firepower on the water - Nov 5, 2006 MJS
[PCB] Let's go down to the sea ... in plastic? - Nov 5, 2006 Pensacola News Journal
[PCB] Cleanup lags; base project to start - Nov 5, 2006 Boston Globe
[PCB] CRBI fish fry raises money, awareness - Nov 5, 2006 Rome News-Tribune
[PCB/Dioxin] Japan Readies for Renewed Whale Hunt - Nov 5, 2006 Peace Earth Justice

Commentary: The heavy price of autism: Willing, able and unemployable [PCBs linked to autism] - Nov 4, 2006 MJS
Citizens for Responsible Energy: Make ATC Show Power Lines Needed - Nov 4, 2006 CapTimes
Weekly outdoor notes - Nov 4, 2006 MJS
[PCB] Pole toppled in copper-theft try - Nov 4, 2006 Honolulu Advertiser
How Close to Catastrophe? Several new books explore technological innovations and the need for radical lifestyle overhaul in the race against time to save the planet - Nov 4, 2006 AlterNet

Kewaunee Power Station restarted - Nov 3, 2006 PG
Michigan warns about water: Potential New Berlin diversion called illegal - Nov 3, 2006 MJS
Heated By Waste: Evansville Company Turns Formerly Discarded Seed Byproduct Into Pellets That Are Burned To Heat Its Buildings - Nov 3, 2006 WSJ
[PCB] Omega-3-rich fish linked to lower prostate cancer risk - Nov 3, 2006 Food Navigator
[PCB] High-tech furnace burns risky waste - Nov 3, 2006 Winnipeg Free Press
[PCB] Judge okays Hudson River dredge plan - Nov 3, 2006 Hudson Valley News
[PCB] Town loses bid to halt dredging: Fort Edward fails when a judge rules PCB processing plant is within Superfund jurisdiction - Nov 3, 2006 TimesUnion
[Dioxin] Study: Breast cancer influenced by chemical - Nov 3, 2006 Inside Bay Area
[Dioxin] A wasteland republic? - Nov 3, 2006 INQ7.net
US Pesticide Stockpile Under Scrutiny at World Ozone Meeting in India - Nov 3, 2006 Truthout
Seafood could collapse by 2050, experts warn: Overfishing, pollution, warming are destroying stocks, study finds - Nov 3, 2006 MSNBC
Report: Seafood faces collapse by 2048 - Nov 3, 2006 CNN
Ocean Fish, Seafood Could Collapse by 2048 - Nov 3, 2006 ENN
2005 set record for greenhouse gases, U.N. says - Nov 3, 2006 MSNBC

Live-fire exercises: Good or bad? Local man says shooting practice can hurt fishing business - Nov 2, 2006 MHT
What do you think about live-fire zones? - Nov 2, 2006 MHT
Plenty of fish in the sea? Think again: Scientists see 'end of line' in 2048 - Nov 2, 2006 MJS
Great Outdoors Almanac - Nov 2, 2006 PG
[PCB] City seeks EPA aid on tract by airport - Nov 2, 2006 Beacon Journal
[PCB] Judge signs off on GE Hudson dredging work - Nov 2, 2006 Journal News
[PCB] Money, leaders and our parkway - Nov 2, 2006 Anniston Star
[PCB] Startech Environmental Receives Downpayment for New Plasma Converter Facility China - Nov 2, 2006 Startech
[Dioxin] Kedgley to address Dioxin meeting in New Plymouth - Nov 2, 2006 Scoop
Report Warns of "Global Collapse" of Fishing - Nov 2, 2006 Truthout
Scientists Say White House Muzzled Climate Research - Nov 2, 2006 Common Dreams
Investigations Begin Into Whether Bush Administration Muzzled Climate Research - Nov 2, 2006 ENN
Groups Want Forest Rules Overturned - Nov 2, 2006 ENN
'Only 50 years left' for sea fish - Nov 2, 2006 BBC

[PCB] Library site emerges: Cedarburg city officials considering former Mercury Marine land - Nov 1, 2006 MJS
A wave of woes for Great Lakes: Scientists gather here to assess multiple threats to complex ecosystem - Nov 1, 2006 MJS
Area conservation alliance sends message to candidates - Nov 1, 2006 SP
Conservation the topic of conversation at area rally - Nov 1, 2006 MHT
Salmonella cases confirmed in Brown, Outagamie counties - Nov 1, 2006 PG
Mike Hoeft column: Eat-local challenge just the beginning - Nov 1, 2006 PG
Pooch patrol keeps geese at bay - Nov 1, 2006 PC
Kewaunee Power Station reactor restart aborted - Nov 1, 2006 PG
Weekly fishing report - Nov 1, 2006 MJS
Editorial: A good environmental record - Nov 1, 2006 MJS
The Real Scoop on Biofuels - Nov 1, 2006 Common Dreams
[PCB] PCB levels rising, not falling at Kin-Buc dump - Nov 1, 2006 Sentinel
[PCB] Ford likely to seek extension for tests of materials at Brick sites - Nov 1, 2006 Asbury Park Press
[PCB] Park plan linked to games bid - Nov 1, 2006 Examiner
[Dioxin] DEQ, Dow to host community meeting - Nov 1, 2006 Bay City Times
[Dioxin] Burning trash costly: Miller - Nov 1, 2006 TheStar
[Dioxin] Ministry seeks extra dioxin expert - Nov 1 (2), 2006 Stuff
Don't Blame Us, Say the Global Gas Guzzlers - Nov 1, 2006 Truthout
Dawn of the "Solar Salon" in US Living Rooms - Nov 1, 2006 Common Dreams
Depleted uranium risk 'ignored' - November 1, 2006 BBC
Corals get climate survival guide - Nov 1, 2006 BBC
Small coral replacing big ones, scientist warns: Caribbean trend makes it harder for reefs to support rich habitat - Nov 1, 2006 MSNBC
Is administration muzzling warming research? Senator: Two inspectors general investigating ‘censorship and suppression’- Nov 1, 2006 MSNBC
Business embraces its ethical future - Nov 1, 2006 BBC

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Link to More Articles

The Green Bay Press Gazette's Fox River Cleanup Page

The Appleton Post Crescent's PCB Page (incomplete)

The BadgerLinks --- ProQuest Newspaper Search Engine (accessible through Appleton Public Library) ---may not work for everyone

For additional news media coverage see these CWAC pages:
Media 2001, Media 2000, Newsletter articles, or CWAC Issue pages.

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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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