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.)
September 11-20, 2004
[PCB]
Calumet, Outagamie, Winnebago Counties: County Boards question landfilling
vs. vitrification of PCB laden Fox River dredging - Sept 20, 2004 Wheeler
Report (PDF)
Nature
benefits in Door County gift - Sept 20, 2004 PC
Neighbors
hope to buoy efforts to save Fisk Pool - Sept 20, 2004 PG
Sand
dune not gone yet - Sept 20, 2004 MHT
EPA
scientist criticizes We Energies, DNR on coal plant - Sept 20, 2004 Duluth
News Tribune
Power plant
foes seek detailed study - Sept 20, 2004 MilwJS
Kathy
Walsh Nufer column: Soil research failures bring student back to earth
- Sept 20, 2004 PC
Wisconsin
Farmers Union And SOUL Co-Host Rural Energy Conference - Sept 20, 2004
WisPolitics (PDF)
Midwest
Environmental Advocates/Sierra Club: Warns that anti-environmental rider
would strip public's right to know about toxic pollution and livestock
factories - Sept 20, 2004 (PDF)
Sierra
Club: Unions, Groups say Clean Water Spending Cuts Threaten Jobs, Health
- Sept 20, 2004 WisPolitics
Sierra
Club/Friends of Milwaukee Rivers: Call on US Senate to restore clean water
funds - Sept 20, 2004 Wheeler Report (PDF)
Environment
2004: leading facts about the Bush environmental record - Sept 20, 2004
WisPolitics
Editorial:
Proper energy questions - Sept 20, 2004 MilwJS
Editorial:
State parks need new campsite rules - Sept 20, 2004 SP
Commentary:
Great blue heron is big fish in this pond - Sept 20, 2004 MilwJS
[PCB]
Officials fight cancer at Warm Springs - Sept 20, 2004 BendBulletin
[PCB]
Prospect of EPA plant unites rural community - Sept 20, 2004 Times Union
[PCB]
On fish advisories: Budget cuts put an end to toxic-fish booklet; anglers
told to search online for warnings - Sept 20, 2004 Kalamazoo Gazette
[PCB]
States seek better antidote to industrial poisons - Sept 20, 2004 NZZOnline
[PCB]
Water audit push grows - Sept 20, 2004 National 9 News
U.S. Can
Eliminate Oil Use in a Few Decades: RMI's Winning the Oil Endgame Shows
Businesses How to Mobilize and Profit - Sept 20, 2004 EMS
EPA reviews nuclear waste
site proposal - Sept 20, 2004 MSNBC
Bush
Administration to Ship Deadly Weapons Plutonium to France Today - Sept
20, 2004 EMS
Air
pollution cuts lung capacity of growing kids - Sept 19, 2004 MilwJS
Earth
Ride raises thousands for Maywood - Sept 19, 2004 SP
Fox
River to be open for navigation again in 10 years - Sept 19, 2004 NC
Coast
Guard alert for terror on Great Lakes - Sept 19, 2004 PG
Mold
in apartment threat to health? - Sept 19, 2004 MHT
Utility
application called a 'sham' - Sept 19, 2004 MilwJS
Pioneer
earns way into paper hall of fame - Sept 19, 2004 PG
Outdoors
in brief - Sept 19, 2004 PG Wisconsin Outdoors
Want
to join the Editorial Board? - Sept 19, 2004 PG
[PCB]
Water audit push grows - Sept 19, 2004 News.com.au
[PCB]
Plague on our platypuses - Sept 19, 2004 News.com.au
[PCB]
Bush toxins on wild side - Sept 19, 2004 News.com.au
[Dioxin]
Dioxin advisory: Know the risks - Sept 19, 2004 Saginaw News
[Dioxin]
Putting the 'Healthy' Back into Healthcare - Sept 19, 2004 GreenBiz
Teflon
mystery raises safety questions - Sept 19, 2004 Philadelphia Inquirer
The Arctic: Earth's
Early Warning System - Sept 19, 2004 AlterNet
Fury as
Bomb-Grade Plutonium Sets Sail for France from U.S. - Sept 19, 2004 Truthout
Editorial:
Municipal polluters face suits - Sept 18, 2004 PG
Editorial:
Our rights are at risk - Sept 18, 2004 CapTimes
Fox
River locks ownership transferred - Sept 18, 2004 PG
State
accepts ownership of Fox River locks - Sept. 18, 2004 NC
Wisconsin
now owns Fox River locks system - Sept 18, 2004 PC
Waterfront
home prices get a rise - Sept 18, 2004 PG
Calumet
harbor closed to public temporarily for dredging - Sept 18, 2004 PC
State
to file sewage dumping suit - Sept 18, 2004 PC
Land
preservation drive gains ground - Sept 18, 2004 PG
Land Trust extends protection
to Brussels hill - Sept 18, 2004 DCA
Baileys
Harbor Town Board denies cell tower request - Sept 18, 2004 DCA
Scary-looking
snakes are our friends - Sept 18, 2004 DCA
Bears could
hold key in medical research - Sept 18, 2004 MilwJS
Navy
will shut down Project ELF - Sept 18, 2004 CapTimes
Great
Lakes meetings slated - Sept 18, 2004 MHT
Point
Beach confident of security - Sept 18, 2004 MHT
South
Pier to get new fish-cleaning station - Sept 18, 2004 Sheboygan
Appleton
paper giant left mark - Sept 18, 2004 PC
Outdoor
notes - Sept 18, 2004 MilwJS
Outdoor Recreation
Report - Sept 18, 2004 DCA
Nation
needs a czar to advocate for the Great Lakes - Sept 18, 2004 MilwJS
Letter:
We can compromise so all can use the forests - Sept 18, 2004 MilwJS
Letter:
Star light, star bright: Overlighting dims a stellar sight - Sept 18, 2004
MilwJS
[PCB]
Professor killed; driver charged - Sept 18, 2004 Albany
[PCB]
RPI professor hit, killed; driver charged - Sept 18, 2004 TheRecord
[PCB]
Atlantic Richfield presents cleanup plans to state DEC - Sept 18, 2004
JournalNews
[PCB]
A vote of confidence in Colonial, city - Sept 18, 2004 BerkshireEagle
[Dioxin]
Locals angry about plan to haul Osaka toxic waste to Shinagawa - Sept 18,
2004 Asahi.com
World
climate can change in a hurry - Sept 18, 2004 Bignewsnetwork
First-World Women Face
Unique Environmental Threats - Sept. 2004 E-magaizine
Fox
locks advocates raising money the right way - Sept 17, 2004 PC
Whooping
cough cases up across Wisconsin - Sept 17, 2004 PG
Menasha
power plant conversion may secure city jobs - Sept 17, 2004 PC
A
9-11 memorial could come to Green Bay - Sept 17, 2004 NC
Olde
North Green Bay Neighborhood looks to land disputed sculpture - Sept 17,
2004 PG
Redevelopment
of former Sturgeon Bay shipyard site is starting to take shape - Sept 17,
2004 PG
Paper
dinner speaker named - Sept 17, 2004 PC
AG Lautenschlager:
Announces State to File Environmental Lawsuit Against Milwaukee Metropolitan
Sewerage District (MMSD) and Twenty-Nine "Satellite" Communities for Sewer
Overflows During 2004
- Sept
17, 2004 WisPolitics
Letters
allege records on sewage dumping were changed - Sept 17, 2004 NC
MMSD:
Reaction to Suit Filed by Attorney General - Sept 17, 2004 WisPolitics
Midwest
challenges outlined - Sept 17, 2004 PG
Litterbug
problem - Sept 17, 2004 MHT
DNR
has new rules to reserve campsites - Sept 17, 2004 SP
DNR
proposes new rules to reserve campsites - Sept 17, 2004 Sheboygan
DA seeks
probe into claim of altered MMSD reports - Sept 17, 2004 MilwJS
Navy
pulls plug on embattled ELF site - Sept 17, 2004 MilwJS
Regional
drinking-water study moves forward - Sept 17, 2004 MilwJS
Great
Lakes water plan worries businesses - Sept 17, 2004 WaterTech
Letter:
Bush administration, EPA hazardous to our health - Sept 17, 2004 ON
Editorial:
Want to join the Editorial Board? - Sept 17, 2004 PG
Editorial:
Putting pressure on MMSD - Sept 17, 2004 MilwJS
[PCB]
Former aide gets cancer, sues district - Sept 17, 2004 Oregonian
[PCB]
Final nail in junkyard's coffin - Sept 17, 2004 Asbury Park Press
[PCB]
Cleanup events slated for weekend - Sept 17, 2004 SouthCoastToday
[PCB] Keeping
agricultural chemicals safe - Sept 17, 2004 International Herald Tribune
[PCB]
Editorial: More information needed Chemicals, cancers and public's health
- IthicaJournal
[PCB]
Council approves donation - Sept 17, 2004 CapitalNews9
House
GOP Blocks Effort to Obtain Cheney Energy Task Force Data - Sept 17, 2004
Bush GreenWatch
Natural disasters
'on the rise' - Sept. 17, 2004
Global
Warming May Spur Fiercer Hurricanes - Sept 17, 2004 PlanetArk
Navistar
may seek changes in emission standards - Sept 17, 2004 PlanetArk
25
Organizations Urge Senate to Restore Renewable Energy Funding - Sept 17,
2004 ENN
[PCB]
Glad You Asked - Sept 16, 2004 Racine Journal Times
Gala
to raise funds for cancer efforts [how about prevention?] - Sept 16, 2004
PG
Gov. Doyle
to Accept Transfer of Fox Locks from Federal Government - Sept 16, 2004
WisPolitics
Disputes
over Green Bay water pipeline settled out of court - Sept 16, 2004 NC
Company
balks at pipeline route - Sept 16, 2004 PG
Partial
opening slated for Fox River locks - Sept 16, 2004 PC
Commission
OKs fund increase for DNR building in Howard - Sept 16, 2004 PG
Sculpture
may not have spot along Fox River - Sept 16, 2004 PG
Fighting
Bob Fest is Saturday in Baraboo - Sept 16, 2004 CapTimes
Indian
Tribe Drafts its First Wildlife Management Plan - Sept 16, 2004 WPR
Year-Old
Campaign May Have Decreased Invasive Species - Sept 16, 2004 WPR
AG Lautenschlager:
Announces MMSD News Conference - Sept 16, 2004 WisPolitics
MMSD
records under scrutiny - Sept 16, 2004 MilwJS
Clean
Wisconsin: Offers tips on how to participate in public hearings on Great
Lakes water use - Sept 16, 2004 Wheeler Report (PDF)
Chicago
Hearing Testimony 9/8/04 Delivered by Derek Scheer,
Water
Policy Director at Clean Wisconsin - Sept 16, 2004 Wheeler Report (PDF)
Great
Lakes plan in works: Guidelines being written for control, possible sale
of water - Sept 16, 2004 Democrat & Chronicle
Great
Outdoors Almanac: A look at what’s going on afield - Sept 16, 2004 Wisconsin
Outdoors
Sewage
overflows cause up to 5,500 illnesses each year, EPA report says - Sept
16, 2004 Bay City Times
Editorial:
Better mercury standards - Sept 16, 2004 MilwJS
GarveyBlog: A People's
Legislature - Sept 16, 2004 FightingBob
Pat
Durkin column: Has it become survival of smallest? - Sept 16, 2004 Wisconsin
Outdoors
Eliot
Coleman: Support small organic farmers and find the best food for your
family - Sept 16, 2004 CapTimes
Practice
makes perfect goose calls - Sept 16, 2004 PG
Fishing
Report - Sept 16, 2004 MHT
[PCB]
San Francisco Bay: State approves plan to flush out mercury
Agency's
proposal would cut flow by 40% over 20 years - Sept 16, 2004 SFGate
[PCB]
Dundee: Cement manufacturer, advisory committee meet on construction -
Sept 16, 2004 ToledoBlade
[PCB]
Next phase of Keith construction to begin today - Sept 16, 2004 South Coast
Today
[PCB]
Is the 'salmon scare' fishy? - Sept 16, 2004 TownOnline
[Dioxin]
40-story NYC tower full of contaminants - Sept 16, 2004 LA Times
[Dioxin]
Life Cycle Analysis and Green Building: Credibility at the Crossroads -
Sept 16, 2004 EarthVision
[Dioxin]
Plan due on Halloween - Sept 16, 2004 Saginaw News
[Dioxin]
Governor boosts incinerator foes - Sept 16, 2004 Evanston Review
[Dioxin]
Government must admit complicity in Dioxin scandal - Sept 16, 2004 Scoop
International
Coalition Requests Investigation into Mercury Contamination from Coal-Fired
Power Plants - Sept 16, 2004 Common Dreams
Rise in
Consumers 'Threatens Environment' - Sept 16, 2004 Truthout
All Dried Up
- Sept 16, 2004 TomPaine
Recreational
Fishing Threatens Marine Stocks and Other Stories - Sept 16, 2004 ENN
Judge
Finds Bush Commerce Department Put Politics Over Science in "Dolphin Safe"
Tuna Actions - Sept 16, 2004 Bush GreenWatch
Global Warming
Will Spawn More Ivans - Sept 16, 2004 Truthout
A Global
Warning? Scientists claim man-made climate change is linked to the recent
devastating hurricanes - Sept 16, 2004 Planetizen
U.S.
blocking Arctic report - Sept 16, 2004 Newsday
[PCB]
Crews begin dredging PCBs from Little Lake - Sept 15, 2004 PC
Weekly
fishing report - Sept 15, 2004 MilwJS
Childhood
leukemia risk doubles within 100 metres of high voltage power lines - Sept
15, 2004 Medical News Today
Editorial:
Great Lakes water quality worth the cost - Sept 15, 2004 SP
Dave
Zweifel: Come to Bob Fest to get revved up - Sept 15, 2004 CapTimes
Opinion:
Windmills not worth the cost (Scroll down) - Sept 15, 2004 MHT
Great
Lakes water quality worth the cost - Sept 15, 2004 Sheboygan
[PCB]
Study details contaminants in damaged Deutsche Bank building - Sept 15,
2004 Newsday
[PCB]
Middlegrounds Landfill cleanup may be a dream come true - Sept 15, 2004
Bay City Times
[PCB] Polar
Bears Are Suffering from Industry Chemicals, Says WWF - Sept 15, 2004 ENN
[PCB]
The great salmon debate - Sept 15, 2004 Toronto Star
[PCB] News Analysis:
Bush challenged on environment - Sept 15, 2004 International Herald
Tribune
[Dioxin]
Dow Chemical buys into Event Center in Saginaw - Sept 15, 2004 Bay City
Times
[Dioxin]
U-M study legitimate, township decides - Sept 15, 2004 Saginaw News
[Dioxin]
Michigan warns about eating wild game - Sept 15, 2004 ESPN
[Dioxin]
State warns of tainted food chain - Sept 15, 2004 Michigan Daily
[Dioxin]
Hospital doubts it can meet deadline - Sept 15, 2004 Chicago Tribune
[Dioxin]
Michigan power plants rank high for air pollution - MLive
[Dioxin]
OSH deny historical responsibility - Sept 15, 2004 TVNZ
Smart Growth:
A Measure Of Sustainability? - Sept 15, 2004 Planetizen
Mad About Mercury
- Sept 15, 2004 AlterNet
Republicans
blast Bush for environmental policies - Sept 15, 2004 StarTribune
Study Finds
Bush Administration Obstructs and Weakens Regulation Across Agencies, Withdraws
Over 200 Proposed Rules and Fails to Complete Over 70% of Target Actions
- Sept 15, 2004 Common Dreams
Bush
Administration Cuts Clean Water Spending; Hurts Jobs, Health, Environment
- Sept 15, 2004 Bush GreenWatch
PBDEs
and the environmental intervention time lag - Sept 15, 2004
Byproduct
of water disinfection process found to be highly toxic - Sept 15, 2004
Medical News Today
Toxic
chloramine byproduct discovery raises concerns - Sept 15, 2004 WaterTech
Will climate change spark
fiercer storms? Lawmakers told that stronger hurricanes may arise - Sept
15, 2004 MSNBC
[PCB]
PCB cleanup begins at contaminated sites - Sept 14, 2004 MilwJS
Route
change could save Water Authority $750,000 - Sept 14, 2004 PG
Suburbs
seeking water pipeline change - Sept 14, 2004 MHT
Oregon
couple offers to donate land for Kewaunee County park - Sept 14, 2004 NC
Despite
improvements, Great Lakes plagued by pollution - Sept 14, 2004 NC
Report:
Pollution plagues Great Lakes water - Sept 14, 2004 WaterTech
Invasive
species biggest threat to lakes, report finds - Sept 14, 2004 MLive
Robert
F.
Kennedy, Jr. to speak at Fighting Bob Fest III - Sept 14, 2004 WisPolitics
(PDF)
Letter:
City could annex town’s proposed Wal-Mart site - Sept 14, 2004 SP
[PCB] EarthTalk:
Is There a Connection Between Environmental Toxins and Breast Cancer? -
Sept 14, 2004 ENN
[PCB]
State may buy ships for artificial reef - Sept 14, 2004 APP
[PCB]
Water-borne diseases new Great Lakes threat - Sept 14, 2004 Toronto Star
[PCB]
Campaign 2004: Bush's environmental record polarizes debate - Sept 14,
2004 SeattlePI
[Dioxin]
Ground Zero workers sue over toxic exposure - Sept 14, 2004 NYNewsday
[Dioxin]
Dioxin taints state game along the Tittabawassee River, officials say -
Sept 14, 2004 Detroit Free Press
[Dioxin]
Hospitals asked not to burn med waste - Sept 14, 2004 SJ-R
[Dioxin]
Blagojevich targets medical incinerators - Sept 14, 2004 Chicago Tribune
[Dioxin]
Chemical clear out urged - Sept 14, 2004 TVNZ
Review
of Nuclear Plant Security Is Faulted - Sept 14, 2004 NYTimes
Does Voluntary
Environmentalism Work? - Sept 14, 2004 Planetizen
New
Priorities in Environment - Sept 14, 2004 NYTimes
Bush
Administration Directs Agencies to Ignore Clean Water Act - Sept 14, 2004
Bush GreenWatch
Lakeshore
Update: Wind turbines discussed at Tuesday meeting - Sept 13, 2004 MHT
Flynn’s
Quarry off-limits to public - Sept 13, 2004 ON
DNR
stepping up efforts in battle against chronic wasting disease - Sept 13,
2004 NC
State
DNR steps up fight against CWD with longer hunt - Sept 13, 2004 PC
DNR
seeks comments on Hilbert wastewater plant - Sept 13, 2004 PC
White House
pushes for wilderness designation - Sept 13, 2004 GLRC
Toxins
down, but Great Lakes face other threats - Sept 13, 2004 MilwJS
Proposed
water diversion plan sparks debate - Sept 13, 2004 GLRC
Glassing
Bottled Water's Image - Sept 13, 2004 GLRC
[PCB]
First Major Class Action Lawsuit Filed For Ground Zero Cleanup Workers
Afflicted With 'WTC Toxic Diseases' - Sept 13, 2004 PRNewswire
[PCB]
WWF:More Scientific Evidence that Polar Bears Are Affected by Toxic Chemicals
- Sept 13, 2004 U S Newswire
[PCB]
Arctic's toxic burden harms bears - Sept 13, 2004 BBC News
[Dioxin]
Spanish doctor criticises US's use of dioxin - Sept 13, 2004 VNA.net
[Dioxin] Health problems
among timber workers exposed to industry chemical PCP are to be investigated
- Sept 13, 2004 News-Medical
[Dioxin]
Dioxin - Little To Be Done Says PM - Sept 13, 2004 New Zealand News
Extinct
Species Take Others Along, Study Finds - Sept 13, 2004 Planet Ark
In election, Nevada is key
green battleground - Sept 13, 2004 MSNBC
Parks
group nears goal for petition - Sept 12, 2004 SP
Free
environmental seminars scheduled - Sept 12, 2004 SP
DNR
intensifies CWD battle - Sept 12, 2004 WSJ
Master
Angler entries still flowing in contest’s final weeks - Sept 12, 2004 Wisconsin
Outdoors
Fishing
boat holds maritime history - Sept 12, 2004 MilwJS
Letter:
Town should say no to Wal-Mart Supercenter - Sept 12, 2004 SP
The
Paper Report: Past plays important future role - Sept 12, 2004 PC
Pay
dispute could be behind delays on Great Lakes - Sept 12, 2004 NC
[PCB]
Safety concerns rise at Ala Wai site - Sept 12, 2004 Honolulu Star-Bulletin
[PCB]
Reviving the riverfront - Sept 12, 2004 Kalamazoo Gazette
[PCB]
Everything works out fine in Ashland: Gym closed as electrical repairs
are done - Sept 12, 2004 Daily News Tribune
[Dioxin]
Dioxin may play role in birth defect: Current science, known leaks suggest
children's deaths may have dioxin link - Sept 12, 2004 Sun Herald
[Dioxin]
The Effect Orange: Gulfport residents fear silent killer stalks them -
Sept 12, 2004 Sun Herald
Hurricane
Devastation linked to global warming - Sept 12, 2004 Guardian
9/11
pollution 'could cause more deaths than attack' - Sept 12, 2004 Independent.UK
Clean Water
Is The World's Greatest Challenge - Sept 12, 2004 Planetizen
Public
picnic today at Sheridan Park - Sept 11, 2004 SP
Activists,
loggers spar over forest: Woods wait for protection or harvest - Sept 11,
2004 MilwJS
Editorial:
Great Lakes rules needed now - Sept 11, 2004 PG
Letter:
T.R. sand dune plowing a mistake? (Scroll down) - Sept 11, 2004 MHT
[PCB]
Physical Health Status of World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers
and Volunteers - Sept 11, 2004 Medical News Today
[Dioxin]
Dioxin report a good start for whistleblower - Sept 11, 2004 New Zealand
News
[Dioxin]
Stench, illness common themes of Paritutu - Sept 11, 2004 New Zealand Herald
Dust And
Deception At Ground Zero - Sept 11, 2004 Planetizen
US
Report Sees Wide Health Effects of 9-11 Attacks - Sept 11, 2004 Planet
Ark
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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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