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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Sept 1- 10, 2005

Sept 21- 30, 2005

September 11-20, 2005

Lake Michigan has most mercury: Pollution worst of Great Lakes - Sept 20, 2005 CapTimes
Police want answers in weekend mercury spill - Sept 20, 2005 PC
Allouez board to vote tonight on detention ponds - Sept 20, 2005 PG
Rare shorebirds bred to fight species' extinction - Sept 20, 2005 MJS
DNR will review regulations on piers - Sept 20, 2005 MJS
Bill Berry: Decisions on land use issues are crucial for future of state - Sept 20, 2005 CapTimes
[PCB] Fish oil is a great catch for heart health - Sept 20, 2005 NYNewsday
[PCB] Wal-Mart sweetens the deal for Newtown, adds jobs - Sept 20, 2005 HeraldTribune
[PCB] Trio named to review cleanup - Sept 20, 2005 Globe and Mail
[PCB] Increasing orca population is a sign we can save the Sound - Sept 20, 2005 SeattlePI
Conservation or Drilling in Katrina's Wake? - Sept 20, 2005 AlterNet

Comment period extended on state manure-spreading regulations - Sept 19, 2005 PG
DNR says Wis landfills had big boost in out-of-state garbage - Sept 19, 2005 MJS
Wisconsin Dumped On: Outsiders' Use Of Landfills Up - Sept 19, 2005 CapTimes
Wildlife Sanctuary in winter hours - Sept 19, 2005 PG
Letter: Ethanol Can Be Economic Opportunity - Sept 19, 2005 CapTimes
[PCB] Ohio River fish safety standards released - Sept 19, 2005 Courier Journal
[PCB] Trailer park's longest-known resident says she's staying put - Sept 19, 2005 DailyBreeze
[PCB] Facing the Facts: Black Water, Caustic Scrubbing, Peak Oil - Sept 19, 2005 RedNova
[PCB] Stop, look, before you dredge - Sept 19, 2005 Times-Standard
[PCB] Plasma technology takes aim at garbage - Sept 19, 2005 Globe and Mail
[PCB] Study: Breast feeding still best despite environmental chemicals in human milk - Sept 19, 2005 Penn State Live
[PCB] Your Planet: Gift of the green gab - Sept 19, 2005 Independent
Katrina's Environment Threat Not Over, Greens Say - Sept 19, 2005 Truthout
US Senate Republicans Push for EPA Rule Waivers - Sept 19, 2005 Planet Ark
House Bill Would Limit U.S. Power to Protect Species - Sept 19, 2005 NYTimes

[PCB] Officials, environmentalists debate options for Renard Isle - Sept 18, 2005 PG
Ignoring Katrina: Katrina's power shows it is time to take global warming seriously--even in Wisconsin - Sept 18, 2005 FightingBob
Sherri Byrand column: Science uncovering realities of global warming - Sept 18, 2005 SP
[PCB] What kind of fish should we eat? - Sept 18, 2005 Taipei Times
[Dioxin] Sentences that will never, ever be said in Pensacola - Sept 18, 2005 PensacolaNewsJournal
Study: Powerful hurricanes more common - Sept 18, 2005 CNN

[PCB] Letter: Delay tactics used in Fox River cleanup (Scroll down) - Sept 17, 2005 PG
Conservation key to keeping energy costs in check - Sept 17, 2005 PG
Pickerel Lake: Plenty of fish to go around - Sept 17, 2005 MJS
Outdoor news and notes - Sept 17, 2005 MJS
Editorial: Grass-roots Activism Big Part Of Bob Fest - Sept 17, 2005 CapTimes
James Rowen: Waukesha shouldn't use Lake Michigan water - Sept 17, 2005 CapTimes
[PCB] Group is not giving up on beloved WW II ship at Mare Island - Sept 17, 2005 ContraCostaTimes
[PCB] Cleanup plan for PCB site backed - Sept 17, 2005 Berkshire Eagle
[Dioxins] Diet and Dioxins: The Need to Cut Back - Sept 17, 2005 Foodconsumer
[Dioxin] Contamination cleanup - Sept 17, 2005 Tallahassee Democrat
[Dioxin] New towel will fight off germs and odors - Sept 17, 2005 Charlotte Observer

Lawsuit On Emissions Of Co2 Tossed - Sept 16, 2005 WSJ
American Transmission Company: Douglas County Board Grants Easement for Arrowhead-Weston - Sept 16, 2005 WisPolitics
Coyotes in Shorewood — and the questions that raises - Sept 16, 2005 MJS
Dane County Board Blocks Asphalt Plant - Sept 16, 2005 WSJ
Swordfish Contaminated: Mercury Levels High In Samples - Sept 16, 2005 CapTimes
DATCP: Low Water Levels Making Streams, Lakes Highly Vulnerable - Sept 16, 2005 WisPolitics
[PCB] New Orleans Environmental `Nightmare' Slows Recovery - Sept 16, 2005 Bloomberg
[PCB] Environment Disaster:Who's Fault - Sept 16, 2005 TPMCafe
[PCB] Chip Ward, Bush's Holy War on Nature - Sept 16, 2005 Tomdispatch
[PCB] Feds launch "new investigations" for PCBs at GE site - Sept 16, 2005 iBerkshires
[PCB] Passaic River dredging to start after years of inaction - Sept 16, 2005 NorthJersey
[PCB] Barge sinks, leaking fuel, at Mare Island - Sept 16, 2005 SFGate
[Dioxin] City hauls away contaminated soil from Purdom power plant - Sept 16, 2005 Tallahasee Democrat
[Dioxin] Katrina Cleanup: Wood Waste Creates Biomass Opportunity - Sept 16, 2005 Open Source Energy Network
Neck Deep in Toxic Gumbo - Sept 16, 2005 AlterNet
Study Attributes Stronger Storms to Warmer Seas - Sept 16, 2005 NYTimes
Global Warming 'Past the Point of No Return' - Sept 16, 2005 Truthout
U.N.: Antarctic ozone hole nears record size - Sept 16, 2005 CNN

[PCB] PCBs in Milwaukee river pose high risk - Sept 15, 2005 MJS
Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation: DATCP Board Approves Livestock Siting Rules - Sept 15, 2005 WisPolitics
Federal judge halts killing of wolves in Wisconsin, Michigan - Sept 15, 2005 PG
Great Outdoors Almanac - Sept 15, 2005 WO
Editorial: Weak mercury rules exact a high cost on our children - Sept 15, 2005 SP
Global Warming Can't Be Denied - Sept 15, 2005 WSJ
Patrick Durkin column: Could CWD lead to controversial rules changes? - Sept 15, 2005 WO
Joan Dye Gussow: End of cheap oil will have positive impact on future food choices - Sept 15, 2005 CapTimes
[PCB] Extensive environmental damage in New Orleans flood - Sept 15, 2005 World Peace Herald
[PCB] Neighborhoods likely to be razed in cleanup - Sept 15, 2005 Washington Times
[PCB] DEP receives comments about city's dredge plans - Sept 15, 2005 Standard-Speaker
[Dioxin] Katrina leaves a toxic nightmare - Sept 15, 2005 DentonRC
[Dioxin] Katrina lays bare Superfund woes - Sept 15, 2005 Christian Science Monitor
[Dioxin] Judge hears merits of class-action suit today - Sept 15, 2005 Saginaw News
[PCB] Dioxin threat dredged up at hearing - Sept 15, 2005 Times-Standard
Cleaner, Greener And Richer - Sept 15, 2005 WorldWatch
World's Top Firms Fail to Tackle Climate Change Challenge - Sept 15, 2005 Common Dreams

Fischer Creek fish kill investigated, DNR says - Sept 14, 2005 MHT
Ethanol rule would harm air, DNR says - Sept 14, 2005 MJS
Northern lakes a cut above - Sept 14, 2005 MJS
Weekly fishing report - Sept 14, 2005 MJS
[PCB] South Park awash in PCBs - Sept 14, 2005 SeattlePI
[Dioxin] Environmental damage from Katrina `unprecedented,' experts say - Sept 14, 2005 HealthSentinel
[Dioxin] DEQ director demands apology; Goschka refuses - Sept 14, 2005 Saginaw News
We're All Patients Now - Sept 14, 2005 AlterNet

[PCB] New Renard Isle plan cuts dredging limits - Sept 13, 2005 PG
Wind makes waves over Horicon - Sept 13, 2005 WSJ
Tree-killing pest crosses into U.P.: Ash borer could soon imperil state forests - Sept 13, 2005 MJS
'Downright scary' oil future likely - Sept 13, 2005 MJS
WisBusiness: Utah Could Be Resting Place for Wisconsin Nuclear Waste - Sept 13, 2005 WisBusiness
[PCB] Is it safe to eat fish in diet? - Sept 13, 2005 eMaxHealth
[PCB] Dead fish spark health tests - Sept 13, 2005 London Free Press
Why Is the Ozone Hole Growing? - Sept 13, 2005 Truthout

[PCB] Letter: PCB claims belong in court (Scroll down) - Sept 12, 2005 PG
Statewide air advisory issued - Sept 12, 2005 PG
Stagnant air spurs DNR to warn about air quality - Sept 12, 2005 CapTimes
Rob Zaleski: Topic of overpopulation hits a nerve - Sept 12, 2005 CapTimes
[PCB] Now, making a new New Orleans - Sept 12, 2005 International Herald Tribune
[Dioxin] Nitro Dioxin Levels Acceptable, EPA Says - Sept 12, 2005 12 WOWK
[Dioxin] EPA says dioxin 'acceptable' in day care - Sept 12, 2005 UPI
Katrina Spurs New Debate on Energy Policy- Sept 12, 2005 Washington Post
Katrina fuels global warming storm - Sept 12, 2005 Reuters
On Katrina, Global Warming - Sept 12, 2005 Truthout

Earth Day founder’s daughter carries on legacy - Sept 11, 2005 PG
Commercial fishing catch is up - Sept 11, 2005 PG
Lunkers come in as deadline looms - Sept 11, 2005 WO
Letter: Poor land use practices shouldn’t be endorsed, encouraged - Sept 11, 2005 SP
Doug Dugal column: Paper industry must keep forest interests secure - Sept 11, 2005 PC
[PCB] Fishing for the Future - Sept 11, 2005 American Scientist

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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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