And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE (ENS) AMERISCAN: JULY 30, 1999 E-WIRE * Greenpeace Gets Gerber to Go GE Free For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com *************************************************************************** Send News Tips and Story Leads to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************************** CHEMICAL FIRMS REJECT HAZWASTE UNDERGROUND INJECTION By Donald Sutherland WASHINGTON, DC, July 28, 1999 (ENS) - One of the world's largest chemical manufacturers is drastically cutting back the use of hazardous deep injection wells for disposal of liquid toxins. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jul99/1999L-07-30-02.html *************************************************************************** DROUGHT SEARS U.S. NORTHEAST WASHINGTON, DC, July 30, 1999 (ENS) - The Northeastern United States is sweltering under one of the worst droughts in decades, and relief is nowhere in sight. Federal weather forecasters warn the La Nina weather pattern that has sent floods to the Northwest and Southwest while parching the East may last through the winter, with rain coming to drought stricken areas only as part of an unusually violent hurricane season. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jul99/1999L-07-30-06.html *************************************************************************** ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: JULY 30, 1999 Energy Producers Create 80 Percent of Carbon Pollution The world's major energy companies contribute more to global warming than many developing countries, according to a report released Thursday by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Union of Concerned Scientists and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. The report, "Kingpins of Carbon: How Fossil Fuel Producers Contribute to Global Warming," finds that the world's top 122 producers of coal, oil and natural gas are responsible for almost 80 percent of the fossil carbon released into the atmosphere as manmade carbon dioxide. Twenty-two percent of the world's carbon based fuels are produced by just 20 private companies, including Russia's Gazprom, Shell, Exxon, Peabody, BP Amoco, ARCO, Chevron and Mobil. The combined annual carbon emissions of Exxon and Mobil exceeds the collective annual carbon emissions of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Shell's yearly carbon production exceeds the combined annual carbon emissions of Mexico, Argentina and Chile. Peabody's annual carbon production exceeds Brazil's annual carbon emissions.A full copy of the report is online at: www.nrdc.org >>>> ******************** Wind Power Tax Credit Gives Industry Needed Boost[see link] Public Private Partnership Will Mend Acadia's Trails Acadia National Park in Maine will become the first U.S. national park to have a privately endowed trail system, thanks to a landmark agreement signed yesterday between the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the private group Friends of Acadia. The agreement launches a multimillion dollar effort to restore the park's 130 mile trail system. DOI will match private fund raising efforts with $4 million from park entrance fees for trail restoration.>>> Settlement Orders Overhaul for Atlanta's Sewers[see link] Aleutian Goose Proposed for Delisting[see link] Pesticide Treated Toothbrushes Injure Indian Children More than 100 Native American children developed blisters and burns in their mouths after their toothbrushes were treated with pesticides illegally sold as sanitizers. On July 14, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court of South Dakota convicted Friendly Systems Inc. on three counts of violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. Friendly sold the pesticides Tisan and DS-164 to two Native American tribes for sanitizing children's toothbrushes. The pesticides were registered and labeled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the purpose of sanitizing floors and silverware. Friendly sold the pesticides in November 1995 and October 1996 to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's Head Start program and in February and March 1997 to the Badlands Head Start program. Friendly faces a maximum fine of $600,000 when sentenced. Innovative Settlement Makes the Best of Environmental Violation[see link] Ornithologists Address Deadly Bird-Tower Collisions[see link] Environmental Education Gets $2.5 Million in Grants[see link] Mosquitofish Feast on Amphibians[see link] Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jul99/1999L-07-30-09.html *************************************************************************** E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE *************************************************************************** TO NATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS: Greenpeace Gets Gerber to Go GE Free WASHINGTON, July 30 -/E-Wire/-- Greenpeace welcomed baby-food manufacturer Gerber's announcement today that it will stop using genetically engineered (GE) corn, soy or other ingredients in its baby-foods. Greenpeace says it will be watching closely to see how Gerber will deliver on this commitment to its consumers. /CONTACT: Charles Margulis, 415-672-1157, cellular, until Aug. 2; or Craig Culp, 202-319-2461; both of Greenpeace/ /Web site: http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/ For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com/e-wire/July99/30july9901.html Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
