And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE (ENS) BOTTLE FED BABIES INGEST CANCER CAUSING CHEMICAL CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS DROP DESPITE DELAY OF KYOTO PROTOCOL ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: JULY 29, 1999 Wildlife Grants Run Out of Money The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will not be able to offer its popular Federal Aid Administrative Grants program in fiscal year 2000 due to budget shortfalls, the agency announced Monday. The annual competitive grants support special wildlife conservation investigations. In announcing the decision, FWS acting director John Rogers noted that costs of administering the Federal Aid program have risen sharply in recent years. This rise, coupled with lower than expected program revenues, has eliminated the surplus funds out of which the grants program had been funded.<< ***************** Eight Wildlife Refuges Grow by 21,000 Acres The National Wildlife Refuge System will grow by more than 21,000 acres as the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission this month approved expenditures of $8 million for acquisition of habitat at eight refuges.>> ********** Invasive Fish Eating Up Great Lakes Native Species The round goby, native to the Black and Caspian seas, may challenge the zebra mussel's place as the most troublesome colonizer of fresh water. In just nine years, the tiny fish has invaded all five Great Lakes, feeding on the eggs and offspring of native fish. Usually smaller than a smelt, the round goby is aggressive and fearless. It has begun locally eradicating the native sculpin by out competing it for food and habitat. Gobies can also eat up to 40 zebra mussels a day, and may help curb the lakes' zebra mussel problem, though they are not expected to eliminate the invasive mussels that clog intake pipes of industrial facilities.>> *********** Map Predicts Sources of Selenium Contamination A new screening method based on geology and climatology is a reliable means of predicting where irrigation could cause contamination from selenium. This is a finding of a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and Bureau of Indian Affairs. The four agencies of the U.S. Department of the Interior conducted the joint study because of concerns about selenium in irrigated lands, which has caused deformities of bird embryos in six areas of the western U.S. - three in California, and one each in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. "In order to identify areas where selenium contamination can be a problem, we needed a reliable screening method," said Ralph Seiler, USGS hydrologist and author of the report. "The method that we developed uses geologic and climatic features that are characteristic of already known selenium problem areas in the West.>> *********** California EPA Lab Switches On Green Power The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Richmond, California laboratory has become the first federal building in the U.S. to be powered entirely by renewable energy. A three year agreement with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District will supply the facility with 100 percent green power. >> ******** New Jersey Chemical Corporation Fined $1.07 Million The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has fined Heterene Chemical Company Inc. $1.07 million for a June 12, 1998 release of cresol, a hazardous air pollutant, which caused the evacuation of a neighboring school. Investigators at DEP, the state Division of Criminal Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office participated in civil and criminal investigation and enforcement actions against the company. "This was a painstaking and complicated investigation involving numerous violations of air pollution rules.>> ************ Washington Waste Company Broke 50+ State Regs A hazardous waste handling company in Tacoma, Washington, that broke more than 50 state environmental regulations has been handed one of the state Department of Ecology's (Ecology) largest penalties ever. Ecology issued a fine of $486,000 to CleanCare Corp. for violations in storing and managing hazardous substances and for an incident in which 1,000 to 2,000 gallons of oily waste spilled into a storm drain on March 26, eventually reaching Commencement Bay. The penalty amount reflects the company's repeated violations and its recklessness in causing the March 26 spill, according to Greg Sorlie, who manages the Ecology's hazardous-waste program. The spill continued to pose a risk to the environment for more than two months until it was finally cleaned up June 8.>> *********** Hearing Problems May Doom Manatees Manatees may get run down by motorboats because they cannot hear them coming, a new study suggests. Manatees can swim at rates up to several yards per second, and research indicates that they can remember and learn to avoid hazards. Yet the leading cause of death among endangered manatees is collisions with boat propellers. A team led by Edmund Gerstein of the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton trained two captive born manatees to take a hearing test. The manatees were taught to wait underwater for a strobe light to flash. If a tone preceded the light, the animals were trained to press a striped paddle. If there was no tone, they pressed a white paddle. The researchers were able to determine the frequency at which manatees hear best, about 17 kilohertz. The frequency of a boat's motor is roughly two kilohertz, which is at the poor end of manatees' hearing range. Boats that slow down in an effort to avoid manatees produce even lower frequency sounds, making it more difficult for the animals to detect them. Near the surface of the water, low tones also propagate poorly because of a phenomenon called Lloyd's mirror effect, where soundwaves bouncing off the water's surface interfere with one another. Gerstein is working on a high frequency sonic beacon that could be attached to boat motors in order to warn manatees away. ***************** Washington Reservoir Gets Two Year Reprieve The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) agreed Wednesday to delay for two years its enforcement of an operating license for Puget Sound Energy's (PSE) White River hydroelectric project in Tacoma, Washington. Without this action, the agency could have forced the utility either to accept the project license or to shut down its Pierce County hydropower plant. The project diverts water from the White River to create the Lake Tapps reservoir. "This is great news," Pierce County executive Doug Sutherland said of FERC's decision. "Now that we've suspended the clock on PSE's license, we can roll up our sleeves and concentrate on finding a way to save the lake.">>> ************ Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jul99/1999L-07-29-09.html E-WIRE * Toups Technology Enters Worldwide Regions Through Extensive Licensing Agreement For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com *************************************************************************** Send News Tips and Story Leads to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************************** BOTTLE FED BABIES INGEST CANCER CAUSING CHEMICAL WASHINGTON, DC, July 29, 1999 (ENS) - Formula fed infants in 796 Midwestern communities are exposed to high levels of the toxic weed killer atrazine, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has found. The herbicide contaminates tap water in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio, creating cancer risks up to 20 times higher than federally mandated limits. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jul99/1999L-07-29-06.html *************************************************************************** CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS DROP DESPITE DELAY OF KYOTO PROTOCOL By Catherine Lazaroff WASHINGTON, DC, July 29, 1999 (ENS) - Worldwide estimates of carbon dioxide emissions fell in 1998, the first such drop to occur while the world economy was growing, the Worldwatch Institute said in a report released Wednesday. 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