And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Editor's Note: Please continue to send in your feedback: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> S P O N S O R <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Help stop campaign abuses! Register your support for a US Constitutional Ammendment on campaign finance reform. Imagine legislation enacted without the moneyed influence of the oil or timber industries. Register here: http://www.onevote.org >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< February 1, 1999 On the web at: http://www.envirolink.org/environews/ Environmental Headlines from Around the Internet: State to test N.Y. toxic fire sites -- The state will test soil in an area where firefighters burned toxic liquids over a 20-year period to determine if the fires contributed to a rash of cancer cases. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558259572-a65 Philippine polluters to plant trees -- Officials from companies that violate the country's pollution laws will be required to plant fruit trees in metropolitan Manila as punishment, an official said Sunday. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558273455-e06 Glass bottles banned from Everest -- From a distance, Mount Everest looks pristine, rising out of the Himalayas like a monument to nature's power. It is only up close the evidence of neglect can be seen. The worst of the litter strewn on Everest's slopes are the glass bottles, so heavy and unwieldy no incentive could persuade trekkers to carry them back down rather than discard them at camp sites. Shards of glass threaten the feet of village children and adventurers. So in Aug. 1998, the Nepalese government banned the sale in the Everest region of beer and soft drinks in glass containers. Officials say the idea is working. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558275444-0b0 Global chemical treaty threatened -- Hopes of drafting a global treaty to ban 12 toxic chemicals by 2000 have dimmed because negotiations have bogged down in details, the World Wildlife Fund said Friday. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558254711-d5b Ecuador boosts jungle protections -- Ecuador declared a swath of the Amazon jungle twice the size of the state of Delaware off limits to oil drilling, mining, lumbering and colonization. Ecuador's President Jamil Mahuad's Friday decree strengthened legislation controlling the economic exploitation of the Cuyabeno-Imuya and Yasuni national parks, which together total 2.7 million acres. The decree blocks planned oil exploration in the Cuyabeno-Imuya park that had angered Ecuador's environmental groups. The two parks, located close together, are near Ecuador's borders with Peru and Colombia and contain a vast system of environmentally sensitive rivers and lakes, ecologists say. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558255053-c6c Coastal fishing restrictions passed -- Fishery officials approved a plan Thursday to close a huge section of the Gulf of Maine to fishing in an attempt to replenish once-abundant cod stocks, a move that could ground thousands of commercial fisherman. Read the story: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558250047-7cc Flap Over Rare Butterfly Creates Rift -- A checkered butterfly found only in the Sacramento Mountains of southern New Mexico is creating a rift between environmentalists and a village with growing pains. The Southwest Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Ariz., wants an emergency listing of the Cloudcroft checkerspot butterfly as a federally endangered species. Read the story: http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/SCIENCE/ENVIRON/t000009046.html Idaho wolf recovery both good, bad news -- If the population of gray wolves in Idaho continues to grow but the state refuses to take responsibility, the burgeoning packs may retain their federal protection against lethal control. Read the story: http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=012999ID=s522619 Ocean changes worry, perplex experts -- Scientists say the North Pacific Ocean is acting strangely and this time, El Nino might not be to blame. Read the story: http://www.djc.com/data/news/19990129/10049553.htm North Providence -- Residents of North Providence, Rhode Island are concerned about high levels of carcinogenic dioxin found along a river that runs through the town. This week the Environmental Protection Agency launched an investigation and promised more money for further testing. NPR's Anthony Brooks reports. 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