And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE (ENS) EUROPE TOPS BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY INDEX DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE HITS TAIWAN MILLENIUM CELEBRANTS SWARM MT. KILIMANJARO AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 21, 1999 E-WIRE * PR Watch Reports 'Greenwashing An Olympic-Sized Toxic Dump' * Health Care Without Harm: Koop Under Fire for Inaccuracies in Plastics Report For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com *************************************************************************** Send News Tips and Story Leads to [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************************** EUROPE TOPS BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY INDEX BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 20, 1999 (ENS) - Europe is the "clear front runner" in a new global Dow Jones index ranking companies according to sustainability principles, according to one of the organisers if the index. Published in cooperation with ENDS Environment Daily Website: http://www.ends.co.uk/envdaily } For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-20-01.html *************************************************************************** DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE HITS TAIWAN TAIPEI, Taiwan, September 20, 1999 (ENS) - An earthquake measuring at least 7.6 on the Richter scale shook Taiwan early this morning, killing 270 people and injuring hundreds more. A measurement by the French National Earthquake Surveillance Network placed the strength of the quake at 8.1 on the Richter scale. In any case, it is the most severe earthquake to hit Taiwan this century. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-20-05.html *************************************************************************** ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: SEPTEMBER 21, 1999 Supercomputer to Create Weather Forecast Models One of the fastest computer systems in the world has just been acquired by the Department of Commerce to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) further improve existing weather forecast models and develop new ones, Commerce Secretary William Daley announced last week. The $15 million contract has been awarded to High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) of Reston, Virginia, to provide a High Performance Computing System to NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory, located in Boulder, Colorado>>>>>>>>>> Hydrogen Explosion Shuts Nebraska Nuclear Reactor A hydrogen gas explosion at the Cooper Nuclear Power Plant near Brownville, Nebraska Friday has caused the shutdown of the Nebraska Public Power District reactor. An "unusual event" was declared and area residents were notified, although no evacuations took place. The building in which the explosion happened is separate from the main reactor building. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Breck Henderson told ENS that there was no release of radioactive materials "greater than technical specification limits." Henderson said some radioactivity is present in all gases released from nuclear plants. The plant is now stable in cold shutdown mode. An electrical problem in sump pumps at the base of the plant's gas release towers caused the hydrogen explosion. This pumping system is used to remove radioactivity from the gases released into the atmosphere, so the reactor is not permitted to operate if these pumps are not in service.<<<<<<<<< Public Input Not Sought in Montana Coal-Railroad Deal Ranchers in southeastern Montana's remote Tongue River Valley say Governor Marc Racicot is to blame for the impasse over the transfer to the state of $10 million in federal mineral assets, part of the 1998 federal buyout agreement for the New World gold mine near Yellowstone National Park. The Montana citizens group Northern Plains Resource Council, has released two letters signed by numerous area landowners calling on Racicot and Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt to resolve the impasse by considering assets other than the Otter Creek coal tracts in the Tongue River Valley which have been the principal subject of negotiations...... If the deadlock persists, the Otter Creek Tracts will automatically transfer to the state on January 1, 2001 under the deal approved by Congress as part of the 1998 Interior Appropriations Act. Originally line-item vetoed by President Bill Clinton, the transfer was reinstated when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled presidential line-item vetoes unconstitutional.<<<<<<<<<< Black Hills Proposed Wilderness Could Be Logged The public comment period closed today on the U.S. Forest Service proposal for a commercial timber sale in the Beaver Park Roadless Area in the Black Hills National Forest (BHNF). Due to extensive logging everywhere else on the BHNF, Beaver Park may be the last forested Roadless Area in South Dakota that remains eligible for wilderness designation, forest protectionists say. The proposed logging would eliminate the "wilderness" eligibility. Last year, the Forest Service (USFS) issued an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and decision to log a portion of Beaver Park as part of the "Veteran/Boulder timber sale." Biodiversity Associates appealed that decision and the Veteran/Boulder sale is now on hold. Earlier this year the Forest Service issued a draft supplemental EIS (SEIS) proposing to expand the Veteran/Boulder sale further into the roadless area. Even though the first sale is currently on hold and the second proposed sale's SEIS has yet to be completed, the USFS issued a! ! n Au gust 18 letter announcing a proposal to have an even bigger timber sale in the Beaver Park area. The proposal allows for commercially logging on up to 4,000 acres, non-commercial logging/felling of another 2,000 acres, burning up to 2,000 acres.<<<<<<<<<<< California Condors to be Released November 18 Biologists from The Peregrine Fund will release eight California Condors on top of the Hurricane Cliffs near the Grand Canyon in Northern Arizona on November 18. This will be the fourth release of North America’s largest bird since December of 1996. Once thought to be extinct, the release of these eight condors will increase the population of California Condors in Arizona to 22. "This release is another step toward the recovery of the California Condor and we are pleased to initiate a second release site on the Hurricane Cliffs," said Bill Burnham, Ph.D., president of The Peregrine Fund.<<<<<<<<<<< [see URL for complete stories and other news] Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1999 For full text and graphics visit: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-20-09.html *************************************************************************** E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE *************************************************************************** TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDITOR: PR Watch Reports 'Greenwashing An Olympic-Sized Toxic Dump' MADISON, Wis., Sept. 20 -/E-Wire/-- The Center for Media & Democracy announced the following: One year from now when the 2000 Olympic Games open in Sydney they will be hyped as an environmental showcase, the "Green Olympics." In reality the Olympic site at Homebush Bay is "the worst toxic waste dump in Australia" writes Dr. Sharon Beder in the investigative quarterly PR Watch, available online at http://www.prwatch.org. The Olympic venue is contaminated with asbestos and chemicals including dioxins and pesticides, along with arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc. /CONTACT: John Stauber of Center for Media and Democracy, 608-233-3346, [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /Web site: http://www.prwatch.org / /Web site: http://www.prwatch.org/prw_issues.html / For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com/e-wire/Sept99/20sept9901.html *************************************************************************** E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE *************************************************************************** TO MEDICAL, SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS: Health Care Without Harm: Science of Koop Study Challenged; America's 'Family Doctor' Comes Under Fire for Inaccuracies in Plastics Report BOSTON, Sept. 21 -/E-Wire/-- An international coalition of health professionals, health advocacy groups and environmental organizations released a critique today that challenges the scientific integrity of a recent report on chemicals used in vinyl medical products and toys. The panel responsible for the report under scrutiny was chaired by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop for the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). /CONTACT: Charlotte Brody, RN, 703-237-2249, Jackie Hunt Christensen, 612-870-3424, both of Health Care Without Harm, or Ted Schettler, MD, MPH of Science & Environmental Health Network, 617-536-7033/ /Web site: http://www.noharm.org / For Full Text and Graphics Visit: http://ens.lycos.com/e-wire/Sept99/20sept9903.html Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved. 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/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
