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E-mail Edition 04/20/2004

Seven activists receive Goldman Environmental Prizes
Rudolf Amenga-Etego fought a water privatization project in Ghana. Manana Kochladze campaigned to protect the environment and residents in her native country of Georgia from a major oil pipeline. They are two of the seven activists honored Monday in San Francisco with the Goldman Environmental Prize, the best-known award for environmentalists.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22962.asp

Brazil police recover 26 bodies in Amazon killings
The bodies of 26 diamond miners suspected killed by Indians in an Amazon jungle reserve were found by Brazilian police on Monday and the toll was expected to rise in one of the worst such massacres in South America's richest diamond region.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22964.asp

Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. counties have unhealthy air
Americans living in nearly one in five counties nationwide are breathing unhealthy air, according to new ozone rules the Bush administration unveiled on Thursday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22970.asp

EU hopes newcomers will meet deadline for CO2 plans
Europe's environment chief fought shy on Monday of acting against laggard EU states that failed to submit plans to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution on time, saying she hoped the bloc's newcomers would fare better.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22967.asp

Birders mourn loss of webcam falcon
Birders around the world are mourning the death of Mae, the first known peregrine falcon to nest at a power plant, who became an Internet star through a Web cam that allowed thousands to watch her during nesting season.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22966.asp

Permit appeal halts Teck's Alaska gold development
Canada's Teck Cominco Ltd. said on Monday that construction work at its Pogo gold project in Alaska has been suspended until an appeal, against a critically important permit that the miner was previously issued, is settled.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22963.asp

USDA won't pay full cost of animal ID system
The U.S. government may pay about one-third the estimated $550 million cost to set up an animal identification system, an Agriculture Department official said on Monday, providing the first outline of the Bush administration's financial commitment to the program.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22965.asp

EPA plan would improve national park vistas
The Environmental Protection Agency said it plans to require dozens of states to cut haze that impairs views at U.S. national parks including the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and the Great Smoky Mountains.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22969.asp

U.S. may be losing fuel cell race
The United States could fall behind in using fuel cells because it already has an extensive infrastructure for other energy sources and spends fewer government dollars on alternatives, say industry officials and analysts.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22968.asp

Warming climate disrupts Alaska natives' lives
Anyone who doubts the gravity of global warming should ask Alaska's Eskimo, Indian and Aleut elders about the dramatic changes to their land and the animals on which they depend.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-04-20/s_22971.asp



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Today's Press Releases (Become an Affiliate)
Direct from non-profit environmental and educational organizations.

Pennsylvania IPM Program :
Live, Creepy, Crawly Performances Educates Students

International Policy Network:
Roll back malaria, indeed : experts say international agencies far from achieving a "malaria-free" future

Natural Resources Defense Council:
U.S. Must Act Immediately and Decisively on National Oceans Report, Says NRDC

Competitive Enterprise Institute:
New Study on the Politics Behind Pesticides and the West Nile Virus

Marine Stewardship Council:
California Salmon Fishery Seeks Environmental Certification

Mangrove Action Project:
Late Friday News #135

Pennsylvania IPM Program :
School Reduces Pesticide Use While Educating Students

Project NatureConnect, Institute of Global Education:
Earth Day Web Site Shows Degradation of Natural Resources can be Reduced by Nature-Connected Psychology