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E-mail Edition 06/03/2004

"Low-carb" diet can trim U.S. fuel costs, says study
Just as low-carbohydrate diets are trimming the American waistline, more judicious use of hydrocarbon-based fossil fuels would reduce U.S. energy consumption by 33 percent and save consumers $438 billion a year by 2014, according to an analysis by Cornell University ecologists.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-03/s_24279.asp

Deadly floods force tough talk about Haiti's deforestation
Named after a sacred tree in the Voodoo religion, this Haitian village has few remaining mapou trees and a scant number of others on its surrounding mountains. When floods tore through town last week, many survived by clinging to roots, branches, and trunks ? but it was the overall absence of trees that made the onslaught so deadly.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-03/s_24484.asp

Bad air causes heart disease, says U.S. heart group
Air pollution causes heart disease, the American Heart Association said this week. While pollution does not cause as many heart attacks as high blood pressure, for example, it is a serious risk factor, the group said in a statement.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-03/s_24490.asp

Australian PM says Schwarzenegger response "positive" on gas plan
On his first leg of a U.S. visit, Australian Prime Minister John Howard made a personal appeal to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to back an Australian company's plan to build a liquefied natural gas terminal off the Southern California coast.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-03/s_24483.asp

Gas may have spurred ancient global warming, says Nature
A vast belch of gas from beneath the North Atlantic 55 million years ago may have warmed the planet and holds clues to threats from an even faster modern surge in greenhouse gases, scientists said Wednesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-03/s_24489.asp

RWE Thames Water pulls out of Shanghai treatment plant project
RWE Thames Water, the world's third-biggest water supply company, has withdrawn from a water treatment project in Shanghai after the government changed rules on the rate of return for such investments.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-03/s_24487.asp

Power plants top North American air polluters, says watchdog
Coal and oil-fired power plants are the top air polluters in the United States and Canada according to most recent data, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation said Wednesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-03/s_24492.asp

Open USDA biopharm permit process to the public, says study
The U.S. Agriculture Department's process for approving permits to grow biopharmaceutical crops is "shrouded in secrecy," making it difficult to know if the crops pose a risk to humans or the environment, a study said Wednesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-03/s_24488.asp

E.U. Commission sees U.S. return to Kyoto fold
The United States will eventually join other industrial nations in signing up to the Kyoto global warming pact, despite its current opposition to the agreement, Europe's environment chief said Wednesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-03/s_24491.asp