ENN Environmental News Network
E-mail Edition 06/30/2004
Greatest climate challenge may be overcoming ideology
A friend asked the other day if I ever got tired of writing about environmental issues. Well, to be frank I'm getting pretty tired of writing about climate change. Not because it isn't interesting or important, but because I'm getting tired of having to defend the science against conspiracy theorists and ideologues.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25182.asp
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia insist Iraq pay Gulf War debt
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, who have lodged claims worth billions of dollars against Iraq for damage from the 1991 Gulf War, insisted Tuesday that Baghdad must honor its debts to victims.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25396.asp
Businesses sue to force EPA and GE to fully remove PCB contamination
The owners of two businesses located near the former General Electric plant in Pittsfield sued the company and the federal government on Tuesday, seeking to compel them to fully remove PCBs from their properties and pay them damages.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25398.asp
China's dams put Mekong on knife's edge, says researcher
China's damming of the Mekong River to help power its economy could pose a grave threat within a decade to the livelihoods of millions of Southeast Asian farmers and fishers, an Australian researcher said on Tuesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25393.asp
Household hazards are a house-by-house issue
Mike Chenard may have a new boat, but the can of gas-oil mix that fueled his old two-cycle outboard is still in his garage.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25114.asp
China to build nature reserve for endangered river dolphin, says report
A nature reserve will be set up in a lake in central China to help save the highly endangered Yangtze River dolphin, the world's only freshwater dolphin, the government said Tuesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25402.asp
US EPA seeks to cut train and boat engine pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it will propose regulations to cut soot and toxic air emissions spewed from new train, boat, and ship engines.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25394.asp
Man arrested in connection with environmental activist's killing
Police have arrested a local politician's driver in connection with the slaying of a prominent environmental activist last week in Thailand.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25399.asp
Russian border guards discover tens of tons of fish on detained Japanese trawler
Russian border guards discovered some 30,000 metric tons (31,000 tons) of humpback salmon and 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of red caviar in the hold of a Japanese fishing boat that was detained in Russia's economic zone, a guards spokeswoman said Tuesday.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25400.asp
Anger brews in Ethiopia over Brazilian decaf find
A Brazilian scientist's discovery of naturally decaffeinated coffee plants in Ethiopia has landed him in hot water with Ethiopian authorities, who said Tuesday he may have taken bushes without permission.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25392.asp
Federal worker's mistake blamed for deaths of seven wild horses in Nevada
Seven wild horses died in remote northeast Nevada after a mistake by a federal worker trapped them in an enclosure without water, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said this week.
http://www.enn.com/news/2004-06-30/s_25403.asp
A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
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