Tuesday, May 31, 2005

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ENN Todays News

ENN Weekly: May 16th - 20th

ENN's editors summarize the most compelling environmental and sustainable economy themes of the week. In the news, May 16 - 20: Cow controversy in India, progress in U.N. climate talks, an important new species discovery in Tanzania, and questions about what it will take to save the world's rain forests.

EPA Does About-Face, Won't Allow Partial Treatment at Sewage Plants in Storms

The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not allow sewage treatment plants to skip a process for killing some disease-causing micro-organisms after heavy rains or snow melts. The decision reverses a plan proposed in November 2003.

World's Biodiversity Declining at an Alarming Rate

The world's biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate, threatening human well-being and future development and requiring important efforts and new thinking on conservation, a sweeping international report released on Thursday says.

New Monkey Species Found in Tanzania

Two separate teams of researchers working hundreds of miles apart have discovered a new species of monkey in Tanzania. The highland mangabey is the first new species of monkey identified in 20 years and conservationists immediately said the find showed how important it was to preserve African forests.

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SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY   NEWS

Sustainable Economy This Week

This week in Sustainable Economy, we showed you some examples of the increasingly common practice of companies to voluntarily report for public consumption their environmental compliance practices. No longer something companies do grudgingly and merely to be in compliance with government regulation, today's companies often will tout green practices, and use them as marketing points.

Business Group Supports LNG

A New England business-trade organization announced yesterday that it supports the development of new LNG facilities in the region to help stabilize the rising costs of energy.

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NON PROFIT NEWS

EPA Sewage 'Blending' Proposal Gets Dumped

Senate Committee Bill Begins Moving U.S. Energy Policy In Right Direction

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