Thursday, February 21, 2008

02/20/2008 TO Enviro-news

Carbon Emissions Cap-and-Trade Plan Faces Fight
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022008EA.shtml
Margot Roosevelt of The Los Angeles Times reports: "Low-income community groups in five California cities launched a statewide campaign Tuesday to 'fight at every turn' any global-warming regulation that allows industries to trade carbon emissions, saying it would amount to 'gambling on public health.'"

FCC Must Weigh New Towers' Risk to Birds
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022008EB.shtml
Writing for The Los Angeles Times, Jim Puzzanghera says, "When considering new communications towers, a federal court ruled Tuesday, officials need to consider whether they pose safety risks - to birds."

Rare Cooperation to Save Gorillas
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022008EC.shtml
According to BBC News, "Three countries have come together for the first time, to try to save the mountain gorillas of central Africa."

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