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• Local air showing signs of pollution - June 13, 2005 WSJ

Badger Army Ammunity Plant (BAAP)

Campaign Finance Reform

Crandon Mine

Earth and Religion

Earth's Ecosystem

• Commentary: Who Owns the Earth? - June 13, 2005 ENN

• Nets killing off 10 dolphin, porpoise species: Accidental catch documented by conservation group - June 9, 2005 MSNBC

• Offshore fish farms - a solution or a problem? - June 8, 2005 CSM

• Rule Delays Doom Right Whale To Extinction, Top Advisor Says - June 8, 2005 EMS

Environment and Health

• Cancer unit is assailed over studies: Three leaders of local cancer support and education groups are accusing the American Cancer Society of downplaying links between environmental contaminants and cancer - June 14, 2005 Poughkeepsie Journal

• What's causing cancer? Chemicals fingered as rates reach epidemic proportions - June 13, 2005 TheStar

Environmental Deregulation ("Jobs Creation" Act)

• WMC: Job Growth Predicted; Taxes, Regulations Top Concerns - June 8, 2005 WisBusiness

• Letter: Ethanol; Gasoline additive has many pluses (Scroll down) - June 10, 2005 MJS

• Editorial: Ethanol Use as Fuel is Burning Money - June 8, 2005 ENN

• The rise, fall and rise of Brazil's biofuel - June 8, 2005 BBC

• Lake woes from fertilizer called worse - June 14, 2005 CapTimes

• Study: Farm runoff hurting lakes - June 14, 2005 PC

• Court Says DNR Illegally Approved Farm Expansion Permit - June 13, 2005 Wisconsin Ag Connection

• Midwest Environmental Advocates: Court Halts Livestock Factory Expansion, Cites DNR Failure to Evaluate Effects on Air and Water - June 10, 2005 WisPolitics

• Court halts expansion of big dairy operation - June 10, 2005 MHT

• Group wants manure haulers to be certified - June 10, 2005 MHT

• Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters: Expect More Contaminated Drinking Water, Beach Closings, and Fish Kills; Joint Finance Committee Guarantees Water Pollution Problems will Continue - June 9, 2005 WisPolitics

• River Alliance of Wisconsin: Joint Finance Committee Signs Off on Polluted Rivers - June 9, 2005 WisPolitics

• A big stink over odors: Mounting wastes and suburban sprawl sharpen conflicts over bad smells - June 9, 2005 CSM

• PCB dredging to resume in July: Negotiation woes cited for Little Lake cleanup delay - June 13, 2005 PC

• Panzer masters the language of politics - June 13, 2005 MJS

• Exxon makes a cold calculation on global warming - June 14, 2005 Post-Gazette

• U.S. mayors endorse action against warming: Goal to meet or beat Kyoto targets, which White House opposes - June 14, 2005 MSNBC

• Senate Energy Debate Begins at Last - June 13, 2005 Bush GreenWatch

• Senate Moving Toward Adding Climate Provisions to Energy Bill - June 13, 2005 ENN

• Political Science/Soft-Pedaling Climate Consensus - June 13, 2005 Common Dreams

• Beckett Exposes G8 Rift on Global Warming - June 13, 2005 Common Dreams

• Global warming: the US contribution in figures - June 13, 2005 Independent

• US climate talks 'disappointing' - June 13, 2005 BBC

• A Deliberate Plan To Create Confusion About Global Warming? - June 13, 2005 Planetizen

• A Shift to Green: Driven by profit and the opportunity to shape regulations, major corporations are backing stronger measures to reduce global warming - June 12, 2005 LATimes

• US: A Shift to Green - June 12, 2005 CorpWatch

• White House official who edited global warming reports resigns - June 11, 2005 CNN

• Ex-oil lobbyist quits White House job: Official reportedly edited warming, emission link - June 11, 2005 MSNBC

• OpEd: Global Warming's Impact; Better environmental policies - June 11, 2005 MJS

• Arctic explorers say global warming forced them to cut journey short: Ice was too unstable for pair to travel across - June 10, 2005 MJS

• Lawmakers Want Probe in Charge White House Doctored Climate Change Reports - June 10, 2005 Common Dreams

• Blair: US Set for New Climate Change Treaty - June 9, 2005 Truthout

• Bush aide 'edited climate papers': A White House official edited government reports in ways that played down links between global warming and emissions - June 9, 2005 BBC

• Business giants urge warming action: Scientists earlier sought same from Bush, other leaders - June 9, 2005 MSNBC

• Big business urges G8 global warming action - June 9, 2005 FT.com

• Esprit de Gore: Gore is transforming into fiery climate evangelist - June 9, 2005 Truthout

• Arctic Trip Fails: Two Midwestern men say a failed expedition in the Arctic Ocean has given them a greater awareness of global warming - June 8, 2005 WPR

• Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming - June 8, 2005 NYTimes

• Report: Official edited warming, emission link - June 8, 2005 MSNBC

• Revealed: How Oil Giant Influenced Bush - June 8, 2005 Truthout

• Science academies turn up heat on Bush: U.S., nine others urge prompt action to curb warming - June 8, 2005 MSNBC

• US Scientists Pile on Pressure Over Climate Change - June 8, 2005 Common Dreams

• World Scientists Say Humans Causing Global Warming - June 8, 2005 ENN

Gravel Pits

• State considers ballast-water measures - June 10, 2005 DNT

• Ballast Water Discharge In Great Lakes Targeted - June 9, 2005 CapTimes

• State to consider ballast water rules: Great Lakes need protection, Doyle says - June 8, 2005 MJS

• Higher Lake Levels Mean Lower Consumer Prices - June 8, 2005 WBAY-TV

Green Building

• Steelcase to Host Second Green By Design Sustainability Symposium - June 13, 2005 PRNewswire

• Thinking Green, Architect Strikes Gold - June 13, 2005 Daily Californian

• Water On Parade: Pond Landscaping An Added Bonus For Homebuyers - June 9, 2005 CapTimes

Greenwashing - Government/Corporate Enviro PR

Hazardous Waste

• Editorial: Unite effort against non-native species - June 8, 2005 PG

Landfill Expansion & Legislation

Mad Cow Disease

• The Mad Cow Cover-Up Begins to Unravel: Last week the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture announced that an American cow tested positive for mad cow disease. Without major changes in the beef industry, it may be just the first of many - June 14, 2005 AlterNet

• Chronology - Mad Cow Disease in The United States - June 14, 2005 PlanetArk

• Mad Cow USA - The Cover-Up Begins to Unravel by John Stauber - June 13, 2005 Common Dreams

• Despite Likely Second U.S. Mad Cow, the Bush Administration Refuses to Adopt Necessary Safeguards  - June 13, 2005 Common Dreams

• Effects of Mad Cow Scare Felt on Both Sides of Border - June 13, 2005 LATimes

• More Tests Planned in Suspected Case of Mad Cow Disease - June 11, 2005 NYTimes

• Consumer and Watchdog Groups Join Beef Producer to Challenge USDA Secretary Mike Johanns on Mad Cow Disease - June 8, 2005 Mad Cow Disease

Nonrenewable Energy - Oil,Coal, Natural Gas

• 'Record volume rise' in world energy consumption - June 14, 2005 FT.com

• Editorial: Senate has chance to pass meaningful energy bill - June 12, 2005 PC

• The Long Emergency: Running Out of Cheap Gas to Guzzle - June 10, 2005 EV World

• PSC rejects Alliant rate hike request - June 10, 2005 CapTimes

Nuclear Power, Waste and Weapons

• Opinion: Nuclear power not a solution - June 14, 2005 SeattlePI

• Garrett says nuclear power has no future - June 14, 2005 The Age

• The case for nuclear power - June 14, 2005 OrlandoSentinel

• US pressures G8 to support nuclear power - June 14, 2005 Scotsman

• Nuclear Plants Vulnerable to Big Attack - June 13, 2005 Common Dreams

• Power shift? Nuclear industry sees resurgence: U.S. market eyed given costs of alternatives and global warming - June 13, 2005 MSNBC

• Leak raises nuclear power doubts - June 13, 2005 BBC

• Sellafield radioactive leak to cost £300m: UK nuclear industry in turmoil after closure of vital plant - June 13, 2005 Guardian

• Nuclear power cost doesn't add up - June 13 (14), 2005 - The Age

• The nuclear power option - expensive, ineffective and unnecessary - June 13, 2005 Sydney Morning Herald 

• Are These Towers Safe? Why America's nuclear power plants are still so vulnerable to terrorist attack--and how to make them safer - June 12, 2005 TIME

• Nuclear Waste Outpaces Solutions - June 12, 2005 LATimes

• Nuclear waste: the 1,000-year fudge - June 12, 2005 Independent

• WPS seeks Kewaunee sale funds to pay costs: Plan would limit planned rate cuts - June 11, 2005 PG

• Wisconsin Public Service Files to Apply Kewaunee Decommissioning Fund to Customer Rates - June 10, 2005 WPS

• Customers to pay for idle plant: Shutdown delays sale of Kewaunee nuclear facility - June 9, 2005 MJS

• Citizens Utility Board: Fights WPS Attempt to Steal $127 Million from Ratepayers if Kewaunee Nuclear Plant sold - June 9, 2005 WisPolitics

• Letter: Nuclear ‘power’ poses a threat - June 9, 2005 PG

• Nuclear Waste On Trucks Get Headlines; Dirt Gets Moved - June 9, 2005 KSDK

• Nuclear Power: Still an Environmental Scourge or Now a Climate Change Mitigator? - June 9, 2005 Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire 

• Leak Triggers Another Shutdown at Troubled Hope Creek Nuclear - June 8, 2005 Truthout

• A Healthier Glow for Nuclear Power? - June 8, 2005 Motley Fool

• Debate over nuclear power - June 8, 2005 ABC