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>GERMAN CHANCELLOR URGES QUICK ACTION ON CLIMATE

>SENATOR CHAFEE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDER, IS DEAD AT 77

>MOROCCAN WINDS TO GENERATE POWER

>TIBETAN ANTELOPE VANISHING FOR THE SAKE OF VANITY

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>AMERISCAN: OCTOBER 25, 1999

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>HEALING OUR WORLD: WEEKLY COMMENT

> " THE POWER OF PLACE IN THE URBAN EXPERIENCE "

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>* PPG to Use EPA Framework to Make Safer Chemicals

>* EDR Training Workshop Series on Phase I Standard A Success

>* Canon is WILD About the Environment; Wins U.N. Award

>* Climate & Implications Featured at 'State-of-the-Planet' Conference

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>GERMAN CHANCELLOR URGES QUICK ACTION ON CLIMATE

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>BONN, Germany, October 25, 1999 (ENS) - To quickly bring global warming

>under control, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Climate Change

>Convention should enter into force by the year 2002, German Chancellor

>Gerhard Schroeder told the opening session of the latest round of climate

>change negotiations in Bonn today.

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>SENATOR CHAFEE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDER, IS DEAD AT 77

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>WASHINGTON, DC, October 25, 1999 (ENS) - Senator Chafee of Rhode

>Island, a moderate Republican who championed environmental issues in

>Congress for more than 20 years, has died of heart failure. The 77 year old

>Chafee, in his fourth U.S. Senate term, died Monday at the Bethesda Naval

>Hospital in land.

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>MOROCCAN WINDS TO GENERATE POWER

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>CASABLANCA, Morocco, October 25, 1999 (ENS) - Morocco is looking for

>developers to build two windfarms at the northern and southern tips of the

>country.

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>TIBETAN ANTELOPE VANISHING FOR THE SAKE OF VANITY

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>NEW DELHI, India, October 25, 1999 (ENS) - Celebrity models, authors and

>biologists have come together with a message in defense of the endangered

>Tibetan antelope known as the chiru. Even with the winds of winter

>approaching, women do not need to wrap themselves in shawls made from the

>wool of these creatures that are being killed at the rate of 20,000 a year.

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>ELEPHANT IVORY SMUGGLERS BUSTED IN PORTUGAL

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>PRETORIA, South Africa, October 25, 1999 (ENS) - Months of investigation by

>the endangered species protection unit of the South African Police and

>Interpol has resulted in the arrest of four men on charges of smuggling

>elephant ivory from South Africa to Portugal.

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>ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN: OCTOBER 25, 1999

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>Paducah Report Finds Little Risk But Insufficient Cleanup

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>Empty Underground Reservoirs Could Store Greenhouse Gases

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>$33 Million Devoted to Energy Saving Research Projects

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>EPA Administrator Speaks Out Against Landspreading

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>Nuke Plant Security Manager Put on Probation

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>California Deserts Damaged By Human Activities

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>Tire Fire Still Blazing, But End in Sight

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>Three Universities Cited for Poor Tank Management

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>New York Pledges $1 Million to Restore Fly Fishery

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>Duck Stamp Contest Benefits Waterfowl Habitat

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>HEALING OUR WORLD: WEEKLY COMMENT

>By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.

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>THE POWER OF PLACE IN THE URBAN EXPERIENCE

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>Urban sprawl is responsible for the elimination of open space, farmland,

>wetlands, and wildlife habitat. Each year, poorly planned development

>projects are destroying over 110,000 acres of wetlands and one million

acres

>of productive farmland and open space. Our mental and physical health is

>being affected by the push to pave.

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>TO BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:

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>PPG to Use EPA Framework to Make Safer Chemicals

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> PITTSBURGH, Oct. 25 -/E-Wire/-- PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) is

>incorporating federal Environmental Protection Agency methodology for

>assessing environmental and health risks of chemicals in its Gatekeeper

>process for new product development. This methodology will enable the

>company to design and manufacture safer products while improving research

>and development efficiency.

> /Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/711550.html or

>fax, 800-758-5804, ext. 711550/ (PPG)

> /Web site: http://www.ppg.com /

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>TO BUSINESS, ENVIRONMENTAL AND EDUCATION EDITORS:

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>EDR Training Workshop Series on Upcoming Phase I Standard A Success

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> SOUTHPORT, Conn., Oct. 25 -/E-Wire/-- Participants at EDR's sixth

>annual workshop series, entitled " On The Horizon: A New ASTM E 1527

Standard

>For The Next Millennium " were overwhelmingly positive about the value and

>usefulness of the program. Over 280 attendees participated in the first

>series of workshops held in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit. One Chicago

>attendee summed it up best by commenting " this seminar is a must for any

>environmental consultant who performs Phase I's. " Over the next eight

>months the program will be held in 27 more cities throughout the country.

> /CONTACT: Brett Donahue of EDR Public Relations, 800-352-0050, or

>bdonahue@.../

> /Web site: http://www.edrnet.com/

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>TO ENVIRONMENTAL, EDUCATION AND BUSINESS EDITORS:

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>Canon is WILD About the Environment; Company Wins Prestigious Environment

>Award to be Presented at the United Nations

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> LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Oct. 25 -/E-Wire/-- The WILD Foundation, in

>conjunction with the United Nations Environment Program, will be presenting

>the inaugural WILD Awards: Advertising with Integrity for Nature

>Conservation on Tuesday, October 26th, 1999 during a luncheon at the United

>Nations in New York. Canon U.S.A., Inc. will receive the National

>Excellence Award for their commitment to protecting and preserving the

>wilderness (through donations, educational programs and sponsorships, and

>also for responsibly featuring wildlife in their advertising and

promotional

>campaigns).

> /CONTACT: Pam Leeds of Canon U.S.A., 516-328-4888,

>pleeds@...; or Anila Kalbi of The Rowland Company, 212-527-8937,

>akalbi@..., for Canon U.S.A./ (CANNY)

> /Web site: http://www.usa.canon.com/

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>TO BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:

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>The Earth's Changing Climate and Implications for the Future to be

Discussed

>At Lamont-Doherty's 'State-of-the-Planet' Conference at Columbia University

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>Experts to Discuss How to Manage Climatic Changes

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> PALISADES, N.Y., Oct. 25 -/E-Wire/-- As part of the Columbia

>University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory's " State-of-the-Planet "

>Conference on November 15 and 16, leading climate experts will come

together

>to discuss how mankind can better manage the Earth's changing climate.

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>group of science dignitaries will speak as part of the Conference's Living

>in Earth's Changing Climate panel, which kicks-off the two-day conference

>that coincides with Lamont Doherty's 50th anniversary.

> /CONTACT: of Schneider Integrated Communications

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>Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 212-430-6317, or

>chris@... , or Faye Yates of Lamont-Doherty Earth

>Observatory, 914-365-8878, or faye@... /

> /Web site: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu /

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