Fw: GNET Direct For Monday, August 09,1999

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>US Launches Investigation into Kentucky Uranium Plant

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>WASHINGTON, August 9, 1999 - US Energy Secretary Bill launched

an investigation yesterday into reports that thousands of employees at a

Kentucky uranium plant were exposed to cancer-causing plutonium.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8067

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>Groups Criticize EPA's Farm Runoff Guidelines

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>WASHINGTON, August 9, 1999 - Even before the US EPA's new guidelines on

farm pollution were out the door, a coalition of environmental groups

launched an attack, criticizing them for being too soft and compromising.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8065

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>Developing an Engine for the Future

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>LOS ALAMOS, NM, August 9, 1999 - Someday, homeowners may run appliances and

heat their homes and water using small, low-cost engines modeled on one

developed at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8062

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>Ash Doesn't Have to Be Waste Anymore

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>GOLDEN, CO, August 9, 1999 - In 1997, 103 waste-to-energy facilities in the

US generated about 2,800 megawatts of electricity from the disposal of 31

million tons of municipal solid waste. In the process, about 7 million tons

of ash were produced. Now, a new publication highlights the beneficial uses

of this common ash.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8061

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>Cement Construction Keeps Building Well Insulated

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>CHICAGO, August 9, 1999 - A few buildings around Chicago are being

constructed in a manner similar to that of a giant ice chest, with concrete

and Styrofoam in its exterior walls.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8057

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