Fw: December 9, 1999 GNET Direct

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>TVA Public Meetings Highlight Green Power

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>KNOXVILLE, TN, December 9, 1999 - The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), ten

distributors of TVA power, and environmental groups recently held a series

of public meetings to present information and get public opinion on a

green-power program proposed for the TVA region.

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>Brownfields National Partnership Expanded

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>WASHINGTON, December 9, 1999 - With the success of the current " Brownfields

Showcase Communities, " the Clinton-Gore Administration has announced the

initiative will be expanded to include 10 additional cities.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8955

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>Students Design 'Smart' Parking Lot

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>TROY, NY, December 9, 1999 - In what may be the perfect antidote to what

sometimes seems like the fruitless search for a parking spot, students at

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have designed a " smart " parking lot system

that tells drivers where available spaces are, saving them time and fuel

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8954

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>Tropical Forest that Reproduces During El Ninos is Dying

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>ANN ARBOR, MI, December 9, 1999 - On the island of Borneo, the world's

second largest tropical rain forest has two major distinctions. The first

is that scientists have discovered a unique ecosystem where trees time their

reproduction to match the periodic arrival of El Nino. The second is that

the forest is dying.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8953

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>Vermont Joins EPA Lawsuit

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>MONTPELIER, VT, December 9, 1999 - Another Northeast State has joined the

US EPA's lawsuit against seven Midwest and Southern utilities citing Clean

Air Act violations.

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