4/27/02
1:06:08 PM

ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE

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MOSCOW POLICE BEAT ANTI-NUCLEAR DEMONSTRATORS ON CHERNOBYL DAY

MOSCOW, Russia, April 26, 2002 (ENS) - Anti-nuclear activists and journalists documenting their protest were roughed up by police Thursday on Red Square in front of the Kremlin. More than 20 activists from Moscow, Kaliningrad, Voronezh, Vladimir, Yekaterinburg, Ryazan, Orel, and Ozersk were arrested.

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MORATORIUM ON PACIFIC LONGLINING COULD SAVE LEATHERBACKS

PACIFIC GROVE, California, April 26, 2002 (ENS) - A moratorium on longline fishing in the Pacific Ocean is urgently needed to keep the world's largest living marine turtle from extinction, a conference of sea turtle experts declared Thursday.

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ARMY CORPS SUSPENDS DELAWARE RIVER DREDGING PROJECT

WASHINGTON, DC, April 26, 2002 (ENS) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has suspended a dredging project on the Delaware River after a Congressional review raised questions regarding whether the project is financially justified. Conservation groups, who have opposed the project for almost a decade, called the decision a "victory for common sense conservation."

http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-26-06.html

ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE AMERISCAN

Carnival Cruise Company Fined $18 Million

House Committee Votes to Override Yucca Veto

Energy Department Itemizes Withheld Documents

Western Air Pollution Plan Wins Initial Approval

Suit Seeks Protection for Beluga Sturgeon

Conservation Groups Seek Special Status for Wild Fish Expedition Plumbs Depths of Pacific Sanctuaries

Algae Blooms Fuel Ocean Food Web

http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-26-09.html

HEALING OUR WORLD: WEEKLY COMMENT

By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.

September 11th Environmental Hypocrisy

Two key figures have resigned from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the last month. Both officials, the chief investigator for the EPA's Ombudsman Office and the Ombudsman himself, stated in their resignation letters that the EPA has covered up the existence of deadly pollution in the area of the destroyed World Trade Center towers in New York.

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