![]() 4/27/02 ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE
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. http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-26-03.html
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. http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2002/2002L-04-26-01.html
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. |