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Spring 2004 - V.19 N.1
Table of Content




Halting Toxic Cleanups from Center for American Progress
News Around the Lagoon


Costly New Septic Tanks Keep Nitrogen out of Water
Water Management District Uses Grove Land to Store Excess Water
Environmentalists Urge Action on Ship Ballast Water
Supreme Court Rules EPA can Overrule State in Clean Air Case
Halting Toxic Cleanups
Water the Oil of the 21st Century
New Gates Reduce Silt from Canals in Indian River County
Key West Asks Cruise Ships to Stop Dumping
Endangered Species Act may be in Danger
Manatee Deaths Drop Here, but Rise on West Coast
Conservation Groups Sue for EPA to Regulate Water Pollution in Florida
New Tag Aims to Help Protect Coral Reefs
Politics Trump Science
Chemical Industry Seeks Approval of Pesticides at Expense of Wildlife





A new report by EPA shows that cleanup work at 11 of the worst toxic dumps in the country hasn't started because the Superfund program doesn't have enough money. The Bush Administration has played a direct part in creating the funding problem, ending the tax on, corporate polluters that funded the program, at the behest of the oil/chemical companies that have funded its campaigns.



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