Lake Water Intake is Illegal, Foes Say: But We Energies Says U.S. Ruling Shouldn't Affect Power Plant
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By Thomas Content, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 2--We Energies' plan to use Lake Michigan water -- 2 billion gallons a day -- to cool its new Oak Creek power plant is under fire again.  Opponents say a new federal court ruling should invalidate the utility's permit.
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A scientist says the United States could more than double its hydropower supply by harnessing the energy of smaller streams.
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Our view: 16-year delay in removing threat to Colorado River is not acceptable  The U.S. energy secretary made an alarming statement earlier this month.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 9--A local lawyer's suggestion that La Crosse's proposed public intoxication ordinance would be illegal has been challenged by the city attorney.
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By Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Dec. 11--There is a torrent of opposition across the region to the City of New Berlin's request to pump Lake Michigan water out of the Great Lakes watershed, but that doesn't mean Wisconsin will necessarily heed it.
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By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS\\ Staff Writer  SANTA CLARITA -- A watchdog group has sued the Castaic Lake Water Agency over a plan to buy water from the Kern River.
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By DAN EGAN  There is a torrent of opposition across the region to the City of New Berlin's request to pump Lake Michigan water out of the Great Lakes watershed, but that doesn't mean Wisconsin will necessarily heed it.
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SEATTLE, March 9 -- The Bush administration has objected to a proposed open-pit coal mine in Canada near the Montana border, citing the potential for irreversible environmental damage to Glacier National Park, pristine trout streams and the largest natural lake in the West.
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A rare sunlight and chlorine reaction tainted the water of two reservoirs that supply drinking water to Los Angeles with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday.
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Two environmental outfits, Western Resource Advocates and Environmental Defense, have issued a study called "Climate Alert: Cleaner Energy for the Southwest." Predictably, the groups oppose the construction of a planned new $3.8 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired electric plant near Ely.
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Canadian mining company Teck Cominco Ltd. asked a US court yesterday to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by a US native group whose land borders Lake Roosevelt, just over the border in Washington state.
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WHITEHORSE, Yukon  - Residents of small native   Indian community in Canada's Yukon territory have been ordered   to stop drinking water from their wells after officials   discovered high radiation levels.
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By Thomas Content, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 3--A Dane County Circuit Court judge said Friday she may request oral arguments before she decides whether a federal ruling last week should apply to the We Energies power plant under construction in Oak Creek.
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Natural gas company Williams Cos. Inc. (WMB.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said a judge recently ruled against it in a case brought by US and Alaskan state regulators.
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By Zheng Lifei and Zhang Kun  SHANGHAI: Five officials have been punished for their failure to stop companies from discharging untreated sewage into Taihu Lake, where a massive algae outbreak left the people of Wuxi without tap water for a week earlier this month.
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By Mike TaugherSTAFF  A federal judge Friday ruled that the permit that allows massive Delta water delivery projects to kill a tiny endangered fish is illegal. It is the second time in two months that a court has declared the state's water projects in violation of endangered species laws.
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Emboldened by a Supreme Court ruling this week that could force utility companies to upgrade aging coal-fired power plants, Georgia environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to clean up one of the nation's largest coal plants.