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Friday, February 05, 2010

Environment - More on Asian Carp suit; Wood-fired outdoor boilers

Michigan AG: "Close canal to stop carp: DNA data was kept from U.S. Supreme Court," heads this story today in the Detroit Free Press, reported by Tina Lam. It begins:

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox filed a renewed request for an immediate injunction Thursday with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to close locks on the Chicago shipping canal leading to Lake Michigan.

Cox's filing said the request for an injunction was based on new information that was not available to the court when it denied an injunction on Jan. 19.

Cox said the new information was an economic study showing the lock closure would not cause serious economic harm and the fact that federal officials knew days before the court's ruling that there was DNA evidence of Asian carp in Lake Michigan, but failed to tell the court.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers got the DNA data on Jan. 15, but didn't make it public until hours after the Supreme Court's rejection of the injunction.

"Oppose pollution-emitting outdoor wood-fired boilers" urges this letter published in the Feb. 3, 2010 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. The letter supplements this ILB entry from Jan. 7, 2010, headed "Rules proposed again to regulate outdoor wood-fired boilers."

Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 5, 2010 09:31 AM
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