Fw: GNET Direct For Friday, August 27,1999

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>Report: Coal Could and Should be Phased Out

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>WASHINGTON, August 27, 1999 - A report from the Washington-based Worldwatch

Institute says economic and environmental trends is making a global

phase-out of coal both necessary and possible.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8240

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>US Water Utilities Pass Y2K Tests

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>WASHINGTON, August 27, 1999 - The US EPA's Office of Water announced

yesterday that 17 drinking water and wastewater utilities across the country

have conducted and passed Y2K testing within the past month using control

systems, equipment with embedded computer chips, and communications links.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8238

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>Moscow to get Electric Buses

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>MOSCOW, August 27, 1999 - Electric buses may soon be plying the streets of

Moscow as the vehicles are now being assembled by the Eltran company at a

factory in Orekhovo-Zuyevo.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8237

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>UK Nuclear Waste Policy Criticized

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>LONDON, August 27, 1999 - The UK government has done nothing to develop a

policy on disposing of nuclear wastes, according to a barrage of criticism

leveled by its own nuclear waste advisers.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8236

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>Giant Wave Rivals El Nino's Effect on Climate

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>SYDNEY, August 27, 1999 - A giant wave the size of Australia and a half

mile deep continuously circumvents Antarctica affecting the weather in the

southern latitudes.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8235