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[pf] 2 from the Grist: Luna vandalized and human experiments
by Fitzsimmons, Diane
28 November 2000 22:32 UTC

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Environmental news from GRIST MAGAZINE


1.
ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT, THIS SUCKS
Someone recently used a chainsaw to slice into Luna, the 
1,000-year-old redwood made famous by Julia "Butterfly" Hill.  Hill 
lived in the tree in Northern California for two years to protest 
old-growth logging, and only came down from her perch last December 
after striking a deal with Pacific Lumber Co. to spare the tree and a 
buffer zone of redwoods around it.  Over the Thanksgiving weekend, 
environmentalists visiting the tree found that a chainsaw had cut 
about one-quarter of the way through the trunk.  The tree is still 
standing, but it is now more vulnerable to windstorms. "I feel this 
vicious attack on Luna as surely as if the chainsaw was going through 
me," Hill said.  Authorities are investigating the vandalism.

straight to the source:  Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, 28 Nov 2000


straight to the source:  San Francisco Chronicle, Glen Martin, 28 Nov 2000




5.
TO DRINK PERCHLORATE IS HUMAN
In what may be the first large-scale study to use volunteers to test 
the effect of a water pollutant on humans, the aerospace behemoth 
Lockheed Martin is funding research in which 100 people are paid 
$1,000 each to take a pill containing the industrial chemical 
perchlorate every day for six months.  The study, conducted by the 
Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, has its 
participants ingesting 3 milligrams a day of the chemical found in 
rocket fuel -- 83 times more than the drinking-water limit set by 
California.  At high doses, perchlorate can interfere with production 
of thyroid hormones; the scientists at the medical center are trying 
to determine whether lighter doses can also affect thyroid glands, 
which regulate the growth of young children and the metabolism of 
adults.  The Environmental Working Group is opposing the tests on 
humans as unethical.  No government agency regulates human 
experiments.

straight to the source:  Los Angeles Times, Marla Cone, 27 Nov 2000