March 2004 news

• ENN News Story - More alternative fuel vehicles seen in U.S. in 2004 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of vehicles in the United States that run on alternative fuels is expected to increase 7.3 percent this year from 2003. A total of 547,904 vehicles that run on natural gas, corn-based ethanol, electricity or liquefied petroleum gases will be on the road this year, up from 510,805 last year, the U.S. Energy Information dministration said. That's slower growth than the 8.4 increase from the 471,098 alternative-fueled vehicles in use from 2002 to 2003, said the Energy Department's analytical arm. (March 02, 04) Environmental News Network - ENN.com
• Democrat & Chronicle: What the ferry will offer; what to expect — Laurie Wheeler wants to know how a new high-speed ferry launching this spring at the Port of Rochester will affect recreational boating near the mouth of the Genesee River. (February 28, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Nice ferry ride. Now what? - Used to mass transit, a lot of people in Toronto don't have cars. But there's a plan to get people where they want to go. (March 02, 04) Perinton-Fairport Post
• Business Report - Global warming costs to spiral out of control, warns Swiss Re Geneva - Swiss Re, the world's second-biggest reinsurer, yesterday warned that the costs of global warming threatened to spiral out of control, forcing the human race into a catastrophe of its own making. In a report revealing how climate change is rising on the corporate agenda, Swiss Re said the economic costs of global warming threatened to double to $150 billion (R1 trillion) a year in 10 years, hitting insurers with $30 billion to $40 billion in claims, or one World Trade Center attack each year. "There is a danger that human intervention will accelerate and intensify natural climate changes to such a point that it will become impossible to adapt our socioeconomic systems in time," Swiss Re said in the report. - (March 04/04) By Reuters
• U.S. officials yank fish barrier funding - - Federal officials have cut funding for a new electric fence to block voracious Asian carp from invading Lake Michigan, where biologists fear the prolific fish could rapidly spread and devastate all of the Great Lakes.  (March 04/04) Chicago Tribune
• Democrat & Chronicle: DEC urges sweet cleanup of toxic site in Brockport — BROCKPORT — State environmental regulators have a sweet deal for village residents fighting a plume of underground pollution and contaminated surface soil: Add molasses.The state Department of Environmental Conservation at a meeting here Wednesday night proposed injecting a solution of water and food-grade molasses into soils, groundwater and bedrock beneath a contaminated site at 150 State St. (March 4, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Buffalo News - Reynolds makes appeal for lakes cleanup WASHINGTON - Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds, R-Clarence, appealed to a Great Lakes Commission conference Wednesday to support a $4 billion plan to clean up the lakes. Reynolds and Democratic Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois have proposed creating a Great Lakes trust fund modeled after a federal trust fund that is being used to restore the Florida Everglades. "With $7 billion being spent to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, $8 billion to save the Everglades and $2 billion to restore San Francisco Bay," Reynolds said, "the Great Lakes deserve that same level of commitment." (March 4, 2004) The Buffalo News
• Buffalo News - Simpler plan sought for brownfields The Erie County Legislature approved a resolution Thursday asking the state to allow Western New York to adopt an industrial brownfields cleanup plan that would allow Erie County to follow a less rigorous standard for the cleanup of toxic waste sites.(March 5, 2004) The Buffalo News
• Public consultations into species at risk dilute bill, critics say - OTTAWA -- The federal government says Canadians deserve a say in determining which wildlife species should be labeled as endangered, something critics describe as a sellout that will cause the permanent disappearance of rare animals and plants. (March 5, 2004) globeandmail.com - Canada's best source for news continuously updated from The Globe and Mail
• ENN News Story - Appeals court revives General Electric challenge of Superfund law - WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the 1980 Superfund law that allows the government to assess polluters for cleaning up toxic waste sites. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals directs a lower court judge to reopen General Electric Co.'s suit against the Environmental Protection Agency arising out of a planned $500 million cleanup of the upper Hudson River.
• MSNBC - News 10 NBC hosts 8th Annual Lollypop Farm  (March 8, 2004)Telethon MSNBC - News Front Page
• Buffalo News - Simpler plan sought for brownfields The Erie County Legislature approved a resolution Thursday asking the state to allow Western New York to adopt an industrial brownfields cleanup plan that would allow Erie County to follow a less rigorous standard for the cleanup of toxic waste sites. (March 8, 2004) The Buffalo News
• Democrat & Chronicle: Diaz site may be added to EPA list Contaminated plant in Holley could get federal cleanup funds.-— HOLLEY — The contaminated site of the former Diaz Chemical Corp. in Orleans County may be added to the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites. (March 9, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Democrat & Chronicle: Mendon housing proposal presented — MENDON — Pittsford developer Charles Ryan would like to build a 65-unit housing subdivision in Mendon. But it would take a zoning change from Mendon and approvals from both Mendon and Pittsford for a sanitary sewer line connection. - (March 9, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Democrat & Chronicle: Kodak, activists spar over air tests — On a frigid Sunday afternoon recently, a group of citizen activists parked along a road in Seneca Park. Across the Genesee River was Eastman Kodak Co.’s water treatment plant — and the apparent source of a strong, sewer-like smell. The group of six represents a new brand of activist: the “bucket brigade.” Such city-based groups collect unofficial fence-line air samples, in hopes of stirring official action against polluting industries. The name comes from the historical volunteers who banded together to save burning buildings. (March 11, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• NYS Car Inspections Get Tougher, More Expensive - In a few months, auto inspection requirements will change, which will mean more expensive car inspections, and cleaner emissions. Current emissions inspections are simple: see if the check-engine light is on and check the gas cap. (March 11, 2004) WOKR-TV 13 || ROCHESTER
• ENN News Story - Labor asks U.S. senators to oppose asbestos bill WASHINGTON — Organized labor blasted a bill on Wednesday to reform the asbestos litigation system as "grossly deficient" and urged U.S. senators to oppose it if Republican leaders bring it to the floor soon, as they have pledged to do. In a letter to all senators, the AFL-CIO said the proposal would "provide a huge bailout" for asbestos defendants like oilfield services giant Halliburton Co. — which has a pending $4.3 billion asbestos settlement — while shortchanging victims who have been injured by the fire-proofing mineral. (March 11, 2004) Environmental News Network - ENN.com
• MSNBC - Diaz cleanup may be getting help from government The Diaz chemical spill in Holley could get some clean-up help from the federal government. News 10 NBC has learned that the EPA may name it as a “Superfund” site. MSNBC - News Front Page
• Toxic Dumping Ground Looks to Spread the Pain Now, where those trees once quivered in breezes from Lake Ontario, the 710-acre Chemical Waste Management landfill towers above every building for miles. People here do not like to say so but they have the distinction of having the only hazardous waste landfill left in the Northeastern United States, a sprawling toxic stockyard of acids, chemicals and other hazards, including the desk Tom Brokaw was using when his office was contaminated with anthrax. The New York Times on the Web
• NY Population Goes Against Trend - The overall population in New York State rose last year, but the number of children declined. - (March 11, 2004) R News: Your NewsChannel
• Environment DEC: State Receives Wetlands Donation on Lake Ontario Governor George E. Pataki announced that the state will accept a gift of a 40-acre wetland property on Lake Ontario in the Town of Huron, Wayne County. The waterfront property provides critical habitat and offers unique recreational opportunities. The parcel consists of wetlands and northern hardwoods. It is bordered by state lands, the Lake Shore Marshes Wildlife Management Area-Beaver Creek Unit, and about 1,200 feet of shoreline on Lake Ontario.-  March Environment DEC - New York's Online Newsletter about the Environment
• EPA Proposes Diaz Chemical in Holley for Superfund Listing News Release -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed to add the Diaz Chemical site in Holley, New York to its National Priorities List (NPL) of the most contaminated hazardous waste sites, making it eligible for federal cleanup dollars. The Agency is currently addressing the immediate risks at the site and has assisted in relocating residents who had to leave their homes after an accidental chemical release from the facility. EPA Region 2 News Release and Speech Directory
• Pollution high where income is low - Coalition report shows inequity in location of industrial facilities, poorer neighborhoods - Albany, N.Y. -- timesunion.com
• Democrat & Chronicle: Residents want Hamlin to stay rural— HAMLIN — A town survey of more than 900 residents about what they want Hamlin to look like in the future revealed few surprises: People want to keep Hamlin rural. (March 12, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Democrat & Chronicle: Study links race, pollution risk — Minority communities statewide are disproportionately affected by industrial pollution, according to “Environmental Racism in New York State,” a study released Thursday by the Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, a statewide activist group.(March 12, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Ontario's five coal-fired plants to shut down within four years - Move will force government to act quickly to replace one-third of province's capacity - Ontario's five coal-fired electricity-generating plants will be shut down within four years, Ontario Power Generation said yesterday. The move, which was ordered by the Liberal government, will force the government to consider fast options to replace almost one-third of all the power produced in Ontario. (March 17, 2003) globeandmail.com - Canada's best source for news continuously updated from The Globe and Mail
• The Salt Lake Tribune -- Mercury rule a test for Leavitt WASHINGTON -- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Mike Leavitt is trying to mitigate political damage from revelations that EPA scientists were muzzled as utility lobbyists and White House appointees wrote a new regulation for toxic mercury emitted by coal-fired power plants. (March 17, 2003) The Salt Lake Tribune -- Utah's Statewide Newspaper
• Brockport To Get Cancer Report From State - A new study on cancer has focused on people living near the former 3-M Dynacolor and G.E. Black and Decker plants in Brockport and surrounding towns. Both sites are contaminated with PCB’s and other industrial chemicals. (March 17, 2003)  WOKR-TV 13 || ROCHESTER
• MSNBC - State studies upstate community's cancer rates A state Health Department study has found no unusual jump in total cancer rates near two former industrial plants in Brockport. But the report did find a greater-than-expected proportion of leukemia cases among people who lived closest to the abandoned factories. (March 17, 2003) MSNBC - News Front Page
• WXXI: Debate On A Permanent Fast Ferry Terminal In Toronto (2004-03-17) Construction work is now underway at the Port of Toronto on the temporary fast ferry terminal. Canadian-American Transportation Systems is set to begin service between Rochester and Toronto on May first. The Rochester ferry terminal is getting its finishing touches, and crews are now at work on the ferry loading ramp at Cherry Street on the Toronto waterfront. Public NewsRoom
• Democrat & Chronicle: Kodak pollution costs at $141 million — Eastman Kodak Co. expects to spend about $57million for future environmental investigations and cleanups at its sprawling Kodak Park facility. That’s part of $141 million in environmental liabilities for the company’s operations worldwide. (March 16, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Love Canal Declared Clean, Ending Toxic Horror Two decades after Love Canal became the first polluted site on the newly created Superfund list, federal officials announced yesterday that the neighborhood that epitomized environmental horror in the late 1970's was clean enough to be taken off the list. Hundreds of families were evacuated from the working-class Love Canal section of Niagara Falls, N.Y., after deadly chemicals started oozing through the ground into basements and a school, burning children and pets and, according to experts, causing birth defects and miscarriages. The neighborhood had been built on a 19th-century canal where a toxic mix of more than 80 industrial chemicals had been buried. The removal of Love Canal from the Superfund list will be mostly symbolic. The cleanup at the toxic waste site, the nation's most notorious, took 21 years and cost close to $400 million, but most of the work was completed a few years ago. (March 19, 2004) The New York Times on the Web
• Democrat & Chronicle: Canadian reveals ferry plan Lawmaker: Government will invest in terminal— The Canadian national government will invest more than $2 million (Canadian) in a new ferry terminal in Toronto to make sure it’s a first-class facility, a member of Parliament says. (March 18, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• ENN News Story - New York may join growing number of states banning backyard trash burns ALBANY, N.Y. — New York may join a growing number of states that ban the burning of household and farm trash in backyard barrels, as physicians and environmentalists argue the practice releases harmful toxins into the air. This year, the practice was banned in California and New Mexico. Trash burning already is prohibited by several Northeastern states including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Vermont. In an Assembly hearing last week, state health and environmental officials, physicians, and environmentalists said burning garbage in the relatively low temperatures of burn barrels spews toxins into the air. Physicians said that a byproduct of the burns includes dioxin, a possible cancer-causing agent. (March 19, 2004) Environmental News Network - ENN.com
• New invader may infest Great Lakes - So-called ?killer shrimp' from Caspian Sea area could arrive in ships' ballast - Scientists worry a small crustacean that's spreading in Europe and killing off other aquatic species could hitch a ride in ballast water to the Great Lakes and mess with the food chain here. The latest potential Great Lakes invader is a crustacean called Dikero-gammarus villosus. Scientists in Europe dubbed it the killer shrimp for its penchant for taking a bite out of other species. The ones it doesn't eat end up dying from their wounds. (March 19, 2004) canada.com
• FrontierNet > Carbon Dioxide Reported at Record Levels MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawaii - Carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, has reached record-high levels in the atmosphere after growing at an accelerated pace in the past year, say scientists monitoring the sky from this 2-mile-high station atop a Hawaiian volcano. The reason for the faster buildup of the most important "greenhouse gas" will require further analysis, the U.S. government experts say. "But the big picture is that CO2 is continuing to go up," said Russell Schnell, deputy director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's climate monitoring laboratory in Boulder, Colo., which operates the Mauna Loa Observatory on the island of Hawaii. (March 21, 2004) FrontierNet.net > Internet and DSL services, news, local weather, email, and technical support from FrontierNet
• Democrat & Chronicle: Reynolds eyes oil reserves— GREECE — Rep. Thomas Reynolds, expressing concern about rising gasoline prices, called Saturday for the federal government to temporarily halt shipments of crude oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the nation’s emergency store of oil.  (March 21, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Buffalo News - Love Canal edges toward normalcy As Love Canal is taken off the federal Superfund list, disputes still rage over whether the area is fully detoxified - NIAGARA FALLS - For many former residents it was a nightmare, but for current residents it was a real estate bargain.
  It was the catalyst for the federal government's Superfund program, which has cleaned up more than 600 hazardous-waste sites nationwide since it was created in 1983 and now has an annual budget of $1.4 billion. And this week, 26 years after toxic sludge bubbled up in back yards and basements, the government declared Love Canal one of the cleanest neighborhoods in America - restored enough to be removed from the Superfund list. (March 21, 2004) The Buffalo News
• New York Daily News - Boroughs - Ralliers: Uncork bottle bill See it offering cash, cleanup - It's the bottleheads vs. the corporate heads.
  Students rallied at Queens College yesterday to support a state bill they say would bring millions in unclaimed bottle deposits to the state - rather than to beverage distributors and corporate giants. Organized by environmental advocate New York Public Interest Research Group, more than two dozen students from Queens and Queensborough community colleges called for state lawmakers to pass the bill - now stalled in committee - they said would provide $179 million each year in unredeemed deposits and help clean up the state. (March 21, 2004) New York Daily News - Home
• EPA RESPONDS TO DISPARATE WATER QUALITY STANDARDS - The Environmental Protection Agency says it's trying to get states around the Great Lakes to use uniform standards to monitor water quality. But the EPA says the fact that different states use different methods doesn't put anyone at risk. --from GLRC Great Lakes Radio Consortium
• EPA might stretch out plan to cut mercury emissions WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is leaning toward stretching out plans for reducing mercury pollution from power plants until 2018 after concluding that technology for quick cuts isn't available. Some plants would be able to buy their way out of reducing emissions (March 23, 2004) Chicago Sun-Times
• London Free Press: News Section - Crack down on polluters, Ontario urged to crack down TORONTO -- The Ontario government must crack down on chronic air and water polluters that continue to violate provincial pollution laws, says a report by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund. "The province turned a blind eye to polluters over the past decade," report author Elaine MacDonald said yesterday. (March 23, 2004) London Free Press:
• Brooks Announces Bold Energy Initiative - County Executive Maggie Brooks, fulfilling another pledge she made to the community last year, today announced a bold new County initiative designed to reduce Monroe County energy related expenses while fostering greater reliance on homegrown renewable energy. The announcement also establishes an Energy Policy Advisory Team that will develop an overall program to optimize energy management and cost efficiencies... (March 23, 2004) Monroe County
• Democrat & Chronicle: Brooks appoints energy advisers Team is to establish a center to oversee use at county's 80 sites -— Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks announced Monday the establishment of an Energy Policy Advisory Team to look for efficiencies and to foster greater reliance on homegrown renewable energy.”We want to be a leader in providing energy efficiently and effectively,” Brooks said at a news conference. The county spends about $15 million a year on energy. Brooks also wants to reduce energy consumption in the county. (March 23, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Democrat & Chronicle: Bottle bill has champions, foes — ALBANY — More than 20 years after its enactment, the state bottle-deposit law is still bubbling in the state Legislature. Environmentalists want water, juices and other noncarbonated drinks to carry a nickel deposit just as beer and soda containers do. But hopes for the “bigger, better bottle bill,” as it’s dubbed, are dwindling. Assembly Democrats support it, Senate Republicans are not in favor. (March 22, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• Democrat & Chronicle: Black bears around Finger Lakes are topic — NAPLES — The increasing number of black bears in the Finger Lakes region will be topic of a lecture Saturday at Cumming Nature Center. John Van Niel, chairman of Finger Lakes Community College’s environmental conservation and horticulture department, will discuss “Bears in our Backyard.”  (March 22, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• WXXI: US Pushes to Boost Use of Ozone Damaging Fumigant (2004-03-23) NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. fruit growers in Montreal this week will push for an increase in their use of a pesticide known to destroy the ozone layer, claiming that exemptions for developing nations on the chemical are unfair. Methyl bromide, a fumigant that kills soil and food pests, is due to be phased out by developed nations by January 1, 2005, under the 1987 Montreal Protocol to protect the atmosphere.  (March 22, 2004) Public NewsRoom
• Acid rain foes urge pressure on EPA - Albany -- Congressman, environmental advocates push for new rule to curb pollution - U.S. Rep. John Sweeney and several environmental advocates Monday called on Capital Region residents to write letters to the Environmental Protection Agency urging the passage of pollution-reducing measures to help stop acid rain in New York.The public comment period on the EPA's draft rule to reduce sulfur and nitrogen emissions from power plants ends next week.  (March 22, 2004) Albany, N.Y. -- timesunion.com
• Zonolite, asbestos linked For 40 years, Max Appleby complained to anyone who would listen about the insulation factory in his back yard that spewed a foul-smelling, silvery black dust all day and all night. (March 24, 2004) http://www.syracuse.com
• State targeting waterfowl - ithacajournal.com ALBANY (AP) -- Empowered by new federal rules, the Pataki administration said Wednesday it will be more aggressive beginning this spring at controlling New York's flocks of double-crested cormorants, a hungry predatory waterfowl blamed in some areas for thinning fisheries favored by sportsmen. The state will step up the "oiling" of cormorant eggs to prevent their hatching, destroy more cormorant nests and increase "hazing" of nesting areas in spring and fall to try to prevent the birds from feeding on fish. The state will kill up to 600 of the birds where other methods fail to reduce overpopulations, said state Environmental Conservation Commissioner Erin Crotty. (March 25, 2004) theithacajournal.com - News and information for - Ithaca and Tompkins County, N.Y.
• Democrat & Chronicle: Frustrations over Diaz aired at Holley hearing — HOLLEY — Residents of this tiny Orleans County village are grateful that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is on the scene to clean up contamination left behind by a defunct chemical company.
  But they wonder why their concerns and complaints about Diaz Chemical Corp. went unheard during the company’s 29 years of operation on Jackson Street. (March 25, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• City Newspaper: As the windmill turns: residents doubt the power Upstate New York has been boasting about wind-power development the last few years. Wind farms --- clusters of high-tech windmills 200 feet or more tall --- have become tourist and business-booster attractions in Wyoming County and Madison County. (March 25, 2004) City Newspaper
• Deer dilemma brewing in Mendon - Considering safety, ecology of the town and the health of the animal, talks have started about ways to manage the town's deer population. - Sandy Baker believes bowhunting will not help reduce Mendon's deer population. It will, however, cause the animals to suffer, she said. (March 25, 2004) Brighton-Pittsford Post
• Naples Resident Ticketed For Feeding The Deer - There are two laws making it illegal to feed deer in New York. One is to protect against the spread of chronic wasting disease which is similar to mad cow disease. The other prohibits feeding deer within 300 feet of a highway and is aimed at preventing deer car accidents.  (March 26, 2004) WOKR-TV 13 || ROCHESTER
• Court rejects two lead lawsuits - Appeals judges unanimously decide that governments cannot be held liable.- The state's highest court ruled Thursday that local governments cannot be sued for failing to protect children from childhood lead poisoning, possibly saving Onondaga County millions.  (March 26, 2004) Syracuse.com
• Duluth News Tribune | 03/26/2004 | Great Lakes advocates push for stricter water ballast rules Great Lakes advocates told lawmakers Thursday that international standards designed to stop ships from carrying invasive species into U.S. waters will take too long to implement and aren't strict enough. (March 26, 2004) DuluthNewsTribune.com: Your guide to news, jobs, homes, cars
• EPA To Help Holley Residents - The federal government is offering more help for Holley residents hurt by the Diaz chemical leak in 2002. -(March 26, 2004) R News: Your NewsChannel
• Democrat & Chronicle: Dog parks still exist only on paper County approved project but $50,000 more needed to open - — Although a law authorizing four dog parks in Monroe County was approved in September, their establishment is still almost $50,000 short of becoming a reality. (March 28, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• ENN News Story - U.N. environment summit opens, targets ocean dead zones JEJU, South Korea — The United Nations opened a global environment summit Monday, warning about the growing number of dead zones in the world's oceans but painting a picture of a greener planet with an increase of vegetation in many regions. The three-day conference, hosted by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), will also consider how to tackle water shortages, increasingly frequent dust storms, and overfishing. (March 30, 2004) Environmental News Network - ENN.com
• Democrat & Chronicle: State audit faults bus terminal plan — A state report on a proposed underground bus terminal in downtown Rochester knocks the project as insufficiently studied, poorly drawn and based on questionable math. (March 30, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• London Free Press: News Section - More water shortages forecast for communities across nation OTTAWA -- Despite Canada's vast water resources, many communities have faced shortages and the problem will likely get worse with climate change, an Environment Canada report says. About 26 per cent of Canadian municipalities with water supply systems experienced water shortages from 1994 to 1999, the report, Threats to Canada's Water Supply, points out. (March 30, 2004) London Free Press:
• Democrat & Chronicle: Kodak Park waste permit at issue Session opens the process to public comment on the complex's discharges.  — Kodak Park faces extra public scrutiny in the next month because of a proposed state permit to store, treat and dispose of all hazardous wastes generated inside the facility’s fence line.  legislative public hearing on the Kodak permit will be held at 7 p.m. April 21 at the Holiday Inn Airport, 911 Brooks Ave. Submit written comments there or by mail to Peter Lent, NYSDEC, 6274 East Avon-Lima Road, Avon, NY 14414. (March 30, 2004)
• Democrat & Chronicle: Henrietta starts environmental effort — HENRIETTA — With The Marketplace mall, restaurant row and big-box stores in a concentrated area of town, it may surprise people to hear that Henrietta’s commercial district makes up only 10 percent of the town. (March 31, 2004) Democrat and Chronicle
• TheStar.com - Liberals eye wind farms Just one day before electricity prices are set to rise in Ontario, the province is announcing that it will open up crown land for the creation of wind farms. Natural Resources Minister David Ramsay will use the lone wind turbine at Toronto's Exhibition Place as a backdrop for an announcement that provincially owned lands around the province could house wind farms as early as 2005. (March 31, 2004) http://www.thestar.com
• Health Department Reports On Brockport Cancer Study - Holly Maynard (Brockport, NY) 03/31/04 -- A New York State Health Department study found that there was no jump in cancer rates among those who live near the sites of two former industrial plants in Brockport. On Tuesday night, department officials shared those results with town residents and answered their questions. The study focused on people living near the sites of the former 3M-Dynacolor and GE Black and Decker plants, which were contaminated with PCBs and other chemicals. (March 31, 2004) WOKR-TV 13 || ROCHESTER