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width="100%"><tdalign="center"><font color="#000000" size="2"><center>Week of May 22,
2005</center></font></td></tr></table><center><tableborder="0" cellspacing="0" style=" { background-color: #88a7b7;
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size="3"><strong>NEWSTHIS WEEK</strong></font></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: #EFEFD0; "><td
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valign="top"><fontcolor="#BB5533" size="4"><b>Bush Gives Energy Plan Final Push</b><br /><font color="#000000"
size="2"><fontstyle="color: #222200">President Bush used an appearance at a Virginia biodiesel plant last week to
campaignfor passage of his energy plan, part of which calls for increasing the production of alternative fuels to
reducedependence on foreign oil sources.</font><a border="0" href="http://www.emagazine.com" style="text-decoration:
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valign="top"><fontcolor="#BB5533" size="4"><b>Nuclear Energy: A Bitter Pill to Alleviate Global Warming?</b><br /><font
color="#000000"size="2"><font style="color: #222200">Some prominent environmentalists--as well as Senators McCain and
Lieberman,who back legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions--are supporting further development of nuclear power
toserve as an emission-free bridge to an economy based entirely on renewable energy.</font><a border="0"
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padding-bottom:10px;"><tdvalign="top"> </td><td align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><font style="color:
#000000"><i>Reportingby Roddy Scheer</i></font><br /></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: #EFEFD0; "><td
valign="top"><imgsrc="http://www.emagazine.com/images/dot.gif" /></td><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top"><font
color="#0A8B01"size="3"><strong>THIS WEEK'S COMMENTARY</strong></font></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: #EFEFD0;
"><tdvalign="top"><center><a href="http://www.emagazine.com/view?2530"><img align="center" border="0"
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valign="top"><fontcolor="#BB5533" size="4"><b>Sustainable Forestry...With a Chainsaw?</b><br /><font color="#000000"
size="2"><fontstyle="color: #222200">A moving counter on the home page of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)
letsweb surfers know that the program is responsible for saving more than 5.3 billion trees since it was launched in
1995."Keeping our forests healthy is important," the group, launched as an offshoot of the American Forest & Paper
Association(AF&PA) solemnly proclaims. "Healthy forests will continue to provide the wood and paper products that
arevital to all of us while also ensuring that we have forests and wildlife for future generations of
Americans."</font><fontstyle="color: #000000"><i> By Jim Motavalli and Brian C. Howard</i></font><a border="0"
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ISSUEOF E</b></center></font></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: #EFEFD0; "><td valign="top"><img
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valign="top"><fontcolor="#BB5533" size="4"><b>Borrowing Power</b><br /><font color="#000000" size="3"><b>Financing
EnergyEfficiency through "Green" Mortgages</b><br /><font color="#000000" size="2"><font style="color: #222200">Given
thatmost of us spend as much as two-thirds of our time at home, our environmental footprints are largely determined by
theefficiency of our residential heating and cooling systems and the resources we consume to keep our houses up and
running.Now a movement is afoot among real estate lenders to offer special mortgage purchasing programs and incentives
designedto reward energy efficiency and sustainable building and restoration.</font><font style="color: #000000"><i> By
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from1953 to 2000. Today, nearby residents complain the defunct site is a major polluter. The Yerington Paiute Tribe’s
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