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Message: Bad Day For The Environment Much of the environmental news today is bleak. First, the rare Baiji Dolphin found in the Yangtze River in China has been declared extinct by scientists. Wuhan, 13 December 2006 – The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct. On Wednesday, in the city of Wuhan in central China, a search expedition, under the direction of the Institute for Hydrobiology Wuhan and the Swiss-based baiji.org Foundation, drew to a finish without any results. This is the first extinction of a major mammal since the demise of the Caribbean Monk Seal in the 1950s. Do you remember leaded gasoline? It has long been a thing of the past, right? It turns out that the U.S. EPA is contemplating bringing it back. The Environmental Protection Agency said this week that revoking those standards might be justified “given the significantly changed circumstances since lead was listed in 1976” as an air pollutant, claiming that concentrations of lead in the air have dropped more than 90 percent in the past 2 1/2 decades. Battery makers, lead smelters, refiners all have lobbied the administration to do away with the Clean Air Act limits. And there is a report out (sorry, I don’t have a link yet) that condemns the Ontario Government’s decision to build more nuclear power stations. More on this as it develops. www.corporateknightsforum.com