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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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THE BATTALION
News in Brief —
^Pentagon expert
disagrees with
Anthrax opponents
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top
entagon expert on chemical
md biological warfare says the
ileas of service members claim-
ng harm from the anthrax vac-
ine fail to prove the shots are ei-
:her unsafe or ineffective.
After a string of military and civil
ian witnesses called for an end to
be Pentagon’s mandatory vacci-
lation program aimed at protect-
ng against use of anthrax spores
as weapons, Marine Gen. Randall
.. West said he regretted their ill
nesses and the deaths of relatives.
But West, senior Pentagon ad
viser on chemical and biological
protection, said the military also
does not want to have to explain
thousands of deaths in any fu
ture use of anthrax spores in an
enemy or terrorist attack.
Power plants plan to increase
general capacity of electricity
(Genetically engineered foods lawsuit dismissed
aid that in the meantk
other changes are attract-
lumber of top-notch grad-
to A&M.
e student representate
ision-making committee:
:mendously,” he said. | WASHINGTON (AP) — A fed-
ersity has also created&| ra jj U( jg e i ias dismissed a lawsuit by
nbudsman to ensurefai-| r j t j cs 0 j- a g r j cu ] tura i biotechnology
aduate pi<kess. i,^ want government to require
said the ombudsmans, , f a , ?• ,
outlet for studentsaf belson to ^s made w.th genetical-
scuss problems wiii§ /e '^ ineeict . CK |f , S'
■ The lawsuit challenged the Food
2S, a graduate assistantrS and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 8-
BusinessCareerService| car - ol d P^'icy that considers gene
nanagement infonnatiJftered crops to be essentially the
luate student, said prc||ame as those produced by conven-
s week’s GraduateBialonal breeding methods and thus not
onference will also cate |
>f graduate students an; l
landing of the Universi- y
rence, on Thursday
1 Arena, will allow grad-]
students to meet wit
companies in a round
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rage graduate students ft
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:re is still more works
HOUSTON (AP) — Amid state
deregulation of electrical utilities, a
power plant construction boom is un
derway across Texas.
The 24 plants now under con
struction will boost Texas’ total gen
erating capacity by by 13,817
megawatts, enough extra electricity
to power Houston and Austin, ac
cording to the Texas Journal of The
Wall Street Journal.
Most new plants will be fueled by
natural gas and financed by indepen
dent power producers competing to
be the first into a deregulated Texas
marketplace.
The boom follows a decade with
virtually no construction of new elec
tric generation capacity.
The new. plants represent a $10
billion investment, said Sen. David
Sibley, an architect of the 1999
deregulation bill.
“It is unbelievable,” Sibley said in
the newspaper on Wednesday.
“It exceeded my expectations.”
Other companies have also an
nounced plans for plants providing
another 17,129 megawatts, but in-
Texas is the only
state with its own
power grid.
— proponents of power
plant boom
dustry observers believe only half of
that will be built in the next five years.
State officials and corporate ex
ecutives contend that Texas will not
experience problems from deregu
lation suffered by California, where
residents have endured shortages
and skyrocketing prices.
Texas is the only state with its own
power grid, proponents say, and also
has created better regulations and
more competition than other states.
But Texas’ grid will need upgrad
ing to distribute all the new power. The
Texas Public Utility Commission fore
casts construction of $700 million in
new transmission lines, which might
not be enough to handle the load.
Addition of so much capacity “will
put strains on the transmission grid,”
Robert W. Harvey, vice chairman of
Reliant Energy Inc., Houston said.
Besides transmission challenges,
some legislators, consumer advocates
and energy-industry officials question
the wisdom of becoming so reliant on
natural-gas plants, with such fuel
prices having doubled so far this year.
subject to the same regulatory con
trols as food additives.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kol-
lar-Kotelly, in a ruling Sept. 29, said
the biotech critics failed to prove that
FDA violated procedural and envi
ronmental laws in establishing the
policy or that the agency should man
date labeling of the foods.
Unless the agency decides biotech
ingredients are materially different
from conventional products, it “lacks
a basis upon which it can legally
mandate labeling, regardless of con
sumer demand,” she wrote.
Genetically engineered crops,
herbicide-resistant soybeans in par
ticular, became popular with farmers
in the late 1990s and are found in
products throughout supermarkets.
The FDA policy was established
in 1992 in the last year of the Bush
administration and has been de
fended vigorously by the Clinton
administration. FDA officials an
nounced this spring that they would
propose mandatory safety reviews
of new gene-altered products, but
they insist they still believe the
foods are safe. Such reviews are
now on a voluntary basis.
The lawsuit was filed in 1998 by
several anti-biotech organizations,
including The Center for Food Safe
ty, and a group of scientists and reli
gious leaders.
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