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Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment		18 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment After many weeks of pork-barrel politics conducted behind closed doors, Republican negotiators yesterday released a final version of the first big energy bill to emerge from Congress in more than a decade -- and it's a doozy. The package, which contains loads of subsidies for industry and loads of bad news for ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, energy, Midwest, nuclear power, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Air Raid Alaska Gives Nod to Aerial Pesticide Spraying		14 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Air Raid Alaska Gives Nod to Aerial Pesticide Spraying In a blow to environmentalists, Alaska has approved controversial regulations governing aerial pesticide spraying, set to go into effect at the end of the month. The new regulations establish a 35-foot "pesticide-free zone" around water bodies, as well as a secondary buffer zone designed to prevent chemicals from drifting or leaching into the land ...
Topics: Alaska, toxics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction		04 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Bush Angers Hunters and Anglers by Promoting Resource Extraction The Bush administration is ticking off many traditionally Republican hunters and anglers with its plans to encourage logging and oil and gas drilling in natural areas throughout the Western U.S. Last week, 450 U.S. gun clubs sent a petition to the U.S. F ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, mining and drilling, Montana, national forests, outdoor recreation, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

What a Drag Coral Gardens in Alaskan Waters Spur Controversy Over Trawling		03 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
What a Drag Coral Gardens in Alaskan Waters Spur Controversy Over Trawling If you think coral is only to be found in warm, tropical waters, think again. Cold-water coral gardens contain a surprising array of biodiversity, and scientists discovered a particularly impressive coral bed in waters off Alaska's Aleutian Islands last year, containing numerous coral varieties not seen before. That finding is now spurring controversy over ...
Topics: Alaska, business, oceans (all these topics)

Lights Out The Bush administration lets a profitable energy-efficiency program lapse	Amanda Griscom	02 Oct 2003	Muckraker
As of yesterday, Oct. 1, the most successful program in U.S. history for improving energy efficiency in federal buildings is toast. The demise of the Energy Savings Performance Contracting program is no insignificant matter, seeing as how the federal government is the single biggest energy-user in the nation. Taxpayers spend $4 billion per year to power 500,000 federal buildings nat ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, energy, energy efficiency, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Last Scoundrels of Refuge Republicans Push for Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge -- Again		22 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Last Scoundrels of Refuge Republicans Push for Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge -- Again It's the story that never dies: Republicans are once again plotting to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling, this time by adding a provision to a major energy bill that is now being hammered out in a congressional conference committee. Most Democ ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Coast in the Machine Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling in Alaska		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Coast in the Machine Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling in Alaska The Bush administration is moving aggressively to open Alaska's coastal waters to oil exploration -- a campaign that is not getting nearly as much public scrutiny as efforts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The administration plans to offer eight oil and gas lea ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

The Three Amigos Three Major Companies Join Fight to Protect Tongass		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The Three Amigos Three Major Companies Join Fight to Protect Tongass Office supply giant Staples and building companies KB Home and Hayward Lumber have joined with environmentalists in opposing a Bush administration proposal that would allow roads and development in southeast Alaska's pristine Tongass National Forest. The three companies, all big us ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, national forests, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Tanks for Nothing Court Rejects $4 Billion Damage Award for Exxon Valdez Spill		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Tanks for Nothing Court Rejects $4 Billion Damage Award for Exxon Valdez Spill A federal appeals court has once again rejected a multibillion-dollar punitive damage award against the company responsible for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil-tanker spill in Alaska. Now thousands of Alaskan fishers, Natives, and others whose lives and livelihoods were disrupted by the ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies In an ironic twist, oil companies operating on Alaska's North Slope are finding their work impeded by a warming climate. The companies depend on long stretches of hard freeze during which they can haul heavy drilling equipment over tundra, but those cold periods are shrinking. In 1970, there were m ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, wilderness (all these topics)

Rubber Ducky, You're the $100		24 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Rubber Ducky, You're the $100 Thanks to "Sesame Street," everybody over the age of two knows that rubber duckies make bath time lots of fun -- but who knew the little yellow guys could make oceanography a bit more fun, too? Eleven years ago, a shipping container carrying 29,000 rubber bath toys (frogs, turtles, and beavers, as well as the familiar duckies) fell overboard in a ...
Topics: Africa, Alaska, Atlantic Ocean, oceans, Pacific Ocean, placemaking (all these topics)

National Vacations Lampooned		12 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Alaska, business, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Chop Sticks		10 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chop Sticks Old-growth trees in roadless areas of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska could soon be on the chopping block. The Bush administration announced yesterday that it plans to exempt the nation's largest national forest from the Clinton-era "roadless rule," which blocks logging and road-building on more than 58 million acres of wild land in national forests. The proposal, part of an effort to sett ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

No Art-ic Refuge		02 May 2003	Daily Grist
No Art-ic Refuge Sometimes art gets political -- and sometimes it's the artist who suffers. Just ask Subhankar Banerjee, who spent his life savings to photograph Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. For a while, things were going swimmingly for Banerjee; he found a publisher for his photo collection and earned an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Then, in Marc ...
Topics: Alaska, green living, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Best Western		31 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Best Western The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has become a household name, but who's ever heard of the Western Arctic Reserve? Lots of folks will over the coming months if the Campaign for America's Wilderness gets its way. The Washington, D.C.-based group is trying to pin a new name onto the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as part of a c ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Let's Not Be Frank		04 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: Alaska Let's Not Be Frank If Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) gets his way, environmental organizations that sue state agencies and lose will have to pick up part of the state's legal bills. At Murkowski's request, bills were introduced yesterday into the Alaska House and Senate proposing changes to the state's public-interest litigant rules. Currently, the rules allow public-interest groups to recover legal fees when they win court cases against the state and protect them from l ...
Topics: Alaska (all these topics)

Sticking Out Their Tongass		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Sticking Out Their Tongass It's a big bummer, but not a big surprise: The Bush administration ruled on Friday that it will not provide wilderness protection for any additional land in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a move that will open up hundreds of thousands of acres of old-growth forest to logging. Public opinion was overwhelmingly in favor of creating more wilderness in the Tongass; about ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

In the Doghouse		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
In the Doghouse The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would review a clean air case that could determine when the federal government can overrule state environmental decisions. The case concerns the Red Dog mine in Alaska, which produces zinc and lead. Two years ago, when the mine sought to build a new diesel generator, the state Department of Environmental ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Pain in the Tongass		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Pain in the Tongass Moderate Republicans, as well as Democrats and environmentalists, are up in arms over eleventh-hour language added by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to a huge $395 billion spending bill that would boost logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The provision would exempt nearly 2 million acres in the Tongass from a rule approved by former President Clinton that ban ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, national forests, politics, Ted Stevens, wilderness (all these topics)

Coal Play		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Play It would seem that preemptive measures are all the rage among anti-environmentalists these days. In Alaska, Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) is awaiting the Interior Department's response to a request he made last year (while still a senator) to prohibit the establishment of new wilderness areas in the state. "Congress set aside all this wilderness, ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Murky Outcome		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Murky Outcome Environmentalists did constant battle with Frank Murkowski when he was a U.S. senator -- and, if last night's "State of the State" address was any indication, they will have to redouble their efforts now that he is the new Republican governor of Alaska. During the speech, Murkowski said he would push for more road development, expand the Alaskan salmon market, oppose lawsuits harmful to the timbe ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Calling in the Reserves		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Calling in the Reserves The debate over oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been in the limelight a lot lately -- but what about energy exploitation in the rest of the state? On Friday, the Bush administration released a report on the likely environmental impact of new dril ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, US Geological Survey, US Navy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Thank God		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Thank God Environmentalism is getting a big boost from religious communities that increasingly see protecting the Earth as central to their theology, according to the Worldwatch Institute. In its annual "State of the World" report released late last week, Worldwatch found that religious organizations from all corners of the globe are urging their congregations to sav ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, green living, Indonesia, rainforests, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

Half-baked Alaska		30 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Half-baked Alaska Anti-environmentalism in Alaska is at a fever pitch, and it's affecting the shape of nearly every political campaign in the final weeks before voters go to the polls. Incumbent state Rep. Harry Crawford (D), for example, has gone out of his way to try to convince his constituency that he's pro-development, not eco-friendly. "I believe I've had to explain it 100 times at the d ...
Topics: Alaska, business, energy, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Touching News		23 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Touching News A whopping 83 percent of the surface of the Earth is dedicated to human activities -- farming, mining, fishing, or just plain old living -- according to a report released this week by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network. Human use leaves wildlife with just a fraction of the terrestrial surface of the globe ...
Topics: Alaska, Amazon, Canada, Mongolia, Russia, wildlife (all these topics)

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