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To Catch a Leaf FBI raids companies linked to E. coli-tainted spinach		05 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
To Catch a Leaf FBI raids companies linked to E. coli-tainted spinach Federal agents raided two produce plants in Salinas Valley, Calif., yesterday, as part of a criminal investigation into whether they violated food-safety and environmental laws in distributing E. coli-tainted spinach. The FBI and the Food and Drug Administration executed search warran ...
Topics: California, Federal Bureau of Investigation, food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, news (all these topics)

San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived		15 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
San Joaquin Phoenix Dead San Joaquin River will be revived More than 60 miles of California's dead, sandy San Joaquin River may yet run with water and salmon again, as enviros and farmers have settled an 18-year legal battle over the river's fate. Based on a new 20-year, $250-to-$800 million restoration plan, agricultural water diversion from the river will be reduced by an a ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Do the Hempty Hemp Hemp farming could be legalized in California		17 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Do the Hempty Hemp Hemp farming could be legalized in California Farmers could legally grow industrial hemp under a bill approved by the state Senate of, obviously, California. But isn't hemp, like, totally marijuana? Didn't Nancy Reagan warn us about this? No, no, says (Republican!) state Sen. Tom McClintock, in the best analogy we've ever heard: Hemp "bears no more resemblance to marijuana than a poodle bears ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

Don't Be a Menace to South Central Urban gardeners evicted from community farm in L.A.		16 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Don't Be a Menace to South Central Urban gardeners evicted from community farm in L.A. South Central Farm, a 14-acre community garden in a sea of warehouses in urban L.A., will be bulldozed to make way for ... a warehouse. The 350 low-income families who for years have been growing food on the plot this week lost their fight to save the farm. Landowner Ralph Horowitz obtained an eviction order, and protestors, who in ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

The Central Question Could the battle for South Central Farm be coming to a close?	Jason Mark	09 Jun 2006	Main Dish
The scene at South Central Farm would look familiar to anyone who's ever attended a multi-day protest: there's a makeshift kitchen to feed the masses, a small sound stage, a tent for banner-making. But the kitchen is preparing nopales quesadillas instead of vegan stew, the stage features a Norteño band replete with cowboy hats, and the banner-makers are nine-year-old Latina girls. Que Dio ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Wining and Declining Global warming screwing up wine country		05 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Wining and Declining Global warming screwing up wine country Bad news for oenophiles: Global warming is messing with wine country. Wine grapes are highly temperature-sensitive, and if the globe gets much hotter (which smart folks say it will), famed wine-producing regions like France's Burgundy and California's Napa Valley may lose optimum climate for their grape varieties. Already, warmer temperat ...
Topics: California, climate, food and agriculture, France, news (all these topics)

Whose 'Cide Are They On? California regulating pesticide air pollution and fish farming		30 May 2006	Daily Grist
Whose 'Cide Are They On? California regulating pesticide air pollution and fish farming California is trailblazing again: It aims to be the first state in the U.S. to tackle air pollution from pesticide use. State officials hope to eliminate tons (literally) of smog-forming gases that waft from pesticide-treated agricultural regions. California's Department of Pesticide Regulation -- long acc ...
Topics: air pollution, California, food and agriculture, news, toxics (all these topics)

He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings		15 May 2006	Daily Grist
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings California law requires products containing chemicals that could cause reproductive harm or cancer to have warning labels, but a state Superior Court judge has ruled that the law does not apply to mercury-licious canned tuna. Mercury has been shown to slow neurological development, thus the ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

The Fume, the Crowd, the Berries EPA withdraws plan to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide		27 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
The Fume, the Crowd, the Berries EPA withdraws plan to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide After contriving to approve toxic fumigant methyl iodide for use in strawberry fields forever, the U.S. EPA has withdrawn the plan in the face of fierce opposition from California officials, labor unions, and enviros. The approval of methyl iodide was to be the culmination of a nearly 15-year search for a sub ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Barbarians at the Irrigate Big Ag wins, fish and wildlife lose in California's water wars		25 Oct 2005	Daily Grist

Topics: California, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Heifer Madness Thanks to booming dairy biz, cows out-pollute cars in California valley		02 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Heifer Madness Thanks to booming dairy biz, cows out-pollute cars in California valley In California's San Joaquin Valley, air-quality regulators are squaring off against the area's lucrative dairy industry over cow gas: Each dairy cow in the valley emits nearly 20 pounds of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) a year, according to official estimates. (Sadly, more of the gas comes from burps than f ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Ask Your Dealer Today! Organic marijuana certification sought in California county		15 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Ask Your Dealer Today! Organic marijuana certification sought in California county Need your pot, but worried about all the chemi ... dude, you gonna eat that? Wait, where were we? Oh, for all those who prefer their pot free of toxic chemicals (and have a user card allowing them to smoke it for medical purposes, of course), there's good news from Mendocino County, Calif. -- the very county that last ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, green living, news (all these topics)

Dairy Err Millions in California anti-pollution money went to, uh, pollution		13 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Dairy Err Millions in California anti-pollution money went to, uh, pollution Almost $70 million in California state bond money designated to fund industry pollution-reducing measures has gone to fund the expansion of polluting mega-dairies in the San Joaquin Valley, the nation's most polluted air basin. In each case, the Pollution Control Financing Authority approved tax-exempt, low-interest loans on the ba ...
Topics: air pollution, California, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Fake Is the New Real		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Fake Is the New Real In an effort to conserve water (and perhaps bolster Southern California's reputation as a showcase for all things fake), the city of Anaheim, Calif., and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California are pilot-testing faux lawns. If water savings meet expectations, residents who replace real grass with fake greenery could soon be eligible for rebates from the water dis ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Rivers and Tithes Judge Rules Government Must Pay for Withheld Water		26 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Rivers and Tithes Judge Rules Government Must Pay for Withheld Water In a case that could have substantial implications for enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, a federal judge ruled recently that the U.S. government must pay California irrigators some $14 million for water it withheld from them ...
Topics: California, climate, environmental justice, food and agriculture, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, Southwest, water conflicts, wildlife (all these topics)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef What's bad news for most ranchers may be great news for growers and purveyors of organic and natural-fed beef. In the wake of the discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S., folks who still like to chomp on a nice, juicy steak are increasingly seeking out beef that's been raised the old-fashioned way. To earn the organi ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, ranching, United States (all these topics)

A Mighty Wind New California Wind Farm Blows Previous Efforts Away		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
A Mighty Wind New California Wind Farm Blows Previous Efforts Away Between San Francisco and Sacramento lies the nearly completed High Winds Energy Center, a state-of-the-art wind farm expected to generate roughly 162 megawatts of electricity -- enough to power 75,000 homes -- and make wind power competitive with extractive energy sources. The turbin ...
Topics: business, California, energy, food and agriculture, green living, San Francisco, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

The Wrath of Grapes Ban on Biotech Crops Makes the Ballot in a California County		19 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
The Wrath of Grapes Ban on Biotech Crops Makes the Ballot in a California County Voters in Northern California's Mendocino County will be the first in the nation with a chance to rebuff growers of genetically modified (GM) crops. Local anti-biotechnology activists gathered enough signatures to secure a spot on the March ballot for an initiative that would ban the raising of GM crops in the county. The camp ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, GMOs, politics (all these topics)

Fishing for Answers Bush Administration Admits Role in Klamath Fish Die-Off		19 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Fishing for Answers Bush Administration Admits Role in Klamath Fish Die-Off The Bush administration has finally admitted to its role in last year's die-off of more than 34,000 chinook and coho salmon in the Klamath River basin, which straddles the Oregon-California border: The massive fish kill was caused a ...
Topics: California, dams, energy, fishing, food and agriculture, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, water conflicts (all these topics)

Twisting Their Farms California Bills Would Crack Down on Air Pollution from Farms		16 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Twisting Their Farms California Bills Would Crack Down on Air Pollution from Farms For the first time, California farmers would have to do their part to curb air pollution, under a series of controversial bills approved last week by the state legislature. The state's agriculture industry has long enjoyed an exemption from the federal Clean Air Act, even though many of its act ...
Topics: air pollution, California, food and agriculture, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Chef's Salud		23 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chef's Salud Across the Atlantic, another fracas is brewing over genetically modified foods. Yesterday protesters hit the streets in Sacramento, Calif., to rally against GM technology, one day before the start of a large international agricultural conference that is bringing together agriculture ministers from more than 100 countries and reps from biotechnology and agribusiness corporations. Family farmers, chefs, an ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Greener Curry		23 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, education, food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

40 Acres and a Tax Break		16 May 2003	Daily Grist
40 Acres and a Tax Break California environmentalists and farmers rejoiced yesterday when Gov. Gray Davis (D) restored $40 million in funding for farmland and open-space protection under the Williamson Act. Together, farmers and enviros had lobbied heavily against the proposed elimination of the act, under which the state pays back counties for property taxes lost when landowners are ...
Topics: business, California, food and agriculture, news, placemaking, sprawl (all these topics)

The Fish-scales of Justice		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Fish-scales of Justice California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is suing five major grocery store chains to force them to warn customers that tuna, swordfish, and shark may contain dangerously high levels of mercury. In the suit, Lockyer claims that Safeway, Kroger, Albertson's, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods are violating Proposition 65, which requires companies to provide "clear and reasonab ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, toxics (all these topics)

Yurok Me Like a Hurricane		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Yurok Me Like a Hurricane The Bush administration is to blame for last fall's die-off of 33,000 salmon along the Klamath River in Northern California, biologists from the state's Department of Fish and Game have determined. They say the fish kill -- the largest ever recorded in the West -- was the result of the administration's ...
Topics: California, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West (all these topics)

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