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Up the River		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Up the River New Year's Day marked a historic moment in the history of Western water wars -- the first time the federal government exercised its right to decline California's request for more than its allotted shared of water from the Colorado River. Thanks to the U.S. Interior Department, cities and agricultural areas ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, green living, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Drain, Drain, Go Away		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drain, Drain, Go Away Now, back to typically depressing fare: California's Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board said yesterday that it would extend exemptions on pollution limits for farmers, meaning that pesticides, salts, and other pollutants will continue to drain from agricultural fields into the region's watershed. The exemptions were set to expire on Dec. ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

I Double Dairy You		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I Double Dairy You Got pollution controls? Five dairy farms in California soon will -- and environmentalists hope the new rules will eventually apply to dairies nationwide. To avoid legal action by environmental groups, the five farms in the Inland Empire region of the state have agreed to modernize their operations by developing greener plans for manure lagoon ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Klam Bake		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Klam Bake In the latest turn of events in the Water Crisis That Won't Die, state officials in California are considering releasing water into the Klamath River to rescue thousands of salmon dying from unusually high water temperatures in the river. Scientists have counted more than 9,500 dead Chinook salmon near the river's mouth since Friday, and thousands more have proba ...
Topics: California, fishing, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Green Davis		13 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Green Davis California Gov. Gray Davis (D) kept the green ink flowing yesterday by signing several more environmental measures into law. Perhaps the most significant of the laws -- what Davis termed "the most ambitious" renewable energy standard in the country -- requires that 20 percent of the electricity produced by private utilities in the state come from green sources by ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, politics, renewable energy, toxics (all these topics)

Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands?		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands? The American Environmental Safety Institute (first we've heard of it) sued Nestle, Hershey, Mars, and other chocolate manufacturers yesterday for not disclosing that their products contain toxic metals such as lead and cadmium, as required under California law. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the group sa ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Shrimp Fried		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Shrimp Fried Under pressure from the Bush administration, a federal judge yesterday revoked the protected status of several hundred thousand acres of Southern California land considered essential for the survival of two imperiled species. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-a ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, food and agriculture, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Bay Watch		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bay Watch If three environmental groups have their way, California's mammoth agriculture industry will be subject to state water-pollution laws for the first time in history. The three groups (San Francisco BayKeeper, DeltaKeeper, and the California Public Interest Research Group) filed suit yesterday against the Central Valley Regional Water Cont ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

A Patagonia on the Back		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
A Patagonia on the Back Gearheads have reason to feel smug about their Patagonia fleeces these days. Once again, the company appears among Fortune Magazine's top 100 places to work in the U.S. -- and this time it moved up 17 places in the rankings, to number 41. The company sold $223 million worth of outdoor gear last year, but it's not just the money t ...
Topics: business, California, commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Basin and Strange		29 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange The Bush administration gave the first indication yesterday of how it would work to resolve the water wars in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border -- and enviros immediately warned that the administration was kowtowing to farmers while giving short sh ...
Topics: California, climate, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

How Now, Brown Cow?		19 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
How Now, Brown Cow? The 450,000 dairy cows in Southern California are contributing to some of the dirtiest air in the country -- and regulators want to clamp down. The cows kick up tons of dust and their manure emits ammonia that joins with nitrogen oxide from vehicle tailpipes to create particulate pollution. Dairies in the area account for only 1 percent of the emissions that lead to ...
Topics: air pollution, California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Irrigation Irritation		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Irrigation Irritation U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said yesterday that she had the legal authority to release a small amount of irrigation water for farmers to use in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border. All irrigation water from Upper Klamath Lake has been cut off since April to protect endangered suckerfish and threatened coho salmon ...
Topics: California, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, Oregon, rivers and watersheds, wildlife (all these topics)

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