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Scrap Happy San Francisco food-composting program is a hit		04 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Scrap Happy San Francisco food-composting program is a hit In 1996, a company called Norcal Waste found that 19 percent of landfill matter in San Francisco consisted of discarded food scraps -- and it sensed a market opportunity. Now the city boasts a popular and growing composting program, with discarded food collected and processed into organically certified "Four Course Compost, ...
Topics: California, food, San Francisco, solid waste treatment and disposal (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)

Enfant, Terrible Most-polluted places in California see highest infant mortality rates		04 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Enfant, Terrible Most-polluted places in California see highest infant mortality rates The results of a San Francisco Chronicle analysis of infant morality rates in California zip codes are, while depressing as hell, not surprising: In short, pollution kills babies. Agricultural waste, toxic chemicals, smog -- while these sources of pollution are difficult to link to any single infant death, and their interaction is not we ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Living for the City San Francisco unveils plan to fight global warming		29 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Living for the City San Francisco unveils plan to fight global warming Saying that global warming "is a real and looming threat to our economy, our public health, and our environment" to which the Bush administration "is not paying attention," San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) this week unveiled a plan to reduce the city's greenhouse-gas emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. Much of t ...
Topics: California, climate, San Francisco (all these topics)

May the Schwarz Be With You Schwarzenegger signs bevy of environmental bills		24 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
May the Schwarz Be With You Schwarzenegger signs bevy of environmental bills California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) won props from enviros this week as he signed into law more than two dozen pro-environment bills. The measures will (take a deep breath) allow drivers of hybrids getting at least 45 miles per gallon to go solo in highway carpool lanes, require that all cars built since 1976 get emissions checks ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, politics (all these topics)

Assault and Pepper Trial of 'Pepper Spray 8' may deadlock again		22 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Assault and Pepper Trial of "Pepper Spray 8" may deadlock again In 1997, protesters locked themselves together with metal sleeves to protest Pacific Lumber Co.'s plans to log old-growth forests in California's Humboldt County. Although the protests were nonviolent, Humboldt police swabbed pepper spray in the eyes of eight protestors at three separate protests. Footage of the protestors screaming in pain was broadcast, laws ...
Topics: California, education (all these topics)

Schoolhouse Rocks Public Schools Starting to Offer Organic Lunches		13 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Schoolhouse Rocks Public Schools Starting to Offer Organic Lunches Healthy, organic food is increasingly popping up in, of all strange places, school lunches. The Seattle school district recently banned junk food and exclusive soda contracts (despite the big dollars dangled by soda companies) and started urging schools to offer "fresh, local, organic, non-genetically-modified, non-irradiated, unpro ...
Topics: California, education, food, organic food, Seattle (all these topics)

18 and Life Air Pollution Does Long-Term Damage to Kids' Lungs		09 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
18 and Life Air Pollution Does Long-Term Damage to Kids' Lungs Regular exposure to air pollution can stunt the growth of children's lungs, leading to a lifetime of reduced respiratory capacity, health problems, and even early death, according to a landmark study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, the longest and most comprehensive of its kind, followed a group of 1,759 schoolchildren in Southern Ca ...
Topics: air pollution, California (all these topics)

True Colors, Shining Through Schwarzenegger at an environmental crossroads	Amanda Griscom	09 Sep 2004	Muckraker
Arnold Schwarzenegger's exuberant speech last Tuesday at the Republican National Convention suggested that the Governator may be less the moderate Republican than advertised. Hailed by some during the convention as the Obama of the right, the California governor came across as a devout, rock-ribbed Bush lover. Just days after Schwarzenegger's speech, more evidence emerged to indicate that thi ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, business, California, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Too Many Cooks Oil the Broth ChevronTexaco Heavily Influenced California Restructuring		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Too Many Cooks Oil the Broth ChevronTexaco Heavily Influenced California Restructuring California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) recently announced plan to comprehensively reorganize state government brought grumbles from some enviros, who were piqued by the proposed consolidation of various boards and commissions from which many of the state's groundbreaking environmental initiatives ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, business, California, energy, oil, politics (all these topics)

Smears of a Clown Auto Industry-Backed PR Firm Claims California Emissions Regs Will Kill		27 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Smears of a Clown Auto Industry-Backed PR Firm Claims California Emissions Regs Will Kill A new ad campaign by the Sport Utility Vehicle Owners of America uses "Squeezy the Clown" to warn that proposed carbon-dioxide emissions regulations in California would force automakers to (gasp!) build smaller cars, which in turn will lead to increased traffic fatalities. (You see, they argue, the regs would force people ...
Topics: California, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Whining Is Job One Ford Battles Hybrid-Friendly Legislation, Destroys Electric Cars		24 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Whining Is Job One Ford Battles Hybrid-Friendly Legislation, Destroys Electric Cars Ford Motor Co. CEO Bill Ford's vocal attempts to position his company as eco-friendly are sounding a little hollow this week. As the California legislative session nears its end, Ford has ramped up lobbying efforts to kill a bill that would allow d ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, California, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, hybrids, jackassery, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Terry Firma An interview with Terry Tamminen, Schwarzenegger's top enviro official	Mark Hertsgaard	19 Aug 2004	Main Dish
Terry Tamminen. Terry Tamminen, secretary of California's Environmental Protection Agency, may hold the most powerful environmental job in the U.S. outside of Washington, D.C. Not only is California the world's fifth-largest economy, it has long been an environmental trendsetter, pioneering standards in automobile regulation and alternative-energy development that have spread across ...
Topics: California, interview, politics, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

California Greenin' Poll Shows Californians as Green as Ever		23 Jul 2004	Daily Grist
California Greenin' Poll Shows Californians as Green as Ever California has long been ahead of the curve on environmental policy, and a new poll points to the reason: Citizens demand it. A poll released this week by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, based on more than 2,500 responses from speakers of five different languages, reveals a decisively green electorate. Some 55 percent believe that the environme ...
Topics: California, Terry Tamminen (all these topics)

How Green Was the Gipper? A look back at Reagan's environmental record	Amanda Griscom	10 Jun 2004	Muckraker
Where's the white hat? Photo: Eisenhower Library. The news of President Reagan's passing has sent waves of emotion and rapturous eulogizing through the Republican Party and beyond. Amidst all the heartfelt tributes, it's clear that the 40th president of the United States is regarded as the true political father figure of George W. Bush -- more so than the president's own dad. Given the ideolo ...
Topics: California, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

The Beat of a Different Hummer Schwarzenegger's 'Green Hummer' plan sparks cultish following	Amanda Griscom	29 Apr 2004	Powers That Be
Schwarzenegger's "Green Hummer" plan sparks cultish following By Amanda Griscom 29 Apr 2004 Does this look green to you? The Hummer has come to be associated with a number of things -- steroid-addled egomaniacs, over-compensating suburban dads, the highway to global-warming hell, even Monica Lewinsky's antics in the Oval Office ... But eco-friendly driving isn't one of them. Unless, of course, you travel in the "Green Hummer" underground, qui ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, cars, hydrogen, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

The Emissionary Position Canada Considers Adopting California Vehicle Emissions Regulations		12 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
The Emissionary Position Canada Considers Adopting California Vehicle Emissions Regulations If automakers do not agree to improve the fuel efficiency of cars sold in Canada by 25 percent by 2010, the country will consider adopting California's new law curbing carbon-dioxide emissions from automobiles, said Canada's environment minister in a speech yesterday. Canada, unlike the U.S., signed the Kyoto Protocol in 20 ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Canada, ozone (all these topics)

PR You Serious? Forest Service Hired PR Firm to Sell Logging Plan		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
PR You Serious? Forest Service Hired PR Firm to Sell Logging Plan Remember that controversial U.S. Forest Service plan unveiled in January that aims to triple commercial logging in California's Sierra Nevada mountains? The one they said would "protect small communities" and create "forests with a future"? The one that critics said flew in the face of wide scientific consensus on the best ways to r ...
Topics: California, logging, US Forest Service (all these topics)

It's a Sprawl World After All Two Anti-Sprawl Initiatives Fail in California		03 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
It's a Sprawl World After All Two Anti-Sprawl Initiatives Fail in California In other, less eco-friendly initiative news, two separate measures intended to limit sprawl were defeated in California yesterday. In San Diego County, voters bucked statewide trends by rejecting the Rural Lands Initiative, which would have put a 20-year ban on development in 1,000 acres of the county's "backcountry." And in Contra Costa County, v ...
Topics: California, placemaking (all these topics)

Hey Hey, Ho Ho, GMO Has Got to Go Northern California County Passes Anti-GM Initiative		03 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Hey Hey, Ho Ho, GMO Has Got to Go Northern California County Passes Anti-GM Initiative Northern California's Mendocino County yesterday passed a voter initiative that bans the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops. The surprising 56-44 percent victory capped the county's most contentious and high-profile election ever, in which the initiative's backers were outspent by a whopping 6-1 margin. Supporters of Measure H raised $93,525, whi ...
Topics: California, GMOs (all these topics)

Playing De-fence Prominent House Republican Calls for Completion of Border Fence		02 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Playing De-fence Prominent House Republican Calls for Completion of Border Fence Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chair of the House Armed Services Committee, called on the Bush administration today to complete a major fence project along the westernmost portion of the U.S.-Mexico border despite concerns that such a project could harm habitat for threatened and endangered birds. The California Coastal Co ...
Topics: California, Department of Homeland Security, wildlife (all these topics)

Wham, Bam, Thank You, Dam Embrey Dam Removal Heralds Larger Trend		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Dam Embrey Dam Removal Heralds Larger Trend The Army Corps of Engineers blew up the Embrey Dam in Fredericksburg, Va., yesterday, allowing the Rappahannock River to flow unmolested from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay for the first time since 1910 -- and making it the longest free-flowing river feeding into the Chesapeake, ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, California, dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, Virginia, wildlife (all these topics)

Built Ford? Tough. Environmental Groups Target Bill Ford, Jr.		06 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Built Ford? Tough. Environmental Groups Target Bill Ford, Jr. Ford Motor Co. CEO Bill Ford, Jr., once a darling of the eco-friendly set, has come under attack by a coalition of environmental groups led by California-based Bluewater Network. In full-page national newspaper ads that began appearing Wednesday, the group lambasted Ford, Jr., for reneging on his July 2000 pledge to in ...
Topics: California, energy, environmental non-government organizations, placemaking (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)

State of the Art		02 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
State of the Art One hundred years ago, progressives believed that states were laboratories of democracy, small-scale testing grounds for innovative policies. While the civil-rights struggle cast that view into disfavor, it may be on its way to a renaissance, led by forward-thinking state leaders concerned about the environment. Spurred by the federal governme ...
Topics: air pollution, California, green living, Maryland, New Mexico, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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