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Lettuce Study This More		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Lettuce Study This More A toxic chemical used in rocket fuel was found in four of 22 winter lettuce samples purchased at Northern California grocery stores, according to a report by the Environmental Working Group. The lettuce contaminated with perchlorate, a hormone disrupter, was traced to farms in Southern California and Arizona tha ...
Topics: Arizona, Barbara Boxer, California, Colorado River, Environmental Working Group, Harry Reid, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Cutting the Cord		25 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Cutting the Cord Fuel cells and hybrids are hot; electric vehicles are not. That's the word from the California Air Resources Board, which yesterday axed groundbreaking 1990 rules requiring auto manufacturers to sell a fixed number of electric vehicles (EVs) in the state, including 10 percent of cars sold this year. Instead, the board approved more modest regulations that will force car compani ...
Topics: air pollution, California, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics)

Spilling Over		23 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Spilling Over The city of Los Angeles accepted legal responsibility yesterday for a decade's worth of sewage spills, numbering 3,668 in all. The spills polluted streets and water bodies, in violation of both state and federal clean-water laws. After a four-year legal battle with government officials, environmental organizations, and community members, the city has finally owned up to all the overflows in an effort, it says, to p ...
Topics: California, water pollution (all these topics)

Orange You Glad?		23 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Orange You Glad? Orange County, Calif., is generally associated with urban sprawl, not magnificent parklands -- but a massive new land deal could help change that. The 4,738-acre "County Great Park" will be bigger than New York's Central Park and San Francisco's Golden Gate Park put together, and will include riparian corridors, botanical gardens, sports and educational facilities, and plenty of green space. The park will ...
Topics: California, placemaking (all these topics)

Mining Gets the Shaft		15 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Mining Gets the Shaft The pay dirt has run out for gold miners in California. Last week the state mining board okayed the nation's toughest regulations on open-pit metallic mining, requiring companies to refill mining pits and flatten waste piles in order to restore the landscape to at least some semblance of its pre-mining state. The industry complains that the new rules wil ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Hit the Bottle		09 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Hit the Bottle Ever the leader on environmental issues, California is moving ahead with a bill that would give it the nation's most stringent bottled-water quality standards. Under the terms of the bill, bottled-water companies would have to include greater detail about contaminants on bottle labels, issue water-quality reports much like those produced by public water agencies, and, like those agencies, be subject to inspections ...
Topics: California, water pollution (all these topics)

Gold Diggers		09 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gold Diggers The California gold rush of 1849 sent would-be miners rushing to the hills and streams of the Sierra Nevada. But some of them never made it that far, stopping instead to mine gold from Death Valley. Now, a proposal by the Colorado-based Canyon Resources to expand its operations by opening a second open-pit gold mine on 3,000 acres just outside of Death Valley National Park has got environmentalists and Native Am ...
Topics: California, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Well, They Otter		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Well, They Otter Sea otters should be allowed to frolic freely along the Southern California coastline, according to a new recovery plan drawn up for the threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Hailed by enviros, the plan, developed over 14 years, advocates the end of a federal program that relocates otters away from shellfish grounds to benefit fishers. Th ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, marine life, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Dyna-shore		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Dyna-shore In a triumph for Golden State environmentalists, the Bush administration decided yesterday against asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn two lower court decisions upholding California's right to review proposed offshore drilling projects along its coast. Gov. Gray Davis (D) hailed the decision, noting, "The future of California beaches is now where it should be -- in ...
Topics: California, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

No Exit		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
No Exit A plan by the California Public Utilities Commission to levy an "exit fee" against anyone who stops drawing electricity from the state's grid -- read: alternative energy users -- has come under fire by lawmakers, renewable energy producers, and consumers. The proposed exit fee is a holdover from the state's 2000-2001 energy crisis, when the commission tried to discourage people from jumping sh ...
Topics: California, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Dean of Emissions		25 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Dean of Emissions The federal government has changed its tune on air quality in California, with the U.S. EPA easing pressure on the state to impose more stringent air-pollution controls on farms. Just last month, the EPA said the state should repeal a law exempting large farms from air-pollution monitoring permits; now, it is calling instead for an amendment requiring only "major" farm-based pollution sources t ...
Topics: air pollution, California, US EPA (all these topics)

Down on the Farm		24 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Down on the Farm California's budget crisis could wind up spurring sprawl. With the state tens of billions of dollars in the red, Gov. Gray Davis (D) is hoping to cut the $39 million per year that the state spends on the Williamson Act, which lets farmers pay lower taxes as long as they pledge to keep their land out of the hands of developers. More than 15 million prime agricultural acres are currently covered by the act, which many ...
Topics: California, placemaking (all these topics)

Come Down From There Right Now!		18 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Come Down From There Right Now! Two of 18 environmental activists who have been sitting in redwoods in California's Humboldt County for almost a year were forcibly removed yesterday by Pacific Lumber Company, raising the longstanding conflict between the two groups to a new level. After the Humboldt County Superior Court issued the tree sitters a temporary restraining order last week, the company warned that it would resort to physicall ...
Topics: California, logging (all these topics)

PBDE Heebie-jeebies		12 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
PBDE Heebie-jeebies Women in the San Francisco Bay Area have three to 10 times the amount of a dangerous persistent organic pollutant in their breast tissue as do either European or Japanese women, according to a study released yesterday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardants commonly used in foam, textiles, and plastic electro ...
Topics: California, European Union, health, Japan, San Francisco (all these topics)

Sierras Clubbed		07 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Sierras Clubbed Logging would more than double, more cattle would be allowed to graze, and forests could be aggressively thinned under proposed revisions to a management plan for the Sierra Nevada unveiled yesterday by the U.S. Forest Service. The sweeping changes to the Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework would allow timber companies to cut trees up to 30 inches in diameter in old-growth fores ...
Topics: California, Nevada, ranching, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Dump Yuck		06 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Dump Yuck Twenty-two of 50 landfills tested in California have been found to contain unusually high levels of radiation, and radioactive waste from seven of those dumps has contaminated nearby groundwater, state environmental officials announced yesterday. The findings raise new questions about the ongoing impact of a now-defunct California policy that allowed mildly radioactive waste in ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

We're Not Gonna Rock Down to Electric Avenue		05 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
We're Not Gonna Rock Down to Electric Avenue The electric car could soon go the way of the dodo, as California moves toward eliminating a rule first approved in 1990 to force automakers to sell a fixed number of electric cars in the state. The proposed changes to the zero-emissions-vehicle rule would allow car manufacturers to earn credits for low-emissions hybrid vehicles, instead o ...
Topics: California, cars, electric vehicles, energy, hydrogen, Washington DC (all these topics)

Crisis of Confidence Game		04 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Crisis of Confidence Game California yesterday submitted new evidence to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of a widespread plan by electricity generators, traders, and even municipal power companies to produce the state's 2000-2001 energy crisis in order to turn a profit. State officials said the evidence, which was the result of a 103-day investigation, was just the "tip of the iceberg" in ...
Topics: California, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (all these topics)

9021-woe		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
9021-woe Remember that episode of 90210 where Brenda and Dylan fell ill from toxic gases leaking out of oil wells and into Beverly Hills High School? Actually, that never happened on the show -- but according to famed environmental legal crusader Erin Brockovich, it happened in real life. Brockovich and her partner, Ed Masry, are preparing to sue Beverly ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics (all these topics)

Who Ya Gonna Call? Coast Busters!		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Who Ya Gonna Call? Coast Busters! The California legislature has passed a bill to alter the structure of the California Coastal Commission, thereby enabling the powerful board to continue regulating development along the state's coast. Seven weeks ago, a state appeals court ruled that allowing the legislature to remove commissioners at will violated the state constitution's mandate to mainta ...
Topics: California, oceans, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, state politics (all these topics)

Terror Alert Level: Green		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Terror Alert Level: Green New York City is on high terrorist alert. The entire nation is on tenterhooks. And at California State University at Fresno, security was heavy -- for an academic environmental conference. The reason? The conference addressed "revolutionary environmentalism" and participants included former members of militant environmental and animal-rights organizations that have been link ...
Topics: animal welfare, California, education, Texas (all these topics)

Owl's Not Well		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Owl's Not Well In a blow to environmentalists, the California spotted owl has been denied protection under the federal Endangered Species Act. According to the U.S. Fish and Wild Service, there is not enough evidence that the owl's habitat is sufficiently threatened to merit listing -- even though the agency acknowledged that a U.S. Forest Service plan to increase lo ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Borderline Insanity		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, population, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

The Bye Sierras		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Bye Sierras The management of California's public forests will change radically if U.S. Forest Service Regional Forester Jack Blackwell gets his way. This week, Blackwell proposed allowing timber companies to cut more medium-sized trees from 11 million acres of forestlands in the Sierra Nevadas. The Sierras were heavily logged throughout the 1980s, destroying crucial habitat for s ...
Topics: California, logging, Nevada, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Borderline Insanity An INS project threatens Southern California lands	Deborah Knight	31 Jan 2003	Main Dish
On a sunny afternoon in Southern California, a Border Patrol agent watched as a man climbed the metal fence that divides the beach between the U.S. and Mexico. When the man dropped onto U.S. sand, the agent yelled, and the man's friends hauled him back over to the other side of the fence. The fence at Border Field State Park. Photo: Deborah Knight. Such is the daily -- and nightly -- cat-and-mous ...
Topics: California, politics, US Immigration and Naturalization Service, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

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