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PBDE Heebie-jeebies
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, European Union, health, Japan, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Sierras Clubbed
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, Nevada, ranching, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Dump Yuck
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics) |
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We're Not Gonna Rock Down to Electric Avenue
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, electric vehicles, energy, hydrogen, Washington DC (all these topics) |
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Crisis of Confidence Game
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (all these topics) |
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9021-woe
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics (all these topics) |
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Who Ya Gonna Call? Coast Busters!
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, oceans, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, state politics (all these topics) |
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Terror Alert Level: Green
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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 ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, California, education, Texas (all these topics) |
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Owl's Not Well
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, logging, Nevada, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Borderline Insanity
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31 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: California, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, population, United States, wilderness (all these topics) |
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The Bye Sierras
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, logging, Nevada, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, politics, US Immigration and Naturalization Service, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Fish-scales of Justice
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Coast Is Murky
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22 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| The Coast Is Murky The California Coastal Commission has been declared unconstitutional by an appellate court, a decision that could result in a significant power shake-up at the entity in charge of managing one of the world's most popular and politically charged coastlines. At issue is the balance of power on the commission: A maj ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, mining and drilling, oceans, Pacific Ocean, politics, state politics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Dolorous Haze
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16 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Dolorous Haze Emissions that contribute to smog in the Los Angeles area are drastically worse than previously estimated, air-quality officials admitted yesterday. The announcement marked a reversal of the usual optimistic rhetoric about California air quality, which has been steadily improving since the late 1980s. Now it seems that progress in eliminating the two most common pollutants t ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, California, health, placemaking, toxics (all these topics) |
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Park and Writhe
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15 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Park and Writhe The National Parks Conservation Association has released its annual list of endangered parks -- and, sadly, it includes some of the most treasured wild areas in the U.S.: Yellowstone, Denali, and the Great Smoky Mountains, among others. The unlucky parks made the list because they ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Georgia, Montana, National Park Service, national parks, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, Virginia, wilderness (all these topics) |
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The Gas They Pass
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13 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| The Gas They Pass In other news from the Golden State, California's two Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, have introduced legislation that would prevent energy companies in Mexico from using Californian natural gas in their plants near the California-Mexico border unless those plants complied with the state's strict air-quality standards. The legislation w ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Mexico, politics (all these topics) |
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Less Than Zero
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13 Jan 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Less Than Zero Under California's zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) regulation, 2003 was supposed to be the year that thousands of nonpolluting cars hit the road -- but on Friday, the state's air quality officials proposed amending the regulation to postpone the deadline by a decade. The proposal seemed to be an acknowledgement by the California Air Resources Board that the technology does not yet exist to make ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, California, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Yurok Me Like a Hurricane
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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 ... |
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| 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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Up the River
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, Colorado River, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, green living, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics) |
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There Goes the Neighborhood
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20 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| There Goes the Neighborhood Despite pressure from the glitterati in Los Angeles, the Ahmanson Ranch, a proposed 3,050-home development project in Southern California, received a crucial vote of confidence from Ventura County supervisors yesterday, when they agreed in a 4-1 vote that the project would effectively balance the region's housing needs with its environmental concerns. The Ahmanson Ranch project has been in the works for a ... |
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| Topics: California, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Imperious
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10 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Imperious Ignoring threats of dire consequences by state and federal officials, California's Imperial Irrigation District refused yesterday to approve a huge water sale to San Diego County. Members of the Imperial Valley irrigation district's governing board said they resented the threats, which ranged from intimations that the board would be disbanded to suggestions that the valley's own water supply ... |
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| Topics: California, Colorado River, politics, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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Perc Up
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09 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Perc Up The nation's first-ever ban on perchloroethylene, or "perc," went into effect on Friday when Southern California air quality officials approved a regulation mandating a phase-out of the chemical by the year 2020. The long lead-time to the phase-out is a concession to the dry-cleaning industry, which relies on perc to remove stubborn stains from delicate fabrics. The measure is consi ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Drain, Drain, Go Away
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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. ... |
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| Topics: California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous, and Recycled
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06 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous, and Recycled Having dispensed with the good news, we can now move on to the goofy news: Danny Seo, the young fashion guru who has been featured in Grist's pages before as the Martha Stewart of the environmental movement, is packing up his New York life and moving to Los Angeles to position himself as an "environmental lifestyle consultant" to the stars. In that unlike ... |
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| Topics: California, green living, New York, recycling (all these topics) |
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