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Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin In an abrupt departure from past policy, high-tech giant Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will support California legislation requiring computer manufacturers to pay for safe disposal of electronic waste. In October, HP used its considerable clout as the world's largest maker of personal com ...
Topics: California, China, commercial and industry organizations, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics (all these topics)

Bright Lights on the Big City		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Bright Lights on the Big City Residents of New York, rejoice: Your city might be noisy, crowded, and crass, but it's also the most compact megalopolis in the U.S. That's right -- the Big Apple ranked number one on Smart Growth America's recently released list compar ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Hawaii, health, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon ... (all these topics)

Oily to Bed Makes a State Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Oily to Bed Makes a State Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise In a triumph for environmentalists, a federal appeals court has blocked an attempt by the Bush administration to revive dormant oil leases off the coast of California. Last year, a federal court granted California the power to prevent new oil exploration in federal waters near the state's coastline, a ruling that was appealed by the Bush admini ...
Topics: California, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics (all these topics)

The Shipping News		25 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Shipping News Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn has announced an agreement in which several of the largest shipping companies in Asia will work with L.A. to clean up air quality in the city's port. Last year, the port received 2,200 cargo ship visits, each burning about 14 tons of heavy bunker fuel. Under the new plan, the ships will shut off their engines while docked and plug into the ...
Topics: air pollution, California, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste (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)

Life in the Fast Lane		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Life in the Fast Lane Since early this month, environmental educator John Quigley has spent most of his time perched high in the leafy boughs of a 400-year-old oak tree that developers want removed to expand a local road in Santa Clarita, Calif. The proposed throughway would enable traffic to flow to a suburban community where more than 21,000 new homes are planned in Los Angeles County. Meanwhile, Susan Moloney has been fast ...
Topics: California, logging, politics (all these topics)

Landscape Goat		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Landscape Goat There's no need to use big crews and machinery to control fires in the California hills -- just add goats. A park district in the Bay Area is using goats to munch away the brush and low-level vegetation that fuel fires in parklands. Not only are the goats sometimes cheaper, gentler, and more environmentally sensible than employing human crews for the job, but they're also more versatile in steep forest ...
Topics: California, land stewardship, wildlife (all these topics)

Staples Gunned		13 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Staples Gunned In a milestone victory for trees and forest advocates, the office-supply giant Staples announced yesterday that it would phase out paper goods made from threatened forests and increase the average amount of recycled material in its paper products to 30 percent, up from the current average of less than 10 percent. No timetable has been se ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, Massachusetts, recycling, wilderness (all these topics)

Time for a Change		12 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Time for a Change No need to throw the dirty diapers out with the bathwater! Santa Clarita, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, is the first municipality in the United States to institute a diaper-recycling program, which will transform the soiled, disposable sacks of goodies into oil filters, roof shingles, and vinyl siding. Some 20 billion diapers are buried in U.S. landfills per year ...
Topics: California, green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Better Red Than Dead		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Better Red Than Dead A federal judge last week lifted development restrictions on more than 4 million acres of land that had been designated as critical habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imposed the restrictions in early 2001, but developers quickly sued to overturn them. To the dismay of environmentalists, the court ruling last week gave formal appr ...
Topics: California, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Knock the Vote		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Knock the Vote In addition to suffering a loss at the federal level, the environmental movement came up short in several statewide and local votes on Tuesday. A huge majority of Oregonians voted down an initiative that would have made Oregon the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The Grocery Manu ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, GMOs, nuclear power, Oregon, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Botanically Correct A new language is needed to win the day for native species	Kim Todd	06 Nov 2002	Soapbox
This cold morning at the Presidio, elegant terns wheel over the lagoon at the edge of the San Francisco Bay, screeching like a fleet of squeaky bicycles. In the distance, fog blots out the top of the Golden Gate Bridge. On the strip of beach closest to the water, dogs chase tennis balls into the surf. And in restored sand dunes, volunteers yank non-native plants and pile them in trash bags. Aro ...
Topics: California, San Francisco, wildlife (all these topics)

Saving Grace		05 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Saving Grace The "energy crisis" may be a distant memory, but Californians are still saving juice. After the blackouts and price hikes of 2001, utility customer sales fell 6 percent to 9 percent due to conservation efforts. Today, from 40 percent to 90 percent of the drop persists -- and some experts say the shift could be around for the long haul. "We have seen a lifestyle change," says Christy Dennis ...
Topics: California, energy, green living (all these topics)

Eye Spy		04 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Eye Spy In an effort to catch environmental violators with their pants down, a deep-pocketed environmentalist armed with a digital camera and a helicopter is snapping photos of every inch of California's 1,100-mile coast and posting them on the Internet. The two-week-old website will eventually contain about 13,000 images, all taken in 2002 by Ken Adelman with the help of his wife, Gabrielle, a helicopter pilot. Since the website went li ...
Topics: California, oceans (all these topics)

Taps		30 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Taps Contaminants found in the tap water in California's largest cities could pose risks to children, pregnant women, and people with compromised immune systems, according to a new study from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The findings in the report, "What's on Tap," were the result of a review of tap-water data from 19 cities in the U.S., but so far only the California results have been relea ...
Topics: California, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

This Wetland Is My Wetland		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
This Wetland Is My Wetland California is on the verge of unveiling two of the biggest wetland-rehabilitation projects in the history of the Western United States. By the end of the year, officials in Northern California will sign a $135 million agreement to buy and begin restoring salt ponds along the South San Francisco Bay from Cargill, Inc., whose salt-production practices have led to seve ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, San Francisco, wetlands (all these topics)

The Savaged Breast		25 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Savaged Breast After years of announcing that the war on cancer was being won in the U.S., the National Cancer Institute acknowledged this month that it had previously underestimated the incidence of the disease, and that new diagnoses of at least one variant, breast cancer, have been increasing at a rate of 0.6 percent per year nationwide. That admission, coupled with a stunning 72 percent jump in the incidence of breast cancer in 4 ...
Topics: California, health (all these topics)

Fantasy Islands		24 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Fantasy Islands California has permanently banned fishing in 175 square miles of ocean around the Channel Islands, creating a network of marine reserves that will enable a wide range of species to recover from decades of overfishing. In the next year or two, the U.S. government will decide whether to expand the network of reserves into federal waters, which begin three miles off shore; under such an expansion, the network could ...
Topics: California, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

San Choakin' Valley		22 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
San Choakin' Valley A coalition of environmental organizations is suing the U.S. EPA today for failing to clean up the air in California's San Joaquin Valley. Blackened by dust, smoke, and other pollutants, the region's air is some of the nation's worst -- but neither the state nor federal government has come up with a workable plan to improve it. Under the Clean Air Act, local ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental non-government organizations, US EPA (all these topics)

That's Sprawl, Folks		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
That's Sprawl, Folks Communities in California, Georgia, and North Carolina are the worst offenders when it comes to suburban sprawl in the United States, according to a three-year study released yesterday by the Washington, D.C.-based coalition Smart Growth America. The study, based on the work of researchers at Rutgers University and Cornell University, measur ...
Topics: California, environmental non-government organizations, Georgia, North Carolina, placemaking (all these topics)

Boston Z-E-V Party		17 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Boston Z-E-V Party Massachusetts is preparing to adopt California's ambitious zero-emission vehicle legislation, which would require 10 percent of cars and trucks sold within the state to produce no pollution. For the moment, though, the U.S. government is still bickering internally over whether California's legislation is legal. Earlier this month, the Bush administration said California had overstepped i ...
Topics: California, Massachusetts, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Air on the Side of Caution		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Air on the Side of Caution With just two weeks left in the official California smog season, the data are in: After years of air-quality improvements, the state experienced a sudden downturn this year, enduring a shroud of haze and ozone pollution even in areas unaccustomed to smog. The usual suspects -- urban communities like San Francisco and the famously smoggy Los Angeles -- experienced cleaner air than other parts of the state ...
Topics: air pollution, California (all these topics)

Zero Down		10 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Zero Down Breaking with the federal government's long history of supporting California's clean-air efforts, the Bush administration is saying the Golden State went too far by revising its zero-emission-vehicle rule last year. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Justice Department, the White House sided with DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, which have taken ...
Topics: air pollution, California, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Just Deserts		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Just Deserts A controversial plan to transform a tract of the Mojave Desert into a giant water-storage facility was killed yesterday by California's Metropolitan Water District. First presented in 1997 by Keith Brackpool, an advisor and leading financial backer to Gov. Gray Davis (D), the $150 million project would have entailed the construction of a 35-mile pipeline between the MWD's Colorado River aqueduct and the ...
Topics: California, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

City of Angels		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
City of Angels The famously smog-choked city of Los Angeles will be home to the first zero-emission fuel-cell cars in the U.S., according to an announcement made yesterday by Mayor James Hahn (D). By the end of 2002, Honda Motor Company will lease five FCX hydrogen-powered cars to L.A., which will loan them to city employees for commuting. The car seats four people, has a ra ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

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