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Ready, Willing, and Sable		07 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Ready, Willing, and Sable There's sad news and a silver lining in the world of endangered species today. On the sad side, the first California condor chick brooded and hatched in the wild in nearly two decades was found dead of unknown causes last Friday in Los Padres National Forest. The death of the chick was a blow to a $35 million effort to save North America's largest bird; still, the program is hailed ...
Topics: Angola, California, national forests, wildlife (all these topics)

Orange You Glad?		04 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Orange You Glad? The District Attorney's office in conservative Orange County, Calif., is beefing up its environmental crime division to become one of the most rigorous eco-SWAT teams in the nation. While resources for pursuing environmental criminals have been dwindling in many other areas in the state, Orange County has tripled its budget in the last three years and now has a team that includes 10 attorne ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations (all these topics)

Sleep With the Fishes		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Sleep With the Fishes At least 20,000 chinook salmon and other fish have died in Northern California's Klamath River in the last two weeks, but federal officials are unwilling to attribute the deaths to the Bush administration's decision to divert water away from the river this year and into an irrigation project in southern Oregon. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Steve Wil ...
Topics: agriculture, California, marine life, Oregon, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

No Screen Savior		01 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
No Screen Savior California Gov. Gray Davis (D) vetoed legislation yesterday that would have created a program to recycle electronic products and keep their hazardous components out of landfills. The high-tech industry strongly opposed the legislation, which would have levied a $10 recycling fee per new computer or television sold. Environmentalists, who say the veto reflects the political clout of Silicon Va ...
Topics: California, green living, politics, recycling (all these topics)

Critical Masses		30 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Critical Masses The mention of bike rallies usually summons images of Harleys, leather, and tattoos -- but not so the rally held Friday in San Francisco to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Critical Mass. Somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 riders turned out for the party, far more than normally participate in the monthly biking event to encourage alternative transportation and advocate for better biking conditions. Th ...
Topics: California, placemaking, San Francisco (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)

My Even More Beautiful Laundrette		18 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
My Even More Beautiful Laundrette Last week, California Gov. Gray Davis (D) took on washing machines, signing legislation requiring them to be water-efficient by 2007; now the state's South Coast Air Quality Management District has taken aim at a related target -- dry cleaners. The district, which is responsible for cleaning up the air breathed by about half of all Californians, wants to phase out perchloro ...
Topics: California, health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

The Fresh Prince of Bad Air		17 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
The Fresh Prince of Bad Air Just two weeks after their births, infants in the Los Angeles area have been exposed to more pollution than the U.S. government considers acceptable over a lifetime, according to a report released this week by the Washington, D.C.-based National Environmental Trust. The report, which looked at pollution levels in the L.A. region, the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Borderline Insane		17 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Borderline Insane Two new power plants being built just south of the U.S. border will generate billions of watts of electricity for Californians, a handful of jobs for Mexicans, and plenty of pollution for everyone. The plants, which are the first to be built in Mexico specifically to provide power to the U.S., mark a new era in the relationship between the two nations. Some hail th ...
Topics: California, Department of Energy, Mexico, politics, pollution and waste (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)

Clothes Call		12 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Clothes Call In yet another trend-setting environmental move by California, Gov. Gray Davis (D) signed into law this week a bill requiring old, inefficient washing machines to be replaced with water-efficient ones by 2007. New washers must now meet a standard of using 9.5 gallons of water to wash one cubic foot of laundry -- well below the 13.3 gallons averaged by washers sold in 1994. The measure comes as the G ...
Topics: California, energy, green living, politics (all these topics)

In the Drink		12 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
In the Drink In other news from the Golden State, regulators in California are reviving a campaign to clean up perchlorate, a Cold War-era pollutant that has been showing up in drinking water supplies across the country. Since the 1950s, the substance has been used as an oxidizer in rockets, munitions, and fireworks. It was not considered ...
Topics: business, California, commercial and industry organizations, health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Hazing Ritual		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Hazing Ritual It might be officially nicknamed the Golden State, but sometimes, it's more like the Yellowish-Brown State: California continues to lead the U.S. in dirty air, with nearly twice as many "smog days" as any other state in the union, a recent report by an e ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental non-government organizations, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste ... (all these topics)

Water Shipped Down		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Water Shipped Down To the dismay of environmentalists, the U.S. Interior Department approved yesterday a $1 billion, 50-year project to store water beneath the Mojave Desert, in what would be one of California's largest water storage facilities. Southern California's Metropolitan Water District would store surplus Colorado River water in an aquifer under the desert; during dry years, the water ...
Topics: California, Department of Interior, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

On a Different Scale		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
On a Different Scale A pair of bills aimed at regulating genetically altered fish in food and the environment are facing a bitter fight in the California legislature. One of the proposed laws, a consumer right-to-know bill requiring the labeling of unpackaged transgenic fish in retail stores, passed the state Senate on Monday, but it must be approved by the Assembly by Saturday (the last day of the session) if it is to surviv ...
Topics: California, GMOs, marine life (all these topics)

Fish Out of Water		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Fish Out of Water The White House has declined to appeal a U.S. federal court ruling that would provide water to the agriculture industry in California's Central Valley potentially at the expense of Northern California's fish and wildlife -- a move that has provoked anger among environmentalists. In the earlier court case, the Westlands Water District, a 600,000-acre irrigation district in the western Sa ...
Topics: California, marine life, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Sun Worshippers		19 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Sun Worshippers Clean energy is next to godliness -- or at least that's the position of the soon-to-open Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, which has installed a $600,000 solar array that will meet 10 to 15 percent of the cathedral's energy needs. The solar array is one of the largest to be installed as part of the Department of Water and Power's Green L.A. program, and the first of 1 ...
Topics: California, religion and spirituality, water pollution (all these topics)

Putting the Golf Cart Before the Horsepower		16 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Putting the Golf Cart Before the Horsepower Seeking to comply with California regulations requiring automakers to reduce their emissions, General Motors has announced plans to give away thousands of electric vehicles over the next three years. The vehicles in question are literally modified golf carts (they have had seat belts, windshield wipers, and other parts added), and are only for use in ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

Now That Cali Took the T-bird Away		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Now That Cali Took the T-bird Away To the extent that somebody in the auto industry could be the darling of environmentalists, that somebody is William Clay Ford, Jr., chair and CEO of Ford Motor Co. Ford, who has earned kudos in the past for his eco-friendly outlook but has more recently drawn barbed comments from greenies, said yesterday that America's love affair with the automobile could be threatened by the i ...
Topics: business, California, ozone, placemaking (all these topics)

Rubber the Right Way		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Rubber the Right Way In other news from the halls of justice, a different federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the U.S. government must foot the bill for cleaning up hazardous waste stemming from a World War II effort to produce synthetic rubber. During the war, most of the natural-rubber exporters were under Japanese control, so demand was high for synthetics to manufacture tires, life rafts, gas masks, ...
Topics: California, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Fine, China		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Fine, China California is one of the most environmentally minded states in the U.S.; China is one of the most polluted countries in the world. Now, the two have teamed up to clean up: California scientists and entrepreneurs are working with the Chinese government to combat environmental degradation in its myriad forms. The effort is being led by the Energy ...
Topics: air pollution, California, China, environmental non-government organizations, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Michigan Seems Like a Nightmare to Me Now		29 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Michigan Seems Like a Nightmare to Me Now It's about 2,000 miles from Michigan to California -- and about a world away. Linked by market forces (California is the nation's biggest car market, Michigan the nation's biggest car manufacturer) but separated by cultural chasms, the relationship between the two states has always been rocky. Now, in the wake of last week's landmark Golden State legislation to limit car ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Michigan, ozone (all these topics)

Fool Standards		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Fool Standards Automakers are gearing up to take California's landmark new vehicle-emissions law to court, even though they could face a public opinion backlash by doing so. Industry reps say they are "very confident" that the courts will agree with their argument that California is encroaching on federal jurisdiction by trying to set its own fuel-economy standards. The law, signed by Gov. Gray Davis (D) on Monda ...
Topics: air pollution, California, ozone (all these topics)

Honda Prelude		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Honda Prelude Honda predicted yesterday that one of its hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars could hit the road in California by the end of the year. The forecast came after the auto manufacturer's FCX became the first fuel-cell car to be certified by the U.S. EPA and the California Air Resources Board as a low-emissions vehicle. Honda hopes to have 30 of the four-seaters operating in Ca ...
Topics: Asia, California, placemaking, state politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

I Wish They All Could Be California Governors		23 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
I Wish They All Could Be California Governors California Gov. Gray Davis (D) signed trailblazing legislation yesterday that will require automobile manufacturers to reduce the amount of greenhouse-gas emissions coming from the tailpipes of passenger vehicles in the state. Under the terms of the new law, the California Air Resources Board has until 2005 to set "maximum" but "economically feasible" emissi ...
Topics: California, climate, placemaking (all these topics)

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