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Sur Prize
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10 May 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Sur Prize Almost 10,000 acres of California's Big Sur, encompassing mountains, old-growth redwood forests, and dramatic vistas on the coast, will be protected in perpetuity thanks to a land purchase sealed yesterday by the Nature Conservancy and the Big Sur Land Trust. The land connects 13 wilderness areas and parks, and was the missing link in a 70-mile-long wildlife corridor for mountain lions, bobcats, a ... |
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| Topics: California, land stewardship, Nature Conservancy (all these topics) |
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Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands?
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09 May 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands? The American Environmental Safety Institute (first we've heard of it) sued Nestle, Hershey, Mars, and other chocolate manufacturers yesterday for not disclosing that their products contain toxic metals such as lead and cadmium, as required under California law. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the group sa ... |
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| Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics) |
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Bill of Right Ons!
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03 May 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Bill of Right Ons! In a big victory for environmentalists and a blow to the auto industry, the California Senate yesterday handily passed the nation's first bill to limit carbon dioxide emissions from the tailpipes of cars and light trucks. Enviros say the vehicles produce 40 percent of California's greenhouse gas emissions; the bill (in stirring wording) would direct the state Air Resources Board to implement rules to get ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, ozone (all these topics) |
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We Lake It
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24 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| We Lake It In a blow to the property-rights movement, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday against Lake Tahoe property owners who had argued that they were entitled to monetary compensation from the government for restrictions placed on use of their land. The origins of the legal battle stretch back two decades, to when the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency placed a three-year moratorium on development in the Lake Tahoe Basin t ... |
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| Topics: California, Nevada, politics (all these topics) |
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Rodents of Usual Size
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24 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Rodents of Usual Size It's a grand time to be a San Bernardino kangaroo rat -- or as grand as they come for the endangered nine-inch rodent. Yesterday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated 33,295 acres of California's San Bernardino and Riverside counties as critical habitat for the rats, meaning that it will be more difficult to win approval for development projects on the affected lands. The Center for Bi ... |
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| Topics: California, US Forest Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Pests Aside
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19 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Pests Aside For the first time in a decade, the U.S. EPA will assess the impact of 18 common pesticides on endangered salmon and forest plants, as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by three California environmental groups. The pesticides -- several million pounds of them -- are used every year in the state's fie ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, toxics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Best Offense Is a Bad Defect
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17 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| The Best Offense Is a Bad Defect In a groundbreaking decision, a San Francisco jury determined yesterday that gasoline containing the additive MBTE is a defective product and that two major oil companies were aware of but did not disclose the additive's dangers when they began marketing it. The lawsuit was brought by the South Tahoe Pub ... |
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| Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Free Bird
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16 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Free Bird In happier news from the animal kingdom, a California condor hatched in the wild late last week, offering a rare moment of optimism for a species teetering on the edge of extinction. If the chick survives, it will mark the first time in 18 years that adult condors in the wild successfully conceived, hatched, and brooded a baby. So far, so good: The parents defended the egg, helped the chick hatc ... |
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| Topics: California, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Timber Boom I
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08 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Timber Boom I More than a decade after a car bomb injured two members of the radical environmental group Earth First!, a federal jury will decide whether the FBI and police in Oakland, Calif., violated the civil rights of the victims by ignoring evidence in the case. On May 24, 1990, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were headed to Santa Cruz as part of "Redwood Summer," a series of ... |
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| Topics: California, Earth First!, Federal Bureau of Investigation, logging (all these topics) |
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The Salton of the Earth
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02 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| The Salton of the Earth The Salton Sea is California's largest lake -- and one of the most endangered habitats in North America. The sea is extremely salty and getting more so every day. And outbreaks of botulism and lack of oxygen have killed thousands of the birds and fish that call the lake home. Now the lake faces another threat: California is under federal man ... |
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| Topics: California, Colorado River, rivers and watersheds, Salton Sea, water conflicts, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Dune Bugging
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29 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Dune Bugging Almost 50,000 acres of dunes in California's Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area would be re-opened to off-road vehicles (ORVs) under a Bureau of Land Management proposal. The area has been off-limits to the vehicles since November of 2000, when the BLM, ORV groups, and environmentalists negotiated a settlement that closed the area to protect endangered speci ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, California, outdoor recreation, placemaking, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Get Along Little Dogies
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25 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Get Along Little Dogies Yippee-ai-ay. After years of studies and legal actions, ranchers in California's Mojave Desert are being forced to remove cattle herds from almost half a million acres of federal land during the spring and fall, when threatened desert tortoises mate and forage in the area. Grazing cattle can crush tortoises or their burrows, eat their food, and trample the groundcover that protects them from predators ... |
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| Topics: California, ranching, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Mind the Gap
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20 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Mind the Gap Environmentalists and public-health advocates in California are upset over a new state regulation that allows low-level radioactive waste to be dumped in municipal landfills instead of federally regulated nuclear waste storage facilities. Citing the possibility of increased cancer risks, the Sierra Club and a nuclear policy group, the Committee to Bridge the Gap, are ... |
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| Topics: California, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Lent Ills
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18 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Lent Ills In the midst of Lent, the conservation group Wildcoast is asking Pope John Paul II to declare that sea turtles are meat, not fish. The group, which focuses on the protecting coastal resources in California and Baja California, says sea turtle populations are hit especially hard during Lent because many Catholics give up meat for the 40-day period. Eating sea turtles during Lent is a longstanding traditi ... |
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| Topics: California, marine life, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Green-goes
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13 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Green-goes Giving the lie to the myth that lower income and minority Americans don't care about the environment, Latino voters are proving to be some of the most dedicated environmentalists in California. For example, 74 percent of Latino voters approved a recent $2.6 billion parks and open space measure that was supported by just 56 percent of white voters. A 1999 survey found that while Latinos often felt cut off from the mainstream ... |
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| Topics: California, politics (all these topics) |
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Babbittry
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13 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Babbittry Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced today that he will become the chair of a company that plans to develop massive water projects in the Middle East. Babbitt, a lawyer who headed up the Interior Department during the Clinton administration, has since earned the ire of environmentalists by advising two companies seeking to develop parts of the California coast. His new and as-yet-unnamed bus ... |
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| Topics: California, Middle East, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Shrimp Fried
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26 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Shrimp Fried Under pressure from the Bush administration, a federal judge yesterday revoked the protected status of several hundred thousand acres of Southern California land considered essential for the survival of two imperiled species. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-a ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, food and agriculture, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Bay Watch
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22 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Bay Watch If three environmental groups have their way, California's mammoth agriculture industry will be subject to state water-pollution laws for the first time in history. The three groups (San Francisco BayKeeper, DeltaKeeper, and the California Public Interest Research Group) filed suit yesterday against the Central Valley Regional Water Cont ... |
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| Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Little Drummer Buoy
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19 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Little Drummer Buoy For almost a quarter-century, government and private research agencies dumped drums of radioactive waste into the waters just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- and now the waste is leaking into the Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Federal officials say they don't have enough money to determine the extent of the damage; ... |
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| Topics: California, marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Shore: Enough
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15 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Shore: Enough An innovative if controversial bill could protect offshore waters in California from oil drilling by allowing oil companies to swap drilling claims in California for others in the Gulf of Mexico. The legislation, introduced yesterday by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and John Breaux (D-La.), would convert 40 offshore tra ... |
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| Topics: California, Gulf of Mexico, mining and drilling, oceans, wilderness (all these topics) |
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When Methanol's Said and Done
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06 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| When Methanol's Said and Done In the first-ever legal challenge to a U.S. environmental measure mounted under the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Canadian company is contesting California's ban on the gasoline additive MTBE. The state began phasing out the chemical compound because of its apparent threat to water quality and human health, b ... |
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| Topics: California, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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H-2-Oh-boy!
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05 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| H-2-Oh-boy! Utility companies can be sued for violating safe drinking water standards, the California Supreme Court unanimously decided on Monday. The decision is significant because it allows thousands of victims of polluted water to seek financial compensation from the private and public utilities that pipe tap water into homes; in the past, victims mos ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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A Patagonia on the Back
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04 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| A Patagonia on the Back Gearheads have reason to feel smug about their Patagonia fleeces these days. Once again, the company appears among Fortune Magazine's top 100 places to work in the U.S. -- and this time it moved up 17 places in the rankings, to number 41. The company sold $223 million worth of outdoor gear last year, but it's not just the money t ... |
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| Topics: business, California, commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, outdoor recreation (all these topics) |
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Low-carbon Riders
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31 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Low-carbon Riders In a move that could have radical implications for the automobile industry, the California Assembly passed a bill yesterday that would make it the first state to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles as a step toward curbing global warming. Because about 10 percent of the nation's new cars are sold in California, legislation affecting emis ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, California, climate, ozone, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Basin and Strange
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29 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Basin and Strange The Bush administration gave the first indication yesterday of how it would work to resolve the water wars in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border -- and enviros immediately warned that the administration was kowtowing to farmers while giving short sh ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics) |
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