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When Methanol's Said and Done		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 ...
Topics: California, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Area 51		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Area 51 Fair-to-middling was the U.S. ranking in a new study, presented at the World Economic Forum last week in New York, that rated the environmental health of 142 countries. In the study, conducted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, the U.S. came in ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, Canada, European Union, globalization, green living, Middle East, United States (all these topics)

A Bad Case of Gas		07 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
A Bad Case of Gas The Montreal Protocol to heal the ozone hole is the poster child of successful environmental treaties; the general consensus is that as the treaty's targets are met, the ozone hole will disappear, and the earth will be protected from the harmful ultraviolet radiation that leaks through. Not so fast, says the Environmental Invest ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, England, Environmental Investigation Agency, ozone, toxics, Washington DC (all these topics)

Gwich'in to Drill?		10 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Gwich'in to Drill? Some tribes and lawmakers are criticizing environmental groups for continuing to represent Native Americans in a simplistic, self-serving way as model caretakers of the Earth. David Lester, a Creek Indian and executive director of the Council of Energy Resources Tribes, says, "Environmentalists are using the Indians the way the French and English used Indians in the French ...
Topics: Alaska, Canada, energy, green living, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Sting Like a Butterfly		28 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Sting Like a Butterfly Every year, millions of migrating Monarch butterflies make their way from Canada to central Mexico, where they reproduce and overwinter in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Trouble is, 60 percent of that reserve has disappeared in the last few decades due to logging. Now Mexican officials say they are getting serious about protecting the reserve, assigning ...
Topics: Canada, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Illegal Eagles		24 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Illegal Eagles Federal species protection laws and the religious rights of Native Americans are clashing in a U.S. District Court in Seattle this week, where a 47-year-old man is on trial for violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Terry Antoine, a member of the Cowichan band of the Salish Tribe in British Columbia, is charged with smuggling eagle carcasses from Canada into ...
Topics: Canada, politics, religion and spirituality, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Slammin' Salmon		29 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Slammin' Salmon Tens of thousands of Atlantic salmon have escaped from British Columbia fish farms into 77 of the province's waterways, according to a new report by the Canadian Parliament's Senate Committee on Fisheries. The aquaculture industry had dismissed concerns that farm-raised Atlantic salmon would ever escape and be able to survive in the wild, posing a threat to native Pacific salmon. But the new report says the esc ...
Topics: Canada, fishing, marine life (all these topics)

Surge, in General		04 Jun 2001	Daily Grist
Surge, in General Canada will see its pollution levels surge if it boosts its oil and natural gas exports to meet the needs of its power-hungry southern neighbor, according to a report released on Friday by the David Suzuki Foundation. For example, the report says a big increase in exports to the U.S. would cause greenhouse gas emissions to rise 44 percent above the amount Canada set as its target in the Kyoto treaty o ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, energy, oil (all these topics)

Dino Might!		12 Jun 2000	Daily Grist
Dino Might! Calling for more use of renewable energy sources, hundreds of protestors concerned about global warming demonstrated yesterday at the start of the five-day World Petroleum Congress meeting in Calgary, Canada. The congress, which includes more than 2,500 delegates from 87 countries, is the latest target of anti-globalization groups that have protested against the World Trade Organization and ...
Topics: Canada, grassroots activism, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Old McDonald Had a Fish Do you know where your salmon comes from?	Richard Manning	09 Feb 2000	Arts and Minds
Salmon Nation Edited by Edward C. Wolf and Seth Zuckerman, Ecotrust, 1999, 80 pages This essay is excerpted from the new book Salmon Nation: People and Fish at the Edge, published by the environmental group Ecotrust. Thirty percent of the world's salmon now come from hatcheries, but wild fish account for only another twenty to thirty percent. Almost all of those wild fish come from waters around Al ...
Topics: Canada, fishing, food, United States (all these topics)

Forty	Josh Sevin	12 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
percentage by which energy consumption in developing nations is expected to grow by 2010 percentage of written prescriptions that are either based on or synthesized from natural compounds found in plants and animals percentage of total paper used in Germany that goes toward packaging percentage by which one can reduce pollution from an older car by keeping it well-tuned dollars saved by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent percentage by ...
Topics: Canada, food and agriculture, Germany, green living, lakes, Louisiana, marine life, pollution and waste, United States, wetlands (all these topics)

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