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Energy Asterisk On Energy Star labels	Umbra Fisk	23 Aug 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, When I see the Energy Star rating on an appliance, can I trust that some government or consumer group is monitoring the ratings, or is that just a commercial ploy? Who profits from the Energy Star thing? Not Starry-Eyed Bridgewater, N.J. Dearest Not Starry-Eyed, A green screen. Photo: EnergyStar.gov. Energy Star is a project of our very own U.S. EPA, with assistance from the Department of Energy. Products that meet Ener ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, Department of Energy, energy, energy efficiency, green living, US EPA (all these topics)

Crystallized Meth Methane Hydrates Could Be Next Big Energy Source; Enviros Concerned		16 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Crystallized Meth Methane Hydrates Could Be Next Big Energy Source; Enviros Concerned Methane hydrates deep under the ocean floor and the Alaskan permafrost may represent the world's next big energy source, if they can be extracted safely. Some 10 trillion tons of carbon are trapped in the strange ice-like compounds, which form when flammable methane gas is subjected to cold, high-pressure conditions. When perturbed, ...
Topics: climate, Department of Energy, energy (all these topics)

To the Victor Goes the Right to Spoil How the Energy Industry Won the Battle for Influence in the Bush Admin.		08 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
To the Victor Goes the Right to Spoil How the Energy Industry Won the Battle for Influence in the Bush Admin. It's a fable for our times: When the Bush administration took office in 2001, a battle over energy policy began. On one side was the U.S. EPA, with its team of long-time career employees and its moderate new head Christie Whitman. On the other side was Vice President Dick Cheney, the Energy Department under S ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Getting the Vapors Concerns About Hanford Worker Safety Grow		26 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Getting the Vapors Concerns About Hanford Worker Safety Grow Concerns over the safety of workers cleaning up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southwestern Washington state -- site of the largest nuclear waste dump in the Western Hemisphere -- continue to escalate. Yesterday, the Department of Energy announced a formal investigation of the private contractor that monitors worker health, respo ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Yucca Will Leaka Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump Beset With Problems		19 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Yucca Will Leaka Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Dump Beset With Problems The perpetually beleaguered nuclear waste dump being constructed at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is coming under fire again, from several directions. Yesterday, Paul Craig, who recently resigned from the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to make his concerns public, stated flatly that the Department of Energy's current design for Yucca ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, Nevada, nuclear power (all these topics)

Oversight Out of Mind Bush Relaxes Safety at Nuke Facilities		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Oversight Out of Mind Bush Relaxes Safety at Nuke Facilities The Bush administration has a new plan to waive some safety standards at federal nuclear facilities. The administration apparently didn't like being directed by Congress in 2002 to strictly enforce safety standards at the nuke sites -- though, in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, you might have thought such a ste ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, nuclear power, politics, Tennessee (all these topics)

Tempest in a Teapot Government to Bury CO2 in Teapot Dome Oil Field		28 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Tempest in a Teapot Government to Bury CO2 in Teapot Dome Oil Field The U.S. Department of Energy is planning to bury some 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide a year underneath the Teapot Dome oil field in central Wyoming, in the largest carbon-sequestration test project ever undertaken. The process, which involves compressing CO2 into liquid form and ...
Topics: climate, Department of Energy, energy, ozone, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution, Wyoming (all these topics)

Viscous Cycle In Ironic Twist, Thawing Tundra Causes Trouble for Alaska's Oil Industry		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Viscous Cycle In Ironic Twist, Thawing Tundra Causes Trouble for Alaska's Oil Industry Global warming -- brought about in part by the burning of fossil fuels -- has raised temperatures in Alaska and reduced the length of the "frozen season" during which oil-prospecting convoys are allowed to traverse the landscape. The past three decades have seen the season ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Crash Test Dummies Energy Dept. Reviews Hazards Posed by Military Aircraft at Yucca Mtn.		20 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Crash Test Dummies Energy Dept. Reviews Hazards Posed by Military Aircraft at Yucca Mtn. Increased military flights over Nellis Air Force Range and the Nevada Test Site will require revising hazard calculations about the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the U.S. Department of Energy announced yesterday. Earlier this week, a military jet crashed on the Nellis range, the third crash in as man ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, US Military (all these topics)

Nuclear Holler Costs Nuclear Weapons Facilities Vulnerable to Terrorists, Whistleblower Says		08 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Nuclear Holler Costs Nuclear Weapons Facilities Vulnerable to Terrorists, Whistleblower Says Nuclear weapons facilities in the United States are vulnerable to terrorist attacks, according to a whistleblower who recounts his tale to reporter (and Grist contributor) Mark Hertsgaard in the November issue of Vanity Fair. Until September 2001, federal employee Rich Levernier was in charge of coordinating simul ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Nuclear Waste By Any Other Name... Energy Department Wants to Redefine Nuclear Waste		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Nuclear Waste By Any Other Name... Energy Department Wants to Redefine Nuclear Waste The U.S. Department of Energy is asking Congress for the power to redefine some nuclear waste to allow it to be left where it is or disposed of at low-level radioactive waste sites instead of buried deep underground. The waste in question consists of tens of millions of gallons of salts and sludg ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Geiger Counter Energy Department Seeks Rule Change on N-Waste Disposal		21 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The Pen Is Mightier Than the Geiger Counter Energy Department Seeks Rule Change on N-Waste Disposal Offshore oil drilling is one area where the Bush administration is trying to rewrite the rules; radioactive waste disposal is another. A month ago, a federal judge ordered the Department of Energy to remove 85 million gallons of liquid nuclear waste from sites in Idaho, South Carolina, and Washing ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway? Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway? Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors Dozens of cleanup workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state -- the most contaminated site in the nation -- have registered complaints in the past two years about ammonia-laden vapors seeping up from waste tanks at the site. The workers bl ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, nuclear power, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington (all these topics)

Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back The Yakama Nation has filed notice of its intent to sue the U.S. Department of Energy over its alleged failure to protect the Columbia River from contamination by the Hanford nuclear reservation. Thanks to four decades of plutonium production, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the country; ...
Topics: Columbia River, Department of Energy, litigation, news, toxics, Washington, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Mexi-can't		06 May 2003	Daily Grist
Mexi-can't The U.S. Department of Energy acted illegally when it found that two Mexican power plants would not have a significant impact on the air and water quality in the border region between northwestern Mexico and Southern California, a federal judge in San Diego ruled yesterday. That ruling calls into question the legitimacy of U.S. permits granted to the power companies ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Department of Energy, Mexico, pollution and waste (all these topics)

New King Coal		28 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
New King Coal Coal has a reputation as the dirtiest fuel around, but the U.S. Department of Energy hopes to reinvent the stuff as clean energy by building an experimental, coal-fired, emissions-free power plant. The project, known as FutureGen, will be built within 10 years and will cost just 10 percent more than an ordinary coal plant to run, DOE officials predict. Currently, coal-fired power plants are r ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, pollution and waste (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Energy, education, Mexico, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

I Want to Be Your Pledge Hammer		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
I Want to Be Your Pledge Hammer In what the Bush administration hailed as proof that voluntary environmental initiatives can work, representatives from 13 different industries gathered in the Energy Department cafeteria yesterday to pledge their commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The industries, ranging from energy companies to paper manufacturers, have agreed to ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, politics (all these topics)

Solar, Without Flair		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Solar, Without Flair President Bush's proposed budget for the government's 2004 fiscal year doesn't contain much good news for renewable energy advocates: Total research funding for the Energy Department's energy efficiency and renewable energy programs would increase just 0.1 percent. Last summer, though, the feds apparently had enough money to purchase a solar-energy system to heat the pres ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sucker Punch		17 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Sucker Punch Thanks (or maybe no thanks) to a deal struck by the federal government and the Washington state Attorney General's Office, some 170 barrels of highly radioactive plutonium waste will be shipped from California and Ohio to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington beginning as early as next week. In exchange for being allowed to transport the waste, the feds promised to renegotiate t ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Blow to the Solar Plexus		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
A Blow to the Solar Plexus Renewable energy use in the U.S. dropped sharply in 2001, according to a new report by the Department of Energy. Much of that decline stems from a drought that cut hydroelectric power generation by 23 percent, but the DOE's Energy Information Administration also found that in 2001, solar equipment was retired faster than it was replaced. The bulk of ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, hydropower, Iran, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

A Big Pay Off?		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Big Pay Off? Led by climate change skeptic ExxonMobil, a collection of oil, gas, and other energy companies has pledged at least $175 million over 10 years to Stanford University to create a Global Climate and Energy Project. One goal of the project will be to help develop renewable energy technologies. Critics say the gi ...
Topics: climate, Colorado River, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, energy, Pacific Northwest, renewable energy (all these topics)

This Solar House Students compete to build the house of the future	Amanda Griscom	30 Oct 2002	Powers That Be
At midnight one late-September evening, a convoy of 18-wheeler flatbed trucks carting 14 houses (some whole, some in parts) and thousands of square feet of solar panels rolled past the Washington Monument, drove along the National Mall, and headed up to the front lawn of the Capitol building. Upon arriving, the first truck in line barreled through a yellow ribbon held by members of a hooting and holl ...
Topics: Department of Energy, education, United States, water pollution (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)

Grim Jim		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Grim Jim Six tons of weapons-grade plutonium can continue on its way to South Carolina, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The decision, which upheld a lower court ruling, was a blow to Gov. Jim Hodges (D), who has vociferously protested storing the waste in his state. Hodges argued that the Department of Energy needed to conduct more thorough environmental stud ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

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