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Hanford and Stuns		30 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Hanford and Stuns Oregon officials and anti-nuclear activists are taking aim at the draft assessment of the federal government's plan to ship thousands of truckloads of radioactive nuclear waste through Oregon to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. The draft environmental impact statement by the U.S. Energy Department estimates that the environmental effects of transporting ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, Oregon, pollution and waste (all these topics)

What About Tupperware?		16 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
What About Tupperware? Now that the U.S. Senate has given the go-ahead to store the nation's most highly radioactive nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, new questions loom: What kind of containers can protect the waste for 10,000 years, and who will provide them? Those are high-stakes issues, given that the Department of Energy plans to buy about 1 ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, nuclear power, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Taken to the Cleaners		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Taken to the Cleaners A plan by the Bush administration to speed cleanups of highly radioactive military waste is provoking the ire of some powerful foes. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said the plan -- which offers an extra $800 million in cleanup funds for the next fiscal year to states that can decide by Aug. 1 how to spend the money -- could give states an incentive to lower their envi ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Ill Duce		29 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ill Duce It's one thing for lobbyists to ply governmental officials with policy requests (that's what they do); it's another thing for government officials to actively seek input from lobbyists when crafting national policy. But apparently, in the Bush administration, that's what officials do: According to Energy Department documents (released following a lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council), a top official email ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics (all these topics)

Southern Inhospitality		16 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Southern Inhospitality U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham informed South Carolina yesterday that the federal government would ship plutonium to the state, over the objections of Gov. Jim Hodges (D). The announcement was the latest in the country's ongoing debate about what to do with its surplus weapons-grade plutonium. The feds want to store some of it in South Carolina on a temporary basis whi ...
Topics: Department of Energy, pollution and waste, South Carolina (all these topics)

Comment Tally Voodoo		11 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Comment Tally Voodoo Environmental organizations had just 48 hours to submit policy proposals for consideration by Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, according to the latest batch of documents released by the Energy Department. Shortly after midday on Wednesday, March 21, 2001, Margot Anderson, a senior department official, sent an email message to a colleague instructing him to ...
Topics: Department of Energy, environmental non-government organizations (all these topics)

Right in the Solar Plexus		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Right in the Solar Plexus From the believe-it-or-not department: To cover the costs of printing its 170-page energy plan last May, the Bush administration tapped into the Department of Energy's solar and renewable energy and energy conservation budgets. Documents released under court order by the DOE on Monday night indicate that $135,615 of the renewables and conservation budget was spent to print 10,000 c ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Parroty, Not Parody		28 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Parroty, Not Parody In the latest disheartening news about the energy task force, documents released Monday night by the Energy Department show that an executive order on energy policy released by President Bush last May was copied nearly verbatim from the energy policy proposed to the administration by oil lobbyists. On March 20, representatives from the American Petroleum Institute se ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, politics (all these topics)

Favor Dis-Spencer		27 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Favor Dis-Spencer The word is out that U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham met only with energy industry executives and no environmental or consumer groups as he helped to write the Bush administration's energy policy last year. But only now is the extent of that exclusive access becoming clear. On Monday night, after a court-ordered release of 11,000 pages of documents relating ...
Topics: Department of Energy, environmental non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Paper Late		26 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: Department of Energy Paper Late Last night, the U.S. Energy Department released 11,000 pages of documents pertaining to the drafting of the Bush administration's energy policy, just hours before a court-ordered deadline to turn over the papers. An initial review of the documents confirmed the suspicion of environmental organizations and Democrats that the Bush administration relied almost entirely on meetings with utilities and representatives of the oil, gas, coal, and nuclear ...
Topics: Department of Energy (all these topics)

No Absurd Headline Necessary		22 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
No Absurd Headline Necessary The U.S. Department of Energy is preparing to claim that Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force did all it could to involve environmental groups in planning the Bush administration's energy plan. Last month, a federal court ruled in favor of the Natural Resources Defense Council and ordered the department to release as many as 14,000 documents relat ...
Topics: Department of Energy, environmental non-government organizations, NRDC (all these topics)

Resigned to His Fate		01 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Resigned to His Fate In the most dramatic move yet relating to the Bush administration's internal battle over federal clean air policy, a senior U.S. EPA official resigned this week to protest White House efforts to weaken tough emissions standards for power plants and oil refineries. Eric Schaeffer, head of the agency's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, accused the Energy Depart ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Energy, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Tricky Dick		01 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Tricky Dick Critics have long suspected that the Bush administration's energy policy was the result of very cozy relations with corporations, and now they've got the evidence to back it up: Eighteen of the energy industry's top 25 financial contributors to the Republican Party advised Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, according to interviews and election records. The White House has refused to release the names ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics (all these topics)

Interior's Ulterior Motive Behind the scenes at the Bush administration's renewable energy summit	Amanda Scott	07 Dec 2001	Main Dish
Ever since the White House declared energy independence a matter of national security, some unlikely evangelists in the Bush administration have been belting out the clean energy gospel. Case in point: Last week, Gale Norton presided over the first national renewable energy summit in history, co-hosted by the Departments of Interior and Energy. Gale Norton. With its cathe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, energy, green living, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

N'yuk, N'yuk, N'Yucca		30 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
N'yuk, N'yuk, N'Yucca All the effort by the feds to determine whether Nevada's Yucca Mountain would be a suitable place to permanently store the country's nuclear waste can be summed up as "a failed scientific process," according to a draft report by the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency. The report, which has been obtained by several newspa ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Government Accountability Office, Nevada, nuclear power (all these topics)

Morocco On!		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Morocco On! As day broke on Saturday, delegates in Marrakech, Morocco, reached an 11th-hour agreement on the rules for implementing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The agreement, which was the culmination of a two-week conference and four previous years of tough negotiations, mandates an average global reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 5.2 percent from 1990 levels and paves the way for ra ...
Topics: climate, Department of Energy, Morocco, United States (all these topics)

Put a Radioactive Fork in It		17 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Put a Radioactive Fork in It A proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy to recycle radioactive steel did not go over well with environmentalists and other concerned citizens in Minneapolis yesterday. The DOE is considering a plan to recycle slightly contaminated scrap metal from its research and weapons facilities. The recycled steel would then be used in consumer goods from snow shovels ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Truck Start		27 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Truck Start The U.S. Energy Department this week lifted a moratorium on the shipment of low-level nuclear waste that was imposed on the day of the terrorist attacks. The waste is usually transported along highways by truck to storage sites like the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. A spokesperson for the department, Joe Davis, wouldn't comment on whether any high-level nuclear waste, like spent fuel rods, ...
Topics: Department of Energy, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Law and Disorder		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Law and Disorder At the same time it was hired by the U.S. Energy Department to help determine whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a suitable site to store the country's nuclear waste, a Chicago-based law firm was taking money from the nuclear power industry to lobby Congress and the White House to get the site approved. Critics of the Yucca site are crying foul, saying the ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Get Your Solar Kicks on Route 66		26 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Get Your Solar Kicks on Route 66 The longest solar-powered car race came to end yesterday in Claremont, Calif., with a University of Michigan team in the lead. The victorious single-passenger car took 56 hours and 10 minutes to cover 2,247 miles in a 10-day race along Route 66. Twenty-eight teams finished the race, the sixth since the first U.S. competition in 1990 The cars' price tags ran ...
Topics: Department of Energy, green living, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Cars Are Stacked Against Us		03 Oct 2000	Daily Grist
The Cars Are Stacked Against Us While a few small cars being sold in U.S. showrooms get 40 or more miles to the gallon, the vast majority of 2001 model year vehicles get about 20 mpg, according to annual fuel economy statistics released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The popularity of SUVs, pickup trucks, and minivans drove down the mileage figures. Just like the previous ...
Topics: cars, Department of Energy, energy efficiency, green products, hybrids, United States (all these topics)

Lighting Las Vegas		10 Aug 2000	Daily Grist
Lighting Las Vegas The U.S. government plans to boost the development of geothermal energy systems in Western states, with the aim of having 10 percent of the West's electricity generated by the earth's heat within 20 years, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced yesterday. Richardson detailed 21 partnerships between private industry and the Department of Energ ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Energy, energy, geothermal power, Nevada, politics, West (all these topics)

A Real Windfall		28 Apr 2000	Daily Grist
A Real Windfall All federal agencies in the Denver area will be powered in part by wind under the U.S. government's largest contract to buy green energy, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced yesterday. The agencies will buy 10 megawatts of power annually from wind farms operated by Colorado utilities -- enough energy to run 3,500 households for a year. Public Se ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Energy, energy, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Hot and Steamy		24 Jan 2000	Daily Grist
Hot and Steamy Geothermal power will get a boost today when U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announces a goal of generating as much as 10 percent of the West's electricity from geothermal sources by 2020. Richardson will announce $4.8 million in grants to advance research in geothermal energy, a renewable source that taps heat energy from under the Earth's surface. The Western U. ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Energy, energy, geothermal power, West (all these topics)

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