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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Shore Losers U.S. leaders, residents turn backs on impending coastal chaos	Jane Holtz Kay	15 Jun 2005	Soapbox
Don't let Beantown become a has-been town. Buckle your seatbelts: it's going to be a wet 'n' wild ride. That's the prediction -- or, rather, the certainty -- that today's global warming carries. Erratic and unpredictable weather is en route, and coastal areas are among the places destined to be hardest hit. So why are Americans paying so little heed? As scientists and weather pundits surve ...
Topics: climate, East Coast, Massachusetts, oceans, United States (all these topics)

Handle With CAIR EPA issues air pollution rules for Eastern states		11 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Handle With CAIR EPA issues air pollution rules for Eastern states With the Clear Skies bill dead in committee, the Bush administration is going ahead with its plan to implement provisions of the bill as regulation. Yesterday saw the first step, as the U.S. EPA issued the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which will substantially curtail emissions of soot-causing and smog-forming emissions, primarily generated by ...
Topics: air pollution, East Coast, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Hot Spot and Bothered With feds slow to tackle mercury pollution, state leaders step up	Amanda Griscom	12 Feb 2004	Muckraker
The Mercury Mutiny is gaining force on the state level, galvanizing some unlikely rebels. Eastern states including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York were the first to jump into the fray, launching local efforts to reduce mercury pollution in response to the Bush administration's widely criticized plan for dealing with mercury. Then last week, a new regional e ...
Topics: East Coast, health, mercury, Muckraker, Northeast, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Snoop Doggy Doggs Robotic Dogs Sniff Out Environmental Toxins		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Snoop Doggy Doggs Robotic Dogs Sniff Out Environmental Toxins Engineers at Yale have developed robotic dogs that can sniff out environmental toxins at contaminated sites. The mechanical critters were originally designed and marketed as toys by Sony and other companies, but an intrepid crew at Yale modified the robo-puppies with sensors that de ...
Topics: Australia, Belarus, East Coast, environmental restoration, Idaho, nuclear power, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

A Shore Thing		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Shore Thing Controversy is bubbling along the East Coast of the U.S. as a handful of companies press forward with plans to build offshore wind turbines -- 858 off the Maryland shore, 221 off Virginia, and 130 off Cape Cod, Mass. There are now some 15,000 wind turbines on U.S. land, providing clean, renewable power and decreasing U.S. dependence on fore ...
Topics: East Coast, energy, green living, Maryland, Massachusetts, renewable energy, Virginia, wind power (all these topics)

N.C. Pee Dee Blues		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
N.C. Pee Dee Blues Water wars have long simmered in the arid Western U.S., but now they're bubbling up in Eastern states as well. Dry spells in 1999 and 2002 brought many of the East's rivers to worrisome lows; increased water demand spurred by new development is only adding to the problem. A contentious quarrel between Maryland and Virginia over the Potomac River has worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, ...
Topics: climate, East Coast, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

7.7 Degrees of Separation		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
7.7 Degrees of Separation Two new studies on global climate change, both appearing in the latest issue of Nature, predict that the Earth will get even hotter by the end of the century than previously estimated by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One study, from Switzerland, sees a 7.7 degree Fahrenheit increase by 2100; the other, from Great Britain, predicts as much as ...
Topics: climate, East Coast, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

Famous-er Potatoes		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Famous-er Potatoes Organic foods, long associated with the crunchy West Coast and the yuppie East, have made dramatic inroads into more conservative places -- so dramatic, in fact, that Idaho, home to many rabid anti-enviros, has become one of the top five states in the nation for total organic acreage. Part of the new popularity of organics may be a growing awareness of the health virtues of eating chemical- ...
Topics: East Coast, food and agriculture, Idaho, West (all these topics)

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