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Leipzig Lizards! World's Largest Solar Energy Plant Planned for Germany		21 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Leipzig Lizards! World's Largest Solar Energy Plant Planned for Germany The world's largest solar energy plant -- projected to meet the power demands of some 1,800 households -- will soon start soaking up rays outside the eastern German town of Leipzig this year. The $27 million plant, to be built by the Royal Dutch/Shell's Solar Group, will contain 33,500 solar modules and have an output c ...
Topics: European Union, green living, ozone, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

English Beat U.K. Sets Ambitious CO2 Reduction Goals		20 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
English Beat U.K. Sets Ambitious CO2 Reduction Goals The British government yesterday announced a plan to not only meet but beat Kyoto Protocol requirements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The nation will aim to cut its carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent by 2010 through a combination of regulations and pollution credit trading systems. Industry groups ...
Topics: air pollution, European Union, green living, hydropower, nuclear power, ozone, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Bad Seed Despite European Objections, GM Agriculture Marches On		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Bad Seed Despite European Objections, GM Agriculture Marches On Worldwide use of genetically modified crops grew by 15 percent last year, according to a report by the industry-backed International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications. In 1996, the year GM crops were made commercially available, 4.3 million acres were used for biotech cultivated crops. By 2003, ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Endless Summer Climate Scientists Predict More Hot Summers for Europe		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Endless Summer Climate Scientists Predict More Hot Summers for Europe Thanks to global warming, summer heat waves like the one that killed close to 20,000 people in Europe in 2003 could recur up to once every two years by the end of the century. So claims a study conducted by a group of scientists from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and published in the lat ...
Topics: climate, European Union, food and agriculture, green living, health, wilderness (all these topics)

Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties Consumers, still struggling with the news that bovine spongiform encephalopathy-laden beef will make your brain melt and mercury-laden tuna will make your children stupid, were met today with more bad news: A new study in the journal Science claims that fish-farmed salmon contain enoug ...
Topics: European Union, fishing, green living, health, marine life, South America, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ...
Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

In Cod's Country E.U. Fisheries Ministries Reach Agreement on Catch Quotas		19 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
In Cod's Country E.U. Fisheries Ministries Reach Agreement on Catch Quotas They had to pull an all-nighter to make it happen, but the 15 nations of the European Union have finally reached an agreement on catch quotas for all commercial species of fish in the region. In crafting the agreement, fisheries ministers from the member nations sought to balance the financial concerns of fishers with the need to preserve dwindling fish s ...
Topics: European Union, marine life (all these topics)

Salt Water Daffy Climate Change Alters Salt Levels in Atlantic Ocean, to Europe's Dismay		18 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Salt Water Daffy Climate Change Alters Salt Levels in Atlantic Ocean, to Europe's Dismay The Atlantic Ocean seems so vast that it's almost impossible to imagine fundamentally altering it -- and yet, its salt levels have changed so drastically over the last 40 years because of global warming that the whole flow of ocean water is being disrupted, according to a study published today in the journal Nature. As ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, oceans (all these topics)

Yeah, I'm the Tax, Man British Think Tank Proposes a 'Kyoto Tax' for the U.S.		08 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Yeah, I'm the Tax, Man British Think Tank Proposes a "Kyoto Tax" for the U.S. With Europeans none too happy about the U.S. having ditched the Kyoto Protocol, a British think tank has come up with an idea for making the U.S. pay its fair share to deal with climate change: trade sanctions. The New Economics Foundation has proposed that the European Union tax imports from countries th ...
Topics: climate, energy, European Union, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Skiing Downhill Global Climate Change Could Spell End of Winter Sports Industry		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Skiing Downhill Global Climate Change Could Spell End of Winter Sports Industry Bad news for ski bums: As global climate change heats up the planet and pushes snow lines ever higher, many winter resorts in Europe might have to shut down. Less expensive, low-altitude destinations will be particularly hard hit, with some slopes in Italy, Austria, and Germany already suffering from la ...
Topics: climate, European Union, outdoor recreation, Switzerland, United Nations (all these topics)

Finding Memo Industry Poised to Clash with California Over Chemical Testing		21 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Finding Memo Industry Poised to Clash with California Over Chemical Testing California, ever on the cutting edge of environmental policy, is considering following the lead of the European Union by requiring more safety testing of chemicals -- a move the chemical industry doesn't plan to take lying down. According to a memo from the American Chemical Council leaked to the Environment ...
Topics: California, Environmental Working Group, European Union, health, toxics (all these topics)

Gone Today, Ear Tomorrow E.U. Poised to End Five-Year Ban on New GM Foods		17 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Gone Today, Ear Tomorrow E.U. Poised to End Five-Year Ban on New GM Foods A corn product developed by the Anglo-Swiss biotech company Syngenta will likely be approved for sale by the European Union next month, ending a five-year de facto ban on new genetically modified foods on the continent. A number of other GM product approvals are expected to follow. This may mollify the U.S., which has been fighting f ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, Switzerland, United States (all these topics)

Methyl to Their Madness U.S. Loses Bid for Increased Use of Ozone-Depleting Pesticide		17 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Methyl to Their Madness U.S. Loses Bid for Increased Use of Ozone-Depleting Pesticide A U.S. request for permission to up use of an ozone-depleting fungicide was snubbed last week by representatives from the European Union and developing nations at an international meeting on ozone-layer protection in Nairobi, Kenya. The Montreal Protocol, a 1989 treaty that aims to halt destruction of the o ...
Topics: Africa, climate, European Union, Kenya, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Strawberry Yields Forever U.S. Could Endanger Ozone Layer with Push for Pesticide Use		10 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Strawberry Yields Forever U.S. Could Endanger Ozone Layer with Push for Pesticide Use In pushing for continued use of a controversial pesticide, the Bush administration could undermine international efforts to protect the ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol, a 1987 treaty ratified by the U.S. and other industrialized nations, calls for phasing out the ozone-depleting pesticide ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, ozone, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

It's Chemical (Let's Do It) Europe Pushes for Chemical Testing, But U.S. Backs Voluntary Approach		04 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
It's Chemical (Let's Do It) Europe Pushes for Chemical Testing, But U.S. Backs Voluntary Approach While the European Commission voted last week to require new safety testing of chemicals (though not nearly as strict of testing as environmentalists would have liked), the U.S. is making no such strides. Rather, an average of two new chemicals are approved for use in the U.S. e ...
Topics: business, European Commission, European Union, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Chemical Reaction E.U. Waters Down Chemical Safety Testing Plan		24 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Chemical Reaction E.U. Waters Down Chemical Safety Testing Plan In a blow to advocates of environmental and human health, the European Union dramatically narrowed the scope of its plan to require safety testing for tens of thousands of chemicals. The move was motivated primarily by financial concerns, and the narrower plan is expected to save billions of dollars. But the timing -- in the middle of a bar ...
Topics: business, European Union, health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

The Bees' Knees Are Knocking Major British Study Pans GM Crops as Harmful to Wildlife		17 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
The Bees' Knees Are Knocking Major British Study Pans GM Crops as Harmful to Wildlife Bad news just keeps on coming for British backers of genetically modified foods, a group whose most high-profile member is Prime Minister Tony Blair. The latest: A three-year government investigation billed as the world's largest study of the environmen ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Wheelie Great Car-Free Day Helps Clear the Air in Europe		23 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Wheelie Great Car-Free Day Helps Clear the Air in Europe Citizens in more than 1,000 cities around the world were treated to cleaner air and less congested streets yesterday on the sixth annual car-free day. The event was particularly popular in Europe, where air pollution has had a higher profile since August, when poor air quality accompanied scorching hot temperatures, perhaps contributing to heat-related deat ...
Topics: air pollution, European Union, placemaking (all these topics)

Some Like It Cool Seeking Relief from Heat, Europeans Turn to Air Conditioning		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Some Like It Cool Seeking Relief from Heat, Europeans Turn to Air Conditioning Concerned about their health and wary of technology, Europeans have long cast a skeptical eye on that most commonplace of U.S. appliances, the air conditioner. But this summer's blistering heat has begun to change all that. Air conditioner sales in Europe are growing by more than 10 percent per year -- and this summer, the units ar ...
Topics: climate, energy, European Union, green living (all these topics)

Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies In an ironic twist, oil companies operating on Alaska's North Slope are finding their work impeded by a warming climate. The companies depend on long stretches of hard freeze during which they can haul heavy drilling equipment over tundra, but those cold periods are shrinking. In 1970, there were m ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, wilderness (all these topics)

Curtain Call of the Wild		28 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Curtain Call of the Wild The man who cleared the way for the lifting of the Iron Curtain now wants to transform the former cold war border region into a large, multinational nature reserve. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, now president of the environmental group Green Cross International, has joined with a number of European conservation organizations in pushing for preservation of the land that once separated the Soviet ...
Topics: European Union, wilderness (all these topics)

So Much for 'Go West, Young Man'		25 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
So Much for "Go West, Young Man" The U.S. has long imported French cuisine, Italian fashion, and German cars; now, California wants to import Old World environmental regulations. The Golden State has historically been on the cutting edge of environmental politics here in the U.S., but the European Union, with its strict controls on food, water, and chemicals, boasts even more eco-friendly policies. Calif ...
Topics: California, European Union, San Francisco (all these topics)

Label of Love		02 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Label of Love European lawmakers today adopted new food-labeling rules that could pave the way for lifting a European Union-wide ban on genetically modified (GM) products. The new rules will require labels for food and animal feed containing at least 0.9 percent GM ingredients. Though the move may lead to the opening of E.U. markets to GM foods, environmentalists and consumer advocates welcomed the change be ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, green living, Greenpeace (all these topics)

Crop Circles		20 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Circles Negotiations between the U.S. and the European Union over genetically modified foods broke down yesterday in Geneva, furthering heightening trans-Atlantic tension and prompting the Bush administration to call on the World Trade Organization to begin hearing the dispute. At issue is a European ban on GM crops -- a ban that the U.S. agricultural industry says is costing ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United Nations, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Hydrogen Hijacking?		17 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Hydrogen Hijacking? The European Union and the U.S. agreed yesterday to team up on research into hydrogen fuel cells, widely touted as a potentially clean power source that will revolutionize future energy use. But while the E.U. wants to develop hydrogen using renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, the U.S. has plans to use fossil fuels and nuclear energy to power a hydro ...
Topics: European Union, green living, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

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