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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)

Toyota Story		10 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Toyota Story Toyota is racing to make its cars at least as recyclable as those of its European rivals, Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler. The Japanese automaker announced yesterday that the vehicles it produces in Japan and Europe should be at least 85 percent recyclable by 2006 and 95 percent recyclable by 2016, up from 83 percent today. The move will help Toyota expand its market share in Europe, where ...
Topics: European Union, green living, placemaking, recycling (all these topics)

Don't Bank on It		05 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Don't Bank on It A coalition of U.S. and European banks are adopting new principles to guide the financing of projects, especially in the developing world. But environmentalists say the "Equator Principles" will not prevent the banks (which include Citigroup, Holland's ABN Amro Holding, Britain's Barclays, and Germany's WestLB) from backing projects that lead to the destruction of rainforests, w ...
Topics: business, European Union, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Hunger Strike		29 May 2003	Daily Grist
Hunger Strike The backlash has begun against President Bush's comment last week that a European Union ban on genetically modified (GM) foods is contributing to world hunger. The reality, critics say, is that the dispute over GM crops is an international agricultural battle with billion-dollar stakes, and that concern about famine in the developing world is a sideshow at best and a smokescreen ...
Topics: Africa, business, European Union, GMOs, politics, population (all these topics)

Crop Dustup		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Dustup Speaking before the United States Coast Guard Academy yesterday, President Bush accused the European Union of undermining efforts to end widespread hunger in Africa by banning genetically modified (GM) food. Bush praised "high-yield bio-crops" as key to increasing productivity and ameliorating hunger in developing nations, and claimed the E.U. ban was based on "unfounde ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, population, United States (all these topics)

Pay Dirt		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
Pay Dirt The "polluter pays" principle may be languishing in the U.S. under the business-friendly Bush administration, but it's alive and well in Europe, where the European parliament voted this week to strengthen rules to make companies pay for the environmental problems they cause. Spurred on by the recent Prestige disaster, in which a tanker spilled ten ...
Topics: business, European Union, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Ban Rollover		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
Ban Rollover Starting up what's likely to be an ugly trade tussle, the Bush administration yesterday filed suit at the World Trade Organization against the European Union, challenging E.U. policies that severely restrict the import of genetically modified (GM) crops. U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick contends that the E.U. has in effect instituted a ban on GM products, which ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

They Otter Be Proud		13 May 2003	Daily Grist
They Otter Be Proud The English otter, a beloved mammal once thought to have all but disappeared from the nation's waterways, is staging an impressive comeback. Otters can now be found in nearly 35 percent of England's rivers and wetlands, a five-fold increase over numbers from 25 years ago, according to survey results released by the government yesterday. Otter populations dropp ...
Topics: air pollution, European Union, United Kingdom, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Let's Get Chemical		07 May 2003	Daily Grist
Let's Get Chemical In a trailblazing effort to mitigate the dangerous effects of toxic substances on human and environmental health, the European Commission has proposed strict new standards for chemical production. Currently, those chemicals that were in use before the E.U. was established in 1981 are not subject to the same registration and testing standards as new substances. Under the new proposal, any company manufactur ...
Topics: European Union, health, toxics (all these topics)

A Less Perfect Union		06 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Less Perfect Union Greenhouse gas emissions across the European Union increased in 2001 for the second year in a row, casting serious doubt on the ability of the bloc to meet its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change. Emissions levels in 2001 were 1 percent higher than in 2000; under Kyoto, the E.U. is obliged to cut emissions 8 percent compared to 1990 levels by 2012. Individual countri ...
Topics: European Union, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

Smokestack Heart Attack		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Smokestack Heart Attack Minor increases in urban air pollution can provoke heart attacks, new international research indicates. A study of seven European cities and regions, including London, Madrid, Paris, and Rome, found that when sulfur dioxide levels rose even slightly, hospital visits for coronary problems increased over the following 48 hours. The research, published in the European Heart Journal, is expected to ...
Topics: air pollution, European Union, health (all these topics)

Europe Paean		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Europe Paean Major American corporations may be getting off easy on environmental regulations in the U.S. these days, but they're being forced to toe the line in Europe. Rules adopted this year will require all electronics manufacturers doing business in European Union countries to eliminate use of lead, mercury, and other heavy metals from their products, ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, green living, politics, recycling, toxics, United States, waste (all these topics)

Dam Shamer		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: dams, energy, European Union, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, Spain, wetlands (all these topics)

Older Europe		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Older Europe Population growth in Europe is slowing down -- so much so that the absolute number of people on the continent could begin to decline in the near future, according to an article published in the current issue of the journal Science. The report authors say the turning point came in 2000, when the number of children born in Europe guaranteed that there would be fewer parents in the next generation than in the current on ...
Topics: European Union, population (all these topics)

A Change of Climate The Bush administration lost credibility over Kyoto, and can't get it back over Iraq	Bill McKibben	13 Mar 2003	Soapbox
Every European poll shows enormous percentages of people who oppose the pending war on Iraq: 70 percent, 80 percent, 90 percent. That's an extraordinary consensus; it's rare when 70 percent of people agree about anything. Taking their anti-Bush sentiments to the streets in Prague. Photo: Punchdown.org. The consensus is all the more extraordinary because people are ...
Topics: climate, European Union, Iraq, politics, United States (all these topics)

PBDE Heebie-jeebies		12 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
PBDE Heebie-jeebies Women in the San Francisco Bay Area have three to 10 times the amount of a dangerous persistent organic pollutant in their breast tissue as do either European or Japanese women, according to a study released yesterday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardants commonly used in foam, textiles, and plastic electro ...
Topics: California, European Union, health, Japan, San Francisco (all these topics)

Niceland		10 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Niceland The world's first commercial hydrogen filling station will make its debut next month in Iceland, the country where the hydrogen revolution is expected to first take root. Other hydrogen filling stations scattered around the globe are private or restricted, but starting April 24, the new Reykjavik station will open its doors to the public -- not that many average Janes and Joes have hydrogen-powered ca ...
Topics: European Union, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Pro-fusion		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Pro-fusion The U.S. and China have officially joined the quest to develop fusion power, which proponents say could be an affordable, eco-friendly alternative to existing energy sources. The International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor is the largest global science project after the International Space Station. China, the U.S., Canada, the ...
Topics: Asia, Canada, China, climate, energy, European Union, green living, Japan, nuclear power, Russia, United States (all these topics)

Tony Tony Tony!		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Tony Tony Tony! In a speech that compared the danger of environmental degradation to the threat of terrorism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday outlined a sweeping plan to combat global warming. Blair called on his country, the European Union, and would-be E.U. members in Eastern Europe to cut carbon dioxide emissions 60 percent ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, international government agencies, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition Hundreds of thousands of Spanish citizens hit the streets of Madrid on Sunday to protest the national government's poor handling of the Prestige oil tanker spill, which has been labeled the worst environmental disaster in the country's history. Hundreds of chartered buses brought in protesters from Ga ...
Topics: energy, European Union, Greenpeace, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, placemaking, Spain (all these topics)

Above the Bar		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Above the Bar Great Britain may soon use DNA bar codes to make it easy to spot genetically modified (GM) foods. The technology, developed by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge, would help regulators quickly spot foods or crops contaminated with GM organisms. The British government is weighing the possibility of requiring biotech companies to use the technology, which involves add ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Test Ban Treat		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Test Ban Treat Here's one unintended consequence of the impending U.S. war against Iraq: The Bush administration has delayed a formal challenge to the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Recently, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick blamed the ban for widespread starvation in the developing world and said the administration was considering ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, GMOs, Iraq, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

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