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Big Ban Boom		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Big Ban Boom Robert Zoellick, the Bush administration's chief trade official, is calling on the U.S. to challenge the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Zoellick claims the ban is both scientifically backward and "immoral," arguing that it deprives starving people in the developing world of food. The U.S. and t ...
Topics: Africa, European Union, globalization, GMOs, health, politics, population, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Bjorn Loser		08 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Bjorn Loser In 2001, Danish author Bjorn Lomborg rocketed into the spotlight with the publication of The Skeptical Environmentalist, which claimed to debunk virtually all environmental concerns, from global warming to species extinction, and sought to assure the public that there was nothing much to worry about, ecologically speaking. Now, a division of the Danish Research Agency has condemned Lomborg for "scie ...
Topics: education, European Union, green living (all these topics)

Pole Vault		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Pole Vault A plan to dramatically boost the use of biofuels in Poland has been approved by the country's lower house of parliament and is now being heard by its senate. The plan, which is backed by the nation's powerful farm lobby, would mandate that biofuels account for at least 4.5 percent of all domestic fuel sales beginning in 2003. That's well above the 2 percent minimum levels proposed ...
Topics: energy, European Union, food and agriculture, renewable energy (all these topics)

Very Slow Food Movement		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Very Slow Food Movement After months of heated debate, the 15 farm ministers of the European Union agreed last week on labeling rules for genetically modified (GM) food and animal feed. Under the plan, all food and feed containing 0.9 percent GM ingredients or more would need to be identified as such; below that threshold, no labeling would be required. Pro-GM food ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, Greenpeace, international government agencies (all these topics)

Trump Card		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Trump Card The U.S. wants the European Union to stop trying to weigh down trade rules with environmental considerations. (Silly Europeans, what were they thinking?) In a face-off at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City earlier this week, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and E.U. Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy argued about how international environmental agreements should interac ...
Topics: business, European Union, globalization, United States (all these topics)

High-drogen		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
High-drogen The European Union is homing in on hydrogen as a way to meet its ambitious goals of generating 22 percent of its electricity and 12 percent of all energy from renewables by 2010. Energy independence is increasingly urgent for Europe, which imports a whopping 70 percent of its oil and gas from foreign sources, including the Middle East and Russia. Last week, the European Commission (the E.U. ...
Topics: European Commission, European Union, renewable energy (all these topics)

Nuke of Earl		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Nuke of Earl The nuclear industry was "bubbling with new hopes and plans" during a recent conference-cum-pep-rally in Lille, France, according to Pascal Colombani, chair of the E.U's Atomic Energy Commission. Heartened by Finland's recent decision to build western Europe's first nuclear power plant in more than a decade, the nuclear industry is trying to position itself as critically important to a world incr ...
Topics: European Union, Japan, nuclear power (all these topics)

Sign of the Thames		09 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Sign of the Thames New water-quality targets being established by the European Union could radically change the face of farming in Europe, forcing farmers to scale back or even abandon their practices in some traditionally agricultural areas. The Water Framework Directive will require all rivers, lakes, and canals to be restored to "good ecological quality" within 15 y ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Target Practice		03 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Target Practice After endless days of discussions, noisy protests, and a near-walkout by delegates from the European Union, negotiators at the World Summit on Sustainable Development reached agreement yesterday on a plan to address poverty and environmental degradation. The plan is expected to be ratified by the more than 100 world leaders assembled for the summit in Johannesburg, South Africa ...
Topics: European Union, green living, land degradation, United States (all these topics)

Czech It Out		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Czech It Out A "mini-Chernobyl" -- that's how a Czech investigating commission has described the potential threat posed by a chemical plant just north of Prague that was damaged in last week's flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. The commission warned that the highly toxic chlorine released by the Spolana plant during the floods and again late last week could threaten &qu ...
Topics: Czech Republic, European Union, health, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics)

Unable Was I, Ere I Saw Elbe		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Unable Was I, Ere I Saw Elbe As if being battered by severe storms wasn't enough, Central and Eastern Europe now face another threat: pollution unleashed by heavy flooding. In addition to concerns about contamination and disease from animal carcasses swept along by the floods, fears are now growing that toxic chemicals could be seeping from an inundated Czech chemical plant and washing th ...
Topics: European Union, health, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Everybody Must Get Estonia-ed		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Everybody Must Get Estonia-ed Like the rest of the former Soviet Union, the Baltic states were once ecological disasters. But while Russia continues to be an environmental nightmare, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are investing serious resources into cleaning up their environments -- in the interest, government officials say, of gaining entry into the European Union. To do so, they must modernize aging refineries, reduce ai ...
Topics: Estonia, European Union, Latvia (all these topics)

Onion Jack		29 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Onion Jack Times are so bad for organic farmers in the United Kingdom that the whole market for organic foods could collapse, according to research published today by the National Farmers Union. According to the data, one in three organic farms in Great Britain is losing money. If there is hope, it lies in the Organic Action Plan for England, a national effort to improve the market for organically grown goods that was a ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Put a Tiber in Your Tank		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Put a Tiber in Your Tank In the last two weeks, tons of dead fish have floated to the surface of the Tiber, the famed Italian river that was once one of the lifelines of the Roman Empire. According to environmentalists, two-thirds of the fauna in a three-mile stretch of the river have been wiped out since July 15; even eels, the hardiest residents of the Tiber, have leapt onto th ...
Topics: European Union, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

He's Madsen and He's Not Going to Take It Anymore		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: European Union He's Madsen and He's Not Going to Take It Anymore In yesterday's edition of the Daily Grist, we reported on the problem of international environmental crime. Today we're reporting on a guy who thinks he's got the solution. Frank Madsen, an advisor to the European Union on illegal logging, a former Interpol detective, and a former head of security for U.S. drug company Bristol-Myers Squibb, wants to create an international Environmental Crime Intelligence Unit. The ...
Topics: European Union (all these topics)

Fischler-ing for Trouble		28 May 2002	Daily Grist
Fischler-ing for Trouble The E.U. has announced a proposal to overhaul Europe's fisheries policy, a move that would save endangered species but cost some 28,000 jobs. The reforms would entail cutting the size of the fishing fleet by 8.5 percent, a reduction that E.U. Fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler called necessary for the future of European fishing. "Either we have the courage to make bold reforms now, or we watch th ...
Topics: European Union, marine life (all these topics)

Go East, Young Consumer		10 May 2002	Daily Grist
Go East, Young Consumer In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and the Iron Curtain came up, signaling the end of the Cold War, the fall of communism -- and a new era for the environment in Central and Eastern Europe. Popular belief holds that the curtain rose to reveal a bleak landscape of environmental degradation wrought by unchecked industrial activity. In many cases, that was true. On the other hand, the constraints of communis ...
Topics: European Union, placemaking (all these topics)

Whoa, We're Halfway There		30 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Whoa, We're Halfway There While the U.S. still bandies about toothless plans to cut greenhouse gases, the European Union is almost halfway to achieving the emissions reductions mandated by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. According to the European Environment Agency, the 15-nation bloc has successfully decreased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to 3.5 percent below 1990 levels; under Kyoto, ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union (all these topics)

Sharri Baby		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sharri Baby After years of mistrust and fear, Albanians and Serbs are coming together over a common interest: protecting the environment. In a project funded by the Norwegian and Dutch governments, environmental groups in Kosovo are setting up an electronic network to enable the former enemies to share resources and information on ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, European Union, green living, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, pollution and waste, wilderness (all these topics)

Privates Exposed		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Privates Exposed The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is coming under fire from environmentalists after the London Guardian published information from apparently secret E.C. documents describing efforts to liberalize trade by privatizing state-run services in ...
Topics: European Union, Friends of the Earth, globalization, international government agencies, solid waste treatment and disposal, water conflicts, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

On the Railroad to Nowhere?		10 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
On the Railroad to Nowhere? Europe has long set the standard for rail travel, with a system whose efficiency, extent, and affordability has been the envy of rail advocates in the United States. But now it seems that European transportation trends are in danger of imitating those in the U.S: In the last decade, the highway network in the European Union grew by about 25 percent, to over 31,000 miles, while the rail network shrank ...
Topics: European Union, placemaking (all these topics)

Beet It		18 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Beet It Some genetically modified crops are likely to crossbreed with organic crops or wild plants, jeopardizing farms that are certified as GM-free, according to a European Union study. The Europe Environment Agency found that rapeseed, sugar beet, and maize had a medium to high probability of transferring genetic materials, while potatoes, wheat, and barley were unlikely to crossbreed. In related news, a British organic farming group ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs (all these topics)

Space Balls		01 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Space Balls The largest and most expensive satellite ever built by Europe blasted off today, beginning its mission to monitor the environmental health of Planet Earth. The environmental satellite, or Envisat, was launched from French Guiana into orbit about 500 miles above the surface of the Earth, where it will circle the planet every 100 minutes. Envisat's mission is to collect vital data on how Earth's land, oceans, ice caps, and ...
Topics: European Union, health (all these topics)

Grim Reefer		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Grim Reefer Coral reefs are usually associated with the balmy blue waters of the tropics, but the amazing underwater kingdoms exist in cooler climes, too -- at least for now. A new study by French, British, and Norwegian scientists found that 4,500-year-old reefs in the northeastern Atlanti ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, commercial and industry organizations, energy, European Union, Greenpeace, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet And the reaction: At home and abroad, the response to President Bush's strategy for dealing with global warming was tepid at best. Pointing to counterexamples in Europe, U.S. critics disagreed with Bush's claim that mandatory emissions limits would damage the economy and said the plan was simply a sweet deal for big business. Sen ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, European Union, France, Japan, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

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