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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)

Area 51		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Area 51 Fair-to-middling was the U.S. ranking in a new study, presented at the World Economic Forum last week in New York, that rated the environmental health of 142 countries. In the study, conducted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, the U.S. came in ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, Canada, European Union, globalization, green living, Middle East, United States (all these topics)

'No Way,' Says Norway		01 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
"No Way," Says Norway Long unhappy about pollution from Britain's Sellafield nuclear power plant, Norway announced yesterday that it would call for a binding international agreement to force polluting countries to pay for toxic cleanups beyond their own borders. The nation's foreign affairs committee voted unanimously to ask the government to impose economic san ...
Topics: European Union, nuclear power, pollution and waste, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

Danube Blues		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Danube Blues The Danube River in Europe may be blue, but it's not very green -- and its environmental problems are slated to get even worse, the World Wildlife Fund warns in a report being released today. More than 80 percent of the river's wetlands and flood plains have already been destroyed in the name of flood protection, agriculture, p ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, Germany, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Italian Nice		29 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Italian Nice The president of northern Italy's Lombardy region, Roberto Formigoni, proposed on Sunday that only eco-friendly vehicles be sold in the region by as early as 2005. He hopes gas-electric hybrid vehicles and, later, hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles can help eliminate the region's pollution woes. Smog levels in Lombardy have recently surged to five times the legally permitted amounts; the region's capi ...
Topics: European Union, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Canary Row		18 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Canary Row Ten years ago, the nations of the European Union agreed to create Natura 2000, a continent-wide network of conservation areas designed to protect 200 habitats and 600 species. The network was supposed to be in place by 1998, but foot-dragging and local resistance gummed up the works. Now, Natura 2000 is finally becoming a reality. Yesterday, the Canary Islands, the Azores, and Madeira became the first nations to set asid ...
Topics: European Union, wildlife (all these topics)

Irish Eyes Are Smiling		11 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Irish Eyes Are Smiling The Irish government has okayed plans to build the world's largest offshore wind farm. The $630 million project will have three times the electricity-generating capacity of all current offshore wind farms worldwide; its 200 turbines will produce 10 percent of Ireland's power. When completed, the project will help Ireland cut its greenhouse gas emissions by about 13 million ...
Topics: climate, energy, European Union, green living, wind power (all these topics)

Sony-side Down		06 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Sony-side Down Sony said yesterday that it would replace the peripheral cables for 1.3 million PlayStation 1 consoles destined for sale in Europe, in response to environmental concerns raised by the Dutch government earlier this week. A European Union rule forbids the sale of products that contain more than 0.01 percent cadmium; the Dutch say the cables pose a health threat because they contain between three to 20 times ...
Topics: European Union, health, Netherlands (all these topics)

Brussels Sprouting		26 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Brussels Sprouting Environmental negotiations with 10 Eastern European countries hoping to join the European Union by 2004 will near completion by the end of the year, E.U. officials announced Thursday. Environmental protection is considered one of the biggest obstacles facing Eastern European nations interested in joining the E.U.; for t ...
Topics: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, European Union, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia (all these topics)

Standards vs. the Poor?		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Standards vs. the Poor? The European Union is demanding that environmental issues be included in the latest round of World Trade Organization talks, which opened on Friday in Doha, Qatar. The E.U. wants environmental standards to be negotiated as a part of trade rules -- and says the issue could be a "deal breaker" at the talks -- but many developing nations fear that ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, Middle East, Qatar, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Holland Daze		16 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Holland Daze An effort to make Dutch farms friendly to native plants and animals has failed, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature. Fields managed according to an environmental protection agreement were no richer in plant and bird species than those farmed conventionally. David Gibbons, of the U.K.'s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said he wasn't surprised by ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, Netherlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Iceland Iceland Baby		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Iceland Iceland Baby Iceland is gunning to be the world's first carbon-free economy. The country is in something of a bind, as it now has very low carbon-dioxide emissions and the Kyoto treaty on climate change gives it little room to expand its economy in a way that would increase its emissions. Already, 67 percent of Iceland's energy comes from emissions-free geothermal heat and hydroelectric dams. Du ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, placemaking (all these topics)

Czech Your Nukes at the Door		17 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Czech Your Nukes at the Door Germany has asked the Czech Republic to shut down the Temelin nuclear power plant near the borders of Germany and Austria. Austria became nuke-free in 1978, and German utilities agreed last month to close their 19 nuclear plants within 20 years. The Temelin plant, which began operating last fall, has provoked major protests from local enviros, as well a ...
Topics: Austria, Czech Republic, energy, European Union, Germany, nuclear power (all these topics)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Donella H. Meadows	31 Jul 2000	Global Citizen
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (known familiarly as CJD) is something you do not want to get. Your brain degenerates, piece by piece. First you feel depressed, then you have trouble coordinating. You lose sight, speech, motor control, as the disease travels through the brain. When it reaches the control centers for breathing or heartbeat, you die. Medical science has no idea how to cure or even slow it. Don't get mad. CJD used to ap ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, United Kingdom, Vermont (all these topics)

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