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What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jet streams can drive dirty air across the Pacific Ocean in ...
Topics: Africa, air pollution, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, Florida, North America, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

Google Gaga Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Google Gaga Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group The popular search engine Google is facing accusations of censorship after it refused to carry ads from an environmental group that is protesting a major cruise line's sewage-treatment methods. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Oceana paid Google to run an ad that read &qu ...
Topics: business, Florida, green living, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington DC (all these topics)

Swinging Both Ways Bush Announces Environmental Money for Swing States		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Swinging Both Ways Bush Announces Environmental Money for Swing States A recent flurry of announcements from the Bush administration about proposed funding increases for environmental projects -- including salmon restoration and brush clearing in the Northwest, Everglades protection in Florida, and cleanup of the Great Lakes -- has some enviros suspiciou ...
Topics: elections, Florida, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Round and Round They Go Florida's Top Environmental Regulator Takes Job With Company He Regulated		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Round and Round They Go Florida's Top Environmental Regulator Takes Job With Company He Regulated Florida's top environmental official, David Struhs, resigned Wednesday to take a job with International Paper, a company he did controversial favors for while in office. As head of the Florida Department of Environmental Prot ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, Florida, politics, Sierra Club, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Green Quixote Humboldt-Based Candidate New Front-Runner for Green Party Nomination		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Green Quixote Humboldt-Based Candidate New Front-Runner for Green Party Nomination Meanwhile, far from the madding crowds in Iowa, Green Party activists are fishing about for a standard-bearer of their own. Ralph Nader said no thanks; he's planning to lose the 2004 presidential race as an Independent. But a potential front-runner has emerged in the person of David Cobb, a lon ...
Topics: California, elections, Florida, political groups, politics, Texas, Wisconsin (all these topics)

They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics)

They Blinded Me With Pseudo Science Bush Administration Waves Off Scientists Whose Findings Are Inconvenient		12 Nov 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Interior, Florida, Missouri River, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Fish Less Foul Strict Environmental Laws Yield Drop in Mercury Levels in Everglades		06 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Fish Less Foul Strict Environmental Laws Yield Drop in Mercury Levels in Everglades Mercury levels in the wildlife of the Florida's Everglades have declined by at least 60 percent over the last decade, according to a study by the state Department of Environmental Protection. The findings were hailed as the first indicator that efforts to reduce mercury pollution are paying off. The drop in mercury levels is largely ...
Topics: Florida, marine life, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Glade Tidings Judge Agrees to Appoint Expert to Oversee Everglades Cleanup		30 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Glade Tidings Judge Agrees to Appoint Expert to Oversee Everglades Cleanup Dealing a blow to both Bush administrations (that is, G.W. in the White House and Jeb in Florida), a federal judge agreed late yesterday to appoint an expert to monitor the $8 billion restoration and cleanup of the Everglades. Environmentalists and a Native American tribe had asked for such an appointment, but government agencies and the ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Judge Dread After 15 Years, Judge Is Removed From Everglades Case		24 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Judge Dread After 15 Years, Judge Is Removed From Everglades Case A federal judge who presided over the legal ins and outs of the Florida Everglades restoration project was removed yesterday after 15 years on the case. U.S District Judge William Hoeveler was dismissed after he called Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's (R) Everglades bill "clearly defective" and suggested that the governor had been "misled b ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Pump and Circumstance		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Pump and Circumstance The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a case about the Florida Everglades that tests the scope of the federal government's ability to fight pollution. At issue is how much power the feds have in controlling the amount of water pumped across the Everglades basin. State water managers say they should not be required to get federal permits for water pump facil ...
Topics: dams, energy, Florida, rivers and watersheds, wilderness (all these topics)

Shady Deals in the Sunshine State?		10 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Shady Deals in the Sunshine State? The Florida chapter of the Sierra Club is calling for the resignation of David Struhs, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, even as Struhs is reportedly being considered as a possible replacement for Christie Whitman, who last month stepped down as administrator of the U.S. EPA. The Sierra Club accuses Struhs of having given false testimony before the state legislature when he s ...
Topics: Florida, US EPA (all these topics)

Neverglades		21 May 2003	Daily Grist
Neverglades In more bad news for the environment, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) yesterday signed into law a highly controversial plan that will delay cleanup of phosphorus from the Everglades by a decade and, critics say, potentially result in the loss of $4 billion in federal funding for the massive restoration project. Bush -- who said signing the Everglades Forever Act was "the tough ...
Topics: Florida, legislation, national parks, news, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Ever Glad-handing		16 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Ever Glad-handing The federal government is footing half the $8.4 billion bill for restoring the Florida Everglades -- so no wonder eight U.S. lawmakers are expressing concern over what they see as the state's efforts to alter the Everglades Forever Act, which sets the terms of the cleanup. Florida Department of Environmental Protection chief David Struhs is in Washington, D.C., today to reassure those lawmaker ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Sweet Tooth and Nail		03 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Tooth and Nail Efforts to restore Florida's Everglades hit a snag yesterday, when the state's top environmental regulator suggested delaying by 20 years the cleanup of phosphorus from South Florida waters. David Struhs, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, had previously backed a plan to reduce the presence of phosphorus from a whopping 300 parts per billion to just 10 pp ...
Topics: Florida, food and agriculture, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Taken to the Cleaners		11 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Taken to the Cleaners Under pressure from environmental organizations, the Florida legislature yesterday modified a bill designed to protect dry cleaners from being sued for toxic contamination. The original bill would have prevented people who owned land adjacent to dry cleaners from suing over groundwater contamination; the modified version would retain that provision but grant exceptions to those who sell, transfer, or ...
Topics: Florida, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Park and Writhe		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Park and Writhe The National Parks Conservation Association has released its annual list of endangered parks -- and, sadly, it includes some of the most treasured wild areas in the U.S.: Yellowstone, Denali, and the Great Smoky Mountains, among others. The unlucky parks made the list because they ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Georgia, Montana, National Park Service, national parks, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Sea-cow Tipping		09 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sea-cow Tipping Manatees were killed in record numbers by collisions with watercraft in Florida in 2002, according to the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The commission found that 95 manatees were killed by watercraft last year, or 14 more than in 2001. By contrast, overall manatee deaths in the state fell, from 325 in 2001 to 305 in 2002. The findings are likely to add fue ...
Topics: Florida, marine life, oceans, outdoor recreation, placemaking (all these topics)

Bright Lights on the Big City		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Bright Lights on the Big City Residents of New York, rejoice: Your city might be noisy, crowded, and crass, but it's also the most compact megalopolis in the U.S. That's right -- the Big Apple ranked number one on Smart Growth America's recently released list compar ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Hawaii, health, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, placemaking ... (all these topics)

Great Lakes Minds Think Alike		21 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Great Lakes Minds Think Alike The U.S. government has pledged to spend billions of dollars to restore the Florida Everglades -- and now the Great Lakes states are trying to figure out how they can get a piece of the federal pie, too. For more than a year, the governors of the eight states have been meeting to formulate a plan for restoring the lakes. Slated to be released next month, the plan is l ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, Great Lakes, politics (all these topics)

Jeb and Flow		11 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Jeb and Flow Environmentalists and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) are duking it out over the regulatory language of the colossal $7.8 billion Everglades restoration project -- a battle that will work against Bush in the upcoming gubernatorial election. Critics say Bush is less interested in restoring the Everglades than in securing a water supply for South Florida businesses and developers. The U.S ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Putting Their Lives on the Lime		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Putting Their Lives on the Lime Hoping to halt a limestone mining plan that would destroy 15,000 acres of wetlands in the Florida Everglades, environmentalists sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday. The Corps has issued permits to mine 1.7 billion tons of limestone from Everglades wetlands for roads in so ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental non-government organizations, Florida, land degradation, mining and drilling, Sierra Club, wetlands (all these topics)

Rock Me Like a Hurricane		09 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Rock Me Like a Hurricane The healing of the Florida Everglades is the largest environmental restoration project in U.S. history -- and its got some of the nation's highest hopes pinned on it. Some of those hopes involve the Florida Bay, a once-pristine angler's paradise that all but collapsed in the late 1980s, when its clear waters became clouded and 100,000 acres of sea grasses disappeared, as did numerous marine ani ...
Topics: Florida, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Cruise Control		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Cruise Control Norwegian Cruise Line, the fourth-largest cruise company in the world, will pay a $1.5 million fine for illegally dumping oil and untreated wastewater into the ocean, and subsequently lying about its actions. The company kept a false logbook and for three years lied to the Coast Guard about unlawful discharges off the coast ...
Topics: Alaska, business, Florida, oceans, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Space Goes Coast to Coast		30 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Space Goes Coast to Coast Living on the coast is often a lose-lose situation -- beaches erode, and big storms take out pricey homes -- but that hasn't seemed to quench the thirst for development along the Florida shoreline. Rather than discouraging beachfront development to protect property owners and the environment alike, state laws and practices promote such development and leave taxpayers to foot the bill for rebu ...
Topics: Coastal Erosion, Florida, placemaking (all these topics)

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