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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Coal myths They're still common, but they make no sense	David Roberts	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, coal, energy, Harry Reid, politics, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Coal is the enemy of the human race: Harry Reid edition Senate Majority Leader vows opposition to Nevada coal plants	David Roberts	30 Jul 2007	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, Harry Reid, Nevada, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Reid isn't done yet Senate Dems still fighting for energy package	David Roberts	22 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, Harry Reid, legislation, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase		22 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Be Still Our Beating Hearts Senate-approved energy bill calls for fuel-economy increase First, the good news: the U.S. Senate has passed an energy bill containing the first significant fuel-economy increase in years. The bill requires cars and light trucks to get an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, up from the current 22.2 mpg for l ...
Topics: biofuels, cars, energy, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, Harry Reid, legislation, news, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

In Eighteen Hundred Seventy-Two, Ulysses Made the Greenies Blue Legislation introduced to overhaul ancient mining law		17 May 2007	Daily Grist
In Eighteen Hundred Seventy-Two, Ulysses Made the Greenies Blue Legislation introduced to overhaul ancient mining law In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a mining-regulation law -- and while resource extraction has changed significantly since then, the rules haven't. Now Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) is seeking to revamp what he calls "the Jurassic Park of all federal laws," introducing ...
Topics: Congress, energy, Harry Reid, mining, news, politics (all these topics)

Reid gears up to defend stupid mining law Sigh	David Roberts	10 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: coal, Congress, energy, Harry Reid, lobbying, mining (all these topics)

Inhofe hates the rock music Climate contrarian blocks Gore concert plans	Katharine Wroth	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, Harry Reid, jackassery, James Inhofe, politics (all these topics)

Reid promises big stuff in the Senate on climate change Coolio	David Roberts	23 Jan 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, Harry Reid, politics, US Senate (all these topics)

For Every Action, There's a Reactor Russian spy death linked to nuclear black market, and other glowings-on		27 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
For Every Action, There's a Reactor Russian spy death linked to nuclear black market, and other glowings-on Oh, nuclear -- will it ever cease to amaze? As authorities probe the radiation-poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, they've suggested a link to Russia's robust radioactive-materials black market. The market's deals, said an International Atomic Ener ...
Topics: Australia, Harry Reid, Nevada, news, nuclear power, Russia, US EPA, waste (all these topics)

Attention and Release Democrats jockey for attention with their latest energy plans	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Jun 2006	Muckraker
As GOP leaders bluster about gay marriage, flag burning, and the "death tax," Democrats are struggling to get a word in edgewise about the bevy of proposals they've been drafting to address more substantive national concerns -- namely, soaring gas prices, dependence on oil from an increasingly volatile Middle East, and global warming. These are among the hot-button e ...
Topics: Congress, energy, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, legislation, Muckraker, politics, Robert Redford (all these topics)

Better Late Than Clever Democrats unveil plan to cut dependence on oil imports		18 May 2006	Daily Grist
Better Late Than Clever Democrats unveil plan to cut dependence on oil imports Yesterday, Senate Democrats presented a proposal to cut U.S. dependence on oil imports 40 percent by 2020. The Clean EDGE Act contains nary a mention of increased fuel-economy standards, gas taxes, or other such excessively bold proposals; instead, it proclaims that ethanol will save us all. Under Clean EDGE, a quarter of U.S.-sold cars ...
Topics: energy, Harry Reid, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

Bodies, Asbestos, and Motion Controversial bill to create asbestos trust fund moves ahead in Senate		08 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Bodies, Asbestos, and Motion Controversial bill to create asbestos trust fund moves ahead in Senate An epic drama is playing out in the U.S. Capitol over ... asbestos. Seriously. A bill -- which, after a 98 to 1 vote in the Senate yesterday, will now move to the floor for debate -- would create a $140 billion industry-financed trust fund for victims of asbestos-related illness, but would ...
Topics: environmental justice, Harry Reid, health, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

A Broken Reid Passage of energy bill highlights lack of united Democratic opposition	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Aug 2005	Muckraker
Four years, two failed conference attempts, and one filibuster after the Republican leadership first introduced the Bush-backed energy bill into Congress, the controversial legislation is being signed into law today by the president, yielding a major victory for the White House -- and exposing Democrats' continued inability to rally around a unified vision and stay on message ...
Topics: energy, Harry Reid, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry		02 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Reid Between the Mines Senate Democratic leader Reid is a friend to the mining industry Sen. Harry Reid, the new leader of the Senate Democrats, knows full-well that his home state of Nevada isn't a liberal or environmental stronghold. Thus he has had to balance his party's political agenda with his state's economic interests, and one of those big interests is mining. Reid has repeat ...
Topics: Harry Reid, mining, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Lettuce Study This More		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Lettuce Study This More A toxic chemical used in rocket fuel was found in four of 22 winter lettuce samples purchased at Northern California grocery stores, according to a report by the Environmental Working Group. The lettuce contaminated with perchlorate, a hormone disrupter, was traced to farms in Southern California and Arizona tha ...
Topics: Arizona, Barbara Boxer, California, Colorado River, Environmental Working Group, Harry Reid, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Reid It and Weep		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Reid It and Weep The Bush administration distorted a report to the U.S. EPA by deleting the views of government experts who sought to curb emissions from snowmobiles, according to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Reid has released documents (which he says he obtained from an anonymous whistleblower) showing that the Interior Department removed pro-emissions-restrictions comments from a government ...
Topics: air pollution, Harry Reid, outdoor recreation, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mr. Yucca		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mr. Yucca The U.S. House voted 306 to 117 yesterday to move forward with the Bush administration's plan to store the nation's nuclear waste under Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The overwhelming vote -- which overrode the veto of the plan by Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn (R) -- was expected. Now the battle moves to the Senate, where Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Majority Whip Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have prom ...
Topics: Harry Reid, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, waste (all these topics)

Track Stars		22 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Track Stars U.S. Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) and Harry Reid (Nev.) yesterday proposed creating a national tracking system to monitor both chronic diseases and environmental pollution so that any correlations between the two could be more easily identified and studied. Last year, the two senators held hearings in Fallon, Nev., which is home to a cluster of childhood leukemia cases, and Long Island, N.Y., whic ...
Topics: Harry Reid, health, Hillary Clinton (all these topics)

Reid It and Weep		28 Sep 2000	Daily Grist
Reid It and Weep The annual rider battle is in full swing, with a number of lawmakers in Washington., D.C, trying to attach pieces of anti-environmental legislation to large, must-pass government funding bills. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has tacked a rider onto an Interior Department spending bill that would block federal agencies from adopting tough new rules governing hard-rock mining. Another measure attached to a spending bi ...
Topics: Harry Reid, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Republican Riders in the Saddle Again	Donella H. Meadows	24 Jul 2000	Global Citizen
I don't get it. Why are the 24-hour news media, always desperate for gripping stories, reporting every hour on the Camp David summit, though, as I write this column, they have no access to what's really going on? Why don't some of those eager reporters move over to Capitol Hill to cover the constantly changing, fully public, ludicrous, horrifying, astounding, comical, fascinating, and, I would argue, far more important Annua ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Harry Reid, Missouri River, New Mexico, politics, Rio Grande River, wildlife (all these topics)

A Bum Deal		26 Jul 1999	Daily Grist
A Bum Deal Nevada's two Democratic senators are pressing a bill that would force the Bureau of Land Management to sell land near California's Mojave National Preserve as a site for a second Las Vegas airport, even before environmental studies can be done to determine its potential impact. The Interior Department, on behalf of both the BLM and the National Park Service, is fighting the bill s ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Harry Reid, health, water conflicts (all these topics)

Congress Is Playing the Ugly Rider Game Again	Donella H. Meadows	26 Jul 1999	Global Citizen
"ACTION ALERT. This week the Senate is expected to vote on an Interior Appropriations bill that has a dirty baker's dozen of anti-environmental riders. Now is the time to step up our opposition to these undemocratic attacks on the environment." I get so darn sick of these emails. I get sick of the whole cynical rider game. They play it, down there in the Great White Governing City, whenever they ap ...
Topics: Harry Reid, mining, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Yellowstone, Gray Water, Brown Air		21 Apr 1999	Daily Grist
Yellowstone, Gray Water, Brown Air A crumbling sewage system at Yellowstone National Park is dumping wastewater into Yellowstone Lake, and traffic and air pollution have beset Grand Canyon National Park, according to the National Parks and Conservation Association. The group released a list of the 10 most endangered national parks yesterday, highlighting an array of problems in the park system. The maintenance bac ...
Topics: air pollution, Harry Reid, national parks (all these topics)

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