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U Can't Touch This EPA warns against skin contact with toxic New Orleans floodwaters		08 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
U Can't Touch This EPA warns against skin contact with toxic New Orleans floodwaters The floodwaters swamping New Orleans have become a filthy, toxic stew, testing at least 10 times over the U.S. EPA's limits for sewage-related contaminants like E. coli, viruses, and cholera-like bacteria. The EPA has warned that skin contact with floodwater could be almost as risky to human health as drinking it; searchers are giving the ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, news, toxics (all these topics)

Meet the New Loss Hurricane Katrina brings a foretaste of environmental disasters to come	Bill McKibben	07 Sep 2005	Soapbox
If the images of skyscrapers collapsed in heaps of ash were the end of one story -- the U.S. safe on its isolated continent from the turmoil of the world -- then the picture of the sodden Superdome with its peeling roof marks the beginning of the next story, the one that will dominate our politics in the coming decades: America befuddled about how to cope with a planet suddenly ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

Bourbon Decay Officials try to get grip on post-Katrina environmental problems		06 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Bourbon Decay Officials try to get grip on post-Katrina environmental problems Multiple environmental crises loom in Hurricane Katrina's wake. New Orleans floodwaters are diluting sewage, chemical, and fuel contaminants right now, but these substances are likely to concentrate and deposit as the waters drain. Some parts of the city may become de facto brownfields, so soaked in toxic crud that they'll be unfit for rebui ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Big Greasy New Orleans floodwaters a stew of sewage and toxic chemicals		02 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
The Big Greasy New Orleans floodwaters a stew of sewage and toxic chemicals Toxic chemicals contaminating the New Orleans floodwaters may be less of a short-term health hazard than plain ol' poop. Federal officials have declared a public health emergency for the Gulf Coast, fearing that viruses and bacteria from sewage in the floodwaters could cause a major outbreak of intestinal illnesses. And while the noxious stew swirling in th ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics (all these topics)

The Coastest With the Leastest Coastal-ecology degradation contributed to Katrina's destructive force		02 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
The Coastest With the Leastest Coastal-ecology degradation contributed to Katrina's destructive force Far from being solely a "natural" disaster, Hurricane Katrina's impact was compounded by human alterations of the Gulf Coast ecology. Complex levee and canal systems built to protect New Orleans from being flooded by the Mississippi River, and to improve the river as a shipping channel, have also preve ...
Topics: Coastal Erosion, Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Any Report in a Storm How are journalists covering climate change in Katrina's wake?		01 Sep 2005	Main Dish
As the 140-mile-per-hour winds of Hurricane Katrina raged through the lush lowlands of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama on Monday, as people clung to their roofs, as levees crumbled, as fires blazed, we met in the Grist offices and asked each other: "Wonder if anyone's writing about climate change?" Frankly, we committed the sin of heartlessness of which journalists -- and many environme ...
Topics: climate, Louisiana (all these topics)

Diamond Is Forever Diamond chronicles how a small southern town made environmental history	Julie Sze	13 Jul 2005	Arts and Minds
When Margie Eugene-Richard won the Goldman Prize last year, it was a stunning public recognition of decades of struggle. Richard -- the first African-American to win the award, which some refer to as environmentalism's Nobel Prize -- had waged a 30-year campaign against Shell Chemicals with fellow residents of Diamond, La. Like the proverbial David, the African-American, working-cl ...
Topics: environmental justice, Louisiana, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Will & Disgrace Louisiana environmental advocate forced out of job by state attorney general	Amanda Griscom Little	28 Apr 2005	Muckraker
Willie Fontenot (center) surrounded by ExxonMobil security guards. Photo: Stephen C. Kowal. After scoping out an ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge last month, Willie Fontenot, a community liaison officer for the Louisiana attorney general's office for 27 years, found himself faced with the option of forced retirement or getting the boot. A longtime environment ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Muckraker, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Shell Game Margie Eugene-Richard of Louisiana battled Shell on behalf of her neighborhood	Michelle Nijhuis	20 Apr 2004	Main Dish
Eugene-Richard. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Old Diamond neighborhood of Norco, in far southern Louisiana, sits between a Shell Chemicals plant and an oil refinery owned by a Shell joint venture. "We're like the meat in the sandwich," says Margie Eugene-Richard, 62, who grew up just 25 feet from the fenceline of the chemical plant. For decades, the 1,500 ...
Topics: business, energy, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, interview, Louisiana, oil, toxics (all these topics)

Tipping the Scalias of Justice Cheney-Scalia Connection Raises Questions About Energy Task Force Case		20 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Tipping the Scalias of Justice Cheney-Scalia Connection Raises Questions About Energy Task Force Case In December, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from Vice President Dick Cheney, who had been ordered by lower courts to release documents related to his secretive energy task force meetings. In January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Cheney -- long-time friends -- went duck hunting i ...
Topics: environmental justice, Louisiana, New York, politics (all these topics)

Oh, Yes! It's Mr. Bill! Mr. Bill to Serve as Spokesperson for Louisiana Coastal Campaign		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Oh, Yes! It's Mr. Bill! Mr. Bill to Serve as Spokesperson for Louisiana Coastal Campaign With a $14 billion, 30-year restoration plan -- potentially the largest public works project in American history -- at stake, an educational campaign meant to raise awareness about Louisiana's eroding coastal marshes has turned to the one voice capable of spanning generations, artic ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal Erosion, green living, Louisiana, oceans, wetlands (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (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, pollution and waste, Rhode Island (all these topics)

Foster Care		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Foster Care Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster (R) kicked off a campaign to save his state's coastline this week by bagging a $3 million, three-year grant from, of all places, Shell Oil. "America's Wetland: Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana" also earned the backing of several major national ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, environmental restoration, erosion, Louisiana, marine life, oceans, wetlands (all these topics)

The Big Uneasy		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
The Big Uneasy In Louisiana, the sea-level rises caused by global warming aren't the stuff of dry scientific reports; they're already a local reality. Up to 35 square miles of the state's wetlands get a little too wet every year -- they disappear into the Gulf of Mexico. To date, Louisiana has lost an area the size of Rhode Island. Low-lying areas that have suffered years of poor environmental management are ...
Topics: climate, land degradation, Louisiana, wetlands (all these topics)

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Fears		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Fears Despite its foreign-sounding name, the West Nile virus is becoming an undeniably American concern. Eighty-eight new cases were reported in three states last week, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday that the mosquito-borne virus is here to stay. About one in five people who get the virus develop flu-like symptoms; less than 1 percent face the most ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

A Shot in the Dark		10 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
A Shot in the Dark For the obsessive ornithologists among our readers, some tragicomic news: Once-buoyant hopes for the survival of the ivory-billed woodpecker have faded after sounds thought to be the bird's distinctive double-rap on a dead tree proved to be distant gunshots. Earlier this year, the ivory-billed woodpecker, which has not been confirmed to exist since shortly after World War II, was the subject of a month-long search in ...
Topics: Louisiana, wildlife (all these topics)

Send Me the Ivory Bill		21 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Send Me the Ivory Bill Call it a wild goose chase: A 30-day search through a southern Louisiana swamp was called off yesterday after some of the world's top ornithologists failed to find the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker. The bird, once the largest North American woodpecker with a wingspan of up to 33 inches, has not been seen for certain since shortly after WWII. But three years ago, a forestry student said he saw a mating ...
Topics: Louisiana, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

Peli-can!		22 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Peli-can! Good news from the Pelican State: Brown pelicans may be removed from the endangered species list in Louisiana following a highly successful reintroduction program. By the middle of the 20th century, the birds had disappeared from their namesake state (and were almost wiped out throughout the nation) due to exposure to the pesticide DDT, which caused them to lay eggs with shells too thin to protect de ...
Topics: Florida, Louisiana, Texas, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Forty	Josh Sevin	12 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
percentage by which energy consumption in developing nations is expected to grow by 2010 percentage of written prescriptions that are either based on or synthesized from natural compounds found in plants and animals percentage of total paper used in Germany that goes toward packaging percentage by which one can reduce pollution from an older car by keeping it well-tuned dollars saved by replacing an incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent percentage by ...
Topics: Canada, food and agriculture, Germany, green living, lakes, Louisiana, marine life, pollution and waste, United States, wetlands (all these topics)

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