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Hot wind	David Roberts	16 Feb 2005	Gristmill
Frequent Grist contributor Bill McKibben has a column in today's NYT saying that environmentalists should get behind wind energy. He is sympathetic to some enviros' objections and rather gentle toward them. I fully agree with McKibben, but I can't say I share his sympathy. Oil and gas exploration is ravaging the American West. The nuclear industry is resurgent. And oh yeah, the globe is frying. If environmentalists take global warming seriously, and expect others to ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Massachusetts, oil, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Bill Moyers hearts us, and we him	Grist	03 Dec 2004	Gristmill
Speaking of how great we are and how you ought to give us money: Bill Moyers (who we interviewed here) loves us. He recently won the fourth annual Global Environment Citizen Award from the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Meryl Streep gave him the award. Here's the speech he gave (note repeated Grist kudos, not that we're bragging, which we obviously are): Update [2005-2-10 13:17:50 by Dave Roberts]:In the speech below, Moyers repeats a ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, heroes, Massachusetts (all these topics)

Fish Wrap Kerry's struggle with fishery policy illustrates his strengths and weaknesses		30 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Fish Wrap Kerry's struggle with fishery policy illustrates his strengths and weaknesses The Seattle Times wraps up its excellent week-long series on the presidential candidates' environmental stances with a story on John Kerry's long struggle with fishery policy in the senator's home state, Massachusetts. It's a revealing case study of the candidate's strengths and weaknesses. On the positive side, Kerry ...
Topics: elections, marine life, Massachusetts, politics (all these topics)

Action Heroes How You Can Make a Difference for the Planet		22 Apr 2004	Daily Grist
Action Heroes How You Can Make a Difference for the Planet With today's environmental problems so large, abstract, and intractable -- see warming, global -- you're probably wondering what you, one individual, can do on Earth Day to help. (If you're one of the people surveyed by Gallup -- see above -- perhaps you don't care, but humor us.) It's easy to feel powerless i ...
Topics: cars, green products, greening biz operations, hybrids, Massachusetts, Prius, travel (all these topics)

The League's Extraordinary Gentleman League of Conservation Voters Endorses Kerry		26 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The League's Extraordinary Gentleman League of Conservation Voters Endorses Kerry The League of Conservation Voters has officially endorsed John Kerry for president, marking the first time in the organization's history that it has backed a candidate prior to the first primaries. Kerry, four-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, has the best environmental voting record of the Democratic candidates, w ...
Topics: elections, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, politics (all these topics)

Bigger Homes and Gardens As New Homes in Massachusetts Get Bigger, Enviros Get Worried		10 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Bigger Homes and Gardens As New Homes in Massachusetts Get Bigger, Enviros Get Worried If Americans follow the trend in Massachusetts, they'll increasingly be living in larger homes on larger lots, even though fewer people reside in each house. A new report by the Massachusetts Audubon Society found that the state is losing 40 acres of forest, farmland, and open space to development every day, with abo ...
Topics: green living, Massachusetts, placemaking, wilderness (all these topics)

C02, Too?		05 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
C02, Too? Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts sued the federal government yesterday to force it to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. The lawsuit, which alleges that the emissions fuel global warming and should therefore be governed by the Clean Air Act, marks the first time a state has sued the government to force it to take action on climate change. The three ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A Shore Thing		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Shore Thing Controversy is bubbling along the East Coast of the U.S. as a handful of companies press forward with plans to build offshore wind turbines -- 858 off the Maryland shore, 221 off Virginia, and 130 off Cape Cod, Mass. There are now some 15,000 wind turbines on U.S. land, providing clean, renewable power and decreasing U.S. dependence on fore ...
Topics: East Coast, energy, green living, Maryland, Massachusetts, renewable energy, Virginia, wind power (all these topics)

Kerry on		22 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Kerry on Massachusetts Democratic Senator and 2004 presidential contender John Kerry is honoring Earth Day today by calling on the federal government to protect the human and ecological health of poor and minority communities through strengthening its commitment to environmental justice. In a speech this afternoon, Kerry demanded the creation of a new environmenta ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, environmental justice, health, Massachusetts, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Honey, I Shrunk the Budget		06 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Honey, I Shrunk the Budget As states across the nation face massive budget shortfalls, many are aiming their axes at environmental and conservation programs. In South Carolina, for instance, the state legislature is considering cutting $16 million from conservation programs to help balance its upcoming budget. The South Carolina Wildlife Federation yesterday urged state legislators to protect t ...
Topics: Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, renewable energy, South Carolina (all these topics)

Mass Appeal		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Mass Appeal Massachusetts may get its first national forest if a plan being drawn up by the administration of Gov. Mitt Romney (R) comes to fruition. The plan's still in the preliminary stages -- so preliminary, in fact, that no maps have yet been sketched -- but a considerable chunk of northwestern Massachusetts could be affected, including parts of the Berkshire region. The administration says it will make sure it has the blessi ...
Topics: Massachusetts, wilderness (all these topics)

Stone Cold Killer		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Stone Cold Killer The massive storm that dumped feet of snow on the Northeast over the weekend was lovely to look at, fun to play in -- and bad news for some river species. In an effort to unbury themselves, many cities in the region dumped plowed snow directly into nearby rivers, a practice some scientists warn could harm stone flies, a de ...
Topics: marine life, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Northeast, Pennsylvania, rivers and watersheds, West Virginia, wildlife (all these topics)

The Reilly Factor		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Reilly Factor Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly (D) yesterday threw his weight behind opponents of a plan to build a wind farm off the state's coast. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court, Reilly argued that the seabed of Nantucket Sound belongs to the federal government and therefore cann ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, environmental justice, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Salem Switch Trials		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Salem Switch Trials Massachusetts is sticking to its guns on clean air, Gov. Mitt Romney (R) announced this morning. The state refused to extend a deadline for heavily polluting power plants to reduce their emissions, meaning they'll have to clean up their acts by 2004. In 2001, then-acting Gov. Jane Swift (R) imposed the deadline on the state's so-called Filthy Five power plants, ordering them t ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, health, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney (all these topics)

Mass-ive Attack		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass-ive Attack Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut will sue the U.S. EPA for violating clean air laws and imperiling the health of citizens by failing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, the states' attorneys general announced yesterday. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, the attorneys general will argue that CO2 emissions fr ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, energy, environmental justice, health, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Wind Bags		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wind Bags The company behind a highly controversial proposed wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod announced yesterday that the project could be 14 percent smaller than previously anticipated, thanks to technological improvements. Under the revised plan, Cape Wind Associates would build 130 rather than 170 wind turbines over 24 rather than 28 square miles of ocean. The resulting project would still p ...
Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, wind power (all these topics)

Mass. Devastation		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass. Devastation Laws designed to protect the environment are only useful if they're enforced -- and in the state of Massachusetts, they often are not. Indeed, the Bay State has one of the nation's worst enforcement records, according to a new federal website that allows the public to monitor enforcement of anti-pollution laws. Only 27 percent of Massachusett ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Massachusetts, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Letters, Oh We've Got Letters		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, New York, placemaking, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Mitt's Catch		20 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Mitt's Catch Here's a tidbit of holiday cheer: Massachusetts Gov.-elect Mitt Romney (R) has picked Douglas Foy to fill a key position in his administration, and environmentalists couldn't be more delighted with the choice. As president of the Conservation Law Foundation since 1977, Foy has been an outspoken advocate of environmentally friendly urban planning. (He's also made it a habit of riding his bike to work from h ...
Topics: Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, politics (all these topics)

Tilting at Windmills Activists are split on a proposed wind project off Cape Cod	Amanda Griscom	19 Dec 2002	Powers That Be
Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where 30 or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth." "Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. "What we see there are not giants ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, Massachusetts, wildlife, wind power (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)

Staples Gunned		13 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Staples Gunned In a milestone victory for trees and forest advocates, the office-supply giant Staples announced yesterday that it would phase out paper goods made from threatened forests and increase the average amount of recycled material in its paper products to 30 percent, up from the current average of less than 10 percent. No timetable has been se ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, Massachusetts, recycling, wilderness (all these topics)

Jews for Cheeses		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Jews for Cheeses Seven ultra-Orthodox Jewish families have signed on to create what is likely the world's first organic, kosher, communal farm. Following the tenets of the Torah and Talmud, the farmers will not pick fruit from their orchards for the first three years; they will let their land lie fallow every seventh year and will only plant certain vegetables next to certain fruits. The man b ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Massachusetts, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Boston Z-E-V Party		17 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Boston Z-E-V Party Massachusetts is preparing to adopt California's ambitious zero-emission vehicle legislation, which would require 10 percent of cars and trucks sold within the state to produce no pollution. For the moment, though, the U.S. government is still bickering internally over whether California's legislation is legal. Earlier this month, the Bush administration said California had overstepped i ...
Topics: California, Massachusetts, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Oh My Cod!		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Oh My Cod! Cape Wind Associates has been given the green light on a project to build a data-collection tower that could lead to the largest renewable-energy plant in the United States -- 170 windmills off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. The collection tower, opposed by locals for its possible harm to tourism and the environment, will collect information on air and water turbulence, the direction and veloci ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

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