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Terminal With Extreme Prejudice Serge Dedina sends a dispatch from the fight against a Mexican LNG terminal		15 Oct 2004	Dispatches
Serge Dedina is cofounder and executive director of WiLDCOAST, an international conservation team located in Imperial Beach, Calif., just north of the Mexico-U.S. border. He is the author of Saving the Gray Whale, a book based on the three years he lived in the gray-whale lagoons of Baja California. Friday, 15 Oct 2004 IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. From the bluff overlooking Playas de Tijuana a ...
Topics: Dispatches, energy, Greenpeace, Mexico, natural gas, United States (all these topics)

The Butterfly Effect Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico		23 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
The Butterfly Effect Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico A guerilla war is underway in Mexico's idyllic Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, where millions of black-and-orange monarch butterflies alight every year at the end of a migratory journey that begins in Canada and the Great Lakes states. On one side lie conservation groups, government agencies, and local forest-watch community groups strug ...
Topics: logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Natural Corn Killers Dispatches From the Scene of a GM Corn Symposium in Mexico		15 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: GMOs, Mexico (all these topics)

Make a Run for the Border New InterActivist Tackles Enviro Challenges Along U.S.-Mexico Border		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations, Mexico, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Deck the Hauls U.S. High Court Will Hear Mexican Truck Pollution Case		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Deck the Hauls U.S. High Court Will Hear Mexican Truck Pollution Case The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will wade into a dispute over whether tens of thousands of highly polluting Mexican trucks should be allowed to cross the border and deliver goods throughout the U.S. The Bush administration, arguing the free-trade point of view, welcomes the trucks, but enviros and union mem ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says Hundreds of kids have died and tens of thousands have been hospitalized in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, because of respiratory illnesses seemingly caused by air pollution, according to a five-year study released yesterday by th ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, globalization, health, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Mexican Standoff Feds Will Study Environmental Impact of Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads		27 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Mexican Standoff Feds Will Study Environmental Impact of Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads Bowing to a federal court order, the Bush administration announced yesterday that it will study what the environmental impact would be of an increase in Mexican trucks on U.S. roads. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals banned Mexican trucks from the U.S. in resp ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Transportation, globalization, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Mexi-can't		06 May 2003	Daily Grist
Mexi-can't The U.S. Department of Energy acted illegally when it found that two Mexican power plants would not have a significant impact on the air and water quality in the border region between northwestern Mexico and Southern California, a federal judge in San Diego ruled yesterday. That ruling calls into question the legitimacy of U.S. permits granted to the power companies ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Department of Energy, Mexico, pollution and waste (all these topics)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? A Peruvian activist takes on the fishmeal industry	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Apr 2003	Main Dish
Maria Elena Foronda Farro was born to be an activist. Her father, a union lawyer in Chimbote, Peru, taught her -- through words and by example -- about the importance of social justice. Foronda, who grew up in Chimbote and earned a master's degree in sociology in Mexico, is now applying her father's lessons to her hometown. Maria Elena Foronda Farro. Photo: Richard Goldgewich ...
Topics: air pollution, business, fishing, health, interview, Mexico, oceans, Peru (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Can't See the Trees, Either		16 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Can't See the Trees, Either Spring is here, and all across the country, the first pale green leaves are appearing on trees. But if you live in an urban area, you may be lucky to see such a sight: During the past 15 years, the quantity of trees in many U.S. cities has dropped by almost a third, while paved areas have increased by 20 percent, according t ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, international government agencies, land stewardship, Mexico (all these topics)

Made to Border		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Made to Border Mexico and the U.S. shook hands Friday on a 10-year agreement to fight pollution along their shared 2,000-mile border, while some enviros contended that without money behind the deal, it won't make a real dent in the region's many problems. The intent is to reduce air pollution, protect water supplies, and prevent pesticide contamination in the border area, which is home to almost 12 mil ...
Topics: Mexico, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Spirited Away		26 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Spirited Away In a move that could set a precedent for a new kind of conservation effort, communal landowners in Mexico turned over an unspoiled island to the federal government. The $3.3 million deal was designed to protect the island, Espiritu Santo, from tourist development. The Manhattan-sized island, which is located 20 miles off the coast of La Paz on the Baja peninsula and is home to one of the region's most prist ...
Topics: land stewardship, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Energy, education, Mexico, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Borderline Insanity		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, population, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

The Truck Stops There		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops There In a setback for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court yesterday halted a federal plan to permit thousands of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, calling instead for environmental reviews that could take up to three years. In November, President Bush approved the entry of 30,000 Mexican trucks per year, citing ob ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, globalization, Mexico, North America, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Highway Robber Mexico City's mayor plans to reduce pollution by building more roads	Simeon Tegel	15 Jan 2003	Main Dish
Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has come a long way in the last decade -- too far, some environmentalists would argue. O, brador. Photo: Gobierno del Distrito Federal. In February 1996, AMLO (as the Mexican press calls him) was arguably the country's most prominent environmentalist, organizing a string of high-profile protests in his native Tabasco, in southeastern Mexico ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Highway Robber		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Mexico, placemaking (all these topics)

The Gas They Pass		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Gas They Pass In other news from the Golden State, California's two Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, have introduced legislation that would prevent energy companies in Mexico from using Californian natural gas in their plants near the California-Mexico border unless those plants complied with the state's strict air-quality standards. The legislation w ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Mexico, politics (all these topics)

Flippering Out		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Flippering Out In a lawsuit made public late last week, Earth Island Institute and other environmental organizations have sued the U.S. government for relaxing labeling standards for "dolphin-safe" tuna. The suit stems from a decision by the U.S. Commerce Department to classify as dolphin-safe a previously prohibited method of fishing -- in which dolph ...
Topics: Department of Commerce, environmental justice, marine life, Mexico, politics, United States (all these topics)

Rebel Without a Forest		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Rebel Without a Forest The state of Chiapas, in southeastern Mexico, is home to the last remaining stands of rainforest in the nation -- and also to almost half a million impoverished people, many of them living on the brink of starvation. In the past, the forest has been ravaged by monied interests, such as foreign companies looking to cut down the region's mahogany and cedar trees; now, the region's ...
Topics: Mexico, politics, population, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Changing Their Tuna		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Changing Their Tuna In other marine news, a new report released by the federal government has found that dolphin populations in the Pacific Ocean are failing to recover from years of tuna fishing, and that some 3,000 dolphins are still killed by tuna boats every year. The report, by the U.S. Commerce Department ...
Topics: Colombia, Department of Commerce, international government agencies, marine life, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Southwest, United States, Venezuela (all these topics)

I'll Have No Truck With That		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Have No Truck With That An unlikely partnership of environmental, labor, and trucking groups filed for an emergency injunction yesterday to prevent the Bush administration from allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, claiming that doing so would worsen U.S. air quality. Last week, in compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bush called an end to 20-year-ol ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Sand Witches		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sand Witches Growing demand for concrete and asphalt in southern California in the last three years is scarring Baja California's once-sandy riverbeds. As much as 2 million tons of sand are being excavated, both legally and illegally, each year from Baja and then sent north to help with construction projects in the U.S. Eroding riverbanks, flooding, and the destruction of important wildlife habitat are le ...
Topics: Mexico, mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

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