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The Bottle Let Me Down Michigan Looks to Improve Its Recycling Record		23 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
The Bottle Let Me Down Michigan Looks to Improve Its Recycling Record When it comes to recycling, Michigan lags behind much of the nation, and state lawmakers say it's time to change that. Yesterday, a state Senate task force proposed spending $50 million to establish a recycling program and ban beverage containers from landfills. Funding for the project would come from a $3 ...
Topics: green living, Michigan, politics, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

What's Good for the Michigander Is Good for the Goose Lessons from the Great Lakes on how enviros can win votes and influence people	Keith Schneider	15 Oct 2003	Main Dish
Bush chats up Michiganders in Monroe. Photo: White House. President Bush swooped into Monroe, Mich., in mid-September for an appearance at one of the largest and most polluting coal-fired power plants in the world. As an exploration of his ideas about environmental policy, the visit was completely baffling. (Why go to such a filthy fa ...
Topics: Great Lakes, Michigan, politics (all these topics)

Detroit Yuck City Illegal Dumping Pushes Up Toxic Contamination in Great Lakes		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Detroit Yuck City Illegal Dumping Pushes Up Toxic Contamination in Great Lakes Toxic pollution in Great Lakes waterways has jumped 25 percent over the past six years, thanks at least in part to rampant illegal discharges from large industrial facilities and sewer plants. Meanwhile, government enforcement efforts on both the national and state levels are stagnating, meaning that most of t ...
Topics: energy, Great Lakes, Michigan, pollution and waste, state politics (all these topics)

The Kids Are Alright Michigan Creates Volunteer Corps to Monitor Waterways		03 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
The Kids Are Alright Michigan Creates Volunteer Corps to Monitor Waterways What do you do if you're a budget-strapped state with no money to pay for water-quality monitoring? Sign up the seventh graders, of course. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) signed an executive order this week to create the Clean Water Corps, which will enlist volunteers ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Michigan, rivers and watersheds, state politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Monroe Spin Doctorin' Bush pushes his Clear Skies plan -- and his electoral prospects -- at a notoriously dirty power plant	Amanda Griscom	17 Sep 2003	Muckraker
Bush talks to the masses in Michigan. Photo: White House. When President Bush set out on Monday to defend his recent New Source Review rollback and promote his energy bill and Clear Skies program, it was hard not to notice the peculiar setting he chose. Wearing a hardhat and safety glasses, the commander in chief mingled with a crowd of begoggl ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, Michigan, Muckraker, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Monroe Spin Doctorin' Bush Defends His Environmental Proposals in a Key Swing State		17 Sep 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Michigan, politics (all these topics)

Turf Wars Missouri, California Clash Over Air-Quality Plan		05 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Turf Wars Missouri, California Clash Over Air-Quality Plan A proposal to reduce air pollution from lawn mowers and other gas-powered outdoor equipment has set the stage for a battle between the staid Midwestern state of Missouri and the kooky Californians. To help deal with the Golden State's chronic air-quality problem, the California Air Resource ...
Topics: air pollution, business, California, commercial and industry organizations, Michigan, Missouri, politics (all these topics)

Wow We		30 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Wow We For the second time in the last two weeks, a major utility company has reached a settlement with the U.S. EPA to clean up its act under the New Source Review rules of the federal Clean Air Act. Last week, it was the Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Resources; now, it's We Energies, a Wisconsin electric company that will spend as much as $600 million to upgrade plants and reduce emissions in ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, energy, Michigan, US EPA, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Off Balance		18 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Off Balance Earning kudos from environmentalists, the Michigan Department of Agriculture has banned the use of Balance Pro on the state's 2.2 million acres of corn fields. Balance Pro is a powerful herbicide and a possible carcinogen that has contaminated surface and groundwater in other states, in some cases lingering in waterways 10 months after a single application. The Michigan decision marks another blow by the Great ...
Topics: Michigan, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Bottlestar Galactica		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Bottlestar Galactica If Michigan environmentalists get their way, the state will dramatically expand its bottle law to cover 750 million additional beverage containers per year, including juice, water, and tea bottles that currently wind up as litter or in landfills. The state's 1976 bottle law, which quickly cleaned up roadside litter, is both popular and successful. Every ...
Topics: business, green living, Michigan, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

The Dow of Poo		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Dow of Poo Outgoing Michigan Gov. John Engler (R) is trying to relax the state standard for dioxin pollution, a move that unhappy environmentalists say is designed to minimize Dow Chemical's financial liability for future cleanup efforts. The proposed change, which has also angered Gov.-elect Jennifer Granholm (D) ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, health, Hudson River, Michigan, New York, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Hitting the Bottle Michigan residents fight for control of the state's water	Keith Schneider	23 Oct 2002	Main Dish
Until two years ago, the 40,550 generally well-behaved Midwesterners of Mecosta County, Mich., regularly attended church, sent their children off to school on yellow buses, and never for a moment worried that their clean, freshwater supply would ever run dry. Mecosta County, after all, sits near the center of Michigan's lower peninsula, which itself sits at the center of the largest supply ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling, politics, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Hazing Ritual		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Hazing Ritual It might be officially nicknamed the Golden State, but sometimes, it's more like the Yellowish-Brown State: California continues to lead the U.S. in dirty air, with nearly twice as many "smog days" as any other state in the union, a recent report by an e ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental non-government organizations, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste, Texas (all these topics)

Michigan Seems Like a Nightmare to Me Now		29 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Michigan Seems Like a Nightmare to Me Now It's about 2,000 miles from Michigan to California -- and about a world away. Linked by market forces (California is the nation's biggest car market, Michigan the nation's biggest car manufacturer) but separated by cultural chasms, the relationship between the two states has always been rocky. Now, in the wake of last week's landmark Golden State legislation to limit car ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Michigan, ozone (all these topics)

Katie Alvord, author		15 Feb 2002	Dispatches
Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 15 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. Yesterday I heard a rumor that there's sap running in some of the local sugar maples. If that's true, it's highly unusual for February -- sap usually doesn't run until spring -- but we may have had enough unseasonably warm days this winter to confuse the trees. Even t ...
Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics)

Katie Alvord, author		14 Feb 2002	Dispatches
Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 14 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. I suppose Valentine's Day is an appropriate time to share a ride into town with my spouse. With today's trip we'll attend two appointments and run half a dozen errands. When we share rides to town, we often park in one central place, then walk to our various des ...
Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics)

Katie Alvord, author		13 Feb 2002	Dispatches
Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 13 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. I'm sitting at my computer in cozy slippers and my favorite sweatshirt, getting ready for another work-at-home day. Outside my window a few snowflakes drift down between bare gray maple branches and deep green spruce boughs, a calm contrast to yesterday's Arctic bl ...
Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics)

Katie Alvord, author		12 Feb 2002	Dispatches
Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 12 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. Snow is flying, the wind is howling, the temperature's dropping and I'm about to cycle an invigorating 11 miles into town. Once during a visit to our Congress member's office to urge support for alternatives to cars, I mentioned that I had snow tires on my bike. His ...
Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics)

Katie Alvord, author		11 Feb 2002	Dispatches
Katie Alvord is the author of Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile. She lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 11 Feb 2002 UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. It's Monday morning and I've just completed my regular commute: strolling from bedroom to office, a journey of 22 steps, in my slippers. I love wearing slippers to work. I'm a freelance writer and work at home, using telecommunications to access the rest of the world ...
Topics: cars, Dispatches, green living, Michigan (all these topics)

Girls Will Be Boys		30 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Girls Will Be Boys Environmental toxins are disrupting human biology at the most basic level: reproduction. That was the conclusion of researchers at Michigan State University, who found that men with higher levels of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were more like to father boys than girls. PCBs are known to cause sex-related defects in animals (although the researchers were quick to explain that boys ar ...
Topics: Great Lakes, health, Michigan, toxics (all these topics)

Hard of Huron		17 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Hard of Huron Michigan natural resources officials voted on Friday to lift a four-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling beneath Lakes Huron and Michigan. Supporters said the lake-bottom deposits would boost energy supplies in the U.S. while bringing the state royalty money that could be used to purchase public land. Critics said the risks of the drilling were too great, even th ...
Topics: Department of Natural Resources, Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling (all these topics)

The Great Brain Robbery		19 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Great Brain Robbery Eating fish tainted with PCBs may cause memory loss and brain damage in adults, according to a study of Michigan residents. The study by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the first to suggest that PCBs in fish may have health implications for all adults; state fish advisories until now have focused on protecting pregnant women, fetuses, and young children. Michigan ships ...
Topics: health, marine life, Michigan, toxics (all these topics)

Lake Mess Again A plan to drill under the Great Lakes is fracturing the Michigan Republican Party	Keith Schneider	29 Jun 2001	Main Dish
Only a few things really get Americans to sit up and pay attention. Oprah's weight. Ally's hair. And a rise in the price of gasoline. The latter, coupled with lucrative campaign contributions from the energy industry, is why President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney thought that an energy plan based on new drilling from the coast of Alaska to the coast of Florid ...
Topics: Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Michigan Seems Like a Scheme to Me Now Bush's attack on federal resources and rules was honed in the states	Keith Schneider	25 Apr 2001	Main Dish
It has been a busy few months of cutting costs, stifling regulations, and limiting government's reach for George W. Bush and his business allies. Now that Bush has halted U.S. efforts to solve global warming, sidelined rules to protect 60 million acres of wilderness, suspended new limits on arsenic in drinking water, and supported new drilling in the Arctic, ...
Topics: Michigan, politics (all these topics)

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