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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Bread Basket Case What if the Midwest stopped trying to feed the world and started focusing on itself?	Tom Philpott	01 Nov 2006	Victual Reality
In Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," a sailor contemplates the paradox of thirst amid a literal sea of water. "Water, water everywhere," he famously laments, "nor any drop to drink." Is the sun setting on Midwest farming, or can it be saved by the dawn of a new model? Photo: iStockphoto Rural Midwesterners can likely identify w ...
Topics: agriculture, food, local food, Midwest, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Under the Radar FAA shuts down work on proposed wind farms		02 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Under the Radar FAA shuts down work on proposed wind farms The Federal Aviation Administration has shut down work on at least 15 Midwest wind farms pending ... wait for it ... more research. Last year, Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), a critic of the Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound, added an amendment to a military spending bill directing the Defense Department to study wind turbines' effec ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, Midwest, news, wind power (all these topics)

They Put the 'Dies' In 'Subsidies' Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' traced back to farm subsidies		17 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
They Put the "Dies" In "Subsidies" Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" traced back to farm subsidies You know that massive "dead zone" that shows up every year in the Gulf of Mexico? The oxygen-starved, life-free patch of water about the size of, oh, Connecticut? That's your tax dollars at work. The zone ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Working Group, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Midwest, news, toxics (all these topics)

It Takes a Six-State Caucus to Raise a Child Midwest states announce effort to protect children from eco-hazards		02 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
It Takes a Six-State Caucus to Raise a Child Midwest states announce effort to protect children from eco-hazards Youngsters in six Midwestern states may soon be safer from environmental dangers ranging from pesticide use in schools to toxic fumes from school-bus tailpipes. Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin lawmakers in the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators have agreed to work together to create ...
Topics: Midwest, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Hot Spots You Won't Want to Visit With Feds Slow to Tackle Mercury Pollution, State Leaders Step Up		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, health, Midwest, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment		18 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Kill Bill! Final Version of Energy Bill Is Bad News for the Environment After many weeks of pork-barrel politics conducted behind closed doors, Republican negotiators yesterday released a final version of the first big energy bill to emerge from Congress in more than a decade -- and it's a doozy. The package, which contains loads of subsidies for industry and loads of bad news for ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, energy, Midwest, nuclear power, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Baby, We Use Corn to Run House and Senate Reach Agreement Over Ethanol in Energy Bill		06 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Baby, We Use Corn to Run House and Senate Reach Agreement Over Ethanol in Energy Bill Clearing one of the last major hurdles on the way to a final energy bill, negotiators from the House and Senate agreed yesterday on most parts of a plan to almost double the use of ethanol by 2012 and provide a new tax credit for diesel fuels that are blended with soybeans or other farm p ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, Midwest, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops Lakes and streams in New England have been slow to recover from the ill effects of acid rain, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The regional reduction in acid rain lagged 10 percent behind the national rate of 40 percent in the 1990s; more worrisome, the number of "acidic systems" in ...
Topics: lakes, land degradation, Midwest, New England, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US EPA (all these topics)

The Science of the Lambs		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Science of the Lambs It ain't easy being a scientist in farm country: Researchers studying the health effects of agricultural pollution say they are being silenced by fearful superiors and harassed by individual farmers, farm groups, and even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which funds and controls much of the research ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, health, Iowa, Midwest, North Carolina, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Summer Buggin'		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Summer Buggin' Think of it as good news in bad packaging: The swarms of mayflies that are coating Midwestern towns this summer are a sign that the region's waterways -- most notably the Mississippi River -- are healthier than they've been in decades. The flies don't bite or sting; they just mate and die, all in the course of one day, and they do so in such large vol ...
Topics: education, Midwest, Mississippi River, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Death to Coughy		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Death to Coughy Almost 6,000 people will die prematurely from respiratory illness due to emissions from power plants owned by eight utility companies that the Clinton administration sued for violating the Clean Air Act, according to a private report released yesterday. In addition to the deaths, the report predicted that the pollution would lead to 140,000 asthma attacks and 14,000 ca ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Midwest, politics, pollution and waste, South (all these topics)

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