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D'oh! Rey: Me? USDA's Mark Rey drags feet on releasing info about forest policymaking	Amanda Griscom	06 Apr 2004	Muckraker
D'oh! Rey: Me? USDA's Mark Rey drags feet on releasing info about forest policymaking By Amanda Griscom 06 Apr 2004 Mark Rey. Photo: USFS. According to lawyers from Defenders of Wildlife, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, seems to be pulling some moves out of the Dick Cheney playbook -- the very same tricks of evasion and secrecy that have jeopardized the vice president's reputation in the fiasco surrounding his energy task force. Rey and his departm ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, logging, Muckraker, national forests, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Sticker Shocking The EPA has been misoverestimating the fuel economy of cars sold in the U.S., says enviro group	Amanda Griscom	02 Apr 2004	Muckraker
A whole lot of exaggerating going on. If you think the fuel economy of U.S. vehicles is dismal, well, you're right. Perhaps more right than you know. Official U.S. EPA statistics ascribe a pathetic average of 20.8 miles per gallon to the 2003 car fleet, about 6 percent lower than 15 years ago. The fleet averaged 22.1 mpg in 1987, before Americans got h ...
Topics: Bluewater Network, energy, fuel efficiency, Muckraker, placemaking, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

It's the Fuel Economy, Stupid Fuel economy grows as a campaign issue, making some Michigan Dems nervous	Amanda Griscom	31 Mar 2004	Muckraker
Gassing up. It seemed oddly off-message: John Kerry stood before an audience of thousands of California liberals yesterday at a rally at the University of California at San Diego, roasting the petroleum-hungry Bush administration for letting gas prices escalate. "I'll use real diplomacy to do what George Bush hasn't -- pressure OPEC to start providing more ...
Topics: economy, elections, energy, Muckraker, oil, politics (all these topics)

Mercury Uprising Bush's mercury proposal draws heat from both sides of the aisle	Amanda Griscom	30 Mar 2004	Muckraker
The Capitol is heating up over mercury. Photo: NIH. A handful of Beltway wags are contending that mercury is the new arsenic, the latest symbol of official disregard for environmental health. Their claim is lent credence by an ongoing flurry of controversies surrounding the Bush administration's plan for dealing with the toxic pollutant. A revealing article published in the Los Angel ...
Topics: mercury, Muckraker, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Frankly, They Do Give a Damn GOP pollster says voters want action on clean water	Amanda Griscom	24 Mar 2004	Muckraker
Some like it clean. Polling guru and GOP spinmeister Frank Luntz has uncovered a fact likely to rattle and bewilder some Republicans in Congress: Americans prefer clean water. An emphatic memo [PDF] sent out by the Luntz Research Companies in February spotlighted Americans' intense feelings on the subject: Young and old, Democrat AND Republican, the demand for clean water is universa ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Duck Blind Scalia denies bias in Cheney case, but enviros say he looks as guilty as ever	Amanda Griscom	23 Mar 2004	Muckraker
Back on the Cheney gang. According to Sierra Club lawyers, Vice President Dick Cheney has been exceeding the recommended dosage of political Viagra. Last year, they sued him for metaphorically bedding the energy executives whom critics charge all but wrote the Bush administration's energy policy. Now they say he's been romancing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who will ...
Topics: litigation, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

H2Oops EPA exaggerated claims about clean drinking water	Amanda Griscom	16 Mar 2004	Muckraker
That sinking feeling. The U.S. EPA claims it is successfully protecting the nation's drinking-water supplies -- but that claim seems to have sprung a leak. Earlier this month, the EPA's Office of the Inspector General accused officials in the agency of consistently making bogus statements about improvements in the quality of America's tap water. The charges are spelled out in a tellingly titled report: &q ...
Topics: health, Muckraker, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Party Favors Bush drilling plan ticks off many New Mexicans and tickles GOP donors pink	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is facing off against the Department of Interior and its Bureau of Land Management over a plan to allow oil and gas drilling on his state's pristine Otero Mesa -- an expanse of desert grassland which the governor, with a touch of dramatic flair, has called "the West's ANWR." Don't mesa 'round with New Mexico. Photo: Nathan Newcomer, N ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, Muckraker, New Mexico, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine EPA and BLM fight over how to protect groundwater from massive Nevada mine	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
In an age when corporate America can't see past its quarterly results, it's hard to imagine how the world's largest gold producer is going to manage the environmental damage caused by one of its mines hundreds or even thousands of years into the future. Future site of the Phoenix mine. Photo: Lighthawk, Great Basin Mine Watch. That's the challenge Newmont Mining Corp. faces as ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining, Muckraker, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

A Twitch Before Dying? Energy bill may be gaining ground, but prospects are still dicey	Amanda Griscom	09 Mar 2004	Muckraker
It's a gas, gas, gas. U.S. oil prices jumped to their highest levels since the Iraq war this week, hitting $37.51 a barrel, for an average of about $1.74 a gallon -- unwelcome news for those feeling the pinch at the pump, but great news for supporters of the newly overhauled but still-stalled energy bill. "They've been waiting for something like this -- a blackout, a spik ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

And Justice for All Bush EPA dilutes meaning of environmental justice	Amanda Griscom	04 Mar 2004	Muckraker
The U.S. EPA has failed to integrate environmental justice research into the development of its policies, says a report [PDF] released on Monday by the EPA's inspector general (IG), who operates an independent office within the agency. Play at your own risk. Photo: Environmental Defense. More troubling still, the EPA under President Bush seems to have watered down the very definition of environmen ...
Topics: environmental justice, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Big Duddy Missouri River management plan to be election-year hot potato	Amanda Griscom	03 Mar 2004	Muckraker
Basically, the Army Corps has flipped us the bird -- at a time when it's supposed to be saving the birds." Hello, Big Muddy. Photo: FWS. That's how Eric Eckl, spokesperson for American Rivers, sums up the Army Corps of Engineers' new plan to manage the Missouri River, released on Friday to blistering protest and threats of a new round of lawsuits from the environmental community. The p ...
Topics: American Rivers, Army Corps of Engineers, dams, energy, Missouri, Missouri River, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

She Bothered Me With Science The Bush administration's scientific distortions threaten the environment	Amanda Griscom	02 Mar 2004	Muckraker
In late February, after a star-studded, bipartisan lineup of Nobel laureates and leading American scientists accused the Bush administration of misusing and distorting science to serve political ends, the initial response from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. was flat-out denial. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy chief John Marburger dismissed the scientist ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics, scientific research, US EPA (all these topics)

Savage Salvage Federal agencies at odds over salvage-logging proposal in Oregon	Amanda Griscom	26 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Siskiyou-hoo! Photo: BLM. A U.S. Forest Service proposal to conduct a massive salvage-logging operation in Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest has come up against a surprising critic -- the U.S. EPA. While the Bush administration has advertised the plan as a necessary measure to protect the future health of the forest -- which was hit by the Biscuit fire, the largest wildfire in the nation ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, logging, Muckraker, national forests, Oregon, politics, US EPA, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Pentagoners Apocalyptic Pentagon report on global warming could spur action on Capitol Hill	Amanda Griscom	25 Feb 2004	Muckraker
We're having a heat wave ... Image: NOAA. A hair-raising Pentagon report [PDF] on the potentially imminent and colossal national security threat posed by climate change has been making its way around the Internet since its release in late January, and this week it picked up considerable speed. Fortune magazine was the first major news outlet to cover the report; the "Cli ...
Topics: climate, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, national security, politics, US Military (all these topics)

Spoilent Green Nader's presidential bid is eliciting heated rhetoric from enviros	Amanda Griscom	24 Feb 2004	Muckraker
See Ralph run. Ralph Nader -- that alternately beloved and begrudged gadfly -- buzzed back onto the political scene Sunday with an announcement that he intends to mount yet another presidential campaign. Mainstream environmentalists, among others desperate to oust President Bush, were not amused. Speaking on Meet the Press, Nader sounded a familiar battle cry when he vowed to take ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, League of Conservation Voters, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

How to Succeed Without Really Trying North Dakota 'reduces' pollution by measuring it differently	Amanda Griscom	19 Feb 2004	Muckraker
North Dakota "reduces" pollution by measuring it differently By Amanda Griscom 19 Feb 2004 From Badlands to worse. Photo: NPS. To Theodore Roosevelt, a man who battled chronic asthma, the remote Badlands of North Dakota were as beloved for their fresh air as for their dramatic views and big game. "Wildflowers and sagebrush spiced the clean, dry North Dakotan breeze. Roosevelt's asthmatic lungs rejoiced in this air, as did his soul in the sheer ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, North Dakota, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Snow News Day The Yellowstone snowmobile controversy gets more convoluted by the minute	Amanda Griscom	18 Feb 2004	Muckraker
The past few days have brought two more odd legal twists and turns to the Yellowstone snowmobile saga, which is becoming more litigiously complex and far-flung than a John Grisham novel. She's got a ticket to ride. Photo: NPS. The story is essentially a protracted game of legal Ping-Pong: The Clinton administration served the ball when it ordered a phaseout of snowmobiles in Yell ...
Topics: Muckraker, national parks, placemaking, politics, West (all these topics)

Hot Spot and Bothered With feds slow to tackle mercury pollution, state leaders step up	Amanda Griscom	12 Feb 2004	Muckraker
The Mercury Mutiny is gaining force on the state level, galvanizing some unlikely rebels. Eastern states including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York were the first to jump into the fray, launching local efforts to reduce mercury pollution in response to the Bush administration's widely criticized plan for dealing with mercury. Then last week, a new regional e ...
Topics: East Coast, health, mercury, Muckraker, Northeast, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

Parody on Parade An improbable plan would use Arctic Refuge drilling proceeds to fund transportation projects	Amanda Griscom	11 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Beltway insiders waited with bated breath yesterday to see if Sen. Peter Domenici (R-N.M.) would succeed in tacking his stalled-out energy bill onto the huge highway transportation bill now wending its way through Congress. The consensus from his Senate Republican colleagues? No deal. In need of refuge. Photo: FWS. But another cockamamie plan that would min ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Court and Spark Bush nominates eco-hostile lobbyist to federal appeals court	Amanda Griscom	10 Feb 2004	Muckraker
My, oh, Myers. Photo: DOI. Environmental advocates are bristling over President Bush's nomination of William G. Myers III to the San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, calling Myers the most anti-environment judicial candidate the president has ever put forward. With rhetoric like that being thrown about, don't be surprised if Myers becomes the latest in a string of right-wi ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Exxon and On and On First-of-its-kind report lambastes ExxonMobil for CO2 emissions	Amanda Griscom	06 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Warning signs. Photo: Greenpeace. ExxonMobil and its predecessor companies stretching back to Standard Oil were responsible for a whopping 5 percent of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions between 1882 and 2002, thanks to the companies' operations and the burning of their products, according to a recent study put out by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies an ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, Muckraker, oil (all these topics)

Unplugged? Worries over federal deficit could dim prospects for energy bill	Amanda Griscom	05 Feb 2004	Muckraker
Oh, the irony. The same week Fortune magazine released a special "Climate Collapse" issue warning its double-starched readers of "growing evidence" that "abrupt climate change may well occur in the not-too-distant future," Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have been attempting yet again to push through a controversial energy bill that would only intensify th ...
Topics: climate, economy, energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Co-op Cop-Out Token enforcement of Clean Air Act provision smacks of political opportunism	Amanda Griscom	04 Feb 2004	Muckraker
This election year, U.S. EPA chief Mike Leavitt is playing the part of a Clean Air Act tough guy. Leavitt, left, with Bush, is acting tough. Photo: White House. For three years, the Bush administration and the power industry have been happily entangled in a session of mutual back-scratching -- utilities have been generous contributors to Bush and his Republican cohorts, and th ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

MTBE-Free or Die EPA attempts to defuse MTBE issue in New Hampshire	Amanda Griscom	28 Jan 2004	Muckraker
Folks who paid close attention to the speeches of New Hampshire primary victor John Kerry in recent weeks would have noticed an emphasis on MTBE -- a gasoline additive that makes fuel burn more efficiently and cleanly, but is suspected to be carcinogenic* and widely known to contaminate groundwater. To outsiders, this may have seemed like a strange environmental issue to spotlight -- why not focus o ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, New Hampshire, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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