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Headline	Author	Published	Section
As Long As the Sox Are OK Study says climate threatens Northeast icons like lobsters and foliage		13 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
As Long As the Sox Are OK Study says climate threatens Northeast icons like lobsters and foliage Imagine the Northeast without lobsters, snow, cranberries, and colorful foliage. Without that, you'd have -- what, white churches and crusty old lumberjacks? But all those natural icons are at risk from climate change, says a report the Union of Concerned Scientists put ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, New England, New York, news (all these topics)

What?! I've Always Been a Fan of Wilderness! Bush protects wildlands in New Mexico, New England		15 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
What?! I've Always Been a Fan of Wilderness! Bush protects wildlands in New Mexico, New England Back in 2004, the Bush administration tried to clear the way for energy drilling next to the nation's largest Boy Scout camp in Valle Vidal, N.M. The drilling never commenced, in large part thanks to resistance from ranchers, hunters, environmentalists, 17 local governments, three chambers of commerce, all of the state ...
Topics: New England, New Mexico, news, wilderness (all these topics)

A Long and Windy Road Compromise in Congress keeps Cape Wind project above water		22 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
A Long and Windy Road Compromise in Congress keeps Cape Wind project above water The beleaguered Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound is keeping its head above water, thanks to good old-fashioned compromise. A provision to allow the Massachusetts governor to veto the planned wind project was holding up a Coast Guard reauthorization bill in Congress; a new version of the legislation drops th ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, New England, news, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Lightning in a Bottle Bottled-water companies spur fights over water rights in Eastern states		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Lightning in a Bottle Bottled-water companies spur fights over water rights in Eastern states Water-rights battles, long the domain of Western states, are now being fought in the Eastern U.S., thanks to the bottled-water industry. In 1980, Americans drank less than three gallons of bottled water per capita annually; today, the number tops 26 gallons. Activists worry that large-scale water withdrawals deplete loca ...
Topics: Maine, New England, news, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Electric Tide Tidal-energy project could come to Nantucket Sound		13 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
The Electric Tide Tidal-energy project could come to Nantucket Sound Nantucket Sound and Cape Cod in Massachusetts are awash in alt-energy proposals: in addition to two offshore wind projects (with which loyal Grist readers are all too familiar), a third developer is now considering a tidal-energy project off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. Seven other sites across the U.S. are also being considered for t ...
Topics: Massachusetts, New England, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Cape of Good Hope Cape Wind outlook better after Bush administration voices support		08 May 2006	Daily Grist
Cape of Good Hope Cape Wind outlook better after Bush administration voices support The controversial Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound has found new allies in a strange place: the Bush administration. On Thursday, Undersecretary of Energy David Garman sent a letter urging Congress to drop a measure that would allow the Massachusetts governor (currently Mitt Romney, a Cape Wind ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, New England, news, politics, wind power (all these topics)

There Once Was a Man From ... Alaska? Nantucket Sound wind farm could be doomed by Don Young amendment		27 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
There Once Was a Man From ... Alaska? Nantucket Sound wind farm could be doomed by Don Young amendment There's plenty of local opposition to the controversial Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, but the final blow (ha!) may come from an Alaskan. After the House and Senate passed versions of a Coast Guard budget bill, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) introduced an amendment to extend the distance between offshor ...
Topics: energy, New England, news, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Mapled Crusaders Community forests help revitalize New England towns	Wayne Curtis	23 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Beyond a set of granite gates on a hillside in Rumford, Maine, a lost city sits amid silver maples and oaks, just across the river from a sprawling paper mill. It's called Strathglass Park, and it's a vestige of an experiment in corporate benevolence. Designed in 1904 by noted architect Cass Gilbert, who later designed the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, t ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, local politics, New England, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, wilderness (all these topics)

Dismember the Maine Rural Maine residents divided as spring-water bottler moves in		09 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Dismember the Maine Rural Maine residents divided as spring-water bottler moves in An international corporation descending on a rural town, bent on extracting natural resources. Africa? South America? Nope: New England. Nestl� Waters North America Inc., purveyors of Poland Spring water, is prospecting for new sources of "blue gold" in the western Maine wilderness. ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Maine, New England, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Big Mess on Campus Widespread Environmental Violations Found at Colleges		07 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Big Mess on Campus Widespread Environmental Violations Found at Colleges Colleges and universities are normally thought of as hotbeds of environmental activism -- but now, it turns out that some of them are hot with hazardous waste. Twelve colleges in New York and New Jersey have been hit with a total of $2 million in fines for violating environmental regulations; an earlier sweep of New England coll ...
Topics: New England, New Jersey, New York, pollution and waste (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)

Homeland Defense		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental non-government organizations, New England, political groups, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Delay O' Fish		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Delay O' Fish In welcome news for commercial fishing operations in New England, a federal judge has ordered an eight-month delay in implementing drastic cutbacks in fishing levels while scientists review federal estimates of the region's fish population. In September, government scientists acknowledged that the accuracy of fish-count studies on which the original cutbacks were based might have been compromised by a ...
Topics: Maine, marine life, New England, oceans (all these topics)

New Source, Same Old Crap		25 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
New Source, Same Old Crap In the most far-reaching move to relax air pollution rules in years, the Bush administration on Friday gave refineries new flexibility to upgrade their facilities without having to reduce emissions. The U.S. EPA also outlined proposals that would give aging coal-fired power plants a similar advantage - ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Maryland, New England, New Jersey, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Think of New England		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Think of New England While tens of thousands of people from all over the world gather in South Africa to wrangle over global environmental issues, a far smaller coalition is meeting quietly this week to ensure that New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers follow through on their promise to combat climate change. The Connecticut Climate Action Group, a member of ...
Topics: climate, environmental non-government organizations, New England, renewable energy (all these topics)

Teach a Man to Fish and He'll Have No Job Security		29 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Teach a Man to Fish and He'll Have No Job Security New England's fishing industry will be substantially scaled back under new federal rules announced Friday. The regulations, which reduce the number of days fishers can work, close key fishing areas, and limit the size of fish that may be caught, were met with dismay by the industry. After more than 400 years of large-scale fishing, the region's fish stocks bottomed out in 1994, pro ...
Topics: marine life, New England (all these topics)

Live Tree or Die		22 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Live Tree or Die In what will be one of the largest nonprofit land purchases in New England history, the federal and New Hampshire governments, the Trust for Public Land, and the Nature Conservancy are poised to buy 171,500 acres of land along the New Hampshire-Canada border from the International ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, land stewardship, logging, Nature Conservancy, New England, New Hampshire, Northeast, toxics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Running a Groundfish		04 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Running a Groundfish The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service is breaking the law by failing to sufficiently protect groundfish in New England, a federal judge ruled last Friday. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said she would issue an order with specific directions for how the agency should stop overfishing, because the NMFS can't be trusted to enforce the ...
Topics: environmental justice, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, New England, politics (all these topics)

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