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True Grime Stories Rochester Investigates Link Between Lead and Crime		11 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
True Grime Stories Rochester Investigates Link Between Lead and Crime If you read yesterday's review of Six Modern Plagues in Grist, you know that environmental problems can be linked to health issues. But can they be linked to crime? That's what officials in Rochester, N.Y., are trying to determine by investigating the relationship between violent behavior and lead poisoning, which can cause neurological damage and p ...
Topics: health, New York, pollution and waste (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)

Poor Judgment Company Warns Poor and Minorities They Will Suffer if N-Plant Is Closed		24 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Poor Judgment Company Warns Poor and Minorities They Will Suffer if N-Plant Is Closed The power company Entergy Nuclear Northeast is warning low-income and minority citizens in New York that more power plants will be built in their neighborhoods if the state's highly controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant is closed. Critics say the move is an inap ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, New York, politics (all these topics)

No Heir Apparent Until Air's Apparent Documents Show Sharp Dispute Took Place Over 9/11 Air Quality Information		10 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
No Heir Apparent Until Air's Apparent Documents Show Sharp Dispute Took Place Over 9/11 Air Quality Information Newly released government documents are finally providing Congressional Democrats with what they've been looking for: information about who was responsible for censoring data about Manhattan's air quality following the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, ...
Topics: air pollution, Council on Environmental Quality, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Suit to Kill California and Other States to Sue EPA over Greenhouse Gases		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Suit to Kill California and Other States to Sue EPA over Greenhouse Gases California intends to sue the U.S. EPA over the Bush administration's recent decision that the agency doesn't have the authority to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, Gov. Gray Davis (D) announced on Friday. Nine other states, including I ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, Illinois, New York, ozone, politics, Sierra Club, US EPA, Washington (all these topics)

Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities		02 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities Cities around the world could save billions of dollars on water-treatment plants if they dedicated resources to protecting nearby forests, which naturally filter and purify drinking water, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund and the World Bank. Researchers came to this conclusion after s ...
Topics: New York, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wilderness, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

To Make a Lung Story Short Clinton and Lieberman Push for Answers on Post-Sept. 11 Air Quality		27 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
To Make a Lung Story Short Clinton and Lieberman Push for Answers on Post-Sept. 11 Air Quality Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) yesterday demanded answers from President Bush about why New Yorkers were not given full information on air-pollution risks near Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Clinton and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) also called for a congress ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The New Zoo Thing The Wildlife Conservation Society takes the lead in making zoos sustainable	Ted Smalley Bowen	21 Aug 2003	Main Dish
Is it better to compost elephant dung or tap its energy with a methane generator? Will a ring-tailed lemur feel at home under energy-efficient lights? Sustainability at zoos is a tall order. The Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs New York City's zoos and aquarium, is increasingly turning its attention to these and other environmental quandaries. In addition to man ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, New York, wildlife (all these topics)

Ecotopia on the Hudson Lessons in environmentally friendly living from New York City	Alan Thein Durning	19 Aug 2003	Soapbox
In 1975, Ernest Callenbach published a slim book called Ecotopia, in which the Northwest secedes from the United States and establishes itself as an ecological paradise. The text became a counterculture classic, and the term "Ecotopia" entered the lexicon, embodying the American tendency to think of the continent's forested far coast as a land of recycling bins and spo ...
Topics: New York, New York City, Northwest, placemaking, Portland, Seattle (all these topics)

Green Apple Northwest Could Learn a Green Lesson from New York City		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: New York, Northwest (all these topics)

Grid and Bear It Conservation, Alternative Energy Get Boost from Blackout		18 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Grid and Bear It Conservation, Alternative Energy Get Boost from Blackout In most of the U.S. and Canada, last Thursday's history-making blackout is little more than a memory: The lights are on, the AC is cranking, transportation systems are running, and it's business as usual. Still, some officials, including New York Gov. George Pataki (R) and Ontario Premier Ernie Eves, warned people that they might feel ...
Topics: Canada, New York, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

The 411 on 9/11 White House Pressed EPA to Say Air Was Safe After 9/11		11 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The 411 on 9/11 White House Pressed EPA to Say Air Was Safe After 9/11 In the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks, the White House pressured the U.S. EPA to issue unsupported statements reassuring the public that air quality around ground zero was safe, according to an investigation by the EPA's inspector general. Also, as a result of "influence" from the White House Council on Environmental Qua ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Tunnel at the End of the Tunnel		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tunnel at the End of the Tunnel A coalition that includes the Sierra Club, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and the Abyssinian Baptist Church is backing a project to build a new tunnel under New York Harbor to reduce truck traffic in the city. The proposed rail freight tunnel would divert almost a million truck-trips per year away from the George Washington Bridge; it is supported by business, l ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, placemaking, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Green Giant? The rebuilt World Trade Center complex could be a model of sustainable building	Amanda Griscom	28 May 2003	Powers That Be
Early one morning last month, over fresh-squeezed orange juice and silver platters of breakfast treats, a coterie of New York's leading architects, developers, politicians, and environmentalists convened in a chandeliered room at the Embassy Suites hotel in lower Manhattan for a conference entitled "Greening Our Downtown." The keynote speaker was Gov. George Pataki ...
Topics: New York, renewable energy (all these topics)

Go, West, Young Man		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Go, West, Young Man Jason West, a 26-year-old member of the Green Party, is shaking things up in New Paltz, N.Y., where he was elected mayor earlier this month -- an outcome that has the local political establishment in a tizzy. West ran on an ambitious environmental platform that rallied support from many students at the State University of New York at New ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, local politics, New York, news, politics (all these topics)

Paper Promises A review of Bronx Ecology and Tilting at Mills	William Shutkin	14 May 2003	Arts and Minds
These are tough times for environmentalists, what with the Bush administration's frontal assault on environmental policy, drastic funding cuts and layoffs in state environmental programs, and the aftermath of a war in Iraq fought, in the opinion of many, over our nation's undying addiction to oil. It's thus fitting, if somewhat disheartening, that along come two books whose central message is that it's n ...
Topics: business, green living, New York, NRDC, recycling (all these topics)

They Brought Bad Things to Life		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
They Brought Bad Things to Life Meanwhile, in another legal victory on the other side of the country, a federal court yesterday rejected General Electric's constitutional challenge to the U.S. EPA's power to force the company to clean up the Hudson River. From the 1940s to the 1970s, GE dumped 1.3 million pounds of PCBs into the upper Hudson, where 500,000 to 700,00 ...
Topics: business, Hudson River, New York, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Cleaner Smoke Stacki Thanks to Pataki		27 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Cleaner Smoke Stacki Thanks to Pataki New York state now boasts the nation's strictest pollution controls on power plants, thanks to measures approved yesterday by Gov. George Pataki (R). The announcement was met with joy by environmentalists, who had been pushing for the tougher rules for upwards of three years, but the electricity industry said the move would cost custumers while doing little to redu ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Urban Bright		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Urban Bright In a groundbreaking move, New York state has developed guidelines for ensuring that low-income and minority neighborhoods are not disproportionately subjected to environmental health risks by developers. The environmental-justice guidelines were drafted by the state Department of Environmental Conservation to limit the ability of developers to build unpopular and potentially hazardous pr ...
Topics: environmental justice, New York, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Breathing Sleazy		17 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Breathing Sleazy The U.S. EPA assured New Yorkers that the smoky, dusty air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe in the days immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but an independent federal investigation has found plenty of evidence to the contrary. In making its claims, the EPA assumed a cancer risk level 100 times greater than what is normally considered "acceptable" for public ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, US EPA (all these topics)

Global Village		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, Iraq, Middle East, New York, New Zealand, United Nations (all these topics)

Letters, Oh We've Got Letters		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, New York, placemaking, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Great Build		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Great Build It's not clear if the problem is one of economics or one of spin, but either way, environmentally conscious building design is a concept that hasn't quite caught on. The technology and expertise to build "green" structures have been around for decades; now, a movement is underway to sell developers on the economic benefits of green building. In an ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, green living, New York, placemaking (all these topics)

Glow Worms		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Glow Worms It's been a busy week when it comes to nuclear security. Here in the U.S., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed to overhaul its management of the nation's atomic power plants in response to concern that it failed to rapidly detect potentially disastrous damage to a reactor in Ohio. Yesterday, the NRC adopted almost all 50 recommendations that s ...
Topics: energy, Greenpeace, health, New York, nuclear power, Ohio, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Subway Diet		16 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Subway Diet The threat of a transit strike in New York City has been staved off -- for the moment, at least -- but New Yorkers still have reason to worry about their public transportation system. The more than 4 million people who use the Metropolitan Transit Authority pay more to keep it running than do mass-transit users in any other place in the country. Bus and subway fare costs $1.50 a ride; add it up, and the riders pay 54 perce ...
Topics: New York, placemaking (all these topics)

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