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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)

Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous, and Recycled		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Lifestyles of the Rich, Famous, and Recycled Having dispensed with the good news, we can now move on to the goofy news: Danny Seo, the young fashion guru who has been featured in Grist's pages before as the Martha Stewart of the environmental movement, is packing up his New York life and moving to Los Angeles to position himself as an "environmental lifestyle consultant" to the stars. In that unlike ...
Topics: California, green living, New York, recycling (all these topics)

Bright Lights on the Big City		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Bright Lights on the Big City Residents of New York, rejoice: Your city might be noisy, crowded, and crass, but it's also the most compact megalopolis in the U.S. That's right -- the Big Apple ranked number one on Smart Growth America's recently released list compar ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Hawaii, health, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, placemaking, pollution and waste, Rhode Island (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)

Schoolhouse Rocked		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Schoolhouse Rocked Graduate students holding teaching and research positions at Cornell University announced late last week that they would not join the United Auto Workers, bucking a growing trend toward grad student unionization. According to Allen MacKenzie, co-founder of At What Cost?, a student group opposed to unionizing, many students disliked the UAW's political views, especially regarding t ...
Topics: New York, non-government organizations, political groups (all these topics)

Empire State Green Building		17 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Empire State Green Building A landmark sustainable building project in lower Manhattan is back on track after being delayed due to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Construction resumed recently on 20 River Terrace, one of the world's first green residential skyscrapers, which will be located in Battery Park City a stone's throw from Ground Zero. The 27-story tower, which will include solar panels, purified air, super-insulated wall ...
Topics: green living, New York (all these topics)

You're Out of the Club		01 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
You're Out of the Club With the November elections nearing and tensions heating up in the New York gubernatorial race, the Sierra Club's 40,000-member Atlantic Chapter voted last weekend to endorse Democratic candidate Carl McCall over Republican incumbent George Pataki. But not everyone's happy about the vote: Chapter Chair Aaron Mair is arguing that the vote was informed more by party politics than by a close examination ...
Topics: New York, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

The Smog Monster		30 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
The Smog Monster Forty-nine years ago, in November 1953, New York City was stricken with a six-day siege of air pollution so fierce that it killed or contributed to the deaths of 25 to 30 residents a day. That was before scientists really understood what was darkening the skies and choking people on the street. In some respects, experts say, that terrible week resembles another one -- the week of Sept. 11, 2001. Despite int ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York (all these topics)

Not Breathing Easy		09 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Not Breathing Easy As the one-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon nears, some people are trying to assess the impact of the tragedy on the environment. In New York Harbor, biologists are studying the effects on aquatic life of the smoke and building fragments that drifted into the Hudson River. The debris had high levels of dioxins, PCBs, and metals. Meanwhile, New York City residents ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, toxics (all these topics)

Totally Trashed		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Totally Trashed Every day, New Yorkers generate about 11,000 tons of residential trash. Ever since former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) shut down the city's only operating landfill, Fresh Kills, the city has been plagued by the question of what to do with its garbage. For the last year, trash has been hauled on trucks to incinerators and out-of-state landfills. Now Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) has a new plan: to adapt ...
Topics: New York, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Big Plan on Campus Universities combat climate change	Shelley Smithson	31 Jul 2002	Main Dish
"Do it in the dark!" That's the rallying cry at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., where an ambitious campaign is under way to cut greenhouse gases. Sure, climate change activism -- conserving energy, using renewable fuels, and constructing eco-friendly buildings -- isn't as sexy as marching against Vietnam or burning bras. But in an increasingly warm world, working to reverse global climate chang ...
Topics: campus activism, climate, education, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, United States (all these topics)

Charms to Soothe the Savage Breast		30 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Charms to Soothe the Savage Breast Ten years ago, a group of women headed to Washington, D.C., from their homes in Long Island, N.Y., to demand answers from the government about why so many women from their area were afflicted with breast cancer. Ultimately, the energy, dedication, and political savvy of those women rocketed the Long Island breast cancer story into the national spotlight and mobilized a movement to look for enviro ...
Topics: health, New York, toxics (all these topics)

Safety Dance, Part One How secure are U.S. nuclear power plants?	Shelley Smithson	26 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Roughly 40 miles from the rubble of the World Trade Center, U.S. Navy cutters patrol the chilly waters of the Hudson River. Military planes circle overhead. On the ground, members of the National Guard stand ready. The Indian Point nuclear power station, which churns out electricity to nearly 2 million homes around New York City, is defended by land, sea, and air. Yet many people -- and especiall ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, health, New York, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics)

Talkin' Trash		01 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Talkin' Trash What do you do with 11,000 tons of garbage per day? That's the problem -- well, one of the problems -- plaguing New York City, whose trash disposal system is becoming a political, logistical, and financial headache for the beleaguered metropolis. A $6 billion long-term garbage-management plan devised by the Giuliani administration is stalled and may fail entirely, and a s ...
Topics: green living, New York, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Smoke Scream		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Smoke Scream The levels of pollutants spewed into the air over New York City following the Sep. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center exceeded even those of burning oil wells during the Gulf War, according to a new study released yesterday by scientists from the University of California at Davis. The study, which was the most thorough analysis of the dust and ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, New York, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

City City Ban Ban		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
City City Ban Ban And in related news from the Big Apple: The city's post-Sep. 11 restrictions on single-occupant vehicles entering Manhattan has led to 190,000 fewer people coming into the city by car every day, according to a study commissioned by business and labor leaders opposed to the ban. The study claims the restrictions could cost the city $1.5 billion in lost spending, tolls, and taxes over the course of the year; it further ...
Topics: New York, placemaking (all these topics)

Cats on Broadway and Crickets in Times Square A review of Wild Nights	Elizabeth Grossman	05 Feb 2002	Arts and Minds
Say "New York City" and wildlife is not the first thing that comes to mind. Yet despite nearly 400 years of fast and furious city life, the Big Apple is home to a world of flora and fauna that goes far beyond sidewalk planters and pampered pets. As the grass pushing up in cracked cement sidewalks reminds us, nature has a tenacious way of claiming the interstices of the urban landscap ...
Topics: New York, wildlife (all these topics)

Something Wild		05 Feb 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, New York, placemaking, wildlife (all these topics)

Reserve Judgment		06 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Reserve Judgment Concerned about threats to Africa's remaining rainforest, the New York City-based Wildlife Conservation Society has been forming closer ties with logging companies. The group believes that in some cases, working hand-in-hand with loggers is the best way to protect what's left. Last year, the group helped negotiate a deal that traded away 260 square miles of the 2,000-square-mile Lope ...
Topics: Africa, Congo, Gabon, logging, New York, rainforests (all these topics)

Sunny Dispositions		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Sunny Dispositions San Francisco may be making headlines with its innovative plan to radically expand solar power generation, but other places deserve kudos as well, according to a study released last week by Greenpeace. The study, produced before the San Francisco plan was approved by voters last week, compared both planned and installed solar energy systems in ...
Topics: Arizona, California, Greenpeace, Nevada, New York, San Francisco, Texas, water pollution (all these topics)

States of Disgrace		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
States of Disgrace New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont may postpone for four years a requirement that automakers increase sales of electric cars to improve air quality. Two years ago, the states adopted California's standard, which mandates that by next year, 8 percent of cars sold must be much cleaner than current cars and another 2 percent must be entirely emissions-free (i.e. ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, electric vehicles, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont (all these topics)

Less Than Ground Zero		29 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Less Than Ground Zero Six weeks after the attacks that reduced the World Trade Center to a pile of rubble in lower Manhattan, dust and fires from Ground Zero are releasing toxic chemicals and metals into the air in quantities far greater than initially reported. Although U.S. and New York EPA officials have consistently downplayed the environmental hazards, government reports obtained by the New York Daily News show t ...
Topics: New York, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Starting From Ground Zero What's changed, what hasn't, and what should for the environmental movement	Kathryn Schulz	11 Oct 2001	Soapbox
I was in New York City on Sept. 11, so recently I've seen a lot of things go up in smoke. First there were the airplanes, careening nose-first into the World Trade Center towers and -- it seemed almost uncanny at the time -- failing to emerge on the other side. Then there were the buildings themselves, billowing abruptly into oblivion. Less spectacularly visible, bu ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, New York, politics, US Military (all these topics)

If You Build It, Sprawl Won't Come		05 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
If You Build It, Sprawl Won't Come In the wake of the destruction of the World Trade Center tower, environmentalists are calling for a rapid rebuilding of lower Manhattan as a way to fight increased urban sprawl and traffic congestion. They worry that the sudden shortage of office space downtown, combined with concerns about security and the economy, could drive corporations out of the city center, at the expense of air quality and op ...
Topics: New York, placemaking (all these topics)

Golly G.E.		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Golly G.E. Environmental groups and officials in New York state are concerned that General Electric may be making headway in its campaign to scuttle a federal plan forcing it to dredge the Hudson River for pollution. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced in August that she would proceed with a $500 million, Clinton-era plan to order G.E. to remove ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Hudson River, New York, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

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