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One Good Deed Reserves Another Northeast, California move forward with marine reserves		21 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
One Good Deed Reserves Another Northeast, California move forward with marine reserves It's time to call in the marine reserves (think fish, not guns). The Conservation Law Foundation and the Canadian branch of the World Wildlife Fund issued a report yesterday recommending that a network of ocean areas off the eastern coast of Canada and the U.S. be protected from fishing and other human activity. After six years of ma ...
Topics: California, news, Northeast, oceans (all these topics)

Eat Free or Die Umbra on eating locally in winter		20 Nov 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: food and agriculture, Northeast (all these topics)

A Tip of the Cap California will join Northeast greenhouse-gas reduction program		16 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
A Tip of the Cap California will join Northeast greenhouse-gas reduction program California will participate in the carbon cap-and-trade program being established in seven Northeast states, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) announced today. Linking in with the so-called Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative -- which we suppose won't be so regional anymore -- will help California's industries comply w ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, news, Northeast (all these topics)

Baseball All Year Round! Northeast U.S. may feel like South if climate continues changing, says study		05 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Baseball All Year Round! Northeast U.S. may feel like South if climate continues changing, says study The days of mild summers in the Northeastern U.S. may be numbered, says a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists. If global greenhouse-gas emissions were reduced by 3 percent each year, the average temperature in the nine Northeast states would still likely rise between 3.5 and 6.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century; ...
Topics: climate, news, Northeast (all these topics)

Forth by Northeast Seven Northeastern states sign greenhouse-gas pact		03 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Forth by Northeast Seven Northeastern states sign greenhouse-gas pact Thumbing their noses -- or whatever states have where noses should be -- at the Bush administration, seven Northeastern states have committed to cut their planet-toasting carbon dioxide emissions 10 percent by the end of 2018. New York Gov. George Pataki (R) dreamed up the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and has been working since 2003 to get neighboring stat ...
Topics: climate, news, Northeast (all these topics)

Carbon Choppy Northeast greenhouse-gas pact delayed		29 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Carbon Choppy Northeast greenhouse-gas pact delayed The long-negotiated and much-anticipated -- by us climate geeks anyway -- cap-and-trade climate pact among nine Northeast states, originally set to be announced this week, has been delayed. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) has extended negotiations, saying that with recent spikes in energy prices, the plan would raise the cost of electricity too much for end users ...
Topics: climate, Mitt Romney, news, Northeast (all these topics)

Noah Man's Land Major new study says severe weather is likely on the way		18 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Noah Man's Land Major new study says severe weather is likely on the way Winter as we know it in the northeast U.S. will vanish. Summers across the country will be hotter, particularly in the parched Southwest. Rain will be less frequent but more torrential when it happens. Loss of property will be "catastrophic," exotic diseases will spread, species will die off. Skippee doo! These apocalyptic scenarios are ...
Topics: climate, news, Northeast, Southwest (all these topics)

Pact Into a Corner NE states face choice between nuclear power and greenhouse-gas emissions		14 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Pact Into a Corner NE states face choice between nuclear power and greenhouse-gas emissions New Jersey and Vermont -- two of nine Northeast states negotiating a pact to cap greenhouse-gas emissions -- rely heavily on nuclear-generated energy. Now, with the 40-year-long licenses of New Jersey's Oyster Creek nuclear plant and the Vermont Yankee plant nearing expiration, the states could f ...
Topics: air pollution, New Jersey, news, Northeast, nuclear power, Vermont (all these topics)

Hearth Warming Biofuel catching on in the home-heating arena		24 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Hearth Warming Biofuel catching on in the home-heating arena Using biofuel -- a mix of vegetable oil and diesel -- to power vehicles is already popular in certain highly vocal circles, but using biofuel to heat homes is just starting to catch on. A recent surge has taken place largely in the U.S. Northeast, where there remains a large concentration of houses that use heating oil. Proponents tout the fact tha ...
Topics: green living, news, Northeast, water pollution (all these topics)

Fed Up Northeast Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Thwarted by Feds		15 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Fed Up Northeast Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Thwarted by Feds Efforts by U.S. states in the northeast to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are falling short, in part due to unsympathetic federal policies. While they see plenty of room for more aggressive efforts, even the region's most vocal environmental critics acknowledge that northeastern states have taken unprecedented steps to reduce emissio ...
Topics: air pollution, Northeast, ozone, pollution and waste (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)

Sore Like an Eagle		02 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Sore Like an Eagle The greatest threat to the bald eagle is no longer pesticides, but development and suburban sprawl, say environmental scientists. The bald eagle has starred in one of the most successful species-restoration stories in U.S. history; thanks to the banning of DDT in 1972 and the careful efforts of environmental advocates, the eagle has soared back from the brink of extinction. Still, b ...
Topics: Northeast, placemaking, population, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics)

Out of State, Not Out of Mind States, Enviros Move to Sue Over Clean Air Act Changes		29 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Out of State, Not Out of Mind States, Enviros Move to Sue Over Clean Air Act Changes Within hours after the Bush administration relaxed the federal clean-air rules governing the nation's power plants, refineries, and other facilities yesterday, environmental organizations and state attorneys general were preparing challenges to the rule change. The Northeast, in particular, wa ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Northeast, politics (all these topics)

When the Lights Go Down in the City Blackout Hits Northeast, Temporarily Slows Your Favorite Enviro Mag		15 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
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Topics: Northeast (all these topics)

States of Grace		25 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
States of Grace With federal action against climate change stagnating, some state leaders are taking matters into their own hands. Ten Northeastern states agreed yesterday to begin discussing the creation of the nation's first market-based plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. Under the plan, plants would be able to buy or sell CO2 credits in order to reach emissions targets set by the participating states, which tenta ...
Topics: Northeast, ozone (all these topics)

Stone Cold Killer		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Stone Cold Killer The massive storm that dumped feet of snow on the Northeast over the weekend was lovely to look at, fun to play in -- and bad news for some river species. In an effort to unbury themselves, many cities in the region dumped plowed snow directly into nearby rivers, a practice some scientists warn could harm stone flies, a de ...
Topics: marine life, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Northeast, Pennsylvania, rivers and watersheds, West Virginia, wildlife (all these topics)

First Down		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
First Down The parent company of a power plant in eastern Ohio has become the first of 36 energy utilities to be tried for causing smog and health problems in the Northeast. In a lawsuit that began yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department accused FirstEnergy Corporation of significantly upgrading its W.H. Sammis plant without installing new pollution controls, a ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, Northeast, Ohio, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Penn Is Mightier Than the Sword		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Penn Is Mightier Than the Sword Following in the footsteps of nine other northeastern states, Pennsylvania went to court yesterday to block new, less stringent federal air-pollution regulations from taking effect. The Pennsylvania case is separate from one filed by the other states, but the issue is the same: the New Source Review rules of the Clean Air Act, which once requ ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, Northeast, Pennsylvania, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

At Sea		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
At Sea Fishers in the Northeast grudgingly celebrated a victory yesterday when federal regulators and environmental groups agreed to put a nine-month freeze on new regulations that will dramatically limit fishing when enacted. The National Marine Fisheries Service has been hearing it from all sides -- fishers have argued that any tougher rules will devastate their industry, while environ ...
Topics: business, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast (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)

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