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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Those About to Rock Can Cleveland bring itself back from the brink?	Kristine Hansen	15 May 2008	Grist Feature
Still known for smokestacks and football, Cleveland is turning its ship around. Photo: Craig Hatfield "Most people know Cleveland by the Browns or The Flats," says Marc Lefkowitz. From the roof of his office building, which is dotted with native wildflowers and grasses, he gestures to the downtown skyline -- marked by the iconic Mittal Steel smokestacks that gave The Flats neighborhood it ...
Topics: green building, Ohio, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, urban planning (all these topics)

Buckeyes on solar Renewable energy standard passed in Ohio	Adam Browning	24 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Ohio gets 87 percent of its electricity from coal (and the rest is mostly nukes), putting it in the upper echelon of coal-using states in the nation (No. 2 behind Texas, to be precise). And that, friends, is about to change, because yesterday the Ohio Legislature passed a renewable energy standard requiring utilities to provide 12.5 percent of Ohio's electricity from clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2025. This bill has a solar-specific require ...
Topics: energy, legislation, Ohio, politics, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Primaries thread	David Roberts	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is the thread to discuss all things election related this evening. To kick things off: Obama wins Vermont, handily, as expected. From what I hear the other three are tight. UPDATE: According to CNN, McCain has won Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island, thereby securing the Republican nomination. Guess Huckabee should have majored in math after all. UPDATE: Clinton projected to win Rhode Island. UPDATE: CNN is projecting that both my children are now in bed ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Ohio, politics, presidential race 08, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont (all these topics)

Tick tock Listen to 'Ohio' by Damien Jurado	David Roberts	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
While we all wait.
Topics: music, presidential race 08, elections, state politics, politics, Ohio (all these topics)

ABEC ads in Ohio	David Roberts	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Speaking of fossil shenanigans, check out the blitz of advertising coal front group ABEC is running in Ohio in advance of the presidential primary there. I've been trying to pick the creepiest one, but's pretty tough. I think the two winners are the audio ad to your right and the print ad below the fold: For non-bullshit-laden analysis of the benefits of green ene ...
Topics: elections, politics, coal, energy, Ohio, presidential race 08, messaging, advertising (all these topics)

When Guvs Try Enviros hope to make gains with gubernatorial races in key states	Amanda Griscom Little	19 Oct 2006	Muckraker
With Election Day just over two weeks away, Muckraker brings you part two of our roundup of gubernatorial races with important green angles. Last week, in part one, we chronicled the hottest campaigns along the Eastern seaboard. This week, we're briefing you on a few of the must-watch races in the Midwest and Pacific regions. Michigan: Jennifer Granholm (D) vs. Dick DeVos (R) Jenn ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, Colorado, elections, Michigan, Muckraker, Ohio, Oregon, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Blast Rites In coal country, mining is destroying cemeteries and faith	Jessica Tzerman	03 Aug 2006	Main Dish
James Bowe, a lifelong resident of Whitesville, W.Va., knows the mountains around his home better than he knows himself. He's seen friends and family buried there, and has devoted countless hours to protecting his loved ones' resting places and the Indian burial grounds that stand alongside them. So when Bowe pulled up on his four-wheeler in early April and spotted a coal company drilling in the ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, Ohio, West Virginia (all these topics)

Hello Cleveland! Ohio city is latest to hire sustainability manager		11 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Hello Cleveland! Ohio city is latest to hire sustainability manager Cleveland, Ohio, has joined Seattle, Chicago, Portland, Ore., and other American metropolises (metropoli?) in creating a city-government position focused on going green and saving energy -- ideally stimulating job growth in the process. Cleveland's new "sustainability programs manager," Andrew Watterson, is getting started with relatively simpl ...
Topics: environmental planning, news, Ohio (all these topics)

Paulding Gray Mega-farms in Ohio offer stench but little else to communities		29 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Paulding Gray Mega-farms in Ohio offer stench but little else to communities The Plain Dealer examines the effects of eight giant hog farms built in Paulding County, Ohio, since 1994 and five mega-dairies since 2000, and comes away with a grim cautionary tale. A number of local families have fled from their homes, some unable to live with the stench from open manure pits, others because the hydrogen sulfide ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Ohio, pollution and waste (all these topics)

In a Moment of Leakness		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
In a Moment of Leakness A baffling leak has been discovered at one of the newest nuclear reactors in the U.S. The South Texas Nuclear Project, 90 miles southwest of Houston, was discovered to have leaked cooling water from its large reactor vessel, a problem that experts have never before encountered. "This is the first time it's been seen, either here or abroad," said Victor Dr ...
Topics: health, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Ohio, Texas (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)

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)

Cleveland Greens?		05 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Cleveland Greens? Cleveland, Ohio -- a city that earned ecological infamy when the Cuyahoga River caught on fire in 1969 -- is hoping to make environmental and automotive history by becoming home to the nation's first public hydrogen fueling station. The station, which will open off the Ohio Turnpike in about two years, is one of four that will be built in the state in the next decade. It will cater to fuel-cell cars, only a few of wh ...
Topics: Ohio, water pollution (all these topics)

Hazing Ritual		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Hazing Ritual It might be officially nicknamed the Golden State, but sometimes, it's more like the Yellowish-Brown State: California continues to lead the U.S. in dirty air, with nearly twice as many "smog days" as any other state in the union, a recent report by an e ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental non-government organizations, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste, Texas (all these topics)

Laughy Tafty		20 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Laughy Tafty The U.S. EPA has warned Ohio that it could soon be stripped of federal highway funds for failing to enforce national clean air standards. The move would be a major blow to the state, which receives more than $900 million in federal road funds every year. The EPA could also stiffen the pollution levels allowed in clean air permits, halting construction of some major non-government projects in the state. The EPA issu ...
Topics: air pollution, Ohio, US EPA (all these topics)

Fish Styx		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Fish Styx In Ohio, what you don't know can hurt you: The state has just cut a program that warned the public about consuming pollution-tainted fish. In the past, the state EPA and Department of Natural Resources collected fish samples and tested them for pesticides, mercury, and other toxic chemicals; the resulting information was then assessed by the state Health Department for its effects on humans and Ohioans wer ...
Topics: Great Lakes, marine life, Ohio, toxics (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)

Cheshire Fat Cat		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Cheshire Fat Cat Here's a whole new meaning for the phrase "company town": The village of Cheshire, in southeastern Ohio, will be purchased for $20 million by American Electric Power Company. Last year, the town was plagued by clouds of sulfuric acid drifting in from a nearby AEP power plant, Ohio's largest coal-burner. Notwithstanding a recent $175 million investment in polluti ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, health, Ohio (all these topics)

The Ohio Player		05 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
The Ohio Player Drawing unfavorable attention to President Bush's choice to head the U.S. EPA's enforcement program, a preliminary report released yesterday by the agency found that Ohio has done a poor job enforcing air-pollution rules. Bush's nominee, Donald Schregardus, led the Ohio EPA during most the 1990s. The report said that air inspections, investigations of complaints, and amounts of penalties collected hav ...
Topics: air pollution, Ohio, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Holding Schregardus in Low Regardus		21 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Holding Schregardus in Low Regardus U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said yesterday he would join with U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to block President Bush's nomination of Donald Schregardus to be the U.S. EPA's chief enforcement officer. Schumer said he would use parliamentary tactics to stall the nomination until the Bush administration indicated whether it would withdraw from Clinton-era lawsuits aga ...
Topics: Ohio, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

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