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Netroots to go green in '09 Event planners announce location, greening plans for next year's conference	Kate Sheppard	20 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Near the end of this year's Netroots Nation, event planners announced that next year's gathering will be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., a spot selected for its green merits. One of the main reasons is that Pittsburgh has the first and largest LEED gold-certified convention center in the country. 'We have a goal of making 2009 the most environmentally-friendly gathering ever,' wrote event planners in an email last night. They're also planning to start a carbon-offset pro ...
Topics: green living, Muckraker, news, Pennsylvania, politics, websites (all these topics)

A matter of rust Obama talks up energy plans in the Rust Belt	Kate Sheppard	16 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Barack Obama was in Wayne, Pa., on Saturday, where he highlighted energy costs and the need for new energy policy in a town hall meeting. 'It isn't an accident that gas prices are this high,' the presumptive Democratic nominee told the crowd. 'It's because Washington failed to deal with the challenge of alternative energy when it had the chance. Instead we've had an energy policy that's been written by and for the big oil and gas companies.' Obama impugned Geor ...
Topics: Barack Obama, economy, Michigan, Muckraker, news, Pennsylvania, politics (all these topics)

Let's take a call from our listeners Listen as I talk green collar jobs on NPR	Kevin Doyle	28 May 2008	Gristmill
Interested in the promise of -- and questions about -- the growing 'green collar jobs' movement? Listen Wednesday, May 28, at 11 a.m. EDT as I discuss it on NPR's Radio Times, a popular call-in show from WHYY in Philadelphia, the station that also brings the nation Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Bracken Hendricks of the Center for American Progress will also be part of the program. Listen live (or later) here.
Topics: business, green jobs, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

How clean is clean coal? A video on the great coal myth	David Roberts	23 May 2008	Gristmill
The new but already-going-gangbusters Washington Independent has teamed up with the also new and also gangbusters American News Project to put together a video called "How clean is clean coal?" Good stuff:
Topics: coal, energy, health, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

Shinier, Happier People How three Rust Belt cities are changing		15 May 2008	Grist Feature
For more on Rust Belt cities, see our full feature on sustainability initiatives underway in Cleveland. It may not be intuitive to link an area historically associated with steel mills, coal mining, and automobile assembly lines to sustainable development. But green growth is catching on in the Rust Belt, long an economically unendowed area of the country -- and its manufacturing-heavy past is coming in handy in emerging ...
Topics: green building, New York, Pennsylvania, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, urban planning, Wisconsin (all these topics)

The Pennsyltucky perspective No difference between McCain and Dems on climate	Glenn Hurowitz	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I got home yesterday from canvassing for Barack Obama in the outskirts of Harrisburg, Penn. and found last week's edition of The Patriot-News (whose politics reporter, Brett Lieberman, describes the state as 'Pennsyltucky' for its unique mix of urban, industrial, and backwoods), including a 'Find Your Match' voter guide with a chart that's supposed to help people figure out which candidate is closer to them on key policies. Here's what the chart said about Obama, Clin ...
Topics: climate, elections, greenwashing, messaging, Pennsylvania, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Grist takes a gander as green-job gang gathers Send your questions for the National Green Jobs Conference	Kevin Doyle	11 Mar 2008	Gristmill
A big collection of policy makers, activists, job-training types, and labor union honchos are getting together later this week in Pittsburgh for 'Good Jobs, Green Jobs: A National Green Jobs Conference,' and it's my job to be there to watch it all go down. It'll be a good opportunity to find out what's hope and what's hype about the emerging green jobs movement -- not to mention exploring Pittsburgh's better bars and restaurants on Grist's dime! Uh, just kidding there ...
Topics: business, green jobs, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

Say Cheese Pennsylvania will allow hormone labels on dairy products		18 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:26 AM on 18 Jan 2008 A decision by Pennsylvania agriculture officials that dairy products sold in the state could not be labeled as synthetic-hormone-free sparked a consumer outcry and a review by Governor Ed Rendell. Yesterday, officials more or less reversed that ban: dairies will be allowed to advertise that their cows aren't shot up with synthetic hormones, which increase milk production. However, dairies toutin ...
Topics: agriculture, food, news, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

Don't Cry Over Labeled Milk Pennsylvania bans hormone- and antibiotic-free labels on dairy products		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 7:49 AM on 14 Nov 2007 Pennsylvania agriculture officials have banned the use of hormone- and antibiotic-free labels on dairy products sold in the state, upsetting food-safety advocates and handing the chemically enhanced dairy industry a significant victory. The ruling takes effect Jan. 1 and would affect at least 19 companies that label their milk or other dairy products as having com ...
Topics: agriculture, news, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

Sludging Along U.S. agencies don't prioritize public in toxin-affected communities		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:27 AM on 28 Sep 2007 The U.S. Department of Energy found high levels of toxic hydrogen sulfide in the soil of suburban Versailles, Pa., and has neglected to inform local officials. The U.S. EPA was lackadaisical about cleaning up toxic paint sludge left by automaker Ford in Trenton, N.J., and disregarded complaints from the community. Luckily, those failures of the U.S. government to protect and infor ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, jackassery, New Jersey, news, Pennsylvania, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Real-life smart grid adventure Keeping the air conditioners running in muggy Pennsylvania	Patrick Mazza	18 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Just back from visiting the family in Pennsylvania, where temperatures were hitting the high 90s. It was the kind of sticky, muggy, oppressively hot weather that reminds me why I live in the cool corner that is the Pacific Northwest.As air conditioners were blasting away everywhere and lights were flickering, I was thinking that grid operators must be calling on every demand-response resource they could.Back into post-vacation action, I came across an Aug. 10 release [ ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

Can't see the trees for the forest Park Service hacks down some trees in Pa.	Kate Sheppard	18 Jul 2007	Gristmill
This is sorta effed. The National Park Service is cutting down hundreds of acres of trees on the Gettysburg Battlefield to restore historical accuracy. From NBC News in Pennsylvania: The National Park Service is starting another phase of its efforts to return Gettysburg Battlefield to how it looked in 1863, during the Civil War. The Union Army placed its cannons in the area, WGAL-TV reported. Park historians said the extra trees give visitors the impression tha ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, national parks, Pennsylvania (all these topics)

Rocking the Cradle of Democracy Energy debate leads to unprecedented government shutdown in Pennsylvania		10 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Rocking the Cradle of Democracy Energy debate leads to unprecedented government shutdown in Pennsylvania More than 24,000 state workers in Pennsylvania are back on the job today, after a fierce debate over budget issues -- including transportation and clean energy -- led Gov. Ed Rendell (D) to enact an unprecedented partial government shutdown yesterday. At a late-night ...
Topics: energy, news, Pennsylvania, public transportation, renewable energy, state politics (all these topics)

Poison Penn Pennsylvania governor blocked from issuing mercury rule		09 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Poison Penn Pennsylvania governor blocked from issuing mercury rule Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) got green plaudits last year when he proposed a plan to scrub 90 percent of mercury pollution from the state's coal-fired power plants by 2015, but a little-known state agency is now blocking his move. The Legislative Reference Bureau has sided with the majority of state senators, who object to Rendell's plan and want ...
Topics: news, Pennsylvania, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Franklin, My Dear, I Do Give a Damn Pennsylvania plan would cut mercury emissions 90 percent in nine years		17 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Franklin, My Dear, I Do Give a Damn Pennsylvania plan would cut mercury emissions 90 percent in nine years If a plan approved by a state board yesterday makes it through 14 days of withering stares from the legislature, Pennsylvania will join the cadre of states enacting tougher environmental rules than the feds. The controversial plan, which aims to cut mercury emissions 90 percent over the next nine years, "is a landmark ...
Topics: news, Pennsylvania, toxics (all these topics)

All You Need Is Guv Governors' races along Eastern seaboard could lead to big environmental gains	Amanda Griscom Little	10 Oct 2006	Muckraker
While the Mark Foley mess has everyone's attention riveted on the fast-changing congressional landscape, enviros should also keep an eye on gubernatorial races this November. "The state level is where all the truly positive environmental action has been happening in recent years," says Tony Massaro, senior vice president for political affairs with t ...
Topics: elections, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Muckraker, New York, Pennsylvania, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Take Your Pick Environmentalists pick their sides in key Senate races	Amanda Griscom Little	14 Sep 2006	Muckraker
It's a rare political event that can draw applause from both the White House and environmental groups, but Lincoln Chafee's victory in the Rhode Island Republican primary on Tuesday was just that. Lincoln Chafee. The Bush administration reasons that Chafee -- the most liberal Republican in the Senate, and frequently at odds with Bush on hot-button issues from Iraq to tax cuts -- is their on ...
Topics: elections, League of Conservation Voters, Missouri, Montana, Muckraker, Pennsylvania, politics, Rhode Island, Sierra Club, US Senate, Washington (all these topics)

DEP Thoughts An interview with Kathleen McGinty, Pennsylvania's green go-getter	Sarah van Schagen	15 Dec 2005	Main Dish
Kathleen McGinty, head of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, approaches the state's environmental challenges with an optimistic "let's-get-it-done" attitude. Early in her career, she made waves as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and deputy assistant to then-President Bill Clinton. After creating and heading up the first-ever W ...
Topics: environmental planning, interview, Pennsylvania, politics (all these topics)

Batting a Thousand Bats dying in worrying numbers at Appalachian wind farms		04 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Batting a Thousand Bats dying in worrying numbers at Appalachian wind farms Unexpectedly high numbers of bat deaths at wind farms in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have caught scientists by surprise and made conservationists anxious. Whether the spinning turbines entice the bats or confuse their sonar navigation is unclear, but researchers say an estimated 1,500 to 4,000 bats may have perished i ...
Topics: energy, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Greensylvania		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Greensylvania Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) unveiled a $22 billion state budget yesterday with numerous eco-friendly provisions that promise to protect green space, return abandoned mine sites to productive use, improve state parks, and revitalize aging city centers, asserting that such measures would spur economic development. Enviros hailed the budget, saying it would make ...
Topics: environmental restoration, green living, Pennsylvania, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Air Bawl States Tighten Air Rules in the Wake of Federal Loosening		17 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Air Bawl States Tighten Air Rules in the Wake of Federal Loosening A number of states and cities are thumbing their noses at the Bush administration's moves to weaken air-pollution rules by imposing their own stricter regulations. Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and other states, as well as a few cities, announced yesterday that they are making or ...
Topics: air pollution, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Too Cool, from School		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Too Cool, from School Pennsylvania State University has undertaken a massive new recycling program -- not for paper or plastics or food waste, but for the mammoth piles of stuff that students leave behind at the end of every school year, from sneakers to TVs to sofas. The end-of-term junk problem grew into a major headache on U.S. campuses during the 1990s, as ...
Topics: green living, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (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)

The Fire Down Below		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Fire Down Below Forget about car emissions for a moment; coal fires, hundreds of which are raging out of control around the world, pump so much carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere that researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science yesterday called them a "global catastrophe." Coal fires burn both ...
Topics: China, Colorado, energy, India, Indonesia, Pennsylvania, 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)

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