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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Docket Man John Suttles, Southern environmental lawyer, answers readers' questions		26 May 2006	InterActivist

Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, South (all these topics)

The South Will Sue Again John Suttles, Southern environmental lawyer, answers Grist's questions		22 May 2006	InterActivist

Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, South (all these topics)

Southern Land Do Need You Around, Anyhow Big conservation deal will protect 218,000 acres of forest in the South		30 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Southern Land Do Need You Around, Anyhow Big conservation deal will protect 218,000 acres of forest in the South Conservationists are celebrating the biggest sale of private land for preservation in the South's history. The Nature Conservancy and the Conservation Fund have put up a combined $300 million for 218,000 acres of forestland owned by International Paper in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisian ...
Topics: Nature Conservancy, news, South, wilderness (all these topics)

Turtle Wane		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Turtle Wane Having depleted their own nation's once-plentiful turtle populations, Chinese buyers are now offering top dollar for turtles from the southern U.S. In the last three years, there's been a dramatic upswing in the number of turtles exported to China, where the animals' meat is considered a delicacy and their shells are ground up to make virility powders. In 2002, ...
Topics: Alabama, China, marine life, Mississippi, North Carolina, South, South Carolina (all these topics)

Civil Wrongs		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Civil Wrongs In the South, low-income, black citizens are becoming more outspoken and effective as they fight the construction of landfills, polluting factories, and other environmentally hazardous facilities in their communities, and they're increasingly being joined by neighbors of all colors. "Companies now don't just bully in," said Robert Bullard, a sociology professor ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, South (all these topics)

Death to Coughy		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Death to Coughy Almost 6,000 people will die prematurely from respiratory illness due to emissions from power plants owned by eight utility companies that the Clinton administration sued for violating the Clean Air Act, according to a private report released yesterday. In addition to the deaths, the report predicted that the pollution would lead to 140,000 asthma attacks and 14,000 ca ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Midwest, politics, pollution and waste, South (all these topics)

Oh Maw Gracious!		27 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Oh Maw Gracious! More than 31 million acres of forest in the southern United States will disappear into the maw of urban development in the next four decades, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Forest Service in collaboration with other federal agencies. Wildlife and water and air quality will suffer as trees make way for sprawling growth and timber harvests increase by half, t ...
Topics: logging, placemaking, South, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Sierra Club Can't Take a Leak	Ben White	12 Jan 2000	Muckraker
A memo circulated recently around the Sierra Club's offices highlighted the "Top Ten" reasons the group should not endorse Vice Pres. Al Gore. The memo, written by Sierra Club board member Michael Dorsey and unearthed by the Washington Times last week, says: "Does Vice President Gore really care about nature? Does he care about protecting people from hazardous waste and toxic pollution? Does he care about human life and the fu ...
Topics: Arizona, elections, Greenpeace, land stewardship, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, South, Southeast, wilderness (all these topics)

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