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The Offal Truth Promising clean-energy company may have to leave U.S. to succeed		20 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
The Offal Truth Promising clean-energy company may have to leave U.S. to succeed Certain folks take it as quasi-religious doctrine that strong green regulation is bad for economic growth. Tell it to Philadelphia's Changing World Technologies, a burgeoning clean-energy company that may have to leave the U.S. precisely because of lax environmental laws. Every day, CWT turns 270 tons of turkey offal -- the bon ...
Topics: business, news, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Why Does He Hate Toads? SCOTUS nominee John G. Roberts not a green's first pick		20 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Why Does He Hate Toads? SCOTUS nominee John G. Roberts not a green's first pick President Bush's new Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. has a distinguished conservative pedigree: He clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist and was deputy White House counsel during the Reagan administration. With only two years under his belt as a federal judge, Roberts' ...
Topics: National Wildlife Federation, news, politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Oh, I Thought You Said Non-Profiterole Bush breaks long-standing policy, offers India nuclear-energy technology		19 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Oh, I Thought You Said Non-Profiterole Bush breaks long-standing policy, offers India nuclear-energy technology President Bush has pledged to let India obtain nuclear reactors and fuel, potentially reversing a decades-long U.S. policy on limiting India's access to nuclear technology and continuing the post-Cold War warming trend in U.S.-India relations. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hopes civil nukes will help In ...
Topics: India, news, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Beyond the Pail Dealing with big-city garbage is big business for small towns		13 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Beyond the Pail Dealing with big-city garbage is big business for small towns As landfills top off and shut down near big U.S. cities, taking in the trash is becoming a profitable enterprise for smaller towns hundreds of miles away from metropolises. Despite local concerns that landfills may cause long-term environmental problems, trash-industry execs insist communities are taking few risks when they ...
Topics: news, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

A-Raisin' Money in the Sun Investors pouring millions into new nanotech solar-energy firms		12 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
A-Raisin' Money in the Sun Investors pouring millions into new nanotech solar-energy firms A merger of cutting-edge nanotechnology with the earth's oldest power source may revolutionize clean energy. At least three U.S. start-ups are aiming to develop thin, flexible sheets of tiny solar cells for the mass market. If perfected, the companies say, these nano-cells would catapult solar to the foref ...
Topics: business, energy, news, solar voltaic power, United States (all these topics)

A Glowing Reception Bush travels to nuke plant to tout nuke subsidies, is well-received		23 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
A Glowing Reception Bush travels to nuke plant to tout nuke subsidies, is well-received Yesterday, President Bush became the first commander in chief in 26 years to visit a nuclear power plant in the U.S. (The last time, you may recall, was when President Carter visited Three Mile Island after the accident there. Good times, good times ...) Bush used the occasion to state unequivocally, "It is time for th ...
Topics: news, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

Hey, Drillers, Leave Our State Alone Oil and gas inventory may come soon to a coastline near you		22 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Hey, Drillers, Leave Our State Alone Oil and gas inventory may come soon to a coastline near you The Senate effectively approved an inventory of oil and gas reserves in U.S. coastal waters yesterday, a move that could help open the door for offshore drilling to begin after a decades-long moratorium expires in 2012. The 52-44 vote defeated an amendment sponsored by Florida Sens. Mel Martinez (R) and Bill Ne ...
Topics: mining and drilling, news, oceans, United States (all these topics)

Shore Losers U.S. leaders, residents turn backs on impending coastal chaos	Jane Holtz Kay	15 Jun 2005	Soapbox
Don't let Beantown become a has-been town. Buckle your seatbelts: it's going to be a wet 'n' wild ride. That's the prediction -- or, rather, the certainty -- that today's global warming carries. Erratic and unpredictable weather is en route, and coastal areas are among the places destined to be hardest hit. So why are Americans paying so little heed? As scientists and weather pundits surve ...
Topics: climate, East Coast, Massachusetts, oceans, United States (all these topics)

Don't Be Such a Prudhoe American oil supplies well past peak		10 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Don't Be Such a Prudhoe American oil supplies well past peak America's domestic oil supplies are tapping out. At Alaska's massive Prudhoe Bay field, output has dropped nearly 75 percent since 1987 highs. With mega-developing nations India and China gobbling up the world's spare oil supply and U.S. demand still rising, engineers are now going after poorer grades of oil once considered uneconomical. But that gunky ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil, United States (all these topics)

Soda Jerks American activist leads international anti-Coke movement via internet		07 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Soda Jerks American activist leads international anti-Coke movement via internet The next time you feel ground under the heel of global capitalism, take inspiration from Amit Srivastava. The "one-man NGO armed with just a laptop computer, a website, and a telephone calling card," as The Wall Street Journal describes him, has become the lynchpin of an international movement demanding that Coca-Cola Co. be ...
Topics: green living, India, news, United States (all these topics)

Silence Is Beholden Are corporations hog-tying conservation groups in CAFTA fight?	Liza Grandia, et al	02 Jun 2005	Soapbox
Macaws and effect in Central America. A year ago, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Since then, the controversial plan has inspired protests across the U.S. and in Central America. And while past trade agreements have been ratified by Congress in less than two months, the Bush administration has delayed the vote on CAFTA multiple times, unable to ra ...
Topics: business, Central America, Conservation International, environmental justice, globalization, Nature Conservancy, politics, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

It's a Lap Dog's Life Blair heads to D.C. to beg for Bush's support on G8 climate agenda		02 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
It's a Lap Dog's Life Blair heads to D.C. to beg for Bush's support on G8 climate agenda U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair has put his political life on the line to support the Bush administration numerous times, citing the "special relationship" between the two countries. Ha ha, sucka! Next week Blair will fly to Washington, D.C., to beg the Bushies to support his ambitious agenda for July's ...
Topics: climate, news, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

The Left Knows What the Right's Brands Are Doing Green campaigners target corporations as way to effect change		26 May 2005	Daily Grist
The Left Knows What the Right's Brands Are Doing Green campaigners target corporations as way to effect change Environmental activists in the U.S., weary of battling with the largely unsympathetic Bush administration, have increasingly been targeting their efforts at other world power brokers -- transnational corporations. Their success to date has been fueled by a sort of guerilla advertising -- innocuously dubbed "mark ...
Topics: business, news, United States (all these topics)

U.S. Companies: Working to Keep Europeans Safe American firms conforming to E.U. chemical regs		17 May 2005	Daily Grist
U.S. Companies: Working to Keep Europeans Safe American firms conforming to E.U. chemical regs Though the U.S. was once a global leader in environmental regulation, that is, to put it mildly, no longer true. Now, the real challenge for many U.S. companies is complying with the stringent standards that govern the European Union market -- if they want to reach its 460 million consumers. Using a "b ...
Topics: business, European Union, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Fiddler on the Hot Tin Roof Climate scientists grow more concerned as Rome burns, Nero fiddles		10 May 2005	Daily Grist
Fiddler on the Hot Tin Roof Climate scientists grow more concerned as Rome burns, Nero fiddles In most fields of science, lay opinion tends to be more alarmist than scientific opinion, says Carbon Mitigation Initiative codirector Robert Socolow. "But, in the climate case, the experts -- the people who work with the climate models every day, the people who do ice cores -- they are more concerned. They're goin ...
Topics: climate, Netherlands, news, United States (all these topics)

The LNG-est Yard Activists fight new round of proposed LNG terminals		09 May 2005	Daily Grist
The LNG-est Yard Activists fight new round of proposed LNG terminals While President Bush extols the virtues of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in speeches, energy companies have been at work, planning some 50 new LNG import terminals across North America, most slated for U.S. ports. Meanwhile, citizens and officials in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island, where new terminals are proposed ...
Topics: energy, Mexico, natural gas, news, United States (all these topics)

Gettin' Busy U.S. business getting with it on climate change		27 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Gettin' Busy U.S. business getting with it on climate change Talk about how the U.S. private sector is taking global warming seriously often flirts with wishful thinking. But we are nothing if not wishful. And flirty. So here goes: It looks like momentum is gathering in the U.S. business community to forthrightly address the issue of climate change. In part due to shareholder and activist lobbying, a growing number ...
Topics: business, climate, news, United States (all these topics)

You've Come a Long Way, Maybe Stats on how far we've come (or haven't) since the first Earth Day	Todd Hymas	22 Apr 2005	Counter Culture
Photo: NASA. 3.7 billion -- world population in 19701 6.4 billion -- world population in 20051 1,535 billion -- kilowatt-hours of electricity used in the U.S. in 19702 3,837 billion -- kilowatt-hours of electricity expected to be used in the U.S. in 20053 6.0 -- percentage of electricity in U.S. consumed in 1970 produced from renewable sources4 6.7 -- percentage of electrici ...
Topics: climate, energy, GMOs, oil, placemaking, population, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

Ubiquity Is the Mother of Reinvention Labeling and certification move beyond organic in U.S.		19 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Ubiquity Is the Mother of Reinvention Labeling and certification move beyond organic in U.S. With the U.S. organics industry going mainstream, a coterie of anti-The-Man farmers are getting out, eschewing federally regulated "organic" certification and creating terms and systems of their own to address eco-friendly agricultural practices not covered by the federal regs. The Food Alliance has created a cer ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, United States (all these topics)

You are what you drive Dems and Republicans buy different kinds of cars; guess who likes big American SUVs?	Lisa Hymas	06 Apr 2005	Gristmill
You could probably guess that Prius drivers tend to be Democrats and Hummer drivers tend to be Republicans. But that's just the tip of the iceberg on car-and-driver political connections, writes John Tierney in The New York Times, summarizing new market research that I find both fascinating and hilarious. � Jaguars, Land Rovers, and Jeep Grand Cherokees are very 'Republican' vehicles. Volvos are the most 'Democratic' cars, followed by Subarus and Hyundais. (Funny comment ...
Topics: cars, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Better Dead Than Sissy Declining fuel efficiency of military vehicles puts troops in harm's way		05 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Better Dead Than Sissy Declining fuel efficiency of military vehicles puts troops in harm's way In decades past, fuel comprised about 30 percent of the total supply tonnage moved to and fro on the battlefield. Today, according to a 2001 Defense Science Board study, that number may have risen as high as an astonishing 70 percent. America's 150,000 soldiers in Iraq now consume roughly nine gallons of fuel apiece every ...
Topics: Iraq, news, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Do You Ear What I Ear? Government kept mum about GM corn's mistaken identity		23 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Do You Ear What I Ear? Government kept mum about GM corn's mistaken identity Over a four-year period, Swiss biotech giant Syngenta AG inadvertently sold unapproved strains of genetically modified corn seed to U.S. farmers. The corporation claims the sales, which began in 2001, resulted from a case of mistaken identity between two genetically similar varieties of GM corn. Although the company reported the mistake to ...
Topics: GMOs, news, Switzerland, United States (all these topics)

Dust, but Verify New study finds toxic chemicals in household dust		23 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Dust, but Verify New study finds toxic chemicals in household dust Samples of household dust from 70 residences in seven U.S. states were found to contain a toxic cocktail of industrial chemicals -- all of which have been shown to harm animals, all of which are legal and commonly used. The study, conducted by consumer-advocate group Clean Production Action, tested the dust for 44 chemicals and found 35 of them. ...
Topics: green living, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

SUV-Loving Public Deems Itself Unpatriotic Americans think fuel efficiency is patriotic, poll finds		18 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
SUV-Loving Public Deems Itself Unpatriotic Americans think fuel efficiency is patriotic, poll finds According to a new poll released yesterday, fuel efficiency ranks up there with apple pie, baseball, and hating liberals as emblematic of American patriotism. Some 66 percent of Americans believe it's "patriotic" to purchase a fuel-efficient vehicle, as it would aid the U.S. in kicking its addiction ...
Topics: energy, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Murder by Numbers Environmental funders share blame for movement's weak pulse	Ken Ward	17 Mar 2005	Soapbox
In responding to "The Death of Environmentalism," activist Ken Ward writes, "If the future toward which we rush is folly, the solution proposed by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus is foolishness." In this excerpt from his full rebuttal to the essay, Ward describes the role environmental foundations play in frustrating effective campaigning, and suggests that if they int ...
Topics: business, Death of Environmentalism, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

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