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Sue It, Don't Spray It
Landmark Agent Orange case goes to federal court |
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28 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Sue It, Don't Spray It Landmark Agent Orange case goes to federal court Did U.S. chemical companies commit war crimes by producing toxic dioxin-laced herbicide -- known as Agent Orange -- that the U.S. military used to douse more than 2 million Vietnamese and that still lingers on in their environment and food chain? That's the question at the heart of a landmark case that will be heard starting today in a U.S. feder ... |
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| Topics: news, toxics, United States, Vietnam (all these topics) |
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Ich Bin Ein Cowboy
U.S., Germany agree on vague climate measures |
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24 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Ich Bin Ein Cowboy U.S., Germany agree on vague climate measures President Bush is on a tour of Europe, seeking ways to repair relationships with traditional allies that don't involve changing any U.S. position on any subject -- and that includes global warming. His stop in Germany yesterday to talk with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was a positive, if strained, affair, generating a declaration of cooperation on the ... |
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| Topics: climate, Germany, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Reversal of Fortune Cookies
China passes U.S. as reigning consumerism champion |
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17 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Reversal of Fortune Cookies China passes U.S. as reigning consumerism champion America, for years the world's largest, proudest consumer, has been dethroned. Say hello to China, now the world's most consumingest nation, according to a recent survey by the Earth Policy Institute. China now beats the U.S. in consumption of four out of five basic commodities, including grain, meat, steel, and coal. The fifth, howe ... |
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| Topics: China, green living, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Operation Squander
As Kyoto goes live, U.S. green groups offer tepid response |
Amanda Griscom Little |
16 Feb 2005 |
Muckraker |
| It's an action-packed week on the climate front: The Kyoto Protocol finally goes into effect today throughout the vast majority of the industrialized world (the U.S. conspicuously not included), and Capitol Hill is awash in climate-related assaults and initiatives. As Kyoto and climate bills heat up, greens' response is tepid. Congress is facing a double whammy of President Bush's m ... |
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| Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, Muckraker, National Environmental Trust, NRDC, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Sign Here to Save the Planet
Join a people's campaign to ratify the Kyoto Protocol |
Ross Gelbspan |
16 Feb 2005 |
Soapbox |
| The much-discussed Kyoto Protocol takes effect today, Feb. 16. In the face of the United States' continuing refusal to ratify the international agreement, a group of progressive activists is launching a drive to gather millions of signatures from U.S. citizens for a "People's Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty." Ross Gelbspan, a Grist contributor and author of tw ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Faith-Based Initiative
Religious leaders make the environment a 'values issue' |
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07 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Faith-Based Initiative Religious leaders make the environment a "values issue" More than 1,000 Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious leaders from some 35 states have signed and begun circulating a statement opposing President Bush's environmental policies. And evangelicals aren't far behind, having drawn up an "Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility" that emphasizes Christians' ... |
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| Topics: politics, religion and spirituality, United States (all these topics) |
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Old MacDonald Had a Conniption
Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies |
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07 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies Turns out tax cuts for the wealthy aren't cheap. President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget, sent to Congress today, would cut the U.S. EPA budget by about 6 percent and the National Park Service budget by nearly 3 percent, part of a broad range of cuts that will also affect Medicaid, home-heating aid for the poor ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Shocked, Shocked to Find Politicization in This Establishment
EPA inspector general finds proposed mercury rule biased for industry |
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04 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Shocked, Shocked to Find Politicization in This Establishment EPA inspector general finds proposed mercury rule biased for industry Brace yourself -- your entire worldview is about to be shaken. Turns out, in coming up with its new rules on power-plant mercury emissions, the U.S. EPA violated agency protocol and ignored scientific evidence in order to stay in line with a predetermined goal that favors industry. ... |
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| Topics: business, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
In SOTU speech, Bush mentions eco-responsible energy, dodges climate |
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03 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means In SOTU speech, Bush mentions eco-responsible energy, dodges climate In his State of the Union speech last night -- in between 27 utterances each of the words "freedom" and "terror" or their variants -- President Bush squeezed in a brief nod to green issues. He said that the country needs "environmentally responsible" energy sources, just before touting n ... |
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| Topics: politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Altima Sacrifice
Nissan CEO not happy about making new hybrid Altima |
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02 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Altima Sacrifice Nissan CEO not happy about making new hybrid Altima Automaker Nissan is releasing its first hybrid model, a version of its Altima sedan, next year, but it doesn't have to like it. In a speech at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said hybrids aren't profitable enough ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, climate change adaptation, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, Prius, United States (all these topics) |
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Are Too!
Judge says Bush admin wrong in claiming NW wolves aren't endangered |
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02 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Are Too! Judge says Bush admin wrong in claiming NW wolves aren't endangered Yesterday, a federal judge rescinded the 2003 federal rule downgrading gray wolves in the Northwest U.S. from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act, saying the Bush administration's decision was "not based on the present or future threats to the wolf or the best available science." Interior Secretary Gale Norton bas ... |
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| Topics: politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Meet the Parents
'Natural family living' is a growing trend |
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01 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Meet the Parents "Natural family living" is a growing trend Parents of today's youngest generation are increasingly choosing to raise their kids in more natural, even old-fashioned, ways, say supporters of a lifestyle called "natural family living." This parenting approach involves trusting instincts over published experts and using more natural means to feed, medicate, and nurture children, which can transl ... |
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| Topics: green living, United States (all these topics) |
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The Shallow End of the Secretarial Pool
Senate confirms Bodman to head Energy Department |
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01 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Shallow End of the Secretarial Pool Senate confirms Bodman to head Energy Department Sam Bodman's nomination to serve as energy secretary sailed through the Senate yesterday, despite his having little to no experience working on energy issues. Now he can get to work pushing Bush's big energy bill through Congress, fighting for the opening of the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., a ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Yucca, Who Needs Ya?
Nuclear advocates take back the whole 'Yucca is a necessity' thing |
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31 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole "Yucca is a necessity" thing Nuclear advocates have long insisted that the planned nuclear-waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is necessary before new nuclear reactors can be built, because on-site storage of waste is just too dangerous. But with Yucca's prospects (at least in the short term) looking dim, and the prospects for new ... |
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| Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The liter of the pack
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Clark Williams-Derry |
31 Jan 2005 |
Gristmill |
| I didn't know this: In Canada, automobile fuel economy is expressed as gallons per mile, not miles per gallon as it is in the U.S. (Well, really, it's liters per hundred kilometers, but if you're south of the 49th parallel and a metric-system-phobe, gallons per mile is essentially the same thing.) Now, I don't mention this just to expose my lack of cultural knowledge of my northern neighbors. I mention it because it seems to me that liters-per-kilometer is a ... |
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| Topics: Canada, cars, education, fossil fuels, United States (all these topics) |
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Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman
Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism |
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28 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism Ex-EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman's new book It's My Party Too is out now, and she is having her moment of media ubiquity, bashing what she calls the increasing extremism of the Republican Party. In interviews and appearances on such commie-pinko outlets as NPR's "Fresh Air& ... |
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| Topics: green living, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Plug-in Play
Enterprising hybrid owners tinker to get better mileage |
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28 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Plug-in Play Enterprising hybrid owners tinker to get better mileage Hybrid vehicles have been touted as the Next Big Thing in efficient transportation. So what's the Next Next Big Thing? Maybe hybrids with a twist. A handful of engineering students at the University of California at Davis and other mechanically inclined greens have been tinkering with existing hybrids to boo ... |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, placemaking, United States (all these topics) |
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Smokestack Lightening
ConocoPhillips will pay half a billion to clean up refineries |
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28 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Smokestack Lightening ConocoPhillips will pay half a billion to clean up refineries The largest refinery settlement in U.S. history was announced yesterday, as ConocoPhillips, the nation's largest oil refiner, agreed to spend more than $525 million to clean up nine refineries, a deal that will remove 47,000 tons of harmful pollutants from the air each year. This is the 13th such settlement since 1998. ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, energy, oil, United States (all these topics) |
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Chlorific
Chlorine factories a major source of mercury pollution, report says |
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27 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Chlorific Chlorine factories a major source of mercury pollution, report says A new study suggests that the chlorine industry may be releasing dangerously high amounts of mercury into the environment, more even than the coal-fired power plants usually pinpointed as major emitters. Although most chlorine plants use a production process that does not involve mercury, there are nine in the U.S. whose century-old methods ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, toxics, United States (all these topics) |
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Where Do We Go, Where Do We Go Now?
Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight |
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27 Jan 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Thursday, 27 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Here's the different thing about this conference. Although participants spanned the generations, it was organized in large measure by 20 students here at Middlebury ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Clear Skies' the Limit
Lawmakers defend states' rights, introduce Clear Skies competition |
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26 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Clear Skies' the Limit Lawmakers defend states' rights, introduce Clear Skies competition Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) and George Pataki (R-N.Y.), in a letter to a Senate committee that's convening today to deliberate the Bush administration's Clear Skies bill, emphasized the importance of protecting state environmental enforcement powers. Both California and New York have put i ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Arnold Schwarzenegger, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It
Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation |
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26 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation And the lion shall lie down with the lamb indeed. A strange political alliance is taking shape in Washington, D.C., as neoconservatives anxious to sap political strength from their Middle Eastern nemeses form common cause with enviros anxious to slow global warming. What unites them? A desire to reduce oi ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?
Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight |
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26 Jan 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Wednesday, 26 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. The bad boys of American environmentalism made their case this morning, and they made it well. By the time Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus had finished pre ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Changing the Climate-Change Climate
Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight |
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25 Jan 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Tuesday, 25 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. A crisp, cold, blue-sky New England day, fresh snow on the ground, and everything right with the world. Except that last night, as I was preparing to attend a thre ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Executive Disorder
Industry unhappy with Bush's back-up air-pollution plan |
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21 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Executive Disorder Industry unhappy with Bush's back-up air-pollution plan President Bush's Clear Skies legislation has stalled out in Congress, unable to muster support even from a sufficient number of Republicans. To compensate, Bush is planning to implement some of the bill's provisions by issuing executive orders -- for instance, an order establishing a mercury-emissions trading program. But the electric-utilit ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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