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We've Got Issues What we talk about when we talk about the future of environmentalism		13 Jan 2005	The Gist
This is the first in a series of editorials Grist will publish over the coming months to address the issues raised by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus's essay "The Death of Environmentalism" and Adam Werbach's speech "Is Environmentalism Dead?" Get the backstory here. Whatever the merits of their arguments, we think it all to the good that Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordha ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

Buy the Balls Inauguration funded by industry; cynics jump to conclusions		13 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Buy the Balls Inauguration funded by industry; cynics jump to conclusions Yesterday we reported on an interview in which President Bush said that nuclear energy answers the "environmental issue" and the "dependency issue." Turns out it also partially answers the "incredibly expensive inauguration issue." The Nuclear Energy Institute, a lobbying group, is coughing up $100,000 for ...
Topics: business, elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Non-Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones EPA finds possible risks in Teflon, will study further		13 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Non-Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones EPA finds possible risks in Teflon, will study further The U.S. EPA yesterday released the preliminary results of its inquiry into the health effects of a chemical used in making Teflon, saying it found "a potential risk of developmental and other adverse effects" but also that there are "significant uncertainties" in its assessment. The agency has calle ...
Topics: business, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Death of Environmentalism Global warming politics in a post-environmental world	Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
This essay by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus was released at an October 2004 meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association, and it's been ruffling feathers ever since. Get the backstory here. Foreword By Peter Teague, Environment Program Director, Nathan Cummings Foundation As I write this, the fourth in a series of violent hurricanes has just b ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Different An in-depth response to 'The Death of Environmentalism'	Carl Pope	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
An in-depth response to "The Death of Environmentalism" By Carl Pope 13 Jan 2005 In December 2004, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope distributed this response to the essay "The Death of Environmentalism." Get the backstory here. There Is Something Different About Global Warming Dear Environmental Grant-Maker: You may have recently received a memorandum entitled "The Death of Environmentalism" by Michael Shellenber ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

Is Environmentalism Dead? A speech on where the movement can and should go from here	Adam Werbach	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
Adam Werbach presented this speech at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on Dec. 8, 2004. Further discussion of the issues he raises can be found on 3Nov.com. And read more on the debate over environmentalism's prospects here. Adam Werbach. I am here to perform an autopsy. Autopsies begin with these words. Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae Translated from Latin, th ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, politics, United States (all these topics)

Howl's About That? Enviros celebrate 10th anniversary of wolf release		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Howl's About That? Enviros celebrate 10th anniversary of wolf release Today marks the 10th anniversary of the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park, an area from which they were eradicated by the 1920s. The transplant experiment, meant to help restore wolf populations protected under the Endangered Species Act, stirred strong feelings, both positive and negative, in 1995, and much of that controve ...
Topics: national parks, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Please Pass the Hemp, Billy DEA drops resistance to hemp food products		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Please Pass the Hemp, Billy DEA drops resistance to hemp food products Hemp may be the new soy. Recently, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency quietly ended its attempts to ban hemp oil and sterilized industrial hemp seed in food products. (Yes, these products are taken from the Cannabis plant, but no, they won't even get your little brother high.) "It's a victory [for the hemp industry]," says food s ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Fabulous Baker Boy President to bake up crisp decisions, answer environmental issue		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Fabulous Baker Boy President to bake up crisp decisions, answer environmental issue In an interview with The Wall Street Journal -- his first newspaper interview since winning re-election -- President Bush pledged to, among other things, renew the push for his long-stalled energy bill and aggressively promote nuclear power, saying he looked forward to "making good, crisp, sound decisions." Bush spoke o ...
Topics: nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

Embargoing, Going ... Discovery of Cuban oil deposits raises hopes for eased restrictions		11 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Embargoing, Going ... Discovery of Cuban oil deposits raises hopes for eased restrictions With the recent hardening of U.S. trade policy toward Cuba, analysts are now speculating that one thing could help ease the restrictions: Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. Two Canadian companies have discovered oil in Cuba's waters off the Gulf of Mexico, announced President Fidel Castro in a Dec. 25 speech to parli ...
Topics: Cuba, energy, oil, politics, United States (all these topics)

Water, Water Everywh ... Hey, Where'd the Water Go? Agriculture needs to start conserving water, badly		11 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Water, Water Everywh ... Hey, Where'd the Water Go? Agriculture needs to start conserving water, badly A new study by David Pimentel in the journal BioScience backs its call for greater agricultural water conservation with some disturbing statistics. Worldwide, agriculture uses some 70 percent of the freshwater supply. The ginormous Ogallala aquifer, which supplies water to a fifth of all irrigated la ...
Topics: food and agriculture, United States, water conflicts (all these topics)

Oh You NAS-ty Boys NAS report on safe perchlorate levels creating controversy		11 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Oh You NAS-ty Boys NAS report on safe perchlorate levels creating controversy A National Academy of Sciences panel report on safe levels of perchlorate -- an ingredient in rocket fuel, firecrackers, and road flares -- in drinking water has some enviros up in arms. The report, released yesterday, suggests that levels of perchlorate about 20 times higher than the U.S. EPA's proposed guid ...
Topics: National Academy of Sciences, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Baby, You Can Drive My Car -- In 2010 Lots more hybrids and hydrogen cars in the pipeline		10 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Baby, You Can Drive My Car -- In 2010 Lots more hybrids and hydrogen cars in the pipeline We begin with a public service announcement: Quit driving so damn much. Ride your bike. Take a bus. Walk. OK, with that out of the way, we turn to auto news, which is plentiful. Ford announced it would add four new hybrids to its lineup, at least one by the end of the year. GM announced that it would add two, both SUVs. GM ...
Topics: business, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Re-Bay eBay joins tech companies to launch electronics recycling program		07 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Re-Bay eBay joins tech companies to launch electronics recycling program Wondering what to do with that old Commodore 64 or Macintosh II gathering dust in your basement? According to an eBay survey, you're not alone -- some 50 percent of American households have unwanted PCs in storage. That's why the online auction giant has launched an electronics recycling program they call Rethink. In a par ...
Topics: business, green living, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Sage Fright Western sage grouse will not be protected under ESA		07 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Sage Fright Western sage grouse will not be protected under ESA The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the sage grouse, a large game bird with the unlucky habit of residing on top of large natural-gas deposits, will not be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Never mind that the species' numbers have declined from millions to as few as 142,000. Agency spokesfolks em ...
Topics: United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

The Next Asbestos Thing Specter pushing asbestos-claims bill that would create trust fund		06 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Next Asbestos Thing Specter pushing asbestos-claims bill that would create trust fund Amid a continuing flood of lawsuits against the allegedly cancer-causing asbestos industry, the new chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), has drafted a bill to try to stem the flow. Specter's legislation would establish a trust fund into which asbestos companies would pay billions of dollars to compensate vic ...
Topics: business, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Consistency Blows Wind power set to explode in 2005; bats set to haunt Grist		05 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Consistency Blows Wind power set to explode in 2005; bats set to haunt Grist Several readers pointed out -- rather snarkily, we might add -- the seeming dissonance between Umbra's latest column praising wind farms and the news, reported the following day, that some such farms have been chopping up quite a few bats. But hey, like Walt Whitman said: We are large, we contain multitudes. And get ready for more m ...
Topics: energy, United States, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Harmer's Market Energy execs vacation with Bush admin officials -- innocently, of course		05 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Harmer's Market Energy execs vacation with Bush admin officials -- innocently, of course High-level Bush administration environmental officials and members of Congress are canoodling with energy execs at a posh resort in Arizona this week, discussing policy over golf, wine, and canapes. They are, of course, shocked -- shocked! -- at the implication that anything untoward, like, say, purchasing of influence, might be goin ...
Topics: business, politics, United States (all these topics)

Political Science An interview with Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists	Jennifer Weeks	05 Jan 2005	Main Dish
The Bush administration is gearing up to push for second-term priorities -- including an energy bill, power-plant emissions legislation, and amendments to the Endangered Species Act -- under a cloud of accusations that it has manipulated federal scientific research on these and other issues to support its agenda. These arguments have been voiced most prominently by the ...
Topics: interview, politics, United States (all these topics)

Darling Nikki EPA inspector general making enemies on Capitol Hill		04 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Darling Nikki EPA inspector general making enemies on Capitol Hill Nikki Tinsley, the inspector general of the U.S. EPA, is ruffling feathers in Washington, D.C., these days. A registered independent appointed by President Clinton in 1999, she has developed a reputation for integrity, professionalism, and steely resolve. She views her job not simply as monitoring for fraud and waste, but ensuring that the EPA is doing its ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A Cartoonist's New Year's Resolution	Suzy Becker	04 Jan 2005	Ha.

Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

'And Now!' Grinned the Grinch, 'I Will Stuff Up the Tree!' Bush admin overhauls forest management policy		03 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
"And Now!" Grinned the Grinch, "I Will Stuff Up the Tree!" Bush admin overhauls forest management policy The Bush administration unveiled sweeping changes to federal forest-management policy on Dec. 22, while Americans milled through malls and airports, minds dancing with visions of, well, everything but forest management. The changes will "streamline" approval of forest-management plans b ...
Topics: politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Hagelian Dialectic Kyoto opponent Hagel may ally with Blair for new climate agreement		16 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Hagelian Dialectic Kyoto opponent Hagel may ally with Blair for new climate agreement U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to cajole the U.S. into doing something about climate change -- and shake off his rep as a Bush "poodle" -- may have found an ally in Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). Hagel met with Blair this week in London at the PM's request to discuss the kinds of initiatives the countries ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Ay-Yay-Yayurvedic Imported herbal remedies found to contain lead and other nasties		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Ay-Yay-Yayurvedic Imported herbal remedies found to contain lead and other nasties Ayurvedic herbal supplements imported from South Asia may contain lead, mercury, and arsenic, sometimes at levels high enough to cause serious health problems, including vomiting, convulsions, and seizures. A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 20 percent of the remedies purchased in the U.S. ...
Topics: food and agriculture, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Counter-Inuitive Eskimos cast global warming as human-rights issue		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Counter-Inuitive Eskimos cast global warming as human-rights issue The Inuit people of the Arctic are trying to shift the debate on global warming, casting it as a human-rights issue rather than a purely environmental one. They plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the U.S., by spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and warming the planet, is threatening their existence. Though ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, United States (all these topics)

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