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A Bunch of Debunk Debate Over Benefits of Organic Food Heats Up		08 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
A Bunch of Debunk Debate Over Benefits of Organic Food Heats Up The market for organic food is exploding, and as any star of teen movies can tell you, with success comes backlash. Some of the organic-food industry's more enthusiastic backers have made lofty claims about the health benefits the foods confer, and now some scientists (and some industry-backed "scientists") are tossing cold water on the love-fest. ...
Topics: food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

Omission Accomplished Environment Invisible at GOP Convention		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Omission Accomplished Environment Invisible at GOP Convention Attendees at the Republican National Convention, which wrapped up last night, would have been hard-pressed to discern the party's positions on environmental issues. Other than a video touting the Bush administration's efforts to avert wildfires in national forests (by, um, logging), green themes were markedly absent from the gathering. "I have not heard ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Take a Walk on the Wild Side The Wilderness Act Turns 40		03 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Take a Walk on the Wild Side The Wilderness Act Turns 40 Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Some 9 million acres were designated wilderness upon passage; 106 million acres are protected under the act today. Jimmy Carter signed the most land into wilderness, with 66.3 million acres; Reagan accounted for 10.6 m ...
Topics: land stewardship, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

24 Hour Party People Energy Industry Funnels Millions into Unregulated Convention Parties		02 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
24 Hour Party People Energy Industry Funnels Millions into Unregulated Convention Parties The energy industry is treating Republicans to a gay old time in New York City this week, hosting a plethora of parties for favored politicians and others attending the GOP convention: a ball, a concert, a trap shoot, a honky-tonk salute, even a soiree with scantily clad acrobats swinging fro ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

That Smarts Cute, Tiny Smart Cars to Come to U.S. and Get Big		01 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
That Smarts Cute, Tiny Smart Cars to Come to U.S. and Get Big The tiny, fuel-efficient, two-seater Smart cars (named after their manufacturer) that are so popular in Europe are coming to the U.S. Sort of. Convinced that a tiny car -- even one that gets 60 miles per gallon and has been repeatedly proven safe for drivers -- will offend Americans' sense that bigger means better and safer, Smart U.S.A. will be introducin ...
Topics: business, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Malign Neglect Republican Leaders at Odds Over Nuclear Worker Compensation Program		01 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Malign Neglect Republican Leaders at Odds Over Nuclear Worker Compensation Program The Bush administration is clashing with Republicans in Congress over a compensation program for workers at nuclear facilities sickened by exposure to radiation, asbestos, and other toxic substances. As of July, the Energy Department had paid out only $700,000 of the $95 million it has received since the program was created, ...
Topics: nuclear power, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

He Said, She Said -- Except He's Right Study Shows Systematic Deficiency in Climate-Change Reporting		01 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
He Said, She Said -- Except He's Right Study Shows Systematic Deficiency in Climate-Change Reporting An analysis of climate-change coverage in four major U.S. newspapers from 1988 to 2002 confirms what many enviros have long charged: Media coverage of global warming is woefully deficient. A growing chorus of media critics says that the journalistic convention of "balance," which dictates that in order to remain "fair ...
Topics: climate, United States (all these topics)

By Any Greens Necessary Enviro Justice Center Works to Link Green and Civil-Rights Movements		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
By Any Greens Necessary Enviro Justice Center Works to Link Green and Civil-Rights Movements Environmental degradation often falls hardest on poor and minority communities, but these communities can have difficulty organizing to fight for environmental justice, and they've received too little help from a mainstream environmental movement perceived as a white, middle- and upper-class affair. Sociology profess ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics, United States (all these topics)

Sultans of Swing Environmental Issues May Matter After All, Via Swing States		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Sultans of Swing Environmental Issues May Matter After All, Via Swing States Conventional wisdom has it that environmental issues are low priorities for most voters, and thus for most presidential campaigns. However, this year's squeaker of a presidential election will be decided by voters in a small handful of swing states -- and in many of those states, top local issues are environmental. In Nevada, Kerry trumpets hi ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Maple Encyclical On organic syrup	Umbra Fisk	30 Aug 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I saw at the store there is "organic" maple syrup. Is there really a difference between organic and non-organic maple syrup? Do conventional farms spray the trees with massive amounts of pesticides? I don't have much money (poor college student) so I was just trying to buy organic for things like apples and milk, which I've heard should only be bought in organic form. Brianna Farmington Hills, Mich. Dearest Briann ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, organic food, United States (all these topics)

Good Times, Good Times Federal Report on Global Warming Produces Beltway Drama		27 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Good Times, Good Times Federal Report on Global Warming Produces Beltway Drama When The New York Times reported yesterday on a new Bush administration report to Congress which acknowledged the human causes of global warming, characterizing it as an abrupt shift in policy, some Beltway wags speculated that the newspaper was trying to box the administration in and embarrass it. Today brought evidence in support of such spec ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

Classified Adds As Feds Classify More Info, Environment Could Be Affected		27 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Classified Adds As Feds Classify More Info, Environment Could Be Affected Since 9/11, the Bush administration has upped secrecy at a growing number of agencies, all in the name of fighting terrorism. Much of the information newly deemed sensitive has direct implications for the environment and public health. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will no longer make safety scorecards for nuclear facilities publi ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics, United States (all these topics)

Don't Be a Bad Sport New Study Says Recreational Fishing Harms Endangered Species		27 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Don't Be a Bad Sport New Study Says Recreational Fishing Harms Endangered Species When it comes to overfishing and the depletion of stocks of threatened and endangered fish species, the focus is usually on commercial fishing. But a new study published today in the journal Science claims that recreational fishing has a much larger impact on those stocks than previously assumed. A team of researchers analyzed ...
Topics: marine life, outdoor recreation, United States (all these topics)

Good for the Goose, Good for the Pander Kerry Trumpets the Benefits of Coal		23 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Good for the Goose, Good for the Pander Kerry Trumpets the Benefits of Coal In 2000, Al Gore narrowly lost the swing state of West Virginia, which (like so many other things) cost him the election. Many observers speculated that the loss resulted from Gore's reputation as a "radical" environmentalist, particularly his opposition to coal, which many state residents depend on for their livelihoods. Joh ...
Topics: elections, energy, politics, United States (all these topics)

Behind the Green Door-to-Door Enviro Groups Go Door-to-Door to Reach Swing Voters		23 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Behind the Green Door-to-Door Enviro Groups Go Door-to-Door to Reach Swing Voters Environmental organizations like the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters are mounting get-out-the-vote operations of unprecedented vigor and sophistication this election year. They are targeting what the Sierra Club calls "infrequent environmental voters," folks concerned about natural resources and environmental de ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Tree Amigos Bush Roadless-Rule Rollback Opposed by Tree Farmers		20 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Tree Amigos Bush Roadless-Rule Rollback Opposed by Tree Farmers The Bush administration's proposal to revamp (critics say gut) the Clinton-era Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction on some 60 million acres of federal forestland, is finding opposition in some odd places. Owners of tree farms, not typically considered a natural ally of greens, are backing the Sierra Club and other enviro ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Oil Over Again Analysts Warn That Natural Gas Could Pose Same Problems as Oil		20 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Oil Over Again Analysts Warn That Natural Gas Could Pose Same Problems as Oil As the inevitable oil crisis draws closer, with demand continuing to rise and production capacity rapidly approaching its peak, natural gas is set to be the next big thing in the U.S. energy sector. But some analysts warn that natural gas will push the country toward many of the same problems as oil. Currently, Canada is the major suppl ...
Topics: energy, natural gas, oil, United States (all these topics)

Enough With the Snowmobiles Already Bush Administration Pushes for Snowmobiles in Yellowstone -- Again		19 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Enough With the Snowmobiles Already Bush Administration Pushes for Snowmobiles in Yellowstone -- Again The saga of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park contains more twists and turns than a Grisham novel. Only without the sex. Or violence. But plenty of lawsuits! And snowmobiles! The latest: The Bush administration unveiled a plan today that would allow up to 720 snowmobiles into Yellowstone each ...
Topics: national parks, outdoor recreation, United States (all these topics)

Mort Utility Vehicles SUV Occupants More Likely to Die in Accidents		18 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Mort Utility Vehicles SUV Occupants More Likely to Die in Accidents You surely already know that SUVs pollute the air, contribute to global warming, boost demand for oil, and shackle our security and economic fate to volatile, politically regressive Middle Eastern states. You might even know that SUVs raise the total number of traffic fatalities and squash drivers of smaller vehicles in crashes. But did you know that SUVs are m ...
Topics: placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Mo' Emissions, Mo' Problems Enviro Group Pushes EPA for Sharper Emissions Regs		18 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Mo' Emissions, Mo' Problems Enviro Group Pushes EPA for Sharper Emissions Regs Environmental Defense is pushing the U.S. EPA to increase the pollution reductions it is set to impose on power companies in December. If the agency required industry to invest a minimum of up to 50 percent more -- for a total of $72 billion -- 3,000 additional lives would be saved and 140,000 additional children would avoid asth ...
Topics: air pollution, New York, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Grand Old Protest Activists Divided Over Protest Tactics at GOP Convention		18 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Grand Old Protest Activists Divided Over Protest Tactics at GOP Convention Many enviros will be among the hundreds of thousands of protesters flooding into New York City at the end of the month to protest the Republican National Convention -- or rather, to protest environmental rollbacks, corporate cronyism, tax cuts for the rich, indifference to poverty, abortion restrictions, the Iraq war, abrogation of civil liberties ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Brower Power A spotlight on young enviro activists	Michelle Nijhuis	10 Aug 2004	Main Dish
David Brower, a pioneer of the U.S. environmental movement, once said that his generation depended on young people "to shape us up before it's too late." Though Brower -- former executive director of the Sierra Club, founder of Friends of the Earth and the Earth Island Institute -- passed away in 2000, his legacy lives on: He established the Brower Fund, which cultivates new environmental leaders th ...
Topics: education, United States (all these topics)

Brown and Out Jeffrey St. Clair's Been Brown so Long slams Clinton's enviro record as well as Bush's	Stephen Hendricks	26 Jul 2004	Arts and Minds
He's bad, but is he the baddest? Photo: White House. Ask 10 environmentalists and 9 will tell you George W. Bush has been worse for the planet than Bill Clinton -- and they would be wrong. In their error lies much that is ill in the environmental movement (if "movement" it can be called) and shows how long are the odds against righting the wrongs of the ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, politics, United States (all these topics)

Clash of the Titans An excerpt from Boiling Point highlights a clash of interests over climate change	Ross Gelbspan	21 Jul 2004	Arts and Minds
Boiling Point By Ross Gelbspan, Basic Books, 256 pages, July 2004 Journalist Ross Gelbspan's new book, Boiling Point (out in late July from Basic Books), reveals how politicians, big oil and coal, the media, and even activists have fueled the climate crisis -- and how we might still avert disaster. This excerpt traces what Gelbspan describes as a corrupt relationshi ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, oil, politics, United States (all these topics)

Do the Right Thing Frist sides with right-wingers to stymie widely supported sea treaty	Amanda Griscom	17 Jun 2004	Muckraker
How's this for a once-in-a-blue-moon scenario? Six major environmental groups endorse a sweeping international treaty strongly supported by the American Petroleum Institute and other industry groups. Do you sea what I sea? Photo: NOAA. On May 12, top dogs from the Natural Resources Defense Council, National Environmental Trust, Ocean Conservancy, and three other green organizati ...
Topics: international politics, Muckraker, oceans, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

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