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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)

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)

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 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Organic: Friend or Faux? USDA Dilutes Meaning of 'Organic' Label		18 May 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

Independent's Day Jim Jeffords gets riled up about the environment in a Grist interview	Amanda Griscom	10 May 2004	Main Dish
Jim Jeffords. Photo: U.S. Senate. If an environmental action-hero figure is ever made of Jim Jeffords -- and if the Independent Vermont senator is willing to be immortalized not only in plastic but also in drag -- it will have to be called "Cassandra." Like Cassandra, Jeffords has a gift for prophecy. Only four months into President Bush's term, he saw the signs of u ...
Topics: interview, politics, United States, Vermont (all these topics)

The Big Picture Climate change too slow for Hollywood, too fast for the rest of us	Bill McKibben	04 May 2004	Soapbox
It's always been hard to get people to take global warming seriously because it happens too slowly. Not slowly in geological terms -- by century's end, according to the consensus scientific prediction, we'll have made the planet warmer than it's been in tens of millions of years. But slowly in NBC Nightly News terms. From day to day, it's hard to discern the catastrophe, so we don't ge ...
Topics: climate, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Craig's List An interview with Bush's point person on species and parks	Amanda Griscom	15 Apr 2004	Main Dish
Craig Manson. Craig Manson is the man President Bush selected to protect America's critters. And like many top dogs in this administration, he's not exactly considered a good friend of the environmental community. As assistant interior secretary for fish, wildlife, and parks, Manson implements the Endangered Species Act, determines the direction of the National Park System and the Fish and Wi ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, interview, national parks, politics, United States (all these topics)

Control-Alt-Recycle Tips on greener computing	Pam Lundquist, P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide	06 Apr 2004	Earthly Possessions
By Pam Lundquist and P.W. McRandle, for the Green Guide 06 Apr 2004 OK computer. U.S. consumers are being cheated out of the chance to buy the greenest possible computers, according to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and other environmental groups that have joined forces on the Computer TakeBack Campaign. The campaign's latest report card examined 28 computer manufacturers' practices regarding hazardous materials, worker health and safety, and ...
Topics: green living, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

One Nation, Underperforming The U.S. has outsourced environmental leadership	Bill McKibben	05 Apr 2004	Soapbox
On the money. California unveiled the design on its state quarter last week: a picture of John Muir, an image of Half Dome. It's an apt representation of American environmentalism at the moment -- rich in history, but not worth much at present. Modern environmentalism can fairly be described as an American invention. It got its rhetoric from John Muir, its fighting savvy from David Brower ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

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