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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Green Thumbs-Down Don't gamble with your vote in 2004	Norman Soloman	15 Oct 2003	Soapbox
Is Ralph ready to run? Photo: Nader 2000. Activists have plenty of good reasons to challenge the Democratic Party operatives who focus on election strategy while routinely betraying progressive ideals. Unfortunately, the national Green Party now shows appreciable signs of the reverse problem -- focusing on admirable ideals without plausible strategy. If Ralph Nader runs for president next year, as now appears qui ...
Topics: political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

Electoral Collage A special edition on elections and the environment		15 Oct 2003	Main Dish
"Information is the currency of democracy," said Thomas Jefferson, who, as the oft-cited father of democracy, presumably knew whereof he spoke. Alas, a couple of hundred years later, it seems more accurate to say that currency is the currency of democracy. Here at the height of the Information Age, information about the workings of our democracy is increasingly tough to come by (think of the Bush administr ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Do Good Tell Your Senators to Nix the Anti-Enviro Energy Bill		14 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Do Good Tell Your Senators to Nix the Anti-Enviro Energy Bill Here are three good reasons environmentalists should be worried about the energy bill currently in joint conference committee at the U.S. House and Senate. First, it includes virtually no conservation measures -- nothing to improve the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks, nothing to wean the country off of its unhealthy and unsafe dependence on fossil fuels. Secon ...
Topics: energy, politics, United States (all these topics)

Nuclear Holler Costs Nuclear Weapons Facilities Vulnerable to Terrorists, Whistleblower Says		08 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Nuclear Holler Costs Nuclear Weapons Facilities Vulnerable to Terrorists, Whistleblower Says Nuclear weapons facilities in the United States are vulnerable to terrorist attacks, according to a whistleblower who recounts his tale to reporter (and Grist contributor) Mark Hertsgaard in the November issue of Vanity Fair. Until September 2001, federal employee Rich Levernier was in charge of coordinating simul ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

A Monumental Decision Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to National Monuments		07 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
A Monumental Decision Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to National Monuments The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a pillar of former President Clinton's environmental legacy yesterday when it refused to hear challenges to the creation of seven national monuments in five Western states. The Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative law firm, argued that Clinton overstepped the bounds of the 1 ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, politics, United States, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Little Solar Houses for You and Me Working to develop the Volkswagen of solar homes	Amanda Griscom	07 Oct 2003	Powers That Be
Just off I-75 in Tennessee, halfway between Knoxville and Chattanooga, past a Home Depot, a Ford dealership, a Krispy Kreme, and a Piggly Wiggly supermarket, there is a newly developed tract of low-income homes built by volunteers of Habitat for Humanity. A bright idea: the Indrajaya-Kinandjar solar house. At first glance, nothing about the development seems out of the ordinary. The ...
Topics: renewable energy, Tennessee, United States (all these topics)

Run Out on a Rail Senate Rejects White House Proposal to Restructure Amtrak		03 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Run Out on a Rail Senate Rejects White House Proposal to Restructure Amtrak A White House plan to restructure Amtrak was, uh, derailed yesterday by nearly unanimous bipartisan opposition in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The six-year Amtrak reauthorization bill proposed ending federal operating subsidies for the passenger rail service, opening some routes to private operators, and turnin ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Strip-tease Republicans Drop Renewable Requirement from Energy Bill		30 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Strip-tease Republicans Drop Renewable Requirement from Energy Bill A measure that would require large utilities to produce 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2019 has been stripped out of a big energy bill by Republican congressional negotiators. Yesterday, 53 senators, including eight Republicans, called for the provision to be reinstated, but to no avail. In ano ...
Topics: politics, renewable energy, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

The Cost Is Clear Benefits of U.S. Clean-Air Rules Far Outweigh Costs, Report Says		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Cost Is Clear Benefits of U.S. Clean-Air Rules Far Outweigh Costs, Report Says The benefits of some major U.S. environmental laws appear to dramatically outweigh the costs, according to a new federal report that is giving environmentalists reason to cheer. The Office of Management and Budget found that tough clean-air regulations implemented over the past decade brought health a ...
Topics: air pollution, Office of Budget and Management, politics, United States (all these topics)

Knights Who Say 'NEPA' White House Task Force Proposes Alterations to NEPA		25 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Knights Who Say "NEPA" White House Task Force Proposes Alterations to NEPA One of the nation's most important environmental laws could be fundamentally altered, if suggestions from a White House task force are implemented. A panel of the Council on Environmental Quality yesterday proposed dozens of changes to the National Environmental Policy Act, a 1970 law that requires all major federa ...
Topics: Council on Environmental Quality, politics, United States (all these topics)

Last Scoundrels of Refuge Republicans Push for Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge -- Again		22 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Last Scoundrels of Refuge Republicans Push for Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge -- Again It's the story that never dies: Republicans are once again plotting to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling, this time by adding a provision to a major energy bill that is now being hammered out in a congressional conference committee. Most Democ ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

E.P.-Eh? The Environmental Protection Agency just isn't like it was in the good old (Nixon) days	Russell Train	22 Sep 2003	Soapbox
Mike Leavitt -- how long will he be smiling? Photo: Utah governor's office. There has been considerable adverse comment from the environmental community about President Bush's nomination of Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt (R) to head the U.S. EPA. Most of that criticism has focused on the governor's environmental record in Utah, a record that appears to have both positive and n ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Taking Leaves of Our Senses U.S. Cities Lose 20 Percent of Trees		18 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Taking Leaves of Our Senses U.S. Cities Lose 20 Percent of Trees Urban sprawl and highway construction have gobbled up greenery at a startling rate, leaving U.S. cities with 20 percent fewer trees than they had just 10 years ago, according to the environmental group American Forests. In a study released as part of the annual National Urban Forest conference, researchers used satellite images to look at the tree canop ...
Topics: placemaking, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Soilant Green U.S. Fails to Inspect Farmed Fish Imports for Dangerous Chemicals		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Soilant Green U.S. Fails to Inspect Farmed Fish Imports for Dangerous Chemicals If the orange foam caused by Canadian aquaculture isn't enough to scare you away from farmed fish, how about the presence of malachite green, a fabric dye suspected to cause cancer, in Chilean farmed salmon? This year, European countries seized dozens of tons of farmed salmon from Chile that were found to have been con ...
Topics: Chile, globalization, marine life, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Burned	The Wilderness Society	10 Sep 2003	Counter Culture
Photo: NPS. 192 million -- number of acres in the U.S. National Forest System1 6.9 million -- number of acres of private and federal land burned by wildfires in 2002 2 2.4 million -- number of acres of national forest land burned by wildfires in 20023 980,000 -- average number of acres of national forest land burned by wildfires annually from 1993 to 20024 648,768 -- number of acres of national forest land burned by wildfires between Jan. 1, 2003, an ...
Topics: United States, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Grid Lock Lessons from Blackout 2003	Amanda Griscom	28 Aug 2003	Powers That Be
Things started to go awry near Cleveland at 3:06 p.m. on Aug. 14, more than an hour before the largest North American blackout in history. A transmission line carrying 345 kilovolts of power overheated, sagged into a tree, and automatically shut off to protect itself from melting entirely. Instantaneously, the colossal current of electricity it was carrying found a new route, sluicing into a neighboring cable. Twenty-six minutes ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Mexican Standoff Feds Will Study Environmental Impact of Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads		27 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Mexican Standoff Feds Will Study Environmental Impact of Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads Bowing to a federal court order, the Bush administration announced yesterday that it will study what the environmental impact would be of an increase in Mexican trucks on U.S. roads. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals banned Mexican trucks from the U.S. in resp ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Transportation, globalization, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Blackout and Blue Enviros Fear Blackout Will Bolster Support for Bush Energy Plan		19 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Blackout and Blue Enviros Fear Blackout Will Bolster Support for Bush Energy Plan Last week's blackout in the eastern U.S. and Canada caused food spoilage, water contamination, economic losses, transportation delays, and all manner of disruptions ranging from the inconvenient to the awful. Now, environmentalists fear it might also cause a change for the worse in U.S. national energy policy. They worry th ...
Topics: Canada, green living, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Browner-nosing EPA Nominee Asks Former Agency Chief for Support		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Browner-nosing EPA Nominee Asks Former Agency Chief for Support Mike Leavitt, President Bush's choice to become the next head of the U.S. EPA, knows that environmentally minded Democrats are going to make his confirmation hearings tough, so he's getting his ducks in a row. Within a day of his nomination by Bush, Leavitt had called Carol Browner, the EPA administrator under President Clinton, to ask if he could use her as a ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

We've Got Mail Grist Readers Opine on Greens, Kucinich, Schwarzenegger, and More		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

A Voice in the Wilderness Grist Launches New Editorial Column		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

The West Swing Bush Visiting Western States to Push His Environmental Agenda		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The West Swing Bush Visiting Western States to Push His Environmental Agenda During the next three weeks, President Bush will be making pit stops in a number of Western states both to tout his environmental agenda and to raise big bucks for his reelection campaign. Even though Bush's advisors consider the environment to be a "second-tier issue," they recognize that it's a ...
Topics: Arizona, deforestation, elections, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

ACT Up Can the new PAC on the block unseat Bush in '04?		12 Aug 2003	The Gist
With a substantial chunk of money but a minimum of fanfare, environmentalists, labor leaders, feminist organizations, and other left-leaning groups convened last week to launch Americans Coming Together, a new PAC dedicated to defeating President Bush in 2004. The name of the alliance is terrible going on tawdry, but the acronym is apt: If we want ACT's dream to become reality, then precisely what we must do is act -- or, more b ...
Topics: political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

Field of Greens The Green Party Plans to Field a Presidential Candidate in 2004		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

Impaired Judgement Judge Who Struck Down Roadless Rule May Have Ethics Conflict		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Impaired Judgement Judge Who Struck Down Roadless Rule May Have Ethics Conflict The federal judge who struck down the Clinton-era roadless rule last month may have violated ethics laws, according to two legal watchdog groups that filed a formal ethics complaint yesterday. The groups say the judge should have recused himself from hearing the case because he potentially stood to profit from its outcome. The roadless rule ...
Topics: politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

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