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Pay Dirt		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
Pay Dirt The "polluter pays" principle may be languishing in the U.S. under the business-friendly Bush administration, but it's alive and well in Europe, where the European parliament voted this week to strengthen rules to make companies pay for the environmental problems they cause. Spurred on by the recent Prestige disaster, in which a tanker spilled ten ...
Topics: business, European Union, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Ban Rollover		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
Ban Rollover Starting up what's likely to be an ugly trade tussle, the Bush administration yesterday filed suit at the World Trade Organization against the European Union, challenging E.U. policies that severely restrict the import of genetically modified (GM) crops. U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick contends that the E.U. has in effect instituted a ban on GM products, which ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Greening the Elephant Republicans for Environmental Protection need not be an oxymoron	Martha Marks, Writers on the Range	13 May 2003	Soapbox
In the seven years since I cofounded Republicans for Environmental Protection, officially known as REP America, I have answered two questions more often than any others: "Isn't Republicans for Environmental Protection an oxymoron?" And, "If you care so much about conservation and environmental protection, why don't you become a Democrat?" Th ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, politics, United States (all these topics)

Green Old Party		13 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Can You Recycle Me Now?		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Can You Recycle Me Now? Cell phone users now have a way to recycle their old phones and support the Sierra Club in the process. About a million mobile phones are tossed out each week in the U.S. as consumers upgrade or switch to different phone service providers, and those old phones leak a bunch of toxic substances, including mercury, lead, and arsenic, into the environment. CollectiveGood, a recycling ...
Topics: green living, recycling, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

For Never Wild		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
For Never Wild A coalition of environmentalists has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over its recent decision to prevent the Bureau of Land Management from considering any more Western land for wilderness designation. Areas set aside for protection under the 1964 Wilderness Act are protected from motorized recreation and most forms of development. In 1996, however, the state of Utah challenged t ...
Topics: Arizona, United States, Utah, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Respect Your Elders		08 May 2003	Daily Grist
Respect Your Elders U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced yesterday that the Bush administration put the "citizen" back in "senior citizen" by ending its practice of devaluing the lives of older people when calculating the costs and benefits of environmental regulations. Nicknamed the "senior discount," the highly controversial computational method involved valuing the lives of those older tha ...
Topics: United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Fuel Independent Candidate		08 May 2003	Daily Grist
Fuel Independent Candidate Jockeying for name recognition and post position, the candidates for the 2004 Democratic primary are busily trying to stake out the issues that will define them as the election unfolds -- and Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman has settled on energy independence. In his first major policy speech, given yesterday to environmentalists, Lieberman declared a goal of reducing U.S. depen ...
Topics: elections, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Chaos Theory Looting is as American as apple pie	Mark Fiore	22 Apr 2003	Soapbox
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Topics: green living, Iraq, politics, United States (all these topics)

Europe Paean		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Europe Paean Major American corporations may be getting off easy on environmental regulations in the U.S. these days, but they're being forced to toe the line in Europe. Rules adopted this year will require all electronics manufacturers doing business in European Union countries to eliminate use of lead, mercury, and other heavy metals from their products, ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, green living, politics, recycling, toxics, United States, waste (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Diesel Mania		10 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Diesel Mania Move over disco music: Another '70s trend is making a comeback -- diesel fuel. During the oil embargo of 1973, the U.S. enjoyed a brief love affair with diesel because it gets better mileage than gasoline. However, its dirty emissions soon put a damper on the romance. Now, though, a cleaner-burning form of diesel is experiencing a revival. Four of the top 10 vehicles on the Department of Energy's fuel-effi ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, United States (all these topics)

Made to Border		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Made to Border Mexico and the U.S. shook hands Friday on a 10-year agreement to fight pollution along their shared 2,000-mile border, while some enviros contended that without money behind the deal, it won't make a real dent in the region's many problems. The intent is to reduce air pollution, protect water supplies, and prevent pesticide contamination in the border area, which is home to almost 12 mil ...
Topics: Mexico, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Nuclear Falling-Out The feds are backing nuclear power -- in the name of the environment	Amanda Griscom	03 Apr 2003	Powers That Be
It's a long-held tenet of U.S. environmentalists that nuclear power is bad news. Critics argue that the clean-air benefits of nuclear reactors are far outweighed by the consequences of uranium mining and radioactive waste storage -- not to mention the damage that could result from an accident at an atomic power station. Now more than ever, with growing concern about terrorist at ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, United Kingdom, United States, West (all these topics)

Peace Vigilantes	Suzy Becker	31 Mar 2003	Ha.

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

A Change of Climate The Bush administration lost credibility over Kyoto, and can't get it back over Iraq	Bill McKibben	13 Mar 2003	Soapbox
Every European poll shows enormous percentages of people who oppose the pending war on Iraq: 70 percent, 80 percent, 90 percent. That's an extraordinary consensus; it's rare when 70 percent of people agree about anything. Taking their anti-Bush sentiments to the streets in Prague. Photo: Punchdown.org. The consensus is all the more extraordinary because people are ...
Topics: climate, European Union, Iraq, politics, United States (all these topics)

In Need of Refuge	Noah Matson	13 Mar 2003	Counter Culture
Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 540 -- number of national wildlife refuges in the U.S.1 95.3 million -- size, in acres, of the refuge system2 19.3 million -- size, in acres, of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the largest refuge in the country3 0.6 -- size, in acres, of Minnesota's Mille Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, the smallest refuge in the country4 20.7 million -- acres of designated wilderness in the refuge system5 59 -- number o ...
Topics: United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Tough Cell What can we learn from Bush's FreedomCAR plan?	Amanda Griscom	26 Feb 2003	Powers That Be
Following the State of the Union address in which President Bush laid out his new FreedomCAR and Fuel Initiative, which was cheered by automakers and jeered by environmentalists, hydrogen fever swept from the Beltway into the printing presses and airwaves of mainstream media. CNN, Business Week, the New York Times, and U.S. News and World Report, among others, ran stories that, although sometimes skeptical of ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Overdrive	Jim Motavalli	26 Feb 2003	Counter Culture
214,000,000 -- number of vehicles in the U.S.1 290,000,000 -- number of people in the U.S.2 2 -- number of American cars on the Top 20 list in "The Greenest Vehicles of 2003," produced by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (the other 18 are Japanese)3 22,802 -- miles per year driven by the average family in 19834 34,459 -- miles per year driven by the average family in 19955 24,902 -- circumference of the Earth, in miles6 19 -- p ...
Topics: placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Pro-fusion		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Pro-fusion The U.S. and China have officially joined the quest to develop fusion power, which proponents say could be an affordable, eco-friendly alternative to existing energy sources. The International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor is the largest global science project after the International Space Station. China, the U.S., Canada, the ...
Topics: Asia, Canada, China, climate, energy, European Union, green living, Japan, nuclear power, Russia, United States (all these topics)

Tony Tony Tony!		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Tony Tony Tony! In a speech that compared the danger of environmental degradation to the threat of terrorism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday outlined a sweeping plan to combat global warming. Blair called on his country, the European Union, and would-be E.U. members in Eastern Europe to cut carbon dioxide emissions 60 percent ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, international government agencies, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Energy, education, Mexico, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

The Marshall Plan A review of The People's Forests	Jesse Lichtenstein	11 Feb 2003	Arts and Minds
At 3:30 in the morning, on July 15, 1932, 31-year-old Bob Marshall started walking. His goal: to see how many peaks in the Adirondack Mountains he could scale in one day. At 1 p.m., he met up with Herb Clark, an old family friend, at the summit of Mount Marcy, the highest mountain in the range. Clark was with a young architect named Paul Schaefer. More than 30 years later, looking back on the encounter, Schaefer ...
Topics: United States, wilderness, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

Test Ban Treat		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Test Ban Treat Here's one unintended consequence of the impending U.S. war against Iraq: The Bush administration has delayed a formal challenge to the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Recently, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick blamed the ban for widespread starvation in the developing world and said the administration was considering ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, GMOs, Iraq, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Borderline Insanity		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, placemaking, population, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

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