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Re-tired		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Re-tired In other news about trash, the U.S. is making significant strides in the reuse and recycling of rubber tires. Last year, Americans got rid of about 281 million tires -- some 5.7 million tons worth. In 1990, just one out of every 10 discarded tires was reused; now, that number has risen to nearly eight in 10. Some are burned to generate electricity; some are mixed with asphalt to pave roads; some are made int ...
Topics: green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Whistleblow While You Work		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Whistleblow While You Work Citing laws designed to protect institutional whistleblowers, the Labor Department has ordered the U.S. EPA to reinstate a former investigator to "ombudsman-related duties." The department concluded that EPA policy analyst Hugh Kaufman was removed from those duties in retaliation for complaining about the agency -- in other words, for doing his job too well. As an ass ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

I'll Have to Speak With My Attorney		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Have to Speak With My Attorney In a letter being sent today to President Bush, 11 state attorneys general criticize the president for his failure to impose strong federal measures to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and control global warming. In addition to condemning the "regulatory void" created by the absence of federal action, the letter contends that environmental policies proposed by the Bu ...
Topics: climate, ozone, politics, United States (all these topics)

Sound Science		16 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Sound Science In a triumph of the military over the environment, the U.S. Navy yesterday won approval to deploy two ships that use low-frequency sonar to detect distant submarines, despite ongoing fears that the system could injure whales and other marine mammals. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration granted the Navy an exemption from federal rules protecti ...
Topics: marine life, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, oceans, United States (all these topics)

The Daily Load		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Daily Load The Bush administration could slash a key program of the Clean Water Act requiring federal oversight of states' efforts to restore polluted bodies of water. About 300,000 miles of rivers and shorelines and 5 million acres of lakes in the U.S. are categorized as "impaired water bodies" in need of remediation, but for decades, some states neglected their cleanup. That began to shift ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

I'll Do the Thinning Around Here, Baba Looey		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Do the Thinning Around Here, Baba Looey Fanning a different kind of flame, Republican lawmakers are blaming environmental groups for contributing to the fires that destroyed more than 3.1 million acres of U.S. forests this year by blocking federal projects to thin undergrowth. Thinning removes brush and dead trees from the forest understory, thereby eliminating some of the dry matter and reducing ...
Topics: logging, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

EV-ing Can't Wait		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Always a Bribe's Made		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Always a Bribe's Made Apparently inspired by the 2000 Gore-Nader brouhaha, the head of New Mexico's GOP tried to bribe Green Party leaders to field candidates in upcoming elections in order to drain votes away from Democrats. The state's Republican Party chair, John Dendahl, spoke with Green leaders about the possibility of making a six-figure contribution to their part ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

Taken to the Cleaners		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Taken to the Cleaners A plan by the Bush administration to speed cleanups of highly radioactive military waste is provoking the ire of some powerful foes. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said the plan -- which offers an extra $800 million in cleanup funds for the next fiscal year to states that can decide by Aug. 1 how to spend the money -- could give states an incentive to lower their envi ...
Topics: Department of Energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Desperately Seeking Snoozin'		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Desperately Seeking Snoozin' Despite mounting evidence that global warming has already begun to exact steep tolls on the environment, the Bush administration told Congress yesterday that it needs up to five years of additional scientific research before it will be ready to formulate a plan to address climate change. Speaking in front of the House Science Committee, Commerce Assistant Secretary James Mahoney said the administration w ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
99 Bottles of Beer in a Dumpster For the first time in at least a decade, Congress is considering a national bottle bill, thanks to the efforts of Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), head of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Jeffords, who has battled for such a bottle bill for nearly 30 years, introduced a measure today that would shift the burden of recycling from states, cities, and consumer ...
Topics: business, green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Coca Is It!		11 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Coca Is It! Efforts by the United States to combat cocaine production in Colombia by spraying coca crops with herbicides are coming up against a provision requiring the spraying to meet the same safety standards as those in the U.S. Translation: The U.S. EPA must certify that the spraying "does not pose unreasonable risks or adverse effects to humans or the environment." The herbicide in use in C ...
Topics: Colombia, health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

We Do More Spinning Before 9 a.m. Than Most People Do All Day		10 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
We Do More Spinning Before 9 a.m. Than Most People Do All Day It seems the General Accounting Office has been busy of late; in a report completed in May that surfaced yesterday at a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the congressional auditors found little evidence to support the Bush administration's claims that environmental regulations are interfering with military training. The administratio ...
Topics: politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Lack of Response Ability		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Lack of Response Ability The U.S. EPA is "not fully prepared" to handle a large-scale nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack on the country, according to an internal assessment by the agency. The report was commissioned by EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman in response to the attacks of Sept. 11 and strongly suggests that if those attacks had involved nuclear, biological, or chemical weap ...
Topics: nuclear power, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Frog Days of Summer		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Frog Days of Summer For the first time, scientists have found evidence linking agricultural runoff to the rise in grotesque hind-limb deformities in frogs. In the past, the deformities were associated with a common parasite, the burrowing trematode worm, which seemed to affect the development of tadpoles. Now, writing in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have foun ...
Topics: Canada, toxics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

The Sludge Report		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Sludge Report From the department of You've Got To Be Kidding: An internal U.S. EPA document alleges that the 200,000 tons of toxic sludge dumped by the Army Corps of Engineers into the Potomac River every year is actually good for fish, because it forces them to fl ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Potomac River, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, US EPA, Washington DC, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Environmental Quality Is Job One		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Environmental Quality Is Job One A new TV and radio advertising campaign by the Sierra Club calls on the automobile industry to cut its oil use as an act of patriotism -- and singles out Ford Motor Company CEO William Clay Ford, Jr., to lead the way. The great-grandson of Henry Ford, William Ford used to be seen as an auto industry iconoclast, conversant on climate change and critical of profligate oi ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

New Snooze Review		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
New Snooze Review A proposal to alter the New Source Review rule of the Clean Air Act will be announced today, according to the U.S. EPA. The rule requires companies to install state-of-the-art pollution-control equipment when upgrading aging power plants. The utility industry has lobbied intensely against New Source Review, saying it should apply only to extensive, non-routine expansio ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Chemical Bothers		12 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Chemical Bothers Led by a prominent pediatrician, the Center for Children's Health and the Environment at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine is waging war against industrial chemicals, saying they present significant health risks to children. At a press conference yesterday, Phillip Landrigan, the center's director, said that the country doesn't even have minima ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Alternative Energy Crisis When it comes to renewable energy, the DOE is DOA	Amanda Griscom	11 Jun 2002	Powers That Be
The question isn't whether the Bush administration is in bed with the old-school energy industry; most of us have pretty much accepted that Big Oil and King Coal are the current sexy interns in the White House. Nor is the question whether we should be bracing for another oil shock; given the Iraqi oil boycott and political turbulence in Venezuela and Nigeria (two of the biggest oil suppliers ...
Topics: politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Dozing Off		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dozing Off More than 8,500 premature deaths are caused every year by pollution from off-road diesel-fueled equipment not regulated by the federal government, according to a new study by state air pollution control officials. Earthmovers, bulldozers, agricultural equipment, and other such vehicles emit extraordinarily high levels of pollution that have been linked ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

New Power Generation		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: United States, water pollution (all these topics)

A Mixed Bag		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
A Mixed Bag In a study of the cumulative health risks of pesticides, the U.S. has found that only two of the 30 pesticides it studied pose an unacceptable threat to human health when combined. The study was conducted in response to a lawsuit by the Natural Resources Defense Council, and its findings were announced yesterday evening, just hours after a federal appeals court rejected the third attempt by the pesticide ...
Topics: health, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A Quest Called Tribe		07 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
A Quest Called Tribe U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman acknowledged this week that it was "all too apparent that EPA needs to do more" to help tackle environmental problems on tribal lands. Whitman's announcement came during the Sixth National Tribal Conference on Environmental Management, held this week in Sparks, Nev. The conference focuses on mining, water and air ...
Topics: air pollution, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Boxer Rebellion		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Boxer Rebellion President Bush scored a victory yesterday when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved his plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but he was challenged by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on other environmental ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Jay Inslee, logging, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

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