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TRI a Little Tenderness		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
TRI a Little Tenderness The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment dropped 8 percent in 2000, continuing a decade-long trend of declining industrial pollution, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The Toxics Release Inventory compiles data from more than 23,000 factories, refineries, hard-rock mines, power plants, and chemica ...
Topics: business, energy, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Stranger in a Familiar Land		23 May 2002	Daily Grist
Stranger in a Familiar Land If politics makes for strange bedfellows, sometimes it makes for strange enemies as well: Tensions are brewing between environmentalists and animal-rights activists over federal efforts to establish the health effects of industrial chemicals and pesticides by testing them on laboratory animals. Under pressure from environmentalists, who were concerned ...
Topics: animal welfare, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Shiva Me Timbers		23 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, rivers and watersheds, United States (all these topics)

Unkempt		23 May 2002	Daily Grist
Unkempt We're not sure whose job it is to go through all the thousands of pages of documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's formerly secretive energy task force, but they sure are having a grand old time. This week, the needle in the haystack was a memo sent to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham by Jane Hughes Turnbull, an executive at a California renewable energy company. In the memo, Turnbull chalked up he ...
Topics: energy, ozone, politics, United States (all these topics)

Sign of the TIMOs		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
Sign of the TIMOs A major shift is taking place in U.S. timber ownership, and it could have significant consequences not just for the industry but also for ecosystems across the country. Traditionally, the major private owners of forestlands in the U.S. have been forest product companies, but increasingly, such land is being bought by investment groups hoping to make money on their holdings. In the la ...
Topics: business, land stewardship, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

New Sue Review		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
New Sue Review Oral arguments were heard yesterday in the U.S. EPA's lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power provider. Lawyers for the EPA argued that the TVA violated the New Source Review rule of the Clean Air Act by failing to install state-of-the-art pollution-control equipment when upgrading its older coal-burning ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, pollution and waste, Tennessee Valley Authority, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Whalie Meatie -- What a Treaty!		20 May 2002	Daily Grist
Whalie Meatie -- What a Treaty! In other whale news, the Makah nation in northwestern Washington won another affirmation of its treaty rights late last week, when a U.S. district judge rejected efforts by animal rights activists to suspend Makah whaling until a lawsuit on the issue is resolved. The Makah are the only native people in the Lower 48 to retain the right to hunt whales through a treaty with the U.S. government. The tribe s ...
Topics: oceans, United States (all these topics)

Bass Ackwards		20 May 2002	Daily Grist
Bass Ackwards It's Marine News Day here at Grist Magazine and therefore our duty to report that more than 90 restaurants in Los Angeles and Orange counties in Southern California will pledge Tuesday to pull Chilean sea bass from their menus in an effort to save the fish from overfishing and possible extinction. The Chilean sea bass was born in the early 1990s, when spin masters renamed the Patagonian toothfish and ...
Topics: green living, marine life, United States (all these topics)

There's the Right Way and the Army Way		20 May 2002	Daily Grist
There's the Right Way and the Army Way Less than three weeks after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suspended some 150 projects nationwide due to concerns about the accuracy of their economic analyses, the agency announced Friday that it had reviewed all those projects and given the green light for 118 of them to proceed. The speed with which the reviews were conducted spurred renewed criticism of the Corps, which ori ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, United States (all these topics)

Slim Pickins, Whitman		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Slim Pickins, Whitman In an apparent effort to diffuse criticism from environmentalists, the Bush administration is considering stepping up legal action against some polluting utility companies. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman has ordered the agency's regional enforcement officials to look for companies that have violated the Clean Air Act by upgrading power plants with ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Buying the Farm		14 May 2002	Daily Grist
Buying the Farm There might be a severe drought facing much of the nation, but billions of dollars in subsidies is soon to rain down on the bread-basket states, thanks to a farm bill signed by President Bush yesterday. Notwithstanding a White House pledge to wean farmers off of government funding, the bill is expected to cost $190 billion over 10 years, or $83 billion more than the cost of continuing current programs. A senior Repub ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Paper Tiger		10 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental non-government organizations, green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

EPA ombudsperson resigns Read the resignation letter from Robert Martin, former national ombudsperson for the U.S. EPA		23 Apr 2002	Muckraker
The following letter of resignation was submitted on April 22, 2002, by Robert Martin, the national ombudsperson for the U.S. EPA. Martin, who has held the post since 1992, was well-regarded by environmentalists for his handling of complaints about Superfund cleanups, but less beloved by higher-ups at the agency. He said his resignation was provoked by EPA Administra ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Rio Pequeno		19 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Rio Pequeno The Rio Grande no longer reaches the sea. In fact, it falls almost a hundred yards short, a telling illustration of the water crisis that threatens the river and the cross-border region that depends on it for survival. Years of drought and a population explosion on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have stra ...
Topics: Colorado River, food and agriculture, Mexico, population, Rio Grande River, rivers and watersheds, United States, water conflicts (all these topics)

Sludge Hammer		10 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sludge Hammer After highway infrastructure, the U.S. water and sewage system is the single biggest public works network in the country -- and it is in trouble. Annual spending on the system falls tens of billions of dollars short of what is needed to maintain and expand it enough to keep up with population growth and stricter health and pollution standards, according to a draft report by the U.S. EPA. By 2019, the report ...
Topics: pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Safety Dance, Part Two Is the U.S. nuclear industry writing its own ticket on security?	Shelley Smithson	28 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Over the last 15 years, the nuclear power industry has lobbied the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Congress to weaken security requirements at atomic plants, even as the threat of terrorism has grown. But in reality, as Shelley Smithson shows in Part I of this series, nuclear energy security is already poor. In drills conducted by the NRC over the last decade, guards at nearl ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics)

Help Wanted A look at the hiring practices at U.S. nuclear power plants	Shelley Smithson	26 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Could the Sept. 11 hijackers have gotten jobs at nuclear power plants? Under the current rules governing nuclear safety, at least some of them could have easily gone to work as janitors, carpenters, computer programmers, or other plant employees, according to Dave Lochbaum, a nuclear safety engineer who works for the Union of Concerned Scientists. Before last fall's terrorist attacks, utili ...
Topics: business, nuclear power, United States (all these topics)

Safety Dance, Part One How secure are U.S. nuclear power plants?	Shelley Smithson	26 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Roughly 40 miles from the rubble of the World Trade Center, U.S. Navy cutters patrol the chilly waters of the Hudson River. Military planes circle overhead. On the ground, members of the National Guard stand ready. The Indian Point nuclear power station, which churns out electricity to nearly 2 million homes around New York City, is defended by land, sea, and air. Yet many people -- and especiall ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, health, New York, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics)

Appliance of My Eye		22 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Appliance of My Eye Meanwhile, drought conditions in parts of the U.S. are driving up sales of water-efficient toilets, faucets, laundry machines, dishwashers, and other appliances. Home Depot and Sears are among the companies benefiting from consumers' itch to shift away from water guzzlers. Sears spokesperson Larry Costello said water- and energy-efficient appliances now represent 17 percent of the company's applianc ...
Topics: climate, green living, United States (all these topics)

Top EPA offical resigns Read the resignation letter from Eric Schaeffer, former head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement		01 Mar 2002	Muckraker
The following letter of resignation was submitted on Feb. 27, 2002, by Eric Schaeffer, head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, to protest White House and Energy Department attempts to weaken federal clean air policy. Schaeffer's resignation has prompted Senate hearings into the Bush administration's environmental record. Christine Wh ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Silicon Death Valley		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Silicon Death Valley Nineteenth century labor conditions and 21st century technology are clashing in impoverished areas of Asia, where millions of tons of obsolete high-tech gear are shipped from the U.S. to be stripped of valuable parts. The practice, which is highly dangerous for both workers and the environment, is documented in a ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, energy, globalization, Haiti, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Pax With the Devil		21 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Pax With the Devil Enron is seldom called "socially conscious" these days -- but that's how some investment companies routinely described the company in the not-too-distant past. The Pax World Balanced Fund, which promotes investing in good corporate citizens, and the Domini 400 Social Index and Calvert Social Index, which screen stocks ba ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living, India, United States, wind power (all these topics)

Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet And the reaction: At home and abroad, the response to President Bush's strategy for dealing with global warming was tepid at best. Pointing to counterexamples in Europe, U.S. critics disagreed with Bush's claim that mandatory emissions limits would damage the economy and said the plan was simply a sweet deal for big business. Sen ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, European Union, France, Japan, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Not-so-secret Agent		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Not-so-secret Agent Four decades after the U.S. started using Agent Orange in Vietnam, the two countries will begin working together to assess the effects of the toxic chemical on human health and the environment. Agent Orange is a defoliant that contains TCDD, the most dangerous form of dioxin, which causes cancer, immune system malfunction, and birth defects. The U.S. sprayed millions of gallo ...
Topics: Asia, health, toxics, United States, US Military, Vietnam (all these topics)

Area 51		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Area 51 Fair-to-middling was the U.S. ranking in a new study, presented at the World Economic Forum last week in New York, that rated the environmental health of 142 countries. In the study, conducted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, the U.S. came in ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, Canada, European Union, globalization, green living, Middle East, United States (all these topics)

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