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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)

Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire Fires that rage in thousands of underground coal seams around the world are polluting the air and releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas. Although coal fires occur naturally from spontaneous combustion, scientists say the frequency of such fires has risen as mining has exposed coal deposits to mo ...
Topics: air pollution, China, climate, energy, mining and drilling, ozone, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Alien Invasion!		11 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: education, green living, Hawaii, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Tank You Very Much		10 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Tank You Very Much A technique invented to reduce corrosion of steel components on ships could also prevent exotic species from stowing away in the ballast water of cargo ships. The technique, which was designed by Mario Tamburri of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in collaboration with Japanese scientists, involves pumping nitrogen gas into ballast tanks, thereby virtually e ...
Topics: climate, Japan, marine life, placemaking, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Victory at Sea David Brower leaves a legacy for dolphins	Mark J. Palmer	10 Jan 2002	Soapbox
The one-year anniversary of the death of environmental legend David Brower has come and gone, just a week after the U.S. Department of Justice decided not to appeal a dolphin protection lawsuit the Earth Island Institute filed with Dave back in 1999. Dolphins on the run. Photo: NOAA. For reasons that are still unknown, a small portion of the world's tuna swim with dolphins in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean ...
Topics: Earth Island Institute, marine life, Mexico, politics, United States (all these topics)

Alien Invasion! A review of Tinkering with Eden and Nature Out of Place	Meredith Hall	10 Jan 2002	Arts and Minds
I love my hometown, but I have a bone to pick with a few of its inhabitants -- especially the green ones. It's not the lively Nader supporters of Portland, Ore., that I have hard feelings for, but rather the guileful botanic creepers that go by the common name English ivy. Botanic enemy number one is a luscious green forest dweller, a lazy gardener's groundcover, a symbol of old-world garden soph ...
Topics: Portland, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Tijuana Ass		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Tijuana Ass For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana has flowed into the Tijuana River, north through the United States, and into the Pacific Ocean, violating U.S. clean water standards. Efforts to clean up the waste have bogged down in the double-bureaucracy that plagues cross-border negotiations, with fully one dozen Mexican and U.S. mun ...
Topics: health, Mexico, outdoor recreation, Pacific Ocean, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

'Tis the Treason		02 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
'Tis the Treason It was a grim holiday season for Grigory Pasko, a Russian journalist who was sentenced on Dec. 25 to four years in prison on charges of high treason. A military reporter with an interest in environmental issues, Pasko documented the Russian Navy's practice of dumping old weapons and nuclear waste into the ocean. The treason charges stem from allegat ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, Russia, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

Business As Usual		02 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Business As Usual The U.S. government will no longer consider a business's environmental track record when awarding federal contracts, following the Bush administration's decision to rescind 11th-hour Clinton-era "blacklisting" regulations. The regulations required a business to have a satisfactory record on ethical, environmental, tax, labor, antitrust, and consumer protection laws t ...
Topics: business, Iceland, politics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

I Want You ... To Buy More Stuff! Gluttony at home is not necessary for victory abroad	Jane Holtz Kay	14 Dec 2001	Soapbox
My grandmother, the family provider in World War II's market of scarcity, pleaded -- or was it flirted? -- with the butcher for meat. My father, who couldn't hit his hat with a hammer, volunteered for military service and wound up in Boston army ordinance helping "our boys" make munitions. On "the home front," my mother taught my sister and me to paste savings ...
Topics: green living, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Buy, Buy, Miss American Pie Everything's changed, including zero-down financing	David Helvarg	14 Dec 2001	Soapbox
Hey fellow Americans, now that bio-terrorism, federalized airport security, and military star-chambers are becoming a reality, what do you plan to do? Me, I'm going to Disneyland. Okay, maybe not Disneyland, but I have been to New York, Montana, and Oregon recently -- and by plane. I'm also thinking about buying a new computer. I just don't think that makes me a patriot. Which is why ...
Topics: business, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Steal These Books A review of Affluenza and Red	Elizabeth Grossman	14 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
There's been a tendency since Sept. 11 to reconsider everything in light of that horrific tragedy. I've tried to resist that inclination, but I had read both Affluenza and Red before that day and could not ignore the way the attacks highlighted the importance of the books' divergent subject matters: our desire for the good life, which has made us the greatest consumers on earth; and the need to protect the wild pla ...
Topics: green living, Southwest, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Interior's Ulterior Motive Behind the scenes at the Bush administration's renewable energy summit	Amanda Scott	07 Dec 2001	Main Dish
Ever since the White House declared energy independence a matter of national security, some unlikely evangelists in the Bush administration have been belting out the clean energy gospel. Case in point: Last week, Gale Norton presided over the first national renewable energy summit in history, co-hosted by the Departments of Interior and Energy. Gale Norton. With its cathe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, energy, green living, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

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