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The Ties That Blind		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Ties That Blind The scientists who advise the U.S. EPA on regulatory decisions often have ties to the very industries that would be affected by the regulations being assessed, according to a study scheduled to be released today by the General Accounting Office, a congressional watchdog agency. In one case, seven of 17 members of a Science Advisory Board panel studying the cancer risks of a toxic chem ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Confessions of an Energy Task Force Member Diary of Dick Cheney's secretive group discovered!	Chris Colin	29 Jun 2001	Soapbox
Congressional investigators were thwarted by the White House this week in their attempts to determine the identities of the people who met with Vice President Dick Cheney's secret energy task force. Indeed, even the names of some task force members remain unknown. The task force's influential report gave short shrift to various environmental concerns long-believed to be pressi ...
Topics: energy, politics, United States (all these topics)

Another One Bites the Dust China's dust bowl is growing at an alarming rate	Lester R. Brown	29 May 2001	Main Dish
Last month, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration laboratory in Boulder, Colo., reported that a huge dust storm from northern China had reached the U.S. "blanketing areas from Canada to Arizona with a layer of dust." They reported that along the foothills of the Rockies, the mountains were obscured by the dust from China. This dust storm did not come ...
Topics: China, deforestation, land degradation, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Chicken Soup for the Soulless Benefit from Dick Cheney's motivational speeches!	Chris Colin	29 May 2001	Soapbox
Foreign leaders, whom the Bushies have occasionally punctured in the hopes of finding oil, continue to complain about the White House's recently released energy plan like little babies. Vice President Cheney has bravely turned their nagging on its ear, pointing out that foreigners often marry dogs and then eat them. Welcome to Cheney's America. "Conservation may be a sign of personal v ...
Topics: politics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Mississippi Delta Blues Pollution is flushing marine life down the drain	David Helvarg	24 May 2001	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from Blue Frontier: Saving America's Living Seas. Predictable but unreported impacts from this spring's flooding on the Mississippi River will be an expanded dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, more southern beach closures, and more dying coral in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. A pesticide begins its journey to the sea. Every day, some 32 billion gallons of ag ...
Topics: marine life, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

On the Roadless Again Have the Bushies done enviros a favor?	Jon Margolis, Writers on the Range	18 May 2001	Soapbox
Remember that old line that tells you to beware of getting what you wished for? The Bush administration and the timber industry may be on the verge of providing another illustration. Even with a federal judge on their side. The roadless travails. Photo: U.S. Forest Service. The administration wished to get rid of the National Forest Roadless Rule, both because Bill Clinton promulgate ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging, national forests, politics, United States (all these topics)

Dear Christie ... 10 Reasons to Stay the Course In a confidential memo, President Bush tells EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman what's on his mind	Chris Colin	09 Apr 2001	Soapbox
Christie -- Heard they hammered you in Montreal about the Kyoto thing. Don't let it get you down, Whitman! They're foreigners, these people, and foreigners feed on confrontation. It's cultural. Did you see that recent French or German movie, in black and white? Cultural. Good of you to leave the conference early. I ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Electric Boogie	Todd Hettenbach	16 Mar 2001	Counter Culture
12,133 -- per capita annual electricity consumption (kilowatt-hours) in the U.S. in 1997 1,381 -- per capita annual electricity consumption (kilowatt-hours) in the rest of the world in 1997 21.5 -- percentage increase in U.S. electricity consumption from 1990 to 1999 43 -- percentage decrease in utility funding for energy efficiency from 1993 to 1998 90 -- percentage of total U.S. coal consumption used to generate electricity in 1998 33 -- percentag ...
Topics: green living, ozone, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

When Is a Caribou an Albatross? The Arctic Refuge could become Bush's gays-in-the-military	David Helvarg	09 Mar 2001	Soapbox
California's energy crisis has become a national Rorschach test, saying more about the viewer than about the ink blot. President Bush is a special case: He looks at the deregulation crisis and sees the need to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou-hoo-hoo. Photo: USFWS. Of course, given the number of oil and gas industry veterans in the top ranks of ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, United States, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

The Noble Citizen A personal appreciation of Grist contributor Donella Meadows	Robert Braille	01 Mar 2001	Soapbox
I was once speaking with Donella Meadows in her Dartmouth College office a few years ago, back when I taught with her in the environmental studies program. She was responsible for my appointment in environmental literature and writing and had become a mentor I could call on for advice at any time, no matter how busy she was. Donella Meadows. Suddenly, the telephone rang. It was a represen ...
Topics: education, green living, population, United States (all these topics)

They Paved Pears and Rice and Put Up a Parking Lot Pavement is replacing the world's croplands	Lester R. Brown	01 Mar 2001	Main Dish
As the new century begins, the competition between cars and crops for cropland is intensifying. Until now, the paving over of cropland has occurred largely in industrial countries, home to four-fifths of the world's 520 million automobiles. But now, more and more farmland is being sacrificed in developing countries with hungry populations, calling into question the future ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, India, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Feeling Bushed Let's hope campaign finance reform saves the day	Donella H. Meadows	16 Jan 2001	Global Citizen
I will never believe he won. I'll always think he got a minority of both the popular and the electoral vote. To me he'll always be President-Under-False-Pretense. The president-elect prepares to step up to the plate. Well, but you know, the Rs would feel the same way if a few hundred Florida votes had tipped the other way. Only worse. If the tables were turned, the Rs would be whipping up their talk ...
Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Slow Down, You Move Too Fast An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure	Donella H. Meadows	09 Jan 2001	Global Citizen
What do you do when you want to move fast but the way ahead is dark, possibly dangerous, and almost entirely unknown? Accelerate? Proceed with moderation? Slow way down? Stop? Don't spray it. That question underlies most environmental regulations. We are not sure what pesticides are doing to soils, waters, other creatures, or ourselves. We have only a vague idea what our rising greenhou ...
Topics: climate, energy, GMOs, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Mathletics Both Gore and Nader could have won with this more sensible election system	Clark Williams-Derry	05 Dec 2000	Soapbox
From the standpoint of most environmentalists, very little went right on election day. Ralph Nader fell short of getting 5 percent of the vote, so the Green Party won't qualify for federal matching funds in 2004. And it seems likely that Al Gore, despite receiving more of the popular vote than his Republican rival, won't be taking the oath of office this January. Much of the ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Loy vey! Did the top U.S. negotiator at The Hague climate talks drop the ball?	Ben White	04 Dec 2000	Muckraker
Lots of grumbling lately from environmental insiders displeased with the way Frank Loy handled negotiating duties for the U.S. during the fruitless climate change talks at The Hague, Netherlands. The main complaint: Bad clock management. Pretty boy Loy. Photo: Courtesy of IISD. Without getting too mired in bad sports metaphors, the knock on Loy, the undersecretary of state for global affair ...
Topics: climate, elections, international politics, Muckraker, politics, United States (all these topics)

That Sinking Feeling Climate talks collapse over carbon sinks, and Americans just don't see the problem	Bill McKibben	27 Nov 2000	Main Dish
Depending on how you spin it, the collapse of the climate negotiations in The Hague, Netherlands, could leave you confident that much progress has been made, despairing that a Bush presidency dooms the future of new talks, or convinced that this is simply a problem too big for human beings to get their heads around. I think, though, that it really leaves us in p ...
Topics: climate, energy, Netherlands, United States (all these topics)

That Sinking Feeling		27 Nov 2000	Daily Grist

Topics: climate change adaptation, international politics, United States (all these topics)

Free-Range at Last, Free-Range at Last Is cheap meat worth the karmic cost of industrial animal production?	Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.	20 Nov 2000	Soapbox
With Thanksgiving nigh, the question arises: What is the meaning of sustainable cuisine? Which came first? Kennedy with both a chicken and an egg. The word sustainable expresses the obligation that each generation has to the next to preserve the value of the natural world. It does not mean we can't use nature. Humankind, a predatory animal, is part of ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Zed, last of his species, in 'Election Night of the Living Dead'		14 Nov 2000	Zed.
Zed, last of his species, in "Election Night of the Living Dead" 14 Nov 2000
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Zed, last of his species, in 'Gaseous Omissions'		01 Nov 2000	Zed.
Zed, last of his species, in "Gaseous Omissions" 01 Nov 2000
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Balancing the Book A look back at Al Gore's 1992 opus on the environment	Chip Giller	25 Oct 2000	Arts and Minds
Earth in the Balance By Al Gore Houghton Mifflin, 416 pages, 2000 How many environmentalists have actually read Earth in the Balance? Very few, I'm willing to wager. The truth is that until recently, I myself felt qualified to pontificate on Al Gore's environmental beliefs and, yes, occasionally question whether he'd lived up to them, even though I hadn't read more than a few excerpts from th ...
Topics: Al Gore, books, business, politics, United States (all these topics)

Burning Rubber	Todd Hettenbach	13 Oct 2000	Counter Culture
6.5 million -- number of tires recalled this year by Bridgestone/Firestone 270 million -- number of scrap tires generated in the U.S. in 1998 500 million -- number of scrap tires currently in U.S. stockpiles 35 -- number of U.S. states that ban whole tires from landfills 59 -- number of tire fires in the U.S. between 1996 and 1998 14 million -- number of tires consumed in a 1990 tire fire in Hagersville, Ontario, the largest tire fire in history, whi ...
Topics: energy, green living, placemaking, recycling, United States (all these topics)

The Cars Are Stacked Against Us		03 Oct 2000	Daily Grist
The Cars Are Stacked Against Us While a few small cars being sold in U.S. showrooms get 40 or more miles to the gallon, the vast majority of 2001 model year vehicles get about 20 mpg, according to annual fuel economy statistics released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The popularity of SUVs, pickup trucks, and minivans drove down the mileage figures. Just like the previous ...
Topics: cars, Department of Energy, energy efficiency, green products, hybrids, United States (all these topics)

Pounding the Pavement	Todd Hettenbach	26 Sep 2000	Counter Culture
3 million -- number of acres of open space developed each year in the U.S. 40 -- percentage increase in acreage of developed land in the U.S. between 1982 and 1997 1891 -- year in which the first road was paved in the U.S. 2.4 million -- number of miles of paved public roads in the U.S. in 1997 23 -- percentage increase in miles of paved public roads in the U.S. from 1977 to 1997 83.9 million -- number of metric tons of cement produced in the ...
Topics: climate, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Species on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown A record pace of extinction threatens American flora and fauna	Elizabeth Grossman	19 Sep 2000	Arts and Minds
"The last quarter of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th has been called the most destructive period in the history of American wildlife," writes David Wilcove, senior ecologist with Environmental Defense, in his perspicacious book, The Condor's Shadow. But he makes the case that the fin de si�cle era has a daunting rival in our current ...
Topics: United States, wildlife (all these topics)

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