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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Trouble Right Here in River City	Josh Sevin	10 Nov 1999	Counter Culture
5,270 large dams blocked rivers in 1950 36,500 large dams block rivers today 17 percent of U.S. rivers are currently dammed 600,000 miles of rivers in the U.S. have been impounded behind dams 235,000 miles of rivers in the U.S. have been channelized 25,000 miles of rivers in the U.S. have been dredged for navigation 80 percent of river water in California is used for irrigation 87 percent of river water in Arizona is used for irrigation ...
Topics: dams, energy, rivers and watersheds, United States (all these topics)

The Dirt on Pesticides	Josh Sevin	03 Nov 1999	Counter Culture
4.1 billion pounds of pesticides are used throughout the world each year 30 times more pesticides are used today than were used in 1945 30 percent of insecticides are believed to be carcinogenic 60 percent of herbicides are believed to be carcinogenic 90 percent of fungicides are believed to be carcinogenic 23 of the 28 most commonly used pesticides are believed to be carcinogenic an estimated 20,000 cancer deaths each year in the U.S. are caused ...
Topics: health, toxics, United States (all these topics)

What a Team!		19 Jul 1999	Daily Grist
What a Team! Environmentalists are increasingly teaming up with big business to help corporations produce environmentally sound products. Earlier this year, the Marine Stewardship Council sat down with Unilever, the corporate parent of Gorton and Birdseye frozen foods, and worked out a "sustainable fish" labeling system for grocery store packages of salmon, haddock, and other fish. European companies ...
Topics: business, grassroots activism, United States (all these topics)

Outtasight Insight in Sight		07 Jul 1999	Daily Grist
Outtasight Insight in Sight Honda will be hawking its new 80-mile-per-gallon "Insight" in showrooms across the U.S. by the end of this year, the company announced yesterday. The two-seat coupe will be the world's most fuel-efficient, gas-powered, mass-produced vehicle. The Insight, which will be priced below $20,000 in the U.S., has a three-cylinder gasoline engine assisted by an e ...
Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Japan, Prius, United States (all these topics)

The Phantom Menace?	Ben White	20 May 1999	Muckraker
Last week brought an end to the remarkable run of Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who announced his intention to leave Washington and turn the reins of the federal treasury over to his well-groomed deputy, Lawrence Summers, known affectionately to some enviro insiders as Darth Vader. Although Wall Street may be comfortable with Summers, environmentalists are not. Lawrence Summers, Dark Lord of the Sith In 1991, while at the World Bank, Summers signed ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Riders on the Storm	Ben White	12 May 1999	Muckraker
No one in her or his right mind thinks the 106th Congress is going to pass a whole lot of actual free-standing legislation. It will likely take every ounce of strength this feeble Congress can muster to pass the essential spending bills that fund the government. So riders, those pesky little items that hope to escape scrutiny by hitching a ride on big money bills, are the name of the game, as noted in last week's Muckraker. The current vehicle for ...
Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations, mining, Muckraker, politics, United States, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner	Ben White	05 May 1999	Muckraker
California State Senator and environmental booster Byron Sher (D) sent out invitations to a fundraiser recently and listed State Sen. Ray Haynes (R) among his supporters. Trouble is that Haynes is what you might call a movement conservative, given to labeling people like Sher "clean-air Nazis" and "environmental wackos." Sher's office explained the incident to the Riverside Press-Enterprise as a "typographical err ...
Topics: air pollution, Florida, Muckraker, NRDC, oil and gas drilling, politics, Texas, United States (all these topics)

Sprawl Brawl	Ben White	28 Apr 1999	Muckraker
The Sierra Club released poll numbers recently indicating that 47 percent of voters would be more likely to support a presidential candidate prepared to aggressively attack the problem of urban sprawl. Most people associate VP Al Gore with that issue, but Seattle Mayor Paul Schell has his own ideas. Schell jumped on Bill Bradley's presidential bandwagon last week and told this reporter a large part of the reason was the former New Jersey senator and hoop ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, non-government organizations, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, Seattle, Sierra Club, Texas, United States, Washington (all these topics)

Ozone Odd Couple	Ben White	19 Apr 1999	Muckraker
From the strange bedfellows file: Left-leaning Ozone Action and pro-business Competitive Enterprise Institute agree on something. Sort of. The two groups occupy polar opposite ends of a hybrid coalition lined up to oppose a bill before the U.S. Senate that would give credits to companies that voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions in advance of Kyoto Protocol implementation. These guys don't make a habit of staking out similar positions. However ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, energy, Muckraker, politics, Texas, United States (all these topics)

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