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Raw milk, hot commodity Despite a recent crackdown, Washington State's raw-milk policy might point way forward.	Tom Philpott	28 Nov 2005	Gristmill
In a nation riddled with diet-related maladies like obesity and diabetes, the official fear that greets raw milk is impressive. You can waltz into any convenience store and snap up foods pumped liberally with government-subsidized high-fructose corn sweetener, deep-fried in government-subsidized partially hydrogenated soybean oil. Yet in many states, teams of bureaucrats devote themselves to 'protecting' us from raw milk -- and imposing onerous fines on farmers who da ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, health, Washington (all these topics)

Breaking the Sound Barrier Bush admin takes unexpected step to save Washington state's orcas		16 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Breaking the Sound Barrier Bush admin takes unexpected step to save Washington state's orcas Yesterday, the National Marine Fisheries Service surprised conservationists, cetacean lovers, and most other sentient beings, really, by declaring the orcas of Washington state's Puget Sound endangered. The move mandates a recovery plan and critical-habitat designations, and comes after years of debate o ...
Topics: National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oceans, Washington (all these topics)

The Sound and the ... Eh Fisheries Service offers mild plan to preserve Puget Sound orcas		05 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Sound and the ... Eh Fisheries Service offers mild plan to preserve Puget Sound orcas The much-beloved and much-beleaguered orcas of Puget Sound in Washington state are the focus of a tepid new National Marine Fisheries Service conservation plan. It emphasizes cleaning up the sound, preventing oil spills, and trying to boost the salmon population -- pretty much what the government ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oceans, Washington (all these topics)

Gorge Push Northwest's Columbia River Gorge challenged by smog, acid fog		26 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Gorge Push Northwest's Columbia River Gorge challenged by smog, acid fog Hundreds of miles north of California's cow-poot-clogged San Joaquin Valley (yes, that was just an excuse to mention cow poots), the Columbia River Gorge along the border between Oregon and Washington is facing its own battle of the haze, with views of nearby Mount Hood often obscured by smog. Acid rain and fog have become problem ...
Topics: air pollution, news, Oregon, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		11 Aug 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Thursday, 11 Aug 2005 KAKTOVIK, Alaska, and SEATTLE, Wash. "For us, this is a human-rights stand," says Luci Beach, executive d ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		10 Aug 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Wednesday, 10 Aug 2005 FAIRBANKS, Alaska For the two days following Roger Kaye's talk, we remain in Fairbanks meeting with scientists, ac ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		09 Aug 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Tuesday, 09 Aug 2005 FAIRBANKS, Alaska We arrive back in Fairbanks early in the evening on Aug. 8. Everyone takes showers and we all eat ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		08 Aug 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 08 Aug 2005 FAIRBANKS and AICHILIK RIVER, Alaska The Alaskan part of the trip begins at 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 1, when we arrive at t ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

The Class Menagerie David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge		29 Jul 2005	Dispatches
David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Friday, 29 Jul 2005 SEATTLE, Wash. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is at the center of one of the most contentious environmental and ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Dispatches, education, mining and drilling, Washington (all these topics)

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Garbage Seattle to reduce landfilling by producing less trash in the first place		19 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Garbage Seattle to reduce landfilling by producing less trash in the first place Seattle is pioneering programs to cut landfill costs by stopping trash before it starts, pursuing an ambitious long-term goal of becoming a "zero-waste" city. Seattle Public Utilities is using more electronic documents, radically reducing its use of paper, and instit ...
Topics: environmental planning, green living, health, news, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Us Magazine Seattle births hip, witty, best-ever-in-the-universe green magazine		16 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Us Magazine Seattle births hip, witty, best-ever-in-the-universe green magazine Seattle has become an epicenter for environmentally themed web ventures -- an appropriately green characteristic of the so-called "Emerald City." Heh heh. That's the kind of witty juxtaposition you can expect to find in "Grist," an inscrutably named but apparently quite humorous web magazine on all things ...
Topics: news, Seattle, shameless self-promotion, Washington (all these topics)

City City Bang Bang An interview with Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels on his pro-Kyoto cities initiative	Amanda Griscom Little	15 Jun 2005	Main Dish
A Nickels' worth of free advice ... Meet the pied piper of one of the most exciting green grassroots uprisings to hit the U.S. in years: Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels (D). He's managed to get roughly 300 mayors nationwide -- from the Northwest to the deep South and everywhere in between -- to agree that it's a good idea for U.S. cities to meet or beat Kyoto Pro ...
Topics: interview, politics, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair San Francisco named most sustainable city; Houston least		08 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair San Francisco named most sustainable city; Houston least San Francisco, Portland, Ore., Berkeley, Calif., and Seattle took the top four spots in a new ranking of 25 U.S. cities based on sustainability practices. Bay Area green group SustainLane created the list after scrutinizing the metropolises based on 12 criteria, ...
Topics: California, news, Oregon, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Texas, Washington (all these topics)

There's No Place Like Foam 'Coffee-cup home' showcases wood-free construction		06 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
There's No Place Like Foam "Coffee-cup home" showcases wood-free construction Nancy Hall was looking for a forest-neutral way to construct a house on her 20 already-logged-over acres in Quilcene, Wash. She considered other darlings of the alternative-materials scene, but in the end chose Rastra -- blocks of insulated concrete foam. And how do you Rastra, mon? Take recycled polystyrene coffee cups. Mix 'em with ceme ...
Topics: green living, news, Washington (all these topics)

They're Just Not That Into You Low Northwest salmon run confounds fishers, closes fisheries		12 May 2005	Daily Grist
They're Just Not That Into You Low Northwest salmon run confounds fishers, closes fisheries Conservationists, salmon enthusiasts, and fisheries managers along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest are wondering, Is it something we said? They've been stood up by thousands of chinook salmon that were expected to swim up the river to spawn this season, but n ...
Topics: Columbia River, dams, energy, fishing, Idaho, news, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Washington (all these topics)

Onward Christine Soldier Washington gov signs groundbreaking renewable-energy legislation		11 May 2005	Daily Grist
Onward Christine Soldier Washington gov signs groundbreaking renewable-energy legislation Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) has signed into law two bills that some are calling the most progressive renewable-energy legislation in any U.S. state. The measures earned bipartisan support thanks to their focus on creating a renewables market that would generate jobs and boost the state's economy. One bill calls ...
Topics: news, politics, renewable energy, Washington (all these topics)

Breaking a Bad Habitat More problems uncovered with habitat conservation plans		05 May 2005	Daily Grist
Breaking a Bad Habitat More problems uncovered with habitat conservation plans The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has published parts two and three of its special series on habitat conservation plans (HCPs) and, suffice to say, the story didn't get any cheerier after part one. A proposed 9.1 million-acre HCP in Washington -- which would cover the bulk of the state's private forestland -- promise ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, news, Texas, Washington (all these topics)

The Ventilator Washington state law calls for new public buildings to be green		12 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
The Ventilator Washington state law calls for new public buildings to be green Washington state will be the first in the nation to require new public buildings to meet green building standards, thanks to a bill signed last week by Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) at Washington Middle School in Olympia. Said school is due for a remodel that will meet the standards, set by the U.S. Green Building Council, by incorporating new fixtures ...
Topics: education, news, Washington (all these topics)

Californication Washington state House OKs bill adopting California auto-emissions rule		18 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Californication Washington state House OKs bill adopting California auto-emissions rule The Washington state House this week passed a bill calling for adoption of California's strict auto-emissions rules. If the Senate follows suit and the governor signs off, Washington would follow in the footsteps of six other states that have opted to follow California rules instead of the looser national ones. The ...
Topics: California, news, placemaking, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Cities Slicker Seattle, other U.S. cities to hammer out their own Kyoto-like reductions		18 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Cities Slicker Seattle, other U.S. cities to hammer out their own Kyoto-like reductions The Kyoto Protocol has arrived, and though the Bush administration has opted out, others in the U.S. are not so climate oblivious. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced Wednesday he's leading an effort to get major U.S. cities to agree to Kyoto-like reductions of their greenhouse-gas emissions, to show the feds that " ...
Topics: climate, news, Portland, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

You've Got Whale Feds propose threatened status for Puget Sound orcas		17 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
You've Got Whale Feds propose threatened status for Puget Sound orcas The National Marine Fisheries Service yesterday proposed giving threatened status to a population of 80-some orcas that spend their summers in Washington state's Puget Sound and the waters surrounding British Columbia's Vancouver Island. Government officials say the listing would be somewhat symbolic, as the marine mammals alre ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Washington (all these topics)

Put Up Your Nukes Judge may override Washington state voters on Hanford initiative		02 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Put Up Your Nukes Judge may override Washington state voters on Hanford initiative An initiative on the Washington state ballot last month, which would prevent more waste from being dumped at the federal Hanford nuclear site in the state, will go before a federal judge today. Were there Diebold machines involved? A flurry of recounts? No. In fact, voters approved the measure by a greater than 2- ...
Topics: elections, nuclear power, politics, toxics, Washington (all these topics)

Sorry, No Vacancy Washington initiative blocks further nuke-waste dumping at Hanford		03 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Sorry, No Vacancy Washington initiative blocks further nuke-waste dumping at Hanford By a more than a 2-to-1 margin, Washington state voters passed Initiative 297, which blocks the U.S. Department of Energy from sending more nuclear waste to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the southern part of the state until current waste at the former nuclear-weapons facility is fully cleaned up. The measure ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Lost in the Wilderness Committee Wild Sky wilderness bill dead in the water for this year		23 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Lost in the Wilderness Committee Wild Sky wilderness bill dead in the water for this year Despite overwhelming public and bipartisan support, an effort to create Washington state's first new wilderness area in 20 years died yesterday, thanks to both partisan quarreling and the intransigence of Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), chair of the House Resources Committee. The story is complicated and rife with political finger-poi ...
Topics: politics, Washington, wilderness (all these topics)

Getting the Vapors Concerns About Hanford Worker Safety Grow		26 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Getting the Vapors Concerns About Hanford Worker Safety Grow Concerns over the safety of workers cleaning up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southwestern Washington state -- site of the largest nuclear waste dump in the Western Hemisphere -- continue to escalate. Yesterday, the Department of Energy announced a formal investigation of the private contractor that monitors worker health, respo ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

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