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Bleeding Between the Lines Longline Fishing Takes Heavy Toll on Turtles		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Bleeding Between the Lines Longline Fishing Takes Heavy Toll on Turtles Yesterday we wrote about longline fishing wiping out large numbers of albatrosses; today, there's news that the fishing technique is messing with another charismatic critter -- the sea turtle. "In the year 2000, longline fishermen from 40 nations set at least 1.4 billion hooks on longlines that average about 40 miles long ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Wheelers Welcome; Dealers Too		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Business and Economics Grist Magazine Washington (all these topics)

Cow-a-Bungle How to Fix Our Food-Inspection System and Find Cleaner, Greener Beef		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, food and agriculture, health, ranching, Washington (all these topics)

Pesticidal EPA Sued Over Consultations With Pesticide Industry Group		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Pesticidal EPA Sued Over Consultations With Pesticide Industry Group Fourteen leading chemical companies have formed a task force that is meeting in secret with the U.S. EPA, attempting to weaken endangered species rules relating to pesticide use -- so charges a lawsuit filed against the EPA on Thursday by a coalition of Seattle-based environmental groups. The lawsuit ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, toxics, US EPA, Washington (all these topics)

Willy Wonks Judge Orders Feds to Reconsider Protections for Puget Sound Orcas		18 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Willy Wonks Judge Orders Feds to Reconsider Protections for Puget Sound Orcas The Bush administration's environmental policies are taking a beating from the judicial branch this week. Not only did a federal court yesterday reject a plan to allow snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks; today, a different federal judge struck down the administration's decision not to extend Endangered Species Act protections ...
Topics: marine life, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Hanford and Sums Feds, Washington State Reach Agreement on Hanford Cleanup		27 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Hanford and Sums Feds, Washington State Reach Agreement on Hanford Cleanup After years of bitter wrangling, the federal government and Washington state on Friday reached an agreement on a timeline for cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southern Washington. Under the deal, the U.S. Energy Department will treat the equivalent of several hundred thousand b ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Get on the Clean Bus, Gus Washington State Cleans Up Its School Buses		07 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Get on the Clean Bus, Gus Washington State Cleans Up Its School Buses Washington state has launched an ambitious program to retrofit its diesel school buses with devices that curb pollution. Throughout the country, public health advocates and parents alike have grown concerned about school buses' dirty emissions, which can contribute to a range of health problems, particularly in children, whose lungs ...
Topics: health, placemaking, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Suit to Kill California and Other States to Sue EPA over Greenhouse Gases		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Suit to Kill California and Other States to Sue EPA over Greenhouse Gases California intends to sue the U.S. EPA over the Bush administration's recent decision that the agency doesn't have the authority to regulate emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, Gov. Gray Davis (D) announced on Friday. Nine other states, including I ...
Topics: air pollution, California, climate, Illinois, New York, ozone, politics, Sierra Club, US EPA, Washington (all these topics)

West Side Story West Coast Governors Step Up to Tackle Climate Change		23 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
West Side Story West Coast Governors Step Up to Tackle Climate Change Accusing the Bush administration of "foot-dragging" in the fight against climate change, the governors of California, Oregon, and Washington teamed up yesterday to unveil a joint strategy for cutting emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Governors Gray Davis (Calif.), Ted Kulongoski (Ore.), and Gary Locke (Wash.), Demo ...
Topics: California, climate, Oregon, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Sprawl of the Wild John Mauro Has More Than Birds on the Brain at Audubon Society		15 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: placemaking, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway? Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Who Was That Unmasked Man, Anyway? Hanford Cleanup Workers Worry About Toxic Vapors Dozens of cleanup workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state -- the most contaminated site in the nation -- have registered complaints in the past two years about ammonia-laden vapors seeping up from waste tanks at the site. The workers bl ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, nuclear power, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington (all these topics)

Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back The Yakama Nation has filed notice of its intent to sue the U.S. Department of Energy over its alleged failure to protect the Columbia River from contamination by the Hanford nuclear reservation. Thanks to four decades of plutonium production, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the country; ...
Topics: Columbia River, Department of Energy, litigation, news, toxics, Washington, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Jagged Little Pill		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Jagged Little Pill Birth control pills aren't just having an effect on human reproduction: They're dramatically reducing the fertility of male rainbow trout as well, according to a study by scientists in Washington state. In the study, adult captive trout were exposed to synthetic estrogen for two months, then spawned with a healthy female. Synthetic es ...
Topics: solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, Washington, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Another Roadside Detraction		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Another Roadside Detraction The Washington State Department of Transportation has come under attack by citizens who say its practice of spraying the sides of roads to control weeds puts people and the environment at risk. Last year, a decade after promising to reduce its herbicide use, the department instead hit an eight-year high, applying more than 120,000 pounds of weed-killer alongside state roads. C ...
Topics: health, news, toxics, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

Smoked Salmon Plan		08 May 2003	Daily Grist
Smoked Salmon Plan The Bush administration will have to rethink its salmon-management plan in the Columbia River Basin, following a federal court ruling yesterday that found the current plan inadequate to protect the endangered species and reduce the negative impact of hydroelectric dams. The ruling marks a major triumph for environmentalists and a serious blow to the White House ...
Topics: Columbia River, dams, energy, fishing, marine life, politics, Washington (all these topics)

No Cruise Control		07 May 2003	Daily Grist
No Cruise Control Within 24 hours of Friday's start of the 2003 cruise season, a ship owned by Norwegian Cruise Lines dumped more than 40 tons of raw sewage into the waters off the coast of Washington state. It's unclear whether the discharge from the Norwegian Sun was illegal, but the cruise line acknowledged that it violated company policy. The dumping came on the heels of months of disagreement among environmentalists, th ...
Topics: pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Trout Fishing in America		21 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Trout Fishing in America Environmental groups sued the Washington State Fish and Wildlife Department this week to prevent the springtime release of more than 5 million hatchery-born salmon in the Puget Sound area. The groups, Washington Trout and the Native Fish Society, pointed to recent studies showing that hatchery fish are harming their wild-born brethren by out-competing them for space and food, and sometimes even eat ...
Topics: fishing, marine life, Washington (all these topics)

Greenocide?		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Greenocide? A new phrase is raising hackles and fueling environmental debate in the Western U.S.: "rural cleansing." Thought to have been coined by a Washington-state property-rights activist, rural cleansing is taking root as a catchphrase for those who argue that eco-activists are trying to drive rural citizens away from traditio ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, green living, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, West (all these topics)

No Credence to Clearwater Revival		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
No Credence to Clearwater Revival Stormwater runoff flowing into restored Seattle-area creeks and rivers appears to be killing salmon, according to a groundbreaking study by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. Eighty-eight percent of coho salmon studied last fall died within hours of swimming into a stream that was being inundated by runoff. Rainwater pours ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, toxics, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

Journey to the Bottom of the Earth		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Antarctica, business, environmental non-government organizations, ozone, Washington (all these topics)

In Deep Du Du		09 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
In Deep Du Du The U.S. Navy regularly tests one of its weapons by firing radioactive ammunition into prime fishing waters off the coast of Washington state, a practice that fishers, scientists, and activists say could be harmful to human and environmental health. The weapon, known as the Phalanx or the Close In Weapons System, fires up to 4,500 rounds per minute of ...
Topics: marine life, Northwest, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, toxics, US Navy, Washington (all these topics)

Morgue of Orca		19 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Morgue of Orca Environmental organizations sued the U.S. government yesterday for failing to grant protections under the Endangered Species Act to orcas in Washington state's Puget Sound. The population of orcas in the region has declined almost 20 percent since 1996. Earlier this year, the National Marine Fisheries Service acknowledged that the region's orcas were at risk of becoming extinct, but said the population was ...
Topics: marine life, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Sound Off		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sound Off Some 92,000 acres of mud and sand at the bottom of the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound is contaminated with dioxin, toxic metals, and PCBs (just for starters), all the result of industrial pollution. In turn, these nasties make their way into the sound's critters. Crabs are poisoned, while orca whales, salmon, and even some herring stocks are disappearing. The sound's be ...
Topics: climate, marine life, Northwest, oceans, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Sound the Alarm		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sound the Alarm The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the midst of a five-year effort to catalogue the woes of the Puget Sound ecosystem, gathering information for what could become an undertaking as grand in size as the $8 billion Everglades restoration project. Many of the 2,354 miles of the sound's seashore, containing tide flats, marshes, and bluffs, are under ass ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Washington, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Locke and Key		19 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Locke and Key Meanwhile, in the other Washington, Gov. Gary Locke (D) signed an executive order yesterday calling for sustainable environmental practices in all state agencies. The order includes a directive that the state's $1.1 billion annual purchasing power be spent on environmentally friendly products and conservation. Washington already has some exemplary sustainability policies in place, including programs to redu ...
Topics: green living, politics, Washington (all these topics)

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