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Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Where Did All the Protesters Go?		30 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Where Did All the Protesters Go? Nearly three years after some 20,000 anti-globalization demonstrators all but shut down the city of Seattle, a fraction of that crowd showed up to protest this weekend's meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, D.C. The disappointing turnout (police, of whom there were plenty, placed the numbers at between 3,000 and 5,000) was widel ...
Topics: globalization, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

The Big-Name Game Beltway green groups need to turn up the heat	Ross Gelbspan	31 Jul 2002	Soapbox
Inside the Beltway, the climate movement is comatose. During the Clinton-Gore years, while the U.S. dragged its feet in international climate negotiations, the major national environmental groups allowed themselves to be used by the administration. Seduced by the former vice president's rhetoric, the groups watched their issue disappear from the political arena when Al Gore sacrificed his convictions ...
Topics: climate, energy, environmental movement, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics, Washington DC (all these topics)

National Parking Service		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
National Parking Service Washington, D.C., is cursed with some of the heaviest traffic and worst air pollution in the country. But the obvious solution -- reducing the number of drivers on the road -- faces a major obstacle: the federal government, which supplies free parking, thereby eliminating a major incentive to take public transportation. The federal government is the biggest employer in D.C. and owns some 3 ...
Topics: air pollution, placemaking, Washington DC (all these topics)

The Sludge Report		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Sludge Report From the department of You've Got To Be Kidding: An internal U.S. EPA document alleges that the 200,000 tons of toxic sludge dumped by the Army Corps of Engineers into the Potomac River every year is actually good for fish, because it forces them to fl ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Potomac River, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, US EPA, Washington DC, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

A Bad Case of Gas		07 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
A Bad Case of Gas The Montreal Protocol to heal the ozone hole is the poster child of successful environmental treaties; the general consensus is that as the treaty's targets are met, the ozone hole will disappear, and the earth will be protected from the harmful ultraviolet radiation that leaks through. Not so fast, says the Environmental Invest ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, England, Environmental Investigation Agency, ozone, toxics, Washington DC (all these topics)

Moore Is More		10 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Moore Is More In the largest gift ever to a single environmental group, the foundation created by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore announced yesterday that it would give Conservation International $261 million over 10 years. The money will help the Washington, D.C.-based group identify and protect biodiversity hotspots, areas that CI says cover 1.4 percent of the Earth's land mass but contain 60 ...
Topics: business, Conservation International, Washington DC, wildlife (all these topics)

Take That Back		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Take That Back Maryland yesterday became the first state to lose the authority to enforce federal clean air laws. The loss is the result of the state's failure to act on a U.S. EPA order to create more public participation in the industrial permit application process. Under Maryland law, only the owners of property abutting an industria ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, Maryland, pollution and waste, US EPA, Virginia, Washington DC (all these topics)

Flexing Their Muscles		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Muscles The car-sharing company Flexcar is planning to expand beyond its Northwest roots and enter the Washington, D.C., market this fall, where it will compete with Boston-based Zipcar. Both companies work to reduce the number of cars on the road by enticing customers to share vehicles and avoid the hassles of car ownership. Customers pa ...
Topics: business, green living, Massachusetts, placemaking, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC (all these topics)

I-M-Furious		17 Apr 2000	Daily Grist
I-M-Furious Thousands of enviros and other demonstrators hit the streets of Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest corporate globalization, hoping to build on the momentum of last year's demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organization. They have been thwarted in their efforts to shut down meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank by police in full r ...
Topics: fossil fuels, grassroots activism, politics, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Fire on the Mountain	Ben White	13 Apr 2000	Muckraker
Enviros in Washington are apoplectic over what they fear will be a pre-Earth Day cave-in by the Clinton administration over mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia. This used to be a mountain. Photo: David Miller, www.mountaintopmining.org. Readers may recall this battle from last year's appropriations season, when powerful Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) introduced a rider that would have bypassed a federal judge's ruling against the destructive mini ...
Topics: coal, Colorado, energy, Greenpeace, Idaho, Montana, Muckraker, Nevada, politics, Utah, Washington DC, West Virginia, World Bank, Wyoming (all these topics)

Magnificent, Seven!		11 Apr 2000	Daily Grist
Magnificent, Seven! Enviros and other activists yesterday kicked off more than a week of protests against corporate globalization in Washington, D.C., with the goal of disrupting meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund this Sunday and Monday. Seven protestors were arrested yesterday, including Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth, and John Pass ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, fossil fuels, grassroots activism, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Action Figures		06 Mar 2000	Daily Grist
Action Figures In the wake of the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle last year, environmentalists are strengthening alliances with other progressive movements and helping to plan a series of demonstrations to keep the momentum going. Big protests are planned for April 16 in Washington, D.C., where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will be holding annual meetings, and for the Democratic N ...
Topics: grassroots activism, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Bigwigs Gaze into the Crystal Ball Or, where do a bunch of white American men (and one woman) think environmentalism is headed in the 21st century?		03 Jan 2000	Main Dish
Grist succumbs to millennial fever with this rendition of the classic what's-gonna-be-hot-in-the-new-year roundup. At a recent D.C. chat session organized by Environmental Media Services, enviro leaders shared their thoughts on where the movement is headed in the coming century, what big, scary issues are lurking on the horizon, and what ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Lester Brown, population, Washington DC (all these topics)

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