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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Rhymes With 'Kulongoski' West Coast governors band together to defend Pacific Ocean		19 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Rhymes With "Kulongoski" West Coast governors band together to defend Pacific Ocean Governors of the three West Coast states announced yesterday that by their powers combined, they will strive to improve the health of the Pacific Ocean. "We know that isolated local efforts cannot adequately address the breadth of degradation to our oceans," said Washington Gov. Christin ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, news, Pacific Ocean, politics, West Coast (all these topics)

This Global Thing Is Everywhere! Weird weather is messing with marine ecosystems along the West Coast		02 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
This Global Thing Is Everywhere! Weird weather is messing with marine ecosystems along the West Coast Tens of thousands of starved seabirds washed up on West Coast beaches last spring, and researchers are blaming -- surprise! -- above-normal ocean temperatures and weird weather and wind patterns. Half of the auklets in California's Farallon Islands didn't even try to breed last spring, and those that tried started l ...
Topics: climate, marine life, news, West Coast (all these topics)

Pier Pressure Dockworkers' union pressures seaports to cut emissions		01 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Pier Pressure Dockworkers' union pressures seaports to cut emissions Sittin' on the dock of the bay, gettin' lung cancer ... wait, that's not how the song goes? Tell it to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, representing 60,000 dockworkers on the West Coast, which this week is kicking off a campaign to pressure ports and shipowners to cut diesel emissions. The massive seaports in Los Angeles and Long Beac ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, West Coast (all these topics)

Hike Messenger Population activist David Nova took his message to the trail	Sarah van Schagen	14 Dec 2005	Main Dish
David Nova. While camping alone in the Mojave Desert three years ago, David Nova was suddenly struck by the lack of human influence -- no buildings, no streetlights, no cars, all the way to the horizon. It wasn't the first time the avid hiker had thought about the effects of population on the environment, but it was the moment he decided he could do something about it. A longtime socia ...
Topics: green living, outdoor recreation, population, West Coast (all these topics)

Bad for the Fish, Good for the Grist Swim Team Warmer waters put wildlife under deadly stress along Pacific Coast		14 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Bad for the Fish, Good for the Grist Swim Team Warmer waters put wildlife under deadly stress along Pacific Coast Freaky environmental anomalies along the Pacific Coast from central California to British Columbia may devastate the region's wildlife, scientists say. Ocean temperatures in the area are 2 to 5 degrees higher than usual this summer; no one's sure why, but scientists suspect a lack of north ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans, Pacific Ocean, West Coast (all these topics)

Don't Go Fish Historic bottom-fishing restrictions adopted for West Coast waters		17 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Don't Go Fish Historic bottom-fishing restrictions adopted for West Coast waters The Pacific Fishery Management Council this week approved a permanent ban on trawl fishing for nearly 300,000 square miles of federal waters off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California. The plan -- which will now be forwarded to the National Marine Fisheries Service for final approval; it's expected to ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, West Coast (all these topics)

Bad Air Day		26 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Bad Air Day As if California didn't have enough of a smog problem all by itself, now it and other parts of the nation are suffering from air pollution blown in from China. Toxic pollutants from power plants, factories, and farms travel on wind currents across the ocean and mingle with our own less-than-perfect air to create an international smog blanket that is particularly acute on the West Coast. The smog is ass ...
Topics: air pollution, China, health, West Coast (all these topics)

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