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They've Been Workin' on the Railroad Hybrid railcar goes into use in California		16 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
They've Been Workin' on the Railroad Hybrid railcar goes into use in California With U.S. imports on the rise, ports are under growing scrutiny from air-quality regulators. Part of that concern focuses on the rail system that chugs goods out of ports and away to various Wal-Marts around the country. Yesterday, as part of its attempts to address such concerns, Union Pacific Railroad put into use one of the firs ...
Topics: air pollution, California, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Global Spillage Pollution from around the globe taints U.S. air and water		14 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Global Spillage Pollution from around the globe taints U.S. air and water Even as battles rage in Washington, D.C., over controlling air pollution from domestic sources, dirty emissions from overseas are complicating the problem. Some 30 percent of the ozone in the U.S. may be drifting in from other countries, says NOAA scientist David Parrish. Dust from as far abroad as the Sahara Desert regularly ...
Topics: air pollution, news, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Handle With CAIR EPA issues air pollution rules for Eastern states		11 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Handle With CAIR EPA issues air pollution rules for Eastern states With the Clear Skies bill dead in committee, the Bush administration is going ahead with its plan to implement provisions of the bill as regulation. Yesterday saw the first step, as the U.S. EPA issued the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which will substantially curtail emissions of soot-causing and smog-forming emissions, primarily generated by ...
Topics: air pollution, East Coast, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Better Off Deadlocked Senate committee deadlock means Clear Skies unlikely to pass this year		10 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Better Off Deadlocked Senate committee deadlock means Clear Skies unlikely to pass this year After a deadlocked 9-9 vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Bush administration's long-sought Clear Skies legislation appears unlikely to pass -- at least this year. The fourth time was not the charm for committee chair James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who had scheduled and then delayed the vote three t ...
Topics: air pollution, legislation, news, politics (all these topics)

Polluter Actually Pays Illinois power plants will spend half a billion on pollution controls		08 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Polluter Actually Pays Illinois power plants will spend half a billion on pollution controls A 1999 lawsuit against Illinois Power has ended in a proposed settlement of more than $520 million, most of which will go to installing new pollution controls. The suit charged that Illinois Power had violated the Clean Air Act by upgrading several plants without modifying pollution-reduction equipment, as requi ...
Topics: air pollution, Illinois, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Let Us Now Praise Innocuous Men Bush EPA nominee Steve Johnson garners praise and sympathy	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Mar 2005	Muckraker
Stephen Johnson. Photo: Energy Star. The next chief of the Bush EPA wasn't expected to have more than a dewdrop's chance in hell of widespread acceptance in the disgruntled environmental community. So it came as a surprise on Friday when the president tapped respected scientist and 24-year EPA veteran Stephen Johnson to captain the agency, and an array of green leaders ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Hazy Delays of Winter Clear Skies bill still bottled up in Senate committee		04 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Hazy Delays of Winter Clear Skies bill still bottled up in Senate committee Help -- Clear Skies has fallen, and it can't get up! President Bush's "Clear Skies" legislation is stuck in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Committee Chair James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has delayed a vote on the bill three times, most recently yesterday, each time realizing that it's still deadlocked at ...
Topics: air pollution, James Inhofe, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Hazed and Confused Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air		24 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Hazed and Confused Appeals court rejects five-state plan for clean park air A market-based program used by five Western states to control haze in national parks and wilderness areas was rejected by a federal appeals court Friday. Brought to court in a challenge by a coal and utilities industry group, the states' efforts to cut sulfur-dioxide pollution and improve air quality and visibility in the parks w ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Poop is not funny	Katharine Wroth	24 Feb 2005	Gristmill
OK, maybe a little. Hot off the, er, presses: a company in Australia is seeking donations of kangaroo dung to make recycled paper. Inspired by African and Asian operations that make sheets from elephant excrement, Joanna Gair hopes to make 'Roo Poo Paper' a household name. The 'pooey' product has proven useful as a conservation fundraiser in some places and is, of course, a hit with the kids. 'It's taken my breath away just how popular this [idea] is,' Gair says. Whi ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, Nebraska, waste (all these topics)

Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year		23 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year Particulate pollution generated by old diesel engines is killing more people per year than drunk driving, said a report released yesterday. Using data and methodologies from the U.S. EPA, the Clean Air Task Force and a coalition of public health groups found that more than 20,000 Americans -- particularly those in urban area ...
Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Bully for Him Inhofe accused of intimidating Clear Skies naysayers		22 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Bully for Him Inhofe accused of intimidating Clear Skies naysayers Crossing Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is a risky prospect these days. A representative of two national pollution-control groups recently spoke out against the Bush administration's embattled Clear Skies bill in testimony before a subcommittee of the Environment and Public Works Committee. (The 18-member committee, chaired by Inhofe, is currentl ...
Topics: air pollution, James Inhofe, news, politics (all these topics)

Delay of Shame Senate committee delays vote on Clear Skies		17 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Delay of Shame Senate committee delays vote on Clear Skies In what clean-air advocates called a "major victory for the environment," the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday postponed a decision on Bush's Clear Skies Act. A vote had been scheduled to determine whether the bill would advance to the Senate floor, but with 18 committee members deadlocked on the legislation, Committee ...
Topics: air pollution, James Inhofe, news, politics (all these topics)

Green's Labor Lost Enviros, labor unions clash over Clear Skies legislation		15 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
Green's Labor Lost Enviros, labor unions clash over Clear Skies legislation With the Senate Environment Committee set to vote tomorrow on the Clear Skies Act, both supporters and critics of the legislation are in high gear. Enviros, who have fought Clear Skies since it was first unveiled by the Bush administration three years ago, have been running ads in various Capitol Hill publications, and yesterday sent senators heart-s ...
Topics: air pollution, news, politics (all these topics)

Purple Haze, All in My Parks Gas drilling in the West threatens air at national parks		31 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Purple Haze, All in My Parks Gas drilling in the West threatens air at national parks Air quality and visibility at more than a dozen of the nation's oldest and most beloved national parks and monuments, including Mt. Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park, are under threat from the ongoing boom in natural-gas drilling in the Western U.S. Officials from the Bureau of Land Management admit that the ...
Topics: air pollution, mining and drilling, national parks, West (all these topics)

Buy Buy, Love	Suzy Becker	31 Jan 2005	Ha.

Topics: air pollution, water pollution (all these topics)

Smokestack Lightening ConocoPhillips will pay half a billion to clean up refineries		28 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Smokestack Lightening ConocoPhillips will pay half a billion to clean up refineries The largest refinery settlement in U.S. history was announced yesterday, as ConocoPhillips, the nation's largest oil refiner, agreed to spend more than $525 million to clean up nine refineries, a deal that will remove 47,000 tons of harmful pollutants from the air each year. This is the 13th such settlement since 1998. ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, oil, United States (all these topics)

Chlorific Chlorine factories a major source of mercury pollution, report says		27 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Chlorific Chlorine factories a major source of mercury pollution, report says A new study suggests that the chlorine industry may be releasing dangerously high amounts of mercury into the environment, more even than the coal-fired power plants usually pinpointed as major emitters. Although most chlorine plants use a production process that does not involve mercury, there are nine in the U.S. whose century-old methods ...
Topics: air pollution, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Clear Skies in Morning, Bushies Take Warning Bush team pushes Clear Skies, but disagreement over CO2 could stymie the bill	Amanda Griscom Little	27 Jan 2005	Muckraker
Barely a week into the president's second term, the emboldened Bush team -- even whilst juggling plans for a Social Security overhaul and major new expenditures on the Iraq venture -- has signaled that it's bound and determined to pass its Clear Skies Act, the first major amendment to the Clean Air Act since 1990. The administration has k ...
Topics: air pollution, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

The Clear Skies' the Limit Lawmakers defend states' rights, introduce Clear Skies competition		26 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Clear Skies' the Limit Lawmakers defend states' rights, introduce Clear Skies competition Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) and George Pataki (R-N.Y.), in a letter to a Senate committee that's convening today to deliberate the Bush administration's Clear Skies bill, emphasized the importance of protecting state environmental enforcement powers. Both California and New York have put i ...
Topics: air pollution, Arnold Schwarzenegger, politics, United States (all these topics)

A Big To-Doo-Doo EPA offers air-pollution immunity to factory farms	Amanda Griscom Little	24 Jan 2005	Muckraker
On Friday, in the shadow of the splashy presidential inauguration jamboree, the Bush EPA offered factory farms a tempting tradeoff: more than two years of immunity from the Clean Air Act and certain toxic-discharge standards in exchange for participating in a data-collection program that would monitor air emissions from their facilities. Factory farms may be getting off easy, but not so the c ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, Big Ag, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Executive Disorder Industry unhappy with Bush's back-up air-pollution plan		21 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Executive Disorder Industry unhappy with Bush's back-up air-pollution plan President Bush's Clear Skies legislation has stalled out in Congress, unable to muster support even from a sufficient number of Republicans. To compensate, Bush is planning to implement some of the bill's provisions by issuing executive orders -- for instance, an order establishing a mercury-emissions trading program. But the electric-utilit ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States (all these topics)

Near Death Experience Living in pollution hotspots ups chance of kiddie cancer, study says		18 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Near Death Experience Living in pollution hotspots ups chance of kiddie cancer, study says Many childhood cancers likely have environmental causes, according to a new study from the U.K.'s Birmingham University. Women who live within a half-mile radius of emission hotspots such as industrial areas and major roads, it says, are two to four times more likely than others to bear children who develop cancer before age 16 ...
Topics: air pollution, health, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Clear Skies and Present Danger Clean Air Act more effective than proposed Clear Skies bill, panel says		14 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Clear Skies and Present Danger Clean Air Act more effective than proposed Clear Skies bill, panel says A new report by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the Bush administration's proposed reform of current air-quality standards will effectively do less to reduce pollution than existing Clean Air Act regulations, much as critics, including John Kerry (remember him?), charged ...
Topics: air pollution, National Academy of Sciences, politics, United States (all these topics)

Red and Blue Make ... Green? New York announces historic power-plant agreement		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Red and Blue Make ... Green? New York announces historic power-plant agreement Yesterday, New York Gov. George Pataki (R) and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (D), whose ambition to replace Pataki is no secret, stood amicably side by side to make a joint announcement. If that news wasn't shocking enough in itself, what the Dynamic Bipartisan Duo announced was pretty impressive too: Six New York power plants h ...
Topics: air pollution, California, New York, politics (all these topics)

First, Do More Harm Bush admin delays new air-quality rules, pushes 'Clear Skies'		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
First, Do More Harm Bush admin delays new air-quality rules, pushes "Clear Skies" The White House has told the U.S. EPA to hold off on issuing the Clean Air Interstate Rule, which would curtail emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, in deference to a renewed push in Congress to pass the Bush administration's long-stalled "Clear Skies" legislation. Delaying the rule will increase ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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