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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)

A Matter of Life and Breath Joe Sherman's Gasp! explores the history of air and finds it's anything but empty	Michael Levitin	14 Dec 2004	Arts and Minds
Gasp! by Joe Sherman, Shoemaker & Hoard, 417 pgs., 2004. Oxygen may not strike you as a likely protagonist for a book. It's invisible, it's all around you, it's something you inhale 19,000 times a day and take utterly for granted. But Joe Sherman's Gasp! The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air is a masterfully inventive biography of air, weaving together ...
Topics: air pollution, green living, United States (all these topics)

Another Refiner Mess EPA brags about oil-refinery cleanups that haven't happened		13 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Another Refiner Mess EPA brags about oil-refinery cleanups that haven't happened "Settlements under EPA's Petroleum Refinery Initiative have reduced emissions of air pollutants by 200,000 tons per year at 48 refineries in 24 states," said top U.S. EPA enforcement official Tom Skinner in October. Turns out that was a lie. Oh, wait, did we say "lie"? Actually, says Skinner, it was a "poor word ...
Topics: air pollution, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Dear Father, Who Art in Heaven, Polluted Be Thy Air Church air may be bad for believers' lungs		23 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Dear Father, Who Art in Heaven, Polluted Be Thy Air Church air may be bad for believers' lungs Whatever its effects on your soul, spending lots of time in church may be bad for your lungs, according to a new study out of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Researchers measured air quality in a small chapel and a large basilica and found levels of particulate matter up to 20 times higher than minimal European safety standar ...
Topics: air pollution, Netherlands (all these topics)

Givin' the Smog a Bone Huge new study shows that smog does, in fact, kill		17 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Givin' the Smog a Bone Huge new study shows that smog does, in fact, kill The largest study ever conducted on the health effects of smog, or more particularly, ground-level ozone, concludes that, well, smog kills people. Published in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study found that a ground-level ozone rise over a week of roughly 10 parts per billion (ppb) increases a given person's chances of ...
Topics: air pollution, health (all these topics)

Lax on, Lax off Bush appointee charges that EPA tried to thwart lawsuits against polluting power plants	Amanda Griscom Little	02 Nov 2004	Muckraker
It scarcely raises an eyebrow nowadays when the Bush administration's environmental record is characterized, yet again, as a relentless attack on decades of protections for air, water, and wildlife. But the latest such charges come from a loyal soldier of the GOP, appointed by the Bushies to head up the enforcement office of the U.S. EPA, so they carry mor ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Overpowering Utilities seek to build power plants near national parks		29 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Overpowering Utilities seek to build power plants near national parks Visibility in many U.S. national parks is declining and demand for electricity is rising -- two trends that are set to collide. Since 2000, the number of applications to build power plants within 62 miles of park boundaries has quadrupled, relative to the previous five years. More than 10 percent of those plants would be coal-fired. " ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, United States (all these topics)

The Truck Stops Here New electrical hook-ups at truck stops prevent diesel pollution		21 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops Here New electrical hook-ups at truck stops prevent diesel pollution Long-haul truckers, hardy though they may be, occasionally need rest. Traditionally they have pulled into truck stops and taken naps with their trucks idling, to avoid, you know, freezing to death. Unfortunately, idling diesel trucks produce emissions that likely cause asthma, bronchitis, lung cancer, heart disease, and premature d ...
Topics: air pollution, New Jersey, placemaking (all these topics)

The Traffic is Murder Out There Traffic causes heart attacks		21 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Traffic is Murder Out There Traffic causes heart attacks Being stuck in traffic could substantially raise your chances of having a heart attack -- and it's not just the stress. The particulate pollution that hovers over traffic is the likely culprit, says a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, though "we can't exclude that there is an interaction between stress and pollution," says lead author ...
Topics: air pollution, health, placemaking (all these topics)

Porkic Victory Pork-laden corporate tax bill socks it to the environment	Amanda Griscom Little	18 Oct 2004	Muckraker
Oink, oink. The monstrous corporate tax legislation that recently sailed through Congress -- passing in the Senate 69-17 last Monday, only days after it passed in the House -- has given the environmental community a terrible case of Coulda-Been-Worse Syndrome. "We're well aware that this bill reflects the kind of sausage-making, vote-building, pigs-at-the-trough mentality that C ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics, waste (all these topics)

Dairy Err Millions in California anti-pollution money went to, uh, pollution		13 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Dairy Err Millions in California anti-pollution money went to, uh, pollution Almost $70 million in California state bond money designated to fund industry pollution-reducing measures has gone to fund the expansion of polluting mega-dairies in the San Joaquin Valley, the nation's most polluted air basin. In each case, the Pollution Control Financing Authority approved tax-exempt, low-interest loans on the ba ...
Topics: air pollution, California, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Who You Gonna Believe, Us or Some 'Inspector'? EPA inspector general blasts Bush admin's power-plant rules		01 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Who You Gonna Believe, Us or Some "Inspector"? EPA inspector general blasts Bush admin's power-plant rules The U.S. EPA came under harsh criticism yesterday from environmental fringe extremists ... oh, wait, no ... actually, from its own top investigative official. The agency's inspector general issued a scathing report saying that enforcement of clean-air laws has been crippled by the Bush admini ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Pop Goes the Diesel Partnership formed to fight diesel fumes		30 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Pop Goes the Diesel Partnership formed to fight diesel fumes The U.S. EPA this week announced the formation of a partnership to undertake voluntary, cooperative measures to reduce the impact of diesel fumes on Western states. (Diesel fumes, for those of you tuning in late, kill people. Lots of people.) Most of the money funding the measures will come from the federal government; the EPA hopes to secure $100 million over five ...
Topics: air pollution, US EPA, West (all these topics)

Death, Be Not Cloud An excerpt from Feeling the Heat sizes up the ominous Asian Cloud	Jim Motavalli	28 Sep 2004	Arts and Minds
This piece is excerpted from Feeling the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Change. Other contributors to the book include writers Ross Gelbspan, David Helvarg, and Mark Hertsgaard and photographer Gary Braasch. Feeling the Heat: Dispatches From the Frontlines of Climate Change Edited by Jim Motavalli, Routledge, 176 pages, 2004 The Indian city of Mumbai, formerly Bomba ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, energy (all these topics)

If I Were Dictator ... Oh, Wait, I Am! China establishes its first-ever fuel-efficiency standards for cars		24 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
If I Were Dictator ... Oh, Wait, I Am! China establishes its first-ever fuel-efficiency standards for cars Attempting to combat its growing dependence on oil imports, China is set to establish fuel-efficiency standards for cars, SUVs, and vans for the first time. The standards are identical to those in a draft circulated last November, about which the auto industry strenuously complained, claiming they were too strict. ...
Topics: air pollution, China, placemaking (all these topics)

Idle Thoughts On whether to leave the engine running	Umbra Fisk	23 Sep 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have a question that has been nagging me for a while, and I would really like to have it answered once and for all. You see, I deliver pizzas for a living right now, and so I make many frequent stops and starts at people's houses during a shift. I always turn off my engine whenever I make a delivery or am waiting at the store for the next order to come up, because I believe in doing my part to keep our ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, cars, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Ghostwriter in the Machine More language in proposed mercury regs found to echo industry memos		22 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Ghostwriter in the Machine More language in proposed mercury regs found to echo industry memos Language in the Bush administration's proposed mercury regulations has been found to almost precisely mirror passages in memos written by a law firm representing coal-fired power plants. No, we're not rerunning a story from months ago -- it's happened again. For those of you following along at home, this is the thi ...
Topics: air pollution, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Dim Sun Global dimming? Global warming? What's with the globe, anyway?	Kip Keen	22 Sep 2004	Main Dish
Global dimming? Global warming? What's with the globe, anyway? By Kip Keen 22 Sep 2004 Raise a toast to solar radiation. The director of the Zurich-based World Radiation Monitoring Center, the organization that measures the amount of solar radiation hitting the ground around the globe, has a strange talent. Give Atsumu Ohmura a glass of white wine and tell him only its vintage, and he'll swish a mouthful and -- without referring to legs, bouquets, or mango backgrounds -- announce where ...
Topics: air pollution, climate (all these topics)

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