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Co-op Cop-Out Token enforcement of Clean Air Act provision smacks of political opportunism	Amanda Griscom	04 Feb 2004	Muckraker
This election year, U.S. EPA chief Mike Leavitt is playing the part of a Clean Air Act tough guy. Leavitt, left, with Bush, is acting tough. Photo: White House. For three years, the Bush administration and the power industry have been happily entangled in a session of mutual back-scratching -- utilities have been generous contributors to Bush and his Republican cohorts, and th ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Smoke Signals		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Smoke Signals Activists fighting against climate change could learn much from the tactics of anti-smoking campaigners, argues Audrey Schulman in our Soapbox section. The tobacco war has been fought on many fronts, but perhaps the most important was the concerted publicity campaign that changed the images people associate with smoking. It's no longer romantic, no longer "cool." ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, food and agriculture, green living, health (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Different		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
And Now for Something Completely Different In sharp contrast to the recently released Bush administration budget, Canada's Liberal Party government on Monday promised to double spending on contaminated-site cleanups, promote green technologies to increase energy efficiency, and go beyond the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol in curtailing emissions. Over 10 years, $4 billion ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

State of the Art		02 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
State of the Art One hundred years ago, progressives believed that states were laboratories of democracy, small-scale testing grounds for innovative policies. While the civil-rights struggle cast that view into disfavor, it may be on its way to a renaissance, led by forward-thinking state leaders concerned about the environment. Spurred by the federal governme ...
Topics: air pollution, California, green living, Maryland, New Mexico, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Footprint on the Gas Exxon Responsible for 5 Percent of All Historical CO2 Emissions		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Footprint on the Gas Exxon Responsible for 5 Percent of All Historical CO2 Emissions Since its founding as the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, ExxonMobil and its predecessor companies have been responsible for between 4.7 and 5.3 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions. Ever. In the whole world. So claims a report, "Exxon's Climate Footprint," draw ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, commercial and industry organizations, ozone, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Breath of Somewhat Fresher Air Scientists Recommend Solutions to Coming Air-Quality Challenges		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
A Breath of Somewhat Fresher Air Scientists Recommend Solutions to Coming Air-Quality Challenges Though the past three decades have seen substantial progress, concerted action is needed to prevent air pollution from adversely affecting the environment and human health now and in the future, reported the National Research Council of the National Academies, a nonpartisan scientific panel charter ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, ozone, politics, population (all these topics)

MTBE-Free or Die EPA Attempts to Defuse MTBE Issue in New Hampshire		28 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, elections, New Hampshire, political groups, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

MTBE-Free or Die EPA attempts to defuse MTBE issue in New Hampshire	Amanda Griscom	28 Jan 2004	Muckraker
Folks who paid close attention to the speeches of New Hampshire primary victor John Kerry in recent weeks would have noticed an emphasis on MTBE -- a gasoline additive that makes fuel burn more efficiently and cleanly, but is suspected to be carcinogenic* and widely known to contaminate groundwater. To outsiders, this may have seemed like a strange environmental issue to spotlight -- why not focus o ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, Muckraker, New Hampshire, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Fetal Detraction Air Quality One-Two Punch Hurts Fetuses		27 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Fetal Detraction Air Quality One-Two Punch Hurts Fetuses The combined effects of air pollution and secondhand smoke can hurt fetal development, says a new study conducted in New York City by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health. While previous studies have addressed the effects of both factors in isolation, this study marks the first attempt to study the cumula ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, health, New York, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Tao of Stove On wood stoves	Umbra Fisk	26 Jan 2004	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, When you suggested that someone may want wood heat because it "makes you feel like a country stud," you made an erroneous assumption -- that your audience is entirely urban. Here in Skamokawa, Wash., many a mile from the nearest natural gas line, the choices are essentially wood or electricity. In September, my family installed a Blaze King wood stove, which uses a catalytic converter to convert smoke to heat. Not on ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living (all these topics)

Zinc Positive Supreme Court Sides With EPA in Clean Air Case		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Zinc Positive Supreme Court Sides With EPA in Clean Air Case A narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the U.S. EPA has the authority to override state government decisions on what constitutes the "best available" anti-pollution technology. Enviros hailed the decision as a victory for clean air, while libertarian think tanks, a coali ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, West (all these topics)

English Beat U.K. Sets Ambitious CO2 Reduction Goals		20 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
English Beat U.K. Sets Ambitious CO2 Reduction Goals The British government yesterday announced a plan to not only meet but beat Kyoto Protocol requirements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The nation will aim to cut its carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent by 2010 through a combination of regulations and pollution credit trading systems. Industry groups ...
Topics: air pollution, European Union, green living, hydropower, nuclear power, ozone, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Gore Text Gore Calls Bush a 'Moral Coward' in Speech on Environment		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Gore Text Gore Calls Bush a "Moral Coward" in Speech on Environment The Bush administration is "wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility, and mining companies," said former Vice President Al Gore in a fiery address to a packed theater in New York City on Thursday. The speech -- fourth in a series co ...
Topics: air pollution, Al Gore, climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, New York, political groups, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Permission to Pollute, Sir! Pentagon Requests Exemption From Three More Environmental Laws		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Permission to Pollute, Sir! Pentagon Requests Exemption From Three More Environmental Laws The Department of Defense plans to petition Congress for exemption from three federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act and two toxic waste statutes. This will mark the third time in three years the Pentagon has made the appeal; Congress denied the first two requ ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Defense, John Dingell, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics)

Adieu, Adieu, to You and You and You Top EPA Enforcers Abandon the Agency		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

A Smog-and-Pony Show Bush Team Unveils Plan to Cut Smog-Forming Pollution		18 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
A Smog-and-Pony Show Bush Team Unveils Plan to Cut Smog-Forming Pollution A new rule proposed yesterday by the Bush administration would cut emissions of smog- and soot-causing pollutants from power plants in the Midwest and East -- but not deeply or quickly enough, say enviros. The plan would reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution by implementing a market-based cap-and-trade system that would allow utilities to ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

You're Under Cardiac Arrest Heart Disease, Not Respiratory Illness, Is Main Danger from Air Pollution		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
You're Under Cardiac Arrest Heart Disease, Not Respiratory Illness, Is Main Danger from Air Pollution Air pollution may actually be worse for your heart than for your lungs, according to new research published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation. A 16-year study found that long-term exposure to particulate matter in polluted air is more likely to cause death from cardiovascular disease than from respiratory ailment ...
Topics: air pollution, health (all these topics)

Deck the Hauls U.S. High Court Will Hear Mexican Truck Pollution Case		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Deck the Hauls U.S. High Court Will Hear Mexican Truck Pollution Case The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will wade into a dispute over whether tens of thousands of highly polluting Mexican trucks should be allowed to cross the border and deliver goods throughout the U.S. The Bush administration, arguing the free-trade point of view, welcomes the trucks, but enviros and union mem ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Splitting Airs Bush's latest clean-air proposals are better than nothing, but how much better?	Amanda Griscom	10 Dec 2003	Muckraker
Who let the smog out? Photo: EPA "I hate it that we're always complaining," said Eric Schaeffer, a former senior enforcement official at the U.S. EPA who resigned in 2002 to protest the Bush administration's poor record on nabbing polluters. "So, looking on the bright side, I suppose you could call this better than nothing." Schaeffer was referring to r ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

This Little Piggy Went to a Market-based System U.S. EPA Proposes New Market-Based Air Quality Regulations		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
This Little Piggy Went to a Market-based System U.S. EPA Proposes New Market-Based Air Quality Regulations Having failed thus far to push his "Clear Skies" initiative through Congress, President Bush is now trying to institute his air-pollution plan through regulatory channels. Yesterday, the Bush administration proposed new rules that would establish industry-wide emissions limits for sulfur ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Do Good Step Up to Ensure You Get Clean Air to Breathe		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Do Good Step Up to Ensure You Get Clean Air to Breathe If someone were polluting the air in your favorite local park with arsenic, lead, and DDT, would you be ticked off? What about the air in your favorite local restaurant? You probably think you understand the hazards of secondhand cigarette smoke, but you might not know that it contains a toxic soup of more than 4,000 chemicals, including a ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Health and Human Services, health (all these topics)

The Icky 500 New EPA Chief Calls for Cleaner Air in 500 Days		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Icky 500 New EPA Chief Calls for Cleaner Air in 500 Days Newly minted U.S. EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt gave his first major speech yesterday, promising to embark on the "most productive period of air-quality improvement in American history." The former Utah governor spoke of a 500-day plan for cleaner air but offered no details on it. (Instead, a leaked document detailed plans to relax reg ...
Topics: air pollution, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

Going Steady Methane Levels in Atmosphere Stabilize		25 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Going Steady Methane Levels in Atmosphere Stabilize Here's a rarity: a possible climate-change success story. Atmospheric levels of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, have stabilized following 200 years of growth caused primarily by human activities, according to new research by Dutch and American scientists published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, James Hansen, mining and drilling (all these topics)

The Few, the Proud, the Exempt Defense Bill Will Exempt Military from Species-Protection Laws		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
The Few, the Proud, the Exempt Defense Bill Will Exempt Military from Species-Protection Laws The U.S. military may be having trouble achieving its goals in Iraq, but at least it's getting what it wants on Capitol Hill: exemptions from key environmental laws. President Bush today is scheduled to sign a $401 billion defense authori ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Defense, marine life, oceans, politics, pollution and waste, US Military, US Navy, wildlife (all these topics)

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