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Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost The discovery of what may be one of the world's largest oil fields under the Caspian Sea near Atyrau, Kazakhstan, has western oil companies excited, but environmentalists deeply concerned. The field, estimated to contain about 40 billion barrels of oil, 10 billion of them recoverable, is being developed by a consortium including British Gas, ExxonMobil, S ...
Topics: air pollution, Caspian Sea, energy, health, Kazakhstan, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Bright Lights on the Big City		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Bright Lights on the Big City Residents of New York, rejoice: Your city might be noisy, crowded, and crass, but it's also the most compact megalopolis in the U.S. That's right -- the Big Apple ranked number one on Smart Growth America's recently released list compar ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Hawaii, health, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, placemaking, pollution and waste, Rhode Island (all these topics)

I'll Have No Truck With That		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Have No Truck With That An unlikely partnership of environmental, labor, and trucking groups filed for an emergency injunction yesterday to prevent the Bush administration from allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, claiming that doing so would worsen U.S. air quality. Last week, in compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bush called an end to 20-year-ol ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Shipping News		25 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Shipping News Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn has announced an agreement in which several of the largest shipping companies in Asia will work with L.A. to clean up air quality in the city's port. Last year, the port received 2,200 cargo ship visits, each burning about 14 tons of heavy bunker fuel. Under the new plan, the ships will shut off their engines while docked and plug into the ...
Topics: air pollution, California, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

New Source, Same Old Crap		25 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
New Source, Same Old Crap In the most far-reaching move to relax air pollution rules in years, the Bush administration on Friday gave refineries new flexibility to upgrade their facilities without having to reduce emissions. The U.S. EPA also outlined proposals that would give aging coal-fired power plants a similar advantage - ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Maryland, New England, New Jersey, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Rome If You Want to		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Rome If You Want to One-third of Italy's most important cultural sites are in a state of emergency, according to the Italian environmental group Legambiente, which studied 36 areas in the country that have been designated World Heritage sites by the United Nations. The group said water pollution was threatening Venice, while smog and sprawl were damaging Naples, Flore ...
Topics: air pollution, Italy, Mediterranean, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Air Enforce Won		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Air Enforce Won After years of court battles, the U.S. EPA agreed yesterday to begin enforcing a stricter standard for ozone pollution that was developed by the Clinton administration in 1997. Industry groups such as the American Truckers Associations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to block the standard, bu ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, health, placemaking, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Elder Hostile		12 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Elder Hostile Older Americans living in the country's most polluted cities are more likely to need medical treatment than those living elsewhere, according to the first large-scale study of the impact of pollution on medical care costs. The study by Stanford University economist Victor Fuchs, which was published today in the journal Health Affairs, found that pollution significantly increases Medicare recipients' ...
Topics: air pollution, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Wick-ed Witches On candles	Umbra Fisk	31 Oct 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Recently, nature-conscious religions such as Paganism and Wicca are getting a lot of attention. This is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, such religions inspire love for the environment and have spawned many eco-nuts (myself included, I admit). However, although most of the common practices seem to be eco-friendly enough, I'm concerned about some of the incense and candles being burned. I've heard a lot of nasty rumors about these ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, green living, religion and spirituality, toxics (all these topics)

On a Roll Back		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
On a Roll Back Turning up the heat on Republicans in the final weeks before the U.S. elections, Democrats and environmentalists are requesting documents from the U.S. EPA detailing the Bush administration's effort to roll back clean-air regulations on older coal-fired power plants and refineries. But EPA officials have refused to pony up the evidence, and Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), chair of the Se ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

San Choakin' Valley		22 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
San Choakin' Valley A coalition of environmental organizations is suing the U.S. EPA today for failing to clean up the air in California's San Joaquin Valley. Blackened by dust, smoke, and other pollutants, the region's air is some of the nation's worst -- but neither the state nor federal government has come up with a workable plan to improve it. Under the Clean Air Act, local ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental non-government organizations, US EPA (all these topics)

Air on the Side of Caution		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Air on the Side of Caution With just two weeks left in the official California smog season, the data are in: After years of air-quality improvements, the state experienced a sudden downturn this year, enduring a shroud of haze and ozone pollution even in areas unaccustomed to smog. The usual suspects -- urban communities like San Francisco and the famously smoggy Los Angeles -- experienced cleaner air than other parts of the state ...
Topics: air pollution, California (all these topics)

Atmos-Fear On ground-level ozone	Umbra Fisk	10 Oct 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Where I live, the air is declared "unhealthful" on many days in the summer due to ground-level ozone pollution. On those days, we have to stay inside until after about 3 p.m. My question is: What causes ground-level ozone to form and what are its reported health effects on adults and children? Dean Bakersfield, Calif. Dearest Dean, Ground-level ozone is the unholy love child of fuel combustion and sunlight, and the ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, ozone (all these topics)

Zero Down		10 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Zero Down Breaking with the federal government's long history of supporting California's clean-air efforts, the Bush administration is saying the Golden State went too far by revising its zero-emission-vehicle rule last year. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Justice Department, the White House sided with DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, which have taken ...
Topics: air pollution, California, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Greece Spot		07 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Greece Spot Air and water quality in Athens, Greece -- home of the upcoming 2004 Summer Olympics -- is considerably worse today than it was in 1896, the last time the city hosted the games. In an effort headlined by Jean-Michael Cousteau (son of the famed oceanographer Jacques), environmentalists are trying to clean up the city by planting trees, persuading manufacturing companies to reduce emissions, and instituting ...
Topics: air pollution, Greece, water pollution (all these topics)

Gulf War Syndrome		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Gulf War Syndrome Environmental damage in Kuwait stemming from Gulf War activities was far more severe than originally thought, according to a U.N.-financed study whose preliminary results were released yesterday. The study found that pollution from torched oil wells not only filled into the sky, but also seeped into the ground; further, the salt from seawater used to douse the fir ...
Topics: air pollution, Kuwait, land degradation, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Running Knows		02 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Running Knows Climate change is caused by human activities -- and maybe by more of them than previously thought. That was the conclusion of a report released today by NASA, which found that land-use changes such as farming, irrigation, and urban sprawl contribute as much if not more to climate change than does the burning of fossil fuels. According to the report, changing land-uses in North Americ ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, food and agriculture, placemaking (all these topics)

The Smog Monster		30 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
The Smog Monster Forty-nine years ago, in November 1953, New York City was stricken with a six-day siege of air pollution so fierce that it killed or contributed to the deaths of 25 to 30 residents a day. That was before scientists really understood what was darkening the skies and choking people on the street. In some respects, experts say, that terrible week resembles another one -- the week of Sept. 11, 2001. Despite int ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York (all these topics)

Reid It and Weep		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Reid It and Weep The Bush administration distorted a report to the U.S. EPA by deleting the views of government experts who sought to curb emissions from snowmobiles, according to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Reid has released documents (which he says he obtained from an anonymous whistleblower) showing that the Interior Department removed pro-emissions-restrictions comments from a government ...
Topics: air pollution, Harry Reid, outdoor recreation, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

El Smog		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
El Smog Mexico City declared its first pollution alert in almost three years yesterday, when ozone levels in the famously smoggy city reached about 250 percent of acceptable levels. The alert resulted in some 350,000 cars being ordered off the city streets. That's a lot, but it's far fewer than the nearly half of the city's estimated 3 million vehicles that were forced off the streets by such alerts before many residents upgraded to n ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico (all these topics)

Fee: 'Fie,' Foes Fume		18 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Fee: "Fie," Foes Fume Is it a tax or is it not a tax? That's the question in London, where diplomats are up in arms over a proposed daily fee on cars driving into the city center, in order to discourage congestion and clean up the city's air. They say the fee most certainly is a tax, and that therefore embassies should be exempt from it under the 1961 Vienna Convention, which bars governm ...
Topics: air pollution, business, England, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

The Fresh Prince of Bad Air		17 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
The Fresh Prince of Bad Air Just two weeks after their births, infants in the Los Angeles area have been exposed to more pollution than the U.S. government considers acceptable over a lifetime, according to a report released this week by the Washington, D.C.-based National Environmental Trust. The report, which looked at pollution levels in the L.A. region, the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Fargone		16 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Fargone Even though it lacks big cities and doesn't have the smokestacks of say, an Ohio or a Texas, North Dakota is the only state in the country where the air in federal preserves is more polluted than the Clean Air Act allows. So says the U.S. EPA, which will decide soon whether to force North Dakota to undertake a cleanup that could cost industrial facilities hundreds of millions of dollars. Accordi ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, North Dakota, US EPA (all these topics)

Snow News Is Mixed News		16 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Snow News Is Mixed News Beating a court-ordered deadline by only a few hours, the Bush administration imposed new air-pollution regulations last Friday that will limit emissions from snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) for the first time. When the rules are in full force after 2012, they will eliminate more than 2 million tons of pollution per year, the equivalent to taking 32 million cars (that's 15 per ...
Topics: air pollution, outdoor recreation, politics (all these topics)

Star Light, Star Bright, I Hope to See a Star Tonight		13 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Star Light, Star Bright, I Hope to See a Star Tonight Not too long ago, the Indian capital of New Delhi was one of the most polluted cities in the world; now, you still might not want to run a marathon there, but the city is making serious strides toward cleaning up its air. Dilip Biswas, chair of the city's Central Pollution Control Board, says pollution has dropped 25 percent since 1995, as levels of sulfur dioxide and ...
Topics: air pollution, India, placemaking (all these topics)

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