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Laughy Tafty		20 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Laughy Tafty The U.S. EPA has warned Ohio that it could soon be stripped of federal highway funds for failing to enforce national clean air standards. The move would be a major blow to the state, which receives more than $900 million in federal road funds every year. The EPA could also stiffen the pollution levels allowed in clean air permits, halting construction of some major non-government projects in the state. The EPA issu ...
Topics: air pollution, Ohio, US EPA (all these topics)

No Island Is an Island		16 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
No Island Is an Island Climate change was the leading concern at the annual Pacific Island Forum this week, where leaders of small island nations chastised the United States for abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The islands have an unusually vested interest in the protocol because they face a high risk of being swallowed up by seas swollen from melting ice caps a ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, Pacific Islands, politics, United States (all these topics)

Walk Softly and Carry a Big Computer Model		16 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Walk Softly and Carry a Big Computer Model Unless you live there, you probably haven't been following the brouhaha in North Dakota. So here's the skinny: The U.S. EPA insists that the state is in violation of air quality standards because of the high concentration of sulfur dioxide in the air at the otherwise-pristine Theodore Roosevelt National Park and a national wildlife refuge. The state, meanwhile, ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, North Dakota, US EPA (all these topics)

Sin Diesel On diesel engines	Umbra Fisk	15 Aug 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Longtime reader; first-time writer. Love the column. My partner and I recently bought a small station wagon to replace our 4WD pick-up and '83 sedan. After some debate, we chose a turbo-diesel engine that boasts about 45 miles per gallon instead of a gas engine, which gets about 30 MPG. Our thinking led us to choose the higher fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions of the diesel engine, although the gas engine produces fewer par ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, cars, energy, green living, oil, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

To Summit Up		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Summit Up A global report card issued by the United Nations just two weeks before an international environmental summit has given low marks to the world's ecological condition. Among the report's more shocking findings: Three million people die annually from air pollution, while more than 1 billion people -- a sixth of the world's population -- lack access to safe drinking water. The report ...
Topics: air pollution, health, politics, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

Canada Drier		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Canada Drier Global warming could spell big trouble for Canada's freshwater supply, according to a report from the government agency Natural Resources Canada. The predicted global surface-air temperature increase of between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century would sap some of the country's hydroelectric power potential, lower lake levels, and pave the way for severe drought on the Canadian prairies ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, lakes (all these topics)

Tempura's Rising		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Tempura's Rising Global warming has come to Tokyo with a vengeance: While the average global temperature has increased by 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last century, the average temperature in the Japanese capital has risen by more than five times that. Like most large cities, Tokyo is an island of heat. Concrete, cars, and rooftops absorb sunlight all day and discharge it at night, preventing the city from cooling; vertical bui ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Japan (all these topics)

How Now, Brown Cloud		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
How Now, Brown Cloud A dense blanket of pollution that is hovering over South Asia could cause millions of deaths in the region and pose a threat to the world at large, a group of 200 scientists announced today. Known as the "Asian Brown Cloud," the smog is an estimated two miles thick and covers the entire Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka to Afghanistan. The ...
Topics: Afghanistan, air pollution, Asia, energy, health, India, Sri Lanka, wilderness (all these topics)

Fine, China		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Fine, China California is one of the most environmentally minded states in the U.S.; China is one of the most polluted countries in the world. Now, the two have teamed up to clean up: California scientists and entrepreneurs are working with the Chinese government to combat environmental degradation in its myriad forms. The effort is being led by the Energy ...
Topics: air pollution, California, China, environmental non-government organizations, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Signing of the Times		02 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Signing of the Times In a sign of the increasing political importance of environmental issues, close to half of the U.S. Senate called on the Bush administration yesterday to postpone implementing proposed changes to the New Source Review rules under the Clean Air Act, pending a complete analysis of the potential impact on air quality and public health. A letter signed by 44 senators and directed to U.S. EPA ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, United States (all these topics)

Oh, What a Bad Feeling		01 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Oh, What a Bad Feeling Toyota has been getting a lot of kudos recently for its low-emissions hybrid vehicle, the Prius -- but the car company increased its carbon emissions in the U.S. during the 1990s more than any other major automaker in the country, according to a report released this week by Environmental Defense. The group said Toyota increased its CO2 emissions by a whoppin ...
Topics: air pollution, business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, ozone, Prius (all these topics)

Wheezy Riders		30 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Wheezy Riders Motorcycles and gas-powered recreational boats could become substantially cleaner if emissions cuts proposed by the Bush administration late last week are enacted. The proposals call for halving emissions from motorcycles (which are, on average, 20 times more polluting per mile than a new car) and reducing boat emissions by 80 percent. The new standards would take effect in 2006 and 2008, respecti ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Michigan Seems Like a Nightmare to Me Now		29 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Michigan Seems Like a Nightmare to Me Now It's about 2,000 miles from Michigan to California -- and about a world away. Linked by market forces (California is the nation's biggest car market, Michigan the nation's biggest car manufacturer) but separated by cultural chasms, the relationship between the two states has always been rocky. Now, in the wake of last week's landmark Golden State legislation to limit car ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Michigan, ozone (all these topics)

Fool Standards		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Fool Standards Automakers are gearing up to take California's landmark new vehicle-emissions law to court, even though they could face a public opinion backlash by doing so. Industry reps say they are "very confident" that the courts will agree with their argument that California is encroaching on federal jurisdiction by trying to set its own fuel-economy standards. The law, signed by Gov. Gray Davis (D) on Monda ...
Topics: air pollution, California, ozone (all these topics)

Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and a coalition of Republican colleagues, manufacturers, and trucking industry reps are pressuring the Bush administration to postpone a strict new anti-pollution standard for diesel trucks. Why? Because Illinois-based Caterpillar ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Justice, health, Illinois, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

BK Whopper		19 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
BK Whopper Eighteen months ago, throngs of Filipinos gathered at a religious shrine for a rally that ended in the resignation of corrupt then-president Joseph Estrada. The massive turnout was widely attributed to mobile texting, with hundreds of thousands of Filipinos passing along messages encouraging people to attend. Now, the cell-phone-happy people of the Philippines are turning to ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Philippines (all these topics)

National Parking Service		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
National Parking Service Washington, D.C., is cursed with some of the heaviest traffic and worst air pollution in the country. But the obvious solution -- reducing the number of drivers on the road -- faces a major obstacle: the federal government, which supplies free parking, thereby eliminating a major incentive to take public transportation. The federal government is the biggest employer in D.C. and owns some 3 ...
Topics: air pollution, placemaking, Washington DC (all these topics)

The Name of the Haze		21 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
The Name of the Haze The U.S. National Weather Service has long maintained the tradition of giving names to hurricanes, but in Toronto, the environmental organization Greenpeace is taking matters one step further by naming excessively smoggy days after national politicians. The program is designed to call attention to the failure of the Canadian government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and shame politicia ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Greenpeace (all these topics)

Small Wonder		20 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Small Wonder In other news from the Golden State, California could soon have the world's toughest standards for emissions of microscopic pollutants. Regulations currently being considered by the state Air Resources Board target pollutants composed of particles of dust and soot that are smaller than 10 microns in diameter, or about one-seventh the diameter of a human hair. Such particles come from the ...
Topics: air pollution, California, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Money Shaving Steps		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Money Shaving Steps Many enviros have suspected for a while that the deregulation of electricity markets is bad for the environment. Now here's some proof: Spending on energy efficiency programs by North American power companies -- the biggest polluters on the continent -- dropped by 42 percent between 1995 and 1999, largely because of deregulation. The findings were made public this week in a report ...
Topics: air pollution, globalization, North America, politics (all these topics)

Texas Toast		18 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Texas Toast Like John and Yoko, industry and politics in the U.S. have climbed into bed together and just refuse to get out. Nowhere is that more evident than in Texas, homeland of the Bush clan and the most polluted state in the country. Let's spell it out: Texas is the number one spewer of toxic chemicals and carcinogens into the air, number one in chemical spills, number one in ozon ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, politics, Texas (all these topics)

New Snooze Review		13 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
New Snooze Review A proposal to alter the New Source Review rule of the Clean Air Act will be announced today, according to the U.S. EPA. The rule requires companies to install state-of-the-art pollution-control equipment when upgrading aging power plants. The utility industry has lobbied intensely against New Source Review, saying it should apply only to extensive, non-routine expansio ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Dozing Off		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dozing Off More than 8,500 premature deaths are caused every year by pollution from off-road diesel-fueled equipment not regulated by the federal government, according to a new study by state air pollution control officials. Earthmovers, bulldozers, agricultural equipment, and other such vehicles emit extraordinarily high levels of pollution that have been linked ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Pret-a-Poor Taste Climate change is, like, inevitable, dude	Mark Fiore	10 Jun 2002	Soapbox
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Topics: air pollution, climate (all these topics)

All We Have Is Dust in the Wind	Suzy Becker	10 Jun 2002	Ha.

Topics: air pollution (all these topics)

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