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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)

Auto-ah!		07 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Auto-ah! The Canadian government has proposed levying a tax on motorists to help pay for implementing the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The Canadian Automobile Association, which represents some 4 million vehicle owners, calculated that the tax would be roughly $1,200 per year, based on 15 cents per mile of urban driving and three cents per mile of out-of-city driving. The CAA excoriated ...
Topics: air pollution, business, Canada, climate, energy, placemaking (all these topics)

A Quest Called Tribe		07 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
A Quest Called Tribe U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman acknowledged this week that it was "all too apparent that EPA needs to do more" to help tackle environmental problems on tribal lands. Whitman's announcement came during the Sixth National Tribal Conference on Environmental Management, held this week in Sparks, Nev. The conference focuses on mining, water and air ...
Topics: air pollution, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Golden State Worriers		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Golden State Worriers A large portion of the American are at risk of developing cancer from exposure to any of 32 common toxic chemicals, according to the first nationwide study of the toxins, released Friday by the U.S. EPA. About 200 million face roughly a 1 in 100,000 lifetime risk, while about 20 million people -- many of them in the Los Angeles or San Francisco areas -- face a risk as high as 1 in 5 ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Snoop Dog		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Snoop Dog Almost everyone's been embarrassed at one time or another by an over-eager dog sniffing in the wrong places. Now car owners have to worry about the "smog dog," designed to "sniff" tailpipes to detect air pollution. Formally called the AccuScan Remote Vehicle Emissions Testing System, the smog dog analyzes exhaust from cars as they pass roadside monito ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, placemaking, pollution and waste, Virginia, West (all these topics)

Fatwa Alberta		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
Fatwa Alberta Canada's already-tense internal battle over whether to ratify the Kyoto Treaty on climate change heated up further yesterday, when the province of Alberta withdrew from negotiations after its alternative emissions-cutting plan was rejected by the other provinces and territories. In response, Alberta resigned as co-chair of the commission formed to negotiate climate issues and refused to sign the commu ...
Topics: air pollution, Alberta, Canada, climate (all these topics)

New Sue Review		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
New Sue Review Oral arguments were heard yesterday in the U.S. EPA's lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power provider. Lawyers for the EPA argued that the TVA violated the New Source Review rule of the Clean Air Act by failing to install state-of-the-art pollution-control equipment when upgrading its older coal-burning ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, pollution and waste, Tennessee Valley Authority, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Fermenting Rebellion		17 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, Minnesota, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Slim Pickins, Whitman		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Slim Pickins, Whitman In an apparent effort to diffuse criticism from environmentalists, the Bush administration is considering stepping up legal action against some polluting utility companies. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman has ordered the agency's regional enforcement officials to look for companies that have violated the Clean Air Act by upgrading power plants with ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Fresh Air		15 May 2002	Daily Grist
Fresh Air For the first time ever, California's agriculture sector -- the biggest industry in the state -- will be required to comply with the federal Clean Air Act, following a settlement reached yesterday by the U.S. EPA and environmental and health advocates. Since 1976, the sector has enjoyed exemptions from some of the act's most important provisions. Critics have long held that the exemptions were illegal and contri ...
Topics: air pollution, California, US EPA (all these topics)

Dutch Treat The Netherlands tackles nitrogen pollution with a game	Erik Ness	10 May 2002	Main Dish
Confess: You've played more than one hand of solitaire on company time. Tetris anyone? Maybe you've even been a MYSTic or a QUAKEr. If you happen to work for the Dutch Ministry of the Environment, playing computer games is now part of your job description. Or at least playing a computer game -- the world's only computer game designed to solve the problem of nitrogen pollution. The Netherlands is home to i ...
Topics: air pollution, Netherlands, video games, water pollution (all these topics)

Greener Pastures		07 May 2002	Daily Grist
Greener Pastures New Zealand is home to a staggering 45 million sheep and 8 million cattle, which together produce 90 percent of the country's methane emissions -- or about 43 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions. To meet the terms of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, New Zealand has to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels -- but legislation proposed by the governmen ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, food and agriculture, New Zealand (all these topics)

Nothing Could Be Refiner		06 May 2002	Daily Grist
Nothing Could Be Refiner Ever since the 1970s, heavy trucks and buses have been allowed to use diesel virtually without regulation, because the fuel enjoyed a special status under clean air policies. But that could finally change after a federal appeals court ruled against oil refiners on Friday, upholding new U.S. EPA regulations to clean up trucks and buses. The rules are among the very few environmental measures enacted by ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, US EPA (all these topics)

Bill of Right Ons!		03 May 2002	Daily Grist
Bill of Right Ons! In a big victory for environmentalists and a blow to the auto industry, the California Senate yesterday handily passed the nation's first bill to limit carbon dioxide emissions from the tailpipes of cars and light trucks. Enviros say the vehicles produce 40 percent of California's greenhouse gas emissions; the bill (in stirring wording) would direct the state Air Resources Board to implement rules to get ...
Topics: air pollution, California, ozone (all these topics)

The Truck Stops Here		02 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops Here Speaking of the blue-green alliance, a coalition of labor and environmental groups, plus the trucking industry, filed suit yesterday to prevent the U.S. government from allowing some 30,000 Mexican trucks onto American roads. On Friday, the Bush administration is scheduled to sign regulations that would allow Mexican trucks to cross the border for the first time in 20 years. The coalition contends ...
Topics: air pollution, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Goodbye, Farewell, So Lung		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Goodbye, Farewell, So Lung About one in two Americans breathe unhealthy air, according to a report released today by the American Lung Association. In real numbers, that translates to more than 142 million Americans living in areas where the U.S. EPA has found smog levels to be unhealthful. A lot of those areas are in -- you guessed it -- California: Six of the nation's 10 smoggiest counties are in the Golden State, while the ...
Topics: air pollution, health, US EPA (all these topics)

Middle Earth in the Balance		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Middle Earth in the Balance Seems like everyone but the U.S. is working on a way to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that fuel global warming. Yesterday, the New Zealand government proposed levying a tax of about $10 per ton of CO2 to meet the targets of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The tax would go into effect in 2007 and would help the nation reach its goal of reducing greenhouse gas ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, New Zealand, ozone (all these topics)

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