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Air Squawl-ity		30 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Air Squawl-ity We here at Grist have long since lost track of the score in the face-off between the snowmobile industry and people who like to be able to breathe in national parks, but at any rate, the latter earned a point yesterday when the U.S. EPA issued a report calling for a complete ban on snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Reiterating its position of three years ago ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, outdoor recreation, US EPA (all these topics)

Whoa, We're Halfway There		30 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Whoa, We're Halfway There While the U.S. still bandies about toothless plans to cut greenhouse gases, the European Union is almost halfway to achieving the emissions reductions mandated by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. According to the European Environment Agency, the 15-nation bloc has successfully decreased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to 3.5 percent below 1990 levels; under Kyoto, ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union (all these topics)

Clear As Mud		29 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Clear As Mud President Bush rejected a U.S. EPA proposal that would have gone much further toward improving air quality than his pet Clean Skies Initiative, according to administration documents. To cite just one example, the EPA proposal would have limited sulfur dioxide emissions to 2 million tons per year by 2010; by contrast, the (so-called) Clear Skies plan would limit such emissions to 3 million tons per year by 2018. ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Bad Air Day		26 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Bad Air Day As if California didn't have enough of a smog problem all by itself, now it and other parts of the nation are suffering from air pollution blown in from China. Toxic pollutants from power plants, factories, and farms travel on wind currents across the ocean and mingle with our own less-than-perfect air to create an international smog blanket that is particularly acute on the West Coast. The smog is ass ...
Topics: air pollution, China, health, West Coast (all these topics)

Con Trails On chemtrails	Umbra Fisk	23 Apr 2002	Ask Umbra
I'm interested in learning more about Chemtrails. I understand that they are spread in the sky by jets using aluminum particles and that they are used to create cooler weather to slow down global warming. However, people are suffering from health problems as a result of this spraying action. If you have more information on Chemtrails, I would be interested in hearing about it. Terry Dearest Terry, Airplanes release water vapor as a byproduct of ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, toxics (all these topics)

Letting the Gene Out of the Bottle		23 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Letting the Gene Out of the Bottle Delegates from almost 200 countries are meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, this week to discuss the future of genetically modified organisms. Their challenge is to strike a balance between the fondest hopes of the multi-billion dollar biotech industry and the deepest fears of environmentalists, who worry that GMOs could adversely affect ecosystems and human health. During the ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Sharri Baby		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sharri Baby After years of mistrust and fear, Albanians and Serbs are coming together over a common interest: protecting the environment. In a project funded by the Norwegian and Dutch governments, environmental groups in Kosovo are setting up an electronic network to enable the former enemies to share resources and information on ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, European Union, green living, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, pollution and waste, wilderness (all these topics)

Earth, Wind, and Snow		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Earth, Wind, and Snow It may be akin to a Protestant celebrating Chanukah, but President Bush is observing Earth Day today, with a speech in New York state's Adirondack Mountains. (The forecast was for snow -- acid snow, mind you -- perhaps a fitting backdrop.) The president is using the occasion to promote his "Clear Skies" initiative, a market-based alternative to the current framework of the Clean Air Act. Critics argue ...
Topics: air pollution, politics (all these topics)

Death to Coughy		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Death to Coughy Almost 6,000 people will die prematurely from respiratory illness due to emissions from power plants owned by eight utility companies that the Clinton administration sued for violating the Clean Air Act, according to a private report released yesterday. In addition to the deaths, the report predicted that the pollution would lead to 140,000 asthma attacks and 14,000 ca ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Midwest, politics, pollution and waste, South (all these topics)

Cheshire Fat Cat		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Cheshire Fat Cat Here's a whole new meaning for the phrase "company town": The village of Cheshire, in southeastern Ohio, will be purchased for $20 million by American Electric Power Company. Last year, the town was plagued by clouds of sulfuric acid drifting in from a nearby AEP power plant, Ohio's largest coal-burner. Notwithstanding a recent $175 million investment in polluti ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, health, Ohio (all these topics)

True Grit		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
True Grit For the third year in a row, massive dust storms from China have blown into South Korea, closing schools, canceling flights, and creating a run on facemasks and respiratory medication. The storms are the result of severe desertification in China, where the Gobi Desert grew by 20,000 square miles from 1994 to 1999; the desertification stems from overfarming, overgrazing, and deforestation, among ...
Topics: air pollution, China, desertification, South Korea (all these topics)

Eight Bawl		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Eight Bawl Environment ministers from the Group of Eight -- the world's industrialized powers -- met over the weekend for a round of talks in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held later this year in Johannesburg, South Africa. Although the issue of climate change was not on the agenda (much to the dismay of some environmental organizations), yesterday's session was dominated by discus ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, G8, politics (all these topics)

Dirty Duncing		05 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Dirty Duncing The majority of the nation's dirtiest power plants are getting even dirtier, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The report was based on U.S. EPA data on smog, soot, and global warming emissions from power plants from 1995 to 2000. It found that greenhouse gas emissions increased 8 percent, with a total of 175 million tons of carbo ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, ozone, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Full Monty		02 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Full Monty In an effort to combat global warming, Great Britain has set up the world's first national greenhouse gas emissions trading plan. Under the plan, emissions credits will be traded like any other commodity; British companies that agree to participate can directly reduce their own use of fossil fuels, or they can buy part or all of their reduction quota from another company. According to the targets manda ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Slim Victory for Whitman		27 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Slim Victory for Whitman The U.S. Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the Clinton administration's clean air standards for ozone and particulate pollution, ending a five-year campaign by industry groups to have the standards overturned. To the chagrin of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Trucking Associations, and others, the court ruled that the U.S. EPA did not exceed its authority in setting the standards and that ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Safety Dance, Part One How secure are U.S. nuclear power plants?	Shelley Smithson	26 Mar 2002	Main Dish
Roughly 40 miles from the rubble of the World Trade Center, U.S. Navy cutters patrol the chilly waters of the Hudson River. Military planes circle overhead. On the ground, members of the National Guard stand ready. The Indian Point nuclear power station, which churns out electricity to nearly 2 million homes around New York City, is defended by land, sea, and air. Yet many people -- and especiall ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, health, New York, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics)

Not-So-Super Power		21 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Not-So-Super Power Amid heated controversy over the Bush administration's plans to weaken air pollution regulations, two environmental organizations and a large New Jersey utility are releasing today a new study ranking the worst polluters in the power industry. The study, "Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Generation Owners in the U.S. -- 2000," tracked company emissions records ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Remote Controls		18 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Remote Controls After months of internal debate, the Bush administration has decided (surprise, surprise) to replace pollution lawsuits with voluntary incentives to encourage coal-powered utilities and oil refineries to clean up their acts, according to U.S. EPA officials. The Clinton administration sued dozens of the country's worst polluting power plants for violating New Source Review rules, which r ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Boy Oh Boise		14 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Boy Oh Boise The timber and paper giant Boise Cascade agreed yesterday to settle a federal lawsuit, filed by the U.S. EPA and the Department of Justice, accusing the company of violating the New Source Review regulations of the Clean Air Act. The regulations require companies to install state-of-the-art pollution controls when upgrading facilities; the suit alleged that Boise Cascade failed to do so at eight plants in four states. Alt ...
Topics: air pollution, US EPA (all these topics)

Resigned to His Fate		01 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Resigned to His Fate In the most dramatic move yet relating to the Bush administration's internal battle over federal clean air policy, a senior U.S. EPA official resigned this week to protest White House efforts to weaken tough emissions standards for power plants and oil refineries. Eric Schaeffer, head of the agency's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, accused the Energy Depart ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Energy, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Top EPA offical resigns Read the resignation letter from Eric Schaeffer, former head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement		01 Mar 2002	Muckraker
The following letter of resignation was submitted on Feb. 27, 2002, by Eric Schaeffer, head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, to protest White House and Energy Department attempts to weaken federal clean air policy. Schaeffer's resignation has prompted Senate hearings into the Bush administration's environmental record. Christine Wh ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

London Smog		28 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
London Smog A smoggy day in London town? Mayor Ken Livingstone plans to change that: Beginning next year, motorists entering central London between 7 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. will have to pony up five pounds ($7) per day. About 40,000 vehicles per hour enter central London, a figure officials hope will drop by 15 percent thanks to the "congestion tax." Critics say that before the tax is imposed, the ...
Topics: air pollution, London, placemaking, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet And the reaction: At home and abroad, the response to President Bush's strategy for dealing with global warming was tepid at best. Pointing to counterexamples in Europe, U.S. critics disagreed with Bush's claim that mandatory emissions limits would damage the economy and said the plan was simply a sweet deal for big business. Sen ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, European Union, France, Japan, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Going Whole Hog for Conservation		14 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Going Whole Hog for Conservation In welcome news for environmentalists, the U.S. Senate approved a farm bill yesterday that would double spending for conservation programs to $22 billion over the next decade. If it becomes law, the farm bill -- which also includes provisions to clean up urban drinking water, protect forests from urban sprawl, and conserve wildlife habitat -- would ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, placemaking, population, wilderness (all these topics)

Smoke Scream		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Smoke Scream The levels of pollutants spewed into the air over New York City following the Sep. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center exceeded even those of burning oil wells during the Gulf War, according to a new study released yesterday by scientists from the University of California at Davis. The study, which was the most thorough analysis of the dust and ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, New York, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

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