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Dust, Asbestos From Trade Center Put Some at Risk		13 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Dust, Asbestos From Trade Center Put Some at Risk The enormous cloud of smoke and grit that spread from the collapsing World Trade Center towers on Tuesday could lead to attacks of asthma, emphysema, and other lung diseases, even a day or two after people were exposed, doctors said yesterday. Aside from the smoke, U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said the biggest environmental concern right now was asbe ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, toxics (all these topics)

The Ohio Player		05 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
The Ohio Player Drawing unfavorable attention to President Bush's choice to head the U.S. EPA's enforcement program, a preliminary report released yesterday by the agency found that Ohio has done a poor job enforcing air-pollution rules. Bush's nominee, Donald Schregardus, led the Ohio EPA during most the 1990s. The report said that air inspections, investigations of complaints, and amounts of penalties collected hav ...
Topics: air pollution, Ohio, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Fly the Friendly Skies?		30 Aug 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, placemaking (all these topics)

Boxy but Good		28 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Boxy but Good Greenpeace and the small London-based group Families Against Bush are using consumer pressure to try to embarrass corporations into supporting the Kyoto treaty on climate change. Earlier this summer, the groups put the heat on Ford by highlighting a rift between the U.S. automaker and its Swedish subsidiary Volvo. Volvo publicly supports Kyoto; Ford does not. A ...
Topics: air pollution, business, environmental non-government organizations, Greenpeace (all these topics)

Footloose and Fancy Fleet		24 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Footloose and Fancy Fleet In a decision that could affect air pollution policy nationwide, a federal judge ruled yesterday that California officials can order public agencies to buy cleaner vehicles. Two industry associations challenged a rule by the South Coast Air Quality Management District that requires agencies to purchase low-emission or alternative-fuel cars, buses, and trucks, instead of diesel-powered vehicl ...
Topics: air pollution, California, placemaking (all these topics)

Give a Honk, Don't Pollute		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Give a Honk, Don't Pollute On top of warming up the earth, pollution from burning fossil fuels is killing thousands of people a year, according to a study published in the journal Science. For starters, Devra Lee Davis of Carnegie Mellon University and four coauthors found that if Mexico City, New York, Sao Paulo, and Santiago employed technologies that now exist to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 64,000 premature deaths an ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health (all these topics)

Mighty Morphin' Power Rearrangers		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Mighty Morphin' Power Rearrangers Not wanting to provoke another attack from environmentalists, the Bush administration said yesterday that it would delay announcing its plan for overhauling regulation of aging power plants and instead include the plan as part of a more comprehensive package of clean-air policy options in September. President Bush had ordered the U.S. EPA to reassess th ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Time Off for Bad Behavior?		13 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Time Off for Bad Behavior? U.S. President Bush told ABC News on Friday that his administration could have done a better job spinning its environmental policies. Bush, in an interview from his Texas ranch, where he is vacationing for the month, said, "My administration's made a lot of very thoughtful and environmentally sensitive decisions, but you get no credit for it. ... Listen, ours is a ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Coughing Up the Dough		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Coughing Up the Dough In the latest victory for residents suffering from pollution-related health problems in a Japanese city, 10 companies agreed today to pay $12.2 million to 260 locals who went to court to protest emissions from the companies' factories. The out-of-court settlement ends a 12-year dispute in which the Nagoya residents contended that the factory emissions and pollution from cars on a nearby governm ...
Topics: air pollution, business, health, Japan (all these topics)

Parental Guidance Suggested Bush should listen to his inner dad on climate change	Elizabeth Sawin	03 Aug 2001	Global Citizen
We were exploring an unfamiliar pond. My four-year-old daughter was out in the water, up to her knees, when I called her back to shore: "It's so muddy I can't see if the pond gets deep quickly," I said. "And I couldn't reach you if you fell in. Better safe than sorry." Parents try to give their kids room to make their own mistakes, but when there is any reason t ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, politics (all these topics)

Parental Guidance Suggested		03 Aug 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, politics, United States (all these topics)

Iceland Iceland Baby		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Iceland Iceland Baby Iceland is gunning to be the world's first carbon-free economy. The country is in something of a bind, as it now has very low carbon-dioxide emissions and the Kyoto treaty on climate change gives it little room to expand its economy in a way that would increase its emissions. Already, 67 percent of Iceland's energy comes from emissions-free geothermal heat and hydroelectric dams. Du ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, placemaking (all these topics)

EV Rider		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
EV Rider As part of a pilot program by California to reduce pollution and increase the popularity of gas-free vehicles, Anaheim is offering free use of 10 electric cars in some of its lower-income neighborhoods. The golf cart-like cars are available to people who have a valid driver's license and a decent driving record. With a maximum speed of 35 miles per hour, the cars are ...
Topics: air pollution, California, cars, electric vehicles, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

My Bonn Lies Over the Ocean		25 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
My Bonn Lies Over the Ocean While the rest of the world moves forward with the Kyoto treaty, the Bush administration claims it is cooking up its own strategy to fend off global warming. But some officials involved in the administration policy review say there has been little real pressure from the White House to come up with a new plan anytime soon. The action may be shifting to the U. ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, politics (all these topics)

Schell Game		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Schell Game Even though U.S. President Bush has withdrawn the U.S. from the Kyoto treaty on climate change, Seattle Mayor Paul Schell (D) and four City Council members announced yesterday that Seattle would easily meet what would have been the greenhouse-gas-reduction target for the U.S. under Kyoto. The city promised to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 7 percent below 1990 levels and to t ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, hydropower, politics, Seattle, Washington (all these topics)

Bonn Jour		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Bonn Jour Negotiators from 178 countries reached agreement today on how to tackle climate change, fleshing out the Kyoto treaty and leaving the U.S. isolated from the rest of the world. Margot Wallstrom, the European Union's environmental commissioner, said, "The rescue operation succeeded." In the final pact reached in Bonn, the E.U. held firm against efforts to weaken enforcement mechanisms for penalizing countrie ...
Topics: air pollution, Germany, ozone (all these topics)

Visibly Upset		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Visibly Upset The 1,900 new power plants called for in U.S. President Bush's energy plan pose a big threat to air quality in places where smog is already bad, experts say. They are also concerned about moves by the Bush administration to end efforts by former President Clinton to force dozens of dirty, old coal-powered plants to install modern pollution-control equipment. Last week, the ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Non Bonn Jovial		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Non Bonn Jovial Delegates from about 180 countries began talks today in Bonn, Germany, to try to salvage the Kyoto treaty on climate change, even though the U.S. has withdrawn from it. The European Union is lobbying Japan not to follow U.S. President Bush's lead by rejecting Kyoto. But Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday downplayed the talks in Bonn, suggesting that negotiations sche ...
Topics: air pollution, Germany, Japan, politics, United States (all these topics)

Surge, in General		04 Jun 2001	Daily Grist
Surge, in General Canada will see its pollution levels surge if it boosts its oil and natural gas exports to meet the needs of its power-hungry southern neighbor, according to a report released on Friday by the David Suzuki Foundation. For example, the report says a big increase in exports to the U.S. would cause greenhouse gas emissions to rise 44 percent above the amount Canada set as its target in the Kyoto treaty o ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, energy, oil (all these topics)

Detroit Sucks The Big Three are talking a good game, but reality does not match the rhetoric	Roland Hwang	26 Jan 2001	Soapbox
Judging by the media hype over Ford's and General Motors' early January announcements on "hybrid" vehicles at the North American International Auto Show, one would think that automakers have seen the light and are finally matching their professed concern for the environment with deeds. Hybrid cars deliver better fuel efficiency by using two power sources -- a gaso ...
Topics: air pollution, Big Auto, business, cars, energy, fuel efficiency (all these topics)

Don't Follow the Leaders Americans dragged their heels at The Hague, but others are acting to stop climate change	Donella H. Meadows	04 Dec 2000	Global Citizen
The most earth-shaking event of the past two weeks had to do with leadership, or lack thereof, but it did not unfold in Florida. It happened in the Netherlands. The stunning lack of leadership came from the Clinton-Gore administration. The meeting in The Hague was the sixth attempt since the Kyoto conference of 1997 to forge an international agree ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, ozone, politics (all these topics)

Reinventing the Wheels How far can clean cars take us?	Jim Motavalli	19 May 2000	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from Forward Drive: The Race to Build "Clean" Cars for the Future. Forward Drive By Jim Motavalli Sierra Club Books, 272 pages, 2000 I loved cars long before I knew there was any reason to worry about their effect on the environment or be concerned about the smoke that poured from their tailpipes. In the 1960s, ignorance like mine was widespread in the United States, maintained b ...
Topics: air pollution, books, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, green living, hybrids, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

Car Talk How green is your pleasure machine?	Consumers Union	20 Apr 2000	Earthly Possessions
They be jammin'. When you look at U.S. transportation habits, you start to wonder where in the world we're all going, and why we're working so hard to get there. The average household makes more than six car trips per day, each averaging nine miles. With busier schedules, we are each spending an average of 70 minutes a day in our cars, and traffic congestion doesn't help. Average rush-hour delays due to roadway congestio ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics)

Gas 'n' Uh-oh	Adam I. Lowe	29 Mar 2000	Counter Culture
40 percent -- petroleum's share of global energy consumed in 1998 $246 -- amount spent by the author on gasoline to drive a 1987 Honda Accord 5,700 miles on a cross-country road trip from Feb. 15 to March 15, 2000 $433 -- estimated amount the author would have spent if he had driven a new Ford Explorer 4WD, the most popular sports utility vehicle in the U.S. $725 -- the cost of an equivalent amount of gas in 1981, adjusted for inflation to today's dollar ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Bhopal -- or RuPaul	Ben White	02 Dec 1999	Muckraker
Friday marks the 15th anniversary of a very unhappy occasion. On Dec. 3, 1984, a Union Carbide industrial plant in Bhopal, India, released a deadly cloud of the gas methyl isocyanate into the air, killing at least 6,500 people (and some say more) and injuring tens of thousands. Ever since, Union Carbide and Bhopal have been inextricably linked. But those who may not know a great deal about what happened in India won't find any enlightenment at Uni ...
Topics: air pollution, business, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, Muckraker, politics, toxics (all these topics)

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