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David Friedman, Union of Concerned Scientists		08 Oct 2001	Dispatches
David Friedman is a senior analyst with the clean vehicles program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. UCS educates and works with the public to advocate for environmental solutions based on the best scientific understanding. The Clean Vehicles Program develops and promote strategies to reduce the adverse impacts of the U.S. transportation system. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 Monday, 08 Oct 2001 NEW YORK, N.Y. On a normal Monday, I wake up in Oaklan ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, Dispatches, energy efficiency, hybrids, politics, Prius (all these topics)

Green Camouflage		04 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Green Camouflage The Pentagon spends about $5 billion a year on its "environmental security program," trying to reduce the environmental impact of the armed services. But many greenies think that's not enough, and up until the terrorist attacks, the military was facing growing pressure to take the environment more seriously. A proposal in Congress would require the mi ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, US Military, water pollution (all these topics)

The Bus Stops Here		28 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
The Bus Stops Here India's Supreme Court today postponed a Sunday deadline for all buses in Delhi to convert from diesel fuel to compressed natural gas, saying that commuters would be inconvenienced if diesel buses were taken off the road because the city has done little to comply with a court order to improve air quality. About 9,000 of the 12,000 municipal buses in Delhi still run on diesel. The court gave the ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, India, placemaking (all these topics)

Montezuma's Revenge		24 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Montezuma's Revenge Mexico City, known the world 'round for its air pollution, will soon unveil a new 10-year plan to tackle the problem. The plan by the Metropolitan Environmental Commission will aim to reduce ozone and particulate levels in the air by taking such steps as retiring old trucks, limiting cargo circulation hours, using more natural gas in public transportation, and giving taxi drivers incentives to buy new ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico, placemaking (all these topics)

They Have Found What They're Looking for		21 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
They Have Found What They're Looking for Following a negative environmental report from the California Energy Commission, a major energy firm has ended its plans to build a big power plant seven miles from Joshua Tree National Park. Environmentalists had feared that a new state law to speed power-plant approval, which was created in the wake of California's energy "crisis& ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, national parks, politics, state politics (all these topics)

A Snow Job		20 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
A Snow Job In its first major move on air pollution since President Bush took office, the U.S. EPA yesterday proposed the first emissions rules for snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, forklifts, and diesel-powered boats. The proposal, which is particularly aimed at reducing pollution in national parks, would cut total carbon-monoxide emissions from the vehicles by 56 percent and hydrocarbon and nit ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, outdoor recreation, US EPA (all these topics)

How Now, Brown Cow?		19 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
How Now, Brown Cow? The 450,000 dairy cows in Southern California are contributing to some of the dirtiest air in the country -- and regulators want to clamp down. The cows kick up tons of dust and their manure emits ammonia that joins with nitrogen oxide from vehicle tailpipes to create particulate pollution. Dairies in the area account for only 1 percent of the emissions that lead to ...
Topics: air pollution, California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste (all these topics)

EPA Says Air in NYC Poses Only Small Risk		14 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
EPA Says Air in NYC Poses Only Small Risk The smoke and grit in the air in New York City that came from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers pose only a small health risk, U.S. EPA officials and some doctors said yesterday. They equated the danger to a smoggy day in the city, when people with already-weakened immune systems should be especially cautious. Other independent health experts were gloom ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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)

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)

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