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Use the Enforce, Kook Environmental enforcement has declined under Bush, says new report		25 May 2007	Daily Grist
Use the Enforce, Kook Environmental enforcement has declined under Bush, says new report Well, knock us over with a feather: since the Bush administration began running the joint, industries committing environmental violations have been investigated less, penalized less, and sued less, says a new report from watchdog group Environmental Integrity Project. The Department of Justice has filed few ...
Topics: air pollution, George Bush, news, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Dog bites man	David Roberts	21 May 2007	Gristmill
West Virginia's two U.S. senators say it's possible to promote coal and clean air initiatives at the same time.Uh ... WTF else are they going to say?
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

Pictures of the world's dirtiest cities	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill
Ew.
Topics: air pollution, green living, placemaking (all these topics)

Battle of the developed vs. the developing Climate change justice is contentious	Joseph Romm	04 May 2007	Gristmill
As this round of the IPCC unfolds, developing countries are scurrying to relieve themselves of any major responsibility for historic emissions and, consequently, aggressive mitigation policies. For example, China has requested inserting language that formally recognizes the percentage of emissions for which developed countries are responsible -- 95 percent from the pre-industrial era until 1950, and 77 percent from 1950 to the start of the millennium. China is als ...
Topics: air pollution, China, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC, United States (all these topics)

Check please Superfund broke thanks to bankrupt polluters	Kate Sheppard	03 May 2007	Gristmill
The Center for Public Integrity continues with their massive report on the state of Superfund with a new story today on the $700 million tab that bankrupt polluters have skipped out on.
Topics: air pollution, business, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Taking the 'fund' out of Superfund New report says federal cleanup program wasting away	Kate Sheppard	01 May 2007	Gristmill
Image reprinted with permission from the Center for Public Integrity. A drop-off in both government action and funding has all but stopped the push to clean up America's most toxic sites, posing health and environmental threats all over the country, according to a comprehensive series of reports released last week by the Center for Public Integrity. Under the Bush administration, the amount of money budgeted to clean up these sites has plummeted and cleanup ...
Topics: pollution and waste, politics, water pollution, air pollution (all these topics)

Sorry climate, I had to dust my keyboard Why we should ban compressed chemical dusters	Eric de Place	27 Apr 2007	Gristmill
I have an untidy habit of eating while I'm working on my computer. Heck, I'm eating a doughnut while I write this post. Unfortunately, my habit inevitably results in little crumbs of sandwich or potato chips or whatever making their way onto my computer keyboard. Every once in a while I look down at my crumb-ridden keyboard, get disgusted, and embark on a cleaning frenzy. And as many office workers may know, one of the easiest ways to clean a keyboard is with those ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, ozone (all these topics)

IPCC Working Group III goes after transportation pollution If you won't go after them, we will	Joseph Romm	17 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The IPCC reports are some of the most highly anticipated of 2007. An obvious sign? Within two weeks of one report's release, papers are already covering a leak from the next. IPCC Working Group III's focus is on mitigation, meaning a fair number of policy implications can be derived from its conclusions. So here's a hint for America's auto industry: the report calls for urgent action on road pollution. In the United States, there are 483 passenger cars per 1,00 ...
Topics: air pollution, cars, climate, climate change mitigation, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC, litigation, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

The Err Up There EPA relaxes clean-air requirements for ethanol-fuel plants		16 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
The Err Up There EPA relaxes clean-air requirements for ethanol-fuel plants Before last week, plants turning corn into liquor (yes, please) were allowed to emit 250 tons of emissions per year before triggering clean-air regulations, while those processing corn into ethanol fuel could emit only 100 tons annually. Just doesn't seem fair, does it? So the U.S. EPA did the logical thing, announcing that ethanol- ...
Topics: air pollution, ethanol, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The most polluted city on earth	David Roberts	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Linfen, China. Yuck.
Topics: air pollution, China, water pollution (all these topics)

Karma Duke Supremes say upgrading coal plants without reducing pollution a no-no		03 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Karma Duke Supremes say upgrading coal plants without reducing pollution a no-no We love the Supreme Court this week. In a unanimous decision yesterday, Big Justice overturned a lower court ruling and declared that Duke Energy did indeed violate the Clean Air Act when it modernized coal plants without paying for pollution-reduction equipment. Duke had claimed it wasn't required to consu ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, Department of Justice, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Supreme Slapdown Supreme Court rules against Bush administration in global-warming case		02 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Supreme Slapdown Supreme Court rules against Bush administration in global-warming case In a landmark Supreme Court case -- the first ever on the issue of global warming -- the court has ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and that the U.S. EPA should regulate it as such. Boo-yah! The ruling is the latest in a long series of blows to the ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Department of Justice, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics (all these topics)

You Mean Bombing Doesn't Help? Four years of war has not improved Iraq's environment		22 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
You Mean Bombing Doesn't Help? Four years of war has not improved Iraq's environment After four years of U.S.-led war and the two Saddam-ized decades preceding it, Iraq's water, land, and air are in rough shape. "The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are essentially open sewers," says Azzam Alwash of Nature Iraq, who also says clean-up is needed on over 500 industrial plants that would qualify for Superfund status in the U.S. ...
Topics: air pollution, Iraq, news (all these topics)

Coal kills Report from India	Gar Lipow	20 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Daphne Wysham, co-director of the Sustainable Energy & Economy Network sends the following from Angul, Orissa, the heart of India's Coal Belt, on March 15, 2007: The smell of burning coal in household fires hangs in the air. Bicyclists carry heavy bags of coal from the mines to sell for a few rupees. They are overtaken by huge lorries carrying more than the tonnage they are supposed to carry -- all part of the black market in coal -- down busy streets, with cattle l ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, health, India (all these topics)

Not So Fast Environmentalists take EPA, Interior Department to task		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Not So Fast Environmentalists take EPA, Interior Department to task Remember when U.S. agencies used to be able to get away with their nefarious eco-deeds? Like, for the last seven years or so? The times might just be changing. Deed one: the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management decided, after 20 years, to reactivate 23 drilling leases in areas of U ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Interior, jackassery, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, Utah (all these topics)

What Is This 'Integrity' You Speak Of? States undercharging big emitters for pollution		09 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
What Is This "Integrity" You Speak Of? States undercharging big emitters for pollution In probably the first-ever instance of corporate polluters not being held accountable, a study has found that at least 18 states collected such low fees from big emitters that they couldn't cover the cost of enforcement programs set out by the Clean Air Act. According to the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project, pollution-fighting effor ...
Topics: air pollution, news (all these topics)

Cloudy, With a Chance of Powers As Asian economies grow, increased pollution affecting world's weather		06 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Cloudy, With a Chance of Powers As Asian economies grow, increased pollution affecting world's weather Scientists say smog from Asia is drifting east, seeding storm clouds, and intensifying weather in the Pacific. On a typical spring or summer day, they say, nearly a third of the air high above the U.S. West Coast comes from Asia. And according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academ ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, news, severe weather, United States (all these topics)

And You Thought It Was the TPS Reports Your commute may be killing you, says clean-air advocacy group		02 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
And You Thought It Was the TPS Reports Your commute may be killing you, says clean-air advocacy group Here's one more reason to hate your commute: it could be making you sick. Commuters -- on car, train, bus, bike, or foot -- breathe in up to eight times more diesel soot particles than they would just being in a downtown area, according to a new study by the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. Based on air-quality mon ...
Topics: air pollution, health, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Don't Make Her Bust Out That Bustier Famed California town may have to fight yet another pollution battle		02 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Don't Make Her Bust Out That Bustier Famed California town may have to fight yet another pollution battle Note to pollutey people: if you want to keep a low profile, perhaps it's wise not to situate yourself in a location made famous for being unjustly polluted. A sewage-sludge conversion plant is being planned eight miles away from Hinkley, the small California town made forever infamous by Julia ...
Topics: air pollution, California, celebrity, green living, news (all these topics)

A Winter's Trail On air quality and temperature	Umbra Fisk	21 Feb 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Is there a relationship between air quality and temperature? I thought about this on my bike ride to work this morning when the smell of exhaust from cars seemed more potent, and the fumes were certainly more visible in the 32-degree air. I know that air quality in Los Angeles is worse during the summer. And "code red" or "code orange" air quality days occur in the summer in Washington, D.C. ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra (all these topics)

Putting a price tag on nature Environmentalism's confusing accounting	Adam Stein	19 Feb 2007	Gristmill
The L.A. Times published an interesting if somewhat odd piece in last week's magazine about efforts to coax the business community into loving the environment by assigning a dollar value to our natural resources, or 'ecosystem services.' So, for example, we learn that dung beetles provide $380 million of waste management services to the U.S. cattle industry. One mile of coastal wetland provides $2.4 million of storm protection. A nice fern is worth $4, or you can get ...
Topics: air pollution, business, environmental movement, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Heart Trouble High levels of pollution lead to increased heart disease in women, study finds		02 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Heart Trouble High levels of pollution lead to increased heart disease in women, study finds News flash: pollution is bad. And women living in highly polluted areas are 76 percent more likely to die of a heart attack or stroke, according to a rigorous study published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday. "The magnitude of the findings are substantially higher than what's been seen in prior researc ...
Topics: air pollution, health, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Honeysuckle Prose On burning yard waste	Umbra Fisk	24 Jan 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Your recent column seemed to be discussing mostly the burning of trash. What about yard waste? Each year I pull out tons of non-native and invasive honeysuckle. There is far too much to take to a landfill, and it would take years to rot down if left in some kind of compost pile. I know the burn gives off some CO2, but I honestly don't know what else I can do. Does your "prohibition" extend equally to this kin ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, green living, waste (all these topics)

Logging On On which wood to burn	Umbra Fisk	17 Jan 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I live in Maine, land of many loggers. My home is heated by an oil furnace, and I try to keep the temps down with thermostat timers to use as little oil as possible. I supplement my heat with a wood stove, as many Mainers do, and in my travels I have noticed a big variation in how much smoke is coming through chimneys and stovepipes. Is there a better type of seasoned wood to burn as far as reducing pollutants? Wendy H. Free ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living (all these topics)

Matching Wits On burning trash	Umbra Fisk	08 Jan 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, We recycle and compost as best we can, but we are still left every week with some trash. Up to this point we've dutifully hauled it to the local dump, which then trucks it away to some landfill. My husband has recently discovered that, since we live outside of city limits, we are able to burn our trash. Thus my question -- between a landfill and burning, which is the lesser of two evils? Lynn Titche Bedford, Ind. Dearest Lynn ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, toxics, waste (all these topics)

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