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What a Drag Coral Gardens in Alaskan Waters Spur Controversy Over Trawling		03 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
What a Drag Coral Gardens in Alaskan Waters Spur Controversy Over Trawling If you think coral is only to be found in warm, tropical waters, think again. Cold-water coral gardens contain a surprising array of biodiversity, and scientists discovered a particularly impressive coral bed in waters off Alaska's Aleutian Islands last year, containing numerous coral varieties not seen before. That finding is now spurring controversy over ...
Topics: Alaska, business, oceans (all these topics)

Driving a Hard Bargain Mileage-based car insurance could be a boon for the environment	Elisa Murray, Elm Street Writers Group	03 Nov 2003	Soapbox
Most of us don't think much about car insurance. We eyeball the policy every year, fiddle around with a few changes to bring down the premium, and then forget about it until the bills come. And come they do -- each exactly the same amount, no matter whether we've driven across the country or left the car in the garage. Counting the miles. Doesn't sound righ ...
Topics: business, Oregon, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

The Good of Small Things Aussies See Big Business in Small Life Forms		30 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
The Good of Small Things Aussies See Big Business in Small Life Forms Here's an investment tip from Down Under: bacteria. That's right -- Australian scientists are creating a range of bacteria-based products to help clean up the environment, and, while they're at it, reap some of the riches of a $5 billion global market in environmental biotechnology. A coalition of Australian universities, research institutes, and i ...
Topics: Australia, business, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

A Turkey of a Project Big Pipeline Project Threatens Environment in Azerbaijan, Turkey		28 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
A Turkey of a Project Big Pipeline Project Threatens Environment in Azerbaijan, Turkey BP and 10 other companies are plotting to build a 1,000-mile pipeline to carry oil from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Ceyhan, Turkey, at a cost of up to $4 billion. The project is enthusiastically backed by the U.S. government, which is on the lookout for new sources of crude outside the Middle East. E ...
Topics: Azerbaijan, business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Turkey (all these topics)

Chemical Reaction E.U. Waters Down Chemical Safety Testing Plan		24 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Chemical Reaction E.U. Waters Down Chemical Safety Testing Plan In a blow to advocates of environmental and human health, the European Union dramatically narrowed the scope of its plan to require safety testing for tens of thousands of chemicals. The move was motivated primarily by financial concerns, and the narrower plan is expected to save billions of dollars. But the timing -- in the middle of a bar ...
Topics: business, European Union, health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Poor Judgment Company Warns Poor and Minorities They Will Suffer if N-Plant Is Closed		24 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Poor Judgment Company Warns Poor and Minorities They Will Suffer if N-Plant Is Closed The power company Entergy Nuclear Northeast is warning low-income and minority citizens in New York that more power plants will be built in their neighborhoods if the state's highly controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant is closed. Critics say the move is an inap ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, New York, politics (all these topics)

Thar and Thar and Thar She Blows Southern Right Whales Rebounding in South African Waters		21 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Thar and Thar and Thar She Blows Southern Right Whales Rebounding in South African Waters In a rare bit of good news about the marine environment, southern right whales are making an impressive comeback in the waters of South Africa. The mammals were pushed to the brink of extinction by whaling until protections were put in place in 1935; in recent years, annual counts off the South African coast have found steadily increasi ...
Topics: business, oceans, South Africa (all these topics)

Coffee Roasting on an Open Fire Eco-Friendly 'Java Log' Aims for More of the Fake Firewood Market		14 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Coffee Roasting on an Open Fire Eco-Friendly "Java Log" Aims for More of the Fake Firewood Market Ah, winter -- icicles on the eves, smoke rising from the chimneys, a crackling fire, and emerging from it, that fragrant, familiar smell of ... coffee? Yep, that's right: A Canadian company is marketing fake logs made of recycled coffee grounds. Other fake logs, made of everything from sa ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, green living (all these topics)

Solar Flair U.S. Companies Are Getting Hip to Solar		13 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Solar Flair U.S. Companies Are Getting Hip to Solar A growing number of U.S. companies are installing solar-power systems at their facilities, driven at least in part by government tax credits and incentives that make solar more financially attractive. Johnson & Johnson, for example, has built a large solar installation on the roof of a major facility in Titusville, N.J.; as one of the l ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, water pollution (all these topics)

Dollars Without Sense Privatizing Forest Service Jobs Would Cost More, Study Finds		08 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Dollars Without Sense Privatizing Forest Service Jobs Would Cost More, Study Finds A Bush administration plan to privatize hundreds of U.S. Forest Service jobs, from wildlife biologists to safety officers, would cost taxpayers more than continuing to pay federal employees, a new agency study has found. Under the Bush plan, as many as one-fourth of all 40,000 USFS jobs would be outsourced in the interest of "impro ...
Topics: business, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Cheap Tricks I Toyota Says Hybrids Can Be Inexpensive to Manufacture		03 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Cheap Tricks I Toyota Says Hybrids Can Be Inexpensive to Manufacture Defying conventional wisdom, Toyota unveiled its new hybrid-car production site in Toyota City, Japan, yesterday and sent a clear message to other automakers: Gas-electric hybrids can be manufactured inexpensively. Such cars have traditionally been thought of as too costly to be practical, and Toyota and Honda, the only two companies to ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics)

Cheap Tricks II New Solar Panels Would Be Inefficient -- and Inexpensive		03 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Cheap Tricks II New Solar Panels Would Be Inefficient -- and Inexpensive Usually, inefficient energy sources are an environmentalist's worse nightmare -- but the opposite might be the case for a new type of solar cell. True, the new cells would only capture about 10 percent of the sun's energy (roughly half of what conventional solar cells capture), but they would be able to do so at a fract ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, water pollution (all these topics)

The Fairest of Them All Fair-Trade Food Starts to Catch on in the U.S.		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Fairest of Them All Fair-Trade Food Starts to Catch on in the U.S. Hey, you -- sipping the fair-trade, shade-grown, organic coffee. How would you like a fair-trade banana with that? Or a fair-trade chocolate bar? A small but growing number of products in U.S. grocery stores carry a fair-trade label issued by TransFair USA, based in Oakland, Calif., which guarantees that the workers in developing countries w ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, green living (all these topics)

Say It Ain't Soy Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Say It Ain't Soy Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans In a big blow to opponents of biotechnology, Brazil announced last week that it will allow farmers to plant genetically modified soybeans, ending its role as one of the leading nations opposed to GM crops. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government had previously promised to oppose GM plantings, bu ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, business, deforestation, food and agriculture, GMOs, rainforests (all these topics)

Enemy Mine II Malaysian Mining Industry Is Getting a Second Wind		26 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Enemy Mine II Malaysian Mining Industry Is Getting a Second Wind Twenty years after a glut in the global tin market sent the Malaysia mining industry into a freefall, the country's miners are lobbying for a second chance -- this time, with coal. Recently, prospectors in Malaysia found nearly 237 million tons of new coal reserves. That's good news for the country's economy, but bad news for th ...
Topics: business, energy, Malaysia, mining and drilling, wilderness (all these topics)

MTBE Promises Energy Bill Likely to Include Liability Protections for MTBE Makers		26 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
MTBE Promises Energy Bill Likely to Include Liability Protections for MTBE Makers The makers of a gasoline additive that can contaminate groundwater will almost certainly be protected from liability issues under the terms of the nation's energy bill, negotiators of the legislation announced yesterday. Methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, has been added to gasoline since the 1990s to reduce e ...
Topics: business, political groups, politics, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

City of Light Traffic Paris, Edinburgh Contemplate London-Style Traffic Fees		19 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
City of Light Traffic Paris, Edinburgh Contemplate London-Style Traffic Fees Thousands of miles from Tokyo, France and Scotland are trying to figure out what to do about their own traffic-induced pollution problems. The French government is considering instituting a toll for vehicles entering Paris, which is suffering from severe pollution as a result of heavy traffic combined with consistently high ...
Topics: air pollution, business, France, placemaking, Scotland (all these topics)

Squeaky Green Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products Make Inroads into the Mainstream		18 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Squeaky Green Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products Make Inroads into the Mainstream It's hard to get excited about housecleaning, but Monica Nassif has found a way. In fact, as the president of two separate companies that manufacture eco-friendly cleaning products, Nassif was one of the most enthusiastic participants in the 19th annual Natural Products Expo East, held this month in Washington, D.C. Representatives from about 15 natural cle ...
Topics: business, green living (all these topics)

A Nice Piece of Tailpipe New Low-Polluting Cars to Hit U.S. Showrooms Next Month		16 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
A Nice Piece of Tailpipe New Low-Polluting Cars to Hit U.S. Showrooms Next Month There are low-emission vehicles (LEVs), ultra-low-emission vehicles (ULEVs), super-ultra-low-emission vehicles (SULEVs), and the holy grail of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). As if the clean-car world weren't baffling enough, now there's a new acronym to add to this alphabet soup -- partial zero-em ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease U.S. Companies More Mindful of Social Concerns		12 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease U.S. Companies More Mindful of Social Concerns Activists, take heart: It seems that the relentless pressure of boycotts, lawsuits, bad PR, and slow but steady cultural change is having an effect on corporate America. Companies doing business in the 21st century are beginning to listen to the social, health, and environmental concerns o ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations (all these topics)

A Chilly Reception Environmentalists Concerned About Increase in Antarctic Tourism		11 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
A Chilly Reception Environmentalists Concerned About Increase in Antarctic Tourism Not that long ago, the remote, inhospitable Antarctic would have seemed like an unlikely tourist destination. Now, though, with global tourism on the rise and far-flung places all the rage, tourism to the South Pole is growing rapidly -- and possibly at the expense of the region's environment. In the past decade, the number of visito ...
Topics: Antarctica, business, outdoor recreation (all these topics)

Take a Bite Out of Grime New Jersey to Make Polluters Pay for Routine Contamination		10 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Take a Bite Out of Grime New Jersey to Make Polluters Pay for Routine Contamination New Jersey is getting tough on polluters, and other states may have a lot to learn from the state's approach. New Jersey officials say they will soon begin broadly enforcing a law that requires polluting industries to pay the cost of cleaning up their messes. Sounds like a no-brainer, but critics say the move could drive businesses out o ...
Topics: air pollution, business, New Jersey (all these topics)

Amazing Graze Bill to Phase Out Grazing Gets Support from Enviros and Ranchers		09 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Amazing Graze Bill to Phase Out Grazing Gets Support from Enviros and Ranchers Environmentalists and ranchers alike are getting excited about a bill that would have the federal government pay ranchers to give up their rights to graze cattle and sheep on public lands in the West. The legislation, soon to be introduced in Congress by Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), calls for grazing allotments ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, ranching (all these topics)

License to Drill GOP Energy Bill Would Do a Big Favor for Halliburton		08 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
License to Drill GOP Energy Bill Would Do a Big Favor for Halliburton A measure in a big Republican-backed energy bill would exempt from federal regulation a natural-gas-drilling procedure refined by Halliburton Co., the oil and gas services company previously headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. The process, called hydraulic fracturing, is used widely in Western states and invo ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Turf Wars Missouri, California Clash Over Air-Quality Plan		05 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Turf Wars Missouri, California Clash Over Air-Quality Plan A proposal to reduce air pollution from lawn mowers and other gas-powered outdoor equipment has set the stage for a battle between the staid Midwestern state of Missouri and the kooky Californians. To help deal with the Golden State's chronic air-quality problem, the California Air Resource ...
Topics: air pollution, business, California, commercial and industry organizations, Michigan, Missouri, politics (all these topics)

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