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Now Hear This Bill Moyers speaks his mind on Bush-brand environmental destruction and more	Amanda Griscom	26 Aug 2003	Main Dish
Bill Moyers is best known as the broadcast journalist who, for more than 20 years, has brought the public frank, soul-searching, and sometimes frightening examinations of -- well, of almost everything under the sun. On air, he's equally comfortable discussing politics or poetry, scriptures or science. Bill Moyers isn't pulling punches. Photo: PBS. Born in Oklahoma in 1934 and ...
Topics: climate, politics, TV (all these topics)

Global Warming, I Presume? Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Global Warming, I Presume? Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change The ecology of Lake Tanganyika -- Africa's second-largest body of water and site of the famed encounter between Henry Stanley and David Livingstone -- is under siege due to global climate change, according to studies by two independent teams of scientists. The scientists have found that rising air temperatures have reduced the lake's nutrient load a ...
Topics: Africa, climate, health, lakes (all these topics)

Some Like It Cool Seeking Relief from Heat, Europeans Turn to Air Conditioning		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Some Like It Cool Seeking Relief from Heat, Europeans Turn to Air Conditioning Concerned about their health and wary of technology, Europeans have long cast a skeptical eye on that most commonplace of U.S. appliances, the air conditioner. But this summer's blistering heat has begun to change all that. Air conditioner sales in Europe are growing by more than 10 percent per year -- and this summer, the units ar ...
Topics: climate, energy, European Union, green living (all these topics)

Voluntary Service Canada Unveils $1B Plan to Address Climate Change		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Voluntary Service Canada Unveils $1B Plan to Address Climate Change Canada is stepping up to the plate to tackle climate change -- or at least emerging from the dugout. Prime Minister Jean Chretien yesterday unveiled a nearly $1 billion package aimed at helping the nation lower its emissions of greenhouse gases. The plan includes incentives for individuals and businesses to make their homes and buildings ...
Topics: air pollution, business, Canada, climate, energy (all these topics)

Hot Topic Heat Wave in Europe Leads to Nuke Plant Worries		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Hot Topic Heat Wave in Europe Leads to Nuke Plant Worries The withering heat wave in Europe, which is believed to have led to dozens if not hundreds of deaths, is now causing problems at nuclear facilities and other power plants. Government authorities in France and Germany have announced that they are relaxing rules to let plants pump warmer-than ...
Topics: climate, France, Germany, health, marine life, nuclear power, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Tundra-struck Warming Climate in Alaska Causes Headaches for Oil Companies In an ironic twist, oil companies operating on Alaska's North Slope are finding their work impeded by a warming climate. The companies depend on long stretches of hard freeze during which they can haul heavy drilling equipment over tundra, but those cold periods are shrinking. In 1970, there were m ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, wilderness (all these topics)

Flexible Fools Automakers Can Dodge Fuel-Economy Rules with Flex-Fuel Vehicles		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Flexible Fools Automakers Can Dodge Fuel-Economy Rules with Flex-Fuel Vehicles U.S. automakers are dramatically boosting production of "flexible-fuel" cars and trucks that can run on either gasoline or E85, a mixture of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gas that results in lower greenhouse gas emissions -- but this trend is more likely to harm the environment than help it. Owners of flex-fuel vehicles almost a ...
Topics: climate, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

The Sahara Club Global Climate Change Heats Up Africa		31 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
The Sahara Club Global Climate Change Heats Up Africa It's the cruelest of ironies: Africa, the continent that contributes the least to global climate change, is suffering the most from its effects, according to a study conducted by scientists at Great Britain's Hadley Center, one of the world's leading facilities for climate-change research. And here's another irony: Part of why climate change is having a stronger eff ...
Topics: Africa, climate, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Brown Study		24 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Brown Study The Bush administration will announce today the details of its 10-year plan to study climate change and determine whether human activity or natural occurrences are causing the Earth's atmosphere to heat up. The Climate Change Science Program will compile expertise from 13 federal agencies that collectively spend $4.5 billion on climate-change related programs; it will also redirect $103 million f ...
Topics: climate, National Environmental Trust, politics (all these topics)

You Don't Need a Weatherman ...		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
You Don't Need a Weatherman ... In a startling break from its usual dry delivery of statistics and scientific reports, the World Meteorological Organization warned last night that climate change is causing the planet's weather to rum amok and taking a significant human and economic toll. The organization found that erratic weather induced by global warming is no longer a prediction: It is a reality. Over the past year, the WMO, whic ...
Topics: climate, United Nations (all these topics)

A Declaration of Energy Independence New clean-energy coalitions talk up national security and the economy	Amanda Griscom	30 Jun 2003	Powers That Be
Two ambitious clean-energy coalitions made headlines this month, sweeping out from under the rug vital and far-reaching environmental issues that the Bush administration has steadfastly ignored. The Energy Future Coalition, boasting endorsements from heavies on both sides of the party line as well as from high-profile industry and environmental interests, calle ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, environmental non-government organizations, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Stow It		25 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Stow It The U.S. famously declined to sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, but yesterday it jumped on the bandwagon of another effort to control global warming: a research program dedicated to exploring technologies for capturing and storing carbon dioxide. Such technologies, collectively known as carbon sequestration, seek to keep CO2 out of the atmosphere through storage innovations, rather than through lim ...
Topics: climate, ozone, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Maine Event		25 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
The Maine Event Meanwhile, Maine is several steps ahead of the federal government when it comes to combating climate change: Today, the state will become the first in the nation to enact a law establishing specific goals and deadlines for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Other New England states have addressed carbon dioxide emissions through different means -- such as executive orders, acti ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, Maine, ozone (all these topics)

Tilling Me Softly		09 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tilling Me Softly The U.S. Department of Agriculture is encouraging farmers and ranchers to fight climate change with techniques that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Speaking in Kansas on Friday, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced new incentives and technical support programs to help farmers increase carbon sequestration, though her speech was notably short on specifics. Farmers are being urged to do their par ...
Topics: climate, energy, United States (all these topics)

C02, Too?		05 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
C02, Too? Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts sued the federal government yesterday to force it to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. The lawsuit, which alleges that the emissions fuel global warming and should therefore be governed by the Clean Air Act, marks the first time a state has sued the government to force it to take action on climate change. The three ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Can We Get There From Here?		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Can We Get There From Here? The U.S. transportation sector generates more carbon dioxide emissions than the entire economy of any other country in the world with the exception of China, according to a study released yesterday by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The study, "Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Transportation," also found that transportation accounts for almost on ...
Topics: climate, energy, ozone, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

Mobil-ized		28 May 2003	Daily Grist
Mobil-ized Gas and oil giant ExxonMobil has increased its donations to organizations that oppose government regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions and question the notion that humans cause global climate change. Although the company has pledged $10 million a year for 10 years to climate research at Stanford University, it is also giving generously to the likes o ...
Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Food Less Traveled		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Food Less Traveled A fledgling "buy local" movement is inspiring a growing number of Americans to get more of their food from local sources and resist an increasingly globalized agriculture industry. Today produce travels an average of 1,500 to 2,500 miles to reach Americans' plates, 25 percent farther than in 1980. Grapes, for example, make an average trek of 2,143 miles, according to a study by the Leopold Center for Su ...
Topics: climate, placemaking (all these topics)

Wow We		30 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Wow We For the second time in the last two weeks, a major utility company has reached a settlement with the U.S. EPA to clean up its act under the New Source Review rules of the federal Clean Air Act. Last week, it was the Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Resources; now, it's We Energies, a Wisconsin electric company that will spend as much as $600 million to upgrade plants and reduce emissions in ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, energy, Michigan, US EPA, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Monoxy, Oxy, Oxycuted		24 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Monoxy, Oxy, Oxycuted Lest you think environmental news is all gloom, all the time, here's a little pick-me-up: Thanks to the Clean Air Act, the U.S. has all but eradicated carbon monoxide pollution, one of the most hazardous air emissions, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences reported yesterday. In 1971, when the act set federal standards for carbon monoxide, 90 percent of monitored areas vio ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, National Academy of Sciences (all these topics)

Bangladesh Slowly		11 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Bangladesh Slowly Life could get even worse in already disaster-prone Bangladesh if global warming continues unchecked, scientists say. Flooding, which already affects about one-fifth of the country, could increase by 40 percent as heavier rainfall triggered by climate change swamps riverbanks, according to a report in the current issue of New Scientist. Low-lying Bangladesh sits at the delta of three rivers, and ...
Topics: Bangladesh, climate, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Great, Britain!		08 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Great, Britain! Industries in Great Britain have surpassed goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by almost three times national targets and almost twice international obligations, the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs announced this week. In 2000, the British government signed 10-year climate change agreements (CCAs) with 44 industries (including steel, aluminum, cement, chemicals, paper, and f ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Kentucky Green Gas		19 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Kentucky Green Gas Kentucky is soon to get its first-ever methane power plants, which will rely on gases given off by landfills to generate electricity. The plan represents a landmark energy development for the famously coal-dependent state. The three plants will cost $4 million each and generate a total of 10 megawatts of power from the gases given off by decaying trash. Currently, those gases escape into t ...
Topics: climate, energy, Kentucky, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Pigs in Space	Suzy Becker	17 Mar 2003	Ha.

Topics: climate (all these topics)

A Change of Climate The Bush administration lost credibility over Kyoto, and can't get it back over Iraq	Bill McKibben	13 Mar 2003	Soapbox
Every European poll shows enormous percentages of people who oppose the pending war on Iraq: 70 percent, 80 percent, 90 percent. That's an extraordinary consensus; it's rare when 70 percent of people agree about anything. Taking their anti-Bush sentiments to the streets in Prague. Photo: Punchdown.org. The consensus is all the more extraordinary because people are ...
Topics: climate, European Union, Iraq, politics, United States (all these topics)

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