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Terminal Illness		30 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Terminal Illness Plans to build a new $350 million liquid natural gas terminal in Baja California were unveiled yesterday by the El Paso Corporation, but a Mexican city is withholding approval due to environmental and social concerns. The Rosarito municipal government has denied El Paso a land-use permit, and the city's mayor has described the project as good for the corporation ...
Topics: business, California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Mexico (all these topics)

Cut That Out		29 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Cut That Out California's largest timber company, Sierra Pacific Industries, will shift its logging practices from selective thinning to clear-cutting on 70 percent of the 1.5 million acres it owns in the state. Company representatives say the clear-cutting will take place along ridgelines or roads, allowing firefighters better access to control wildfires. But environmentalists say cl ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

L.A. Confidential		18 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
L.A. Confidential Environmental injustice appears to be alive and well in Los Angeles County, according to a study released today by the University of California at Los Angeles, which found that neighborhoods near major pollution sources are disproportionately low-income and Latino. Latinos make up 44 percent of the county population but 60 perce ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir?		05 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir? A court in Pakistan ruled yesterday that Britain's Premier Oil can go ahead with plans to test for natural gas in the country's largest national park, which is home to rare urial sheep, ibex, and chinkara gazelle. Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment and Friends of the Earth International say Premier' ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental non-government organizations, national parks, Pakistan, wildlife (all these topics)

Benzene Wring		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Benzene Wring A five-year study by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission found that two chemical companies, Marathon Ashland Petroleum and BP Chemical, have been releasing unacceptable amounts of benzene into the air around Texas City, 60 miles southeast of Houston. The levels of benzene, which is a known carcinogen, were three to six times higher than those permit ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, state politics, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Twenty-first Century Fox		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Twenty-first Century Fox More than 30 tons of toxic PCBs will be dredged from 19 miles of Wisconsin's Fox River if a cleanup plan announced yesterday wins public support. To atone for decades of dumping the toxins, a consortium of seven paper companies would pick up the $308 million price tag for the cleanup of the Fox, which is the leading ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Great Lakes, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Precedent of the United States		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Precedent of the United States A federal judge dismissed an effort by the timber industry and users of off-road vehicles (ORVs) to overturn former President Clinton's order to designate 328,000 acres of federal land in California's Sierra Nevada as Giant Sequoia National Monument. The plaintiffs challenged the 1906 Antiquities A ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging, mining and drilling, outdoor recreation, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Golly G.E.		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Golly G.E. Environmental groups and officials in New York state are concerned that General Electric may be making headway in its campaign to scuttle a federal plan forcing it to dredge the Hudson River for pollution. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced in August that she would proceed with a $500 million, Clinton-era plan to order G.E. to remove ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Hudson River, New York, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Celling Like Hotcakes		21 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Celling Like Hotcakes Canadian company Ballard Power Systems announced yesterday that it had signed a three-year, $22 million deal to provide Ford with fuel cells for a line of vehicles the automaker hopes to launch by 2004. Ballard is providing fuel-cell technology to DaimlerChrysler, Honda, Nissan, and Volkswagen, among others. General Motors expects to have a fuel cell-powe ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Hip, Hip, EPA!		21 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Hip, Hip, EPA! In its largest enforcement action ever in a pesticides case, the U.S. EPA is seeking $3.7 million in penalties from a Memphis, Tenn.-based pesticide manufacturer for using chemicals from unapproved foreign manufacturers. The agency says that the Micro Flo Company imported thousands of drums of insecticide ingredients from 1996 to 1999 under the pretense that they were from an approved ma ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

WWF Asks Russia to Protect Whales Threatened By Exxon		14 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
WWF Asks Russia to Protect Whales Threatened By Exxon The World Wildlife Fund is asking Russia to stop Exxon from testing for oil off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East, charging that the seismic surveys are driving Western Pacific gray whales from their feeding grounds. "The sooner the seismic work is finished, the more time whales will have to feed again normally and r ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, oceans, Russia, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

A Civic Action		05 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
A Civic Action Honda unveiled a gas-electric hybrid Civic yesterday that the automaker says gets more than 68 miles per gallon, about 20 miles more than current models of gas-powered Civics. The new car will go on sale in Japan this fall and next spring in the U.S. Honda also said it would put a fuel-cell car on the market by 2003. straight to the source: Detroit News, Associated Press, 04 Sep 2001 catch i ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

Dodge Bawl		28 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Dodge Bawl Earlier this year, U.S. environmental groups and automakers met with congressional members to back a tax credit for fuel-efficient hybrid cars. Now enviros are saying the auto industry has violated the spirit of the agreement by pushing for tax credits for hybrid SUVs with low mileage ratings. Under a House bill, for example, a hybr ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Scrambled Egg Labels		27 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Scrambled Egg Labels With few federal rules in place, many eco-labels and related markers placed on food in the U.S. are meaningless or confusing, says Consumers Union. For example, because the U.S. Agriculture Department doesn't have standards for free-range eggs, no one checks up on whether the chickens producing such eggs really have the run of the farm. Another example: Co ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, Nature Conservancy (all these topics)

Sonic Bust		27 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Sonic Bust The emissions from Boeing's new high-speed plane, the Sonic Cruiser, may pose a direct threat to the ozone layer. Two years ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that 1,000 supersonic aircraft flying in the stratosphere would thin the ozone layer by about 1 percent a year. Boeing expects to sell, gulp, several thousand of the new planes. Cambridge ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, ozone, placemaking, United Nations (all these topics)

Isn't It Good, We Need More Wood		23 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: commercial and industry organizations Isn't It Good, We Need More Wood Feel good that the world's three biggest buyers of lumber -- Home Depot, Lowe's, and IKEA -- have promised to give preference to wood that meets eco-friendly certification standards. But feel un-good that very little such wood exists. Only about 200 patches of certified forests now exist across the globe. Rod Taylor of the World Wildlife Fund in Asia said, "If Home Depot came on board tomorrow, they'd ex ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations (all these topics)

Oil Is Thicker Than Blood		13 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Oil Is Thicker Than Blood Police in Nigeria this weekend shot and killed a demonstrator who was protesting against an oil spill at a Royal Dutch/Shell field, reports the independent newspaper ThisDay. Gabriel Ayoko, a 23-year-old student, died accusing Shell of stalling efforts to clean up the spill, which occurred months ago. Protesters said the police, who were escorting a contractor and a ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Nigeria, renewable energy (all these topics)

Dude, Where's My Pipe?		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Dude, Where's My Pipe? Many problems with the U.S.'s vast network of oil and natural gas pipelines don't get reported or are underreported to the federal Office of Pipeline Safety, and even if major mishaps are reported, the agency rarely fines companies for them, reports the Austin American-Statesman after a yearlong investigation. Past problems that didn't show up in the agen ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Florida, politics (all these topics)

On the Roadless Again Have the Bushies done enviros a favor?	Jon Margolis, Writers on the Range	18 May 2001	Soapbox
Remember that old line that tells you to beware of getting what you wished for? The Bush administration and the timber industry may be on the verge of providing another illustration. Even with a federal judge on their side. The roadless travails. Photo: U.S. Forest Service. The administration wished to get rid of the National Forest Roadless Rule, both because Bill Clinton promulgate ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging, national forests, politics, United States (all these topics)

One for the Roadless How we could save both forests and jobs	Mark Matthews, Writers on the Range	30 Jun 2000	Soapbox
The "roadless" road show swept the nation last week as U.S. Forest Service officials collected public comment on President Clinton's initiative to prohibit road building in national forests where no roads now exist. What's missing from this picture? Photo: U.S. Forest Service. The policy would affect 43 million acres across the country, including about 5.8 million acres in Mo ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Idaho, logging, Montana, national forests, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Fuel's Progress	Donella H. Meadows	03 Apr 2000	Global Citizen
What an upset! Oil-burning New Englanders watch their heating bills double. Truck drivers protest higher diesel costs by jamming Washington, D.C., streets with their rigs. Congress, in its wisdom, offers to combat a 60-cent jump in gasoline prices with a four-cent tax cut. Our energy secretary runs around the Middle East begging for just a measly couple of million more barrels a day of oil, none of which can arrive in time to ease heating costs, ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living (all these topics)

Yeah, But How Many Cup Holders Does It Have?		01 Apr 2000	Daily Grist

Topics: commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas Higher prices at the pumps are a good thing -- really	Mathew Gross, Writers on the Range	08 Mar 2000	Soapbox
That whining sound you hear is American consumers (formerly known as American citizens) fretting over the rising cost of gasoline. Pump and circumstance. The current national average price of gas -- $1.41 per gallon -- is a full 25 cents higher than it was merely four months ago, and analysts predict that the price could hit $1.80 per gallon before supplies catch up with d ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, gas prices, placemaking, United States, Utah (all these topics)

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