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Viscous Cycle In Ironic Twist, Thawing Tundra Causes Trouble for Alaska's Oil Industry		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Viscous Cycle In Ironic Twist, Thawing Tundra Causes Trouble for Alaska's Oil Industry Global warming -- brought about in part by the burning of fossil fuels -- has raised temperatures in Alaska and reduced the length of the "frozen season" during which oil-prospecting convoys are allowed to traverse the landscape. The past three decades have seen the season ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, wildlife (all these topics)

A Case of Influence-a Enviros Say Pesticide Makers Are Illegally Influencing EPA		08 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
A Case of Influence-a Enviros Say Pesticide Makers Are Illegally Influencing EPA Northwest salmon and other endangered species could suffer because pesticide manufacturers are acting illegally to weaken rules on the use of dangerous chemicals, enviros are charging. A coalition of environmental groups, including the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, fishing, National Wildlife Federation, Northwest, politics, Sierra Club, toxics, US EPA, wildlife (all these topics)

What, Exxon Unethical? You're Kidding Me! Academics Up in Arms Over Exxon-Funded Research		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
What, Exxon Unethical? You're Kidding Me! Academics Up in Arms Over Exxon-Funded Research When Exxon went to court in 1997 to appeal a $5.3 billion punitive damage verdict over the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, it cited articles from respected journals and law reviews that found that high punitive damages were bad for society or based on the unjust whims of quixotic juries. What the company ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, education, energy (all these topics)

The Kindest Cut Companies Show that Cutting Emissions Can Improve Performance		01 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Kindest Cut Companies Show that Cutting Emissions Can Improve Performance President Bush and many Republicans in Congress complain that restricting emissions of carbon dioxide would hobble the U.S. economy, but a growing number of companies are showing that cutting emissions can help the bottom line and they are pursuing reductions far greater than the voluntary ones proposed by Bush. Large alum ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, politics (all these topics)

Commission: Possible? Kerry Proposes Commission to Protect Integrity of Environmental Regulation		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Commission: Possible? Kerry Proposes Commission to Protect Integrity of Environmental Regulation John Kerry, the Massachusetts senator who has slipped substantially in the ranks of Democratic presidential contenders, sought to reinvigorate his campaign yesterday by returning to one of his keystone issues: environmental protection. Speaking in New Hampshire, Kerry pr ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, New Hampshire, political groups, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Chromium and Punishment New Jersey Wins $17 Million Settlement in Chromium Case		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Chromium and Punishment New Jersey Wins $17 Million Settlement in Chromium Case A 20-year battle over chromium pollution in northern New Jersey came to an end yesterday when three companies agreed to pony up $17 million to clean hundreds of sites contaminated by the deadly chemical. From the 1890s to the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, land degradation, New Jersey, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, wetlands (all these topics)

It's What's on the Outside That Counts Cadbury to Use Biodegradable Packaging for Chocolates		04 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
It's What's on the Outside That Counts Cadbury to Use Biodegradable Packaging for Chocolates Earth-loving chocoholics, take heart: British chocolate giant Cadbury Schweppes announced yesterday that it will begin using biodegradable candy trays that look like plastic but dissolve in water. At first, the new packaging will only be available in Australia, but the company is talking about using the technology ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living (all these topics)

Flaming Out Chemical Co. Will Stop Production of Controversial Flame Retardants		04 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Flaming Out Chemical Co. Will Stop Production of Controversial Flame Retardants In a bit of positive news about nasty chemicals, the manufacturer of two flame retardants that have been found in increasing concentrations in the bodies of humans and wildlife announced yesterday that it would stop producing the chemicals next year. The company, Indianapolis-based Great Lakes Chemical Corp., had been under ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, toxics (all these topics)

Hollow Weenies EPA Won't Restrict Use of Potentially Harmful Weed Killer		03 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Hollow Weenies EPA Won't Restrict Use of Potentially Harmful Weed Killer Talk about scary stuff: On Oct. 31, as people across the U.S. were getting ready to don costumes and pass out Halloween candy, the Bush administration announced that it would not impose new restrictions on the commonly used herbicide atrazine, which has been associated with low sperm counts and prostate cancer ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

A Mine Is a Wonderful Thing to Waste Wisconsin Tribes End Mining Threat by Buying Site		30 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
A Mine Is a Wonderful Thing to Waste Wisconsin Tribes End Mining Threat by Buying Site In a stunning victory for environmentalists and Native Americans, Wisconsin's Sokaogon Mole Lake Chippewa and Forest County Potawatomi tribes announced Tuesday that they had bought the rights to a zinc and copper mine near Crandon, ending a 25-year controversy. The $16.5 million purchase was the surpr ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, Wisconsin (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)

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)

Rumble in the Jungle ChevronTexaco Faces Oil Pollution Trial in Ecuador		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Rumble in the Jungle ChevronTexaco Faces Oil Pollution Trial in Ecuador One of the biggest oil pollution trials in history will get underway tomorrow in Ecuador, pitting oil giant ChevronTexaco against 30,000 residents of the Amazon rainforest who charge that a Texaco subsidiary dumped huge amounts of oily waste in their homeland from 1971 to 1992. The Ecuadorians say th ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Ecuador, energy, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Bees' Knees Are Knocking Major British Study Pans GM Crops as Harmful to Wildlife		17 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
The Bees' Knees Are Knocking Major British Study Pans GM Crops as Harmful to Wildlife Bad news just keeps on coming for British backers of genetically modified foods, a group whose most high-profile member is Prime Minister Tony Blair. The latest: A three-year government investigation billed as the world's largest study of the environmen ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, European Union, food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics, United Kingdom, wildlife (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)

Dump Struck Bush Lets Mining Companies Dump on More Public Land		13 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Dump Struck Bush Lets Mining Companies Dump on More Public Land The Bush administration announced yet another environmental rollback on Friday, following a pattern of releasing such news right before a holiday weekend, presumably in hopes that it will slip past the public's notice. This time the beneficiaries are mining companies, which, thanks to a reinterpretation ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, politics, toxics, wilderness (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)

Live MTBE-Free or Die New Hampshire Sues 22 Oil Companies Over MTBE Pollution		07 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Live MTBE-Free or Die New Hampshire Sues 22 Oil Companies Over MTBE Pollution In a first-of-its-kind move by a state, New Hampshire filed suit against 22 oil companies yesterday, blaming them for contaminating drinking water with the fuel additive MTBE. The companies added the chemical to their gasoline to make it burn more cleanly, but it has leached into more than ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, New Hampshire, politics, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Caveat Farmer Bush Insulates Pesticide Makers from Lawsuits		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Caveat Farmer Bush Insulates Pesticide Makers from Lawsuits The Bush administration is doing a big favor for pesticide manufacturers by instituting a new policy that will curb farmers' ability to sue the companies if their products don't work as promised. In a significant policy reversal, the U.S. EPA has reinterpreted a federal law and now claims that it bars ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, health, politics, toxics, US EPA (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)

Going Mahogany Wild Illegal Mahogany Logging Endangers Amazon Rainforest in Peru		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Going Mahogany Wild Illegal Mahogany Logging Endangers Amazon Rainforest in Peru Illegal logging of mahogany is escalating in Peru, threatening the Amazon rainforest and a number of indigenous groups that live in its remote reaches. The mahogany trade is strictly governed by international rules, and Brazil has cracked down on logging of the sought-after tree, but mahogany ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, commercial and industry organizations, logging, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

I've Seen the Smokestack and the Damage Done New Jersey Plays Hardball With Polluters		24 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
I've Seen the Smokestack and the Damage Done New Jersey Plays Hardball With Polluters In the most aggressive attack on polluters anywhere in the nation, New Jersey is demanding that more than 80 companies pay penalties for causing harm to the environment. The penalties are not simply the price tag of a cleanup; rather, they are natural-resource damage claims, under which companies must ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, New Jersey, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Endesa Nigh Indigenous Activists Give Up Fight Over Chilean Dam		19 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Endesa Nigh Indigenous Activists Give Up Fight Over Chilean Dam After a six-year protest, four elderly Pehuenche women have agreed to end their opposition to a $570 million hydroelectric dam to be built on their ancestral land in Southern Chile. After lengthy negotiations with the Chilean government and Endesa, the Spanish-owned power company building the dam, the wom ...
Topics: Chile, commercial and industry organizations, dams, energy, hydropower, wildlife (all these topics)

The Ties That Blind Ties to Polluters Could Compromise Leavitt at EPA, Say Critics		17 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Ties That Blind Ties to Polluters Could Compromise Leavitt at EPA, Say Critics Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (R), President Bush's nominee to head the U.S. EPA, has strong financial ties to polluters, which critics say cast doubt on his ability to do the job fairly and effectively. Nearly 10 percent of the campaign funds Leavitt raised over the last 10 years came from oil re ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

A Real Page-turner Small Recycled Paper Company Is Making Big Strides		17 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
A Real Page-turner Small Recycled Paper Company Is Making Big Strides New Leaf Paper, a small but fast-growing recycled paper company in San Francisco, aims to revolutionize the paper industry -- a revolution that's sorely needed. Ninety percent of printing and writing paper in the U.S. still has no recycled content at all, says Susan Kinsella, executive director of the nonprofit Conservatree. ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living, recycling (all these topics)

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