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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)

The Coast in the Machine Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling in Alaska		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Coast in the Machine Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling in Alaska The Bush administration is moving aggressively to open Alaska's coastal waters to oil exploration -- a campaign that is not getting nearly as much public scrutiny as efforts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The administration plans to offer eight oil and gas lea ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, wildlife (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)

Proto-cool Russian Industries Back Kyoto Protocol		05 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Proto-cool Russian Industries Back Kyoto Protocol Here's an unlikely ally in the battle to combat global climate change: industrial polluters. A number of Russia's largest gas and electric companies, steel mills, and metal smelters have begun lobbying their government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty on climate change. The companies are so interested in getting their h ...
Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, Russia (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)

Wood You Look at That? Boise Cascade Praised for Eco-friendly Policies		04 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Wood You Look at That? Boise Cascade Praised for Eco-friendly Policies It's not often that an environmental organization takes out a full-page ad in the New York Times to praise a forest-products company, so it's safe to say that Boise Cascade Corp. has done something extraordinary. This week, the company reconfirmed its commitment to phasing out old-growth harvesting in the U.S. by 2004 and agreed to ado ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, green living (all these topics)

For the Shell of It Shell Won't Drill at U.N. World Heritage Sites		02 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
For the Shell of It Shell Won't Drill at U.N. World Heritage Sites Royal Dutch/Shell, one of the world's biggest oil companies, has pledged not to explore or drill for oil or gas on U.N.-designated World Heritage sites. A week before Shell made its announcement, the International Council on Mining and Metals, which represents the world's 15 largest mining companies, made a similar ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, United Nations (all these topics)

Peruvian Gold Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding		29 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Peruvian Gold Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding In a blow for two Texas energy companies, a huge Peruvian natural-gas project was denied funding yesterday because of concerns about the likely impact on a marine preserve, a rainforest, and indigenous people in the Amazon Basin. In a 2-to-1 vote, the U.S. Export-Import ...
Topics: Amazon, commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, Peru, politics, rainforests, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Relax? Don't Do It! Bush Administration Relaxes Clean Air Act Rules		28 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Relax? Don't Do It! Bush Administration Relaxes Clean Air Act Rules In an expected but nonetheless bitter blow to environmentalists, the Bush administration yesterday rolled back the New Source Review rules of the Clean Air Act. Under those rules, utilities were required to install state-of-the-art pollution controls when they upgraded their facilities. Now, those rules will be relaxe ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, energy, politics (all these topics)

Read Between the Pipelines Huge Energy Project on Russian Island Could Wreak Environmental Havoc		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Read Between the Pipelines Huge Energy Project on Russian Island Could Wreak Environmental Havoc Conservationists are warning that plans to build the world's largest energy project -- a massive pipeline and three oil-drilling platforms on and around the Russian island of Sakhalin, just north of Japan -- could mean environmental disaster. T ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, oceans, Russia, water bodies and marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

The Three Amigos Three Major Companies Join Fight to Protect Tongass		26 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The Three Amigos Three Major Companies Join Fight to Protect Tongass Office supply giant Staples and building companies KB Home and Hayward Lumber have joined with environmentalists in opposing a Bush administration proposal that would allow roads and development in southeast Alaska's pristine Tongass National Forest. The three companies, all big us ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, national forests, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Tanks for Nothing Court Rejects $4 Billion Damage Award for Exxon Valdez Spill		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Tanks for Nothing Court Rejects $4 Billion Damage Award for Exxon Valdez Spill A federal appeals court has once again rejected a multibillion-dollar punitive damage award against the company responsible for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil-tanker spill in Alaska. Now thousands of Alaskan fishers, Natives, and others whose lives and livelihoods were disrupted by the ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Because I'm Worth It Cosmetics Firm Aims to Fight Pollution's Effects on Skin		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Because I'm Worth It Cosmetics Firm Aims to Fight Pollution's Effects on Skin Cosmetics giant L'Oreal has launched a new environmental initiative -- not one designed to fight pollution, but rather to fight pollution's effects on skin and hair. The company is teaming up with the European Space Agency to use Envisat, a powerful environmental monitoring satellite, to track levels of ozone, carbon monoxide, ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations (all these topics)

No Palco of Mine Controversial Logging Company Tries to Green Its Image		22 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
No Palco of Mine Controversial Logging Company Tries to Green Its Image Pacific Lumber, one of the most reviled logging companies in the U.S., is trying to give itself a green makeover. The Northern California logging giant, recently renamed Palco, has a new logo featuring a recycling symbol shaped like a tree, a new mission statement in which it commits to being "a leader in environmental stewardship,&q ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations (all these topics)

Air Devils Draft Air Rule Could Be a Gift to Polluting Industries		22 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Air Devils Draft Air Rule Could Be a Gift to Polluting Industries Thousands of old, highly polluting power plants and other industrial facilities could get a free pass under a draft air-pollution rule that the Bush administration is expected to put in place before the end of the month. The rule, which represents a big win for oil, coal, and electric companies, wo ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, energy, politics, pollution and waste (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)

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary Genetically modified animals could make it to your plate with minimal testing -- and no public input	Shelley Smithson	30 Jul 2003	Main Dish
Last January, inspectors with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid a visit to the University of Illinois, where researchers have been studying the DNA of pigs. The pig project, based in Champaign-Urbana, is one of dozens of experiments being conducted across the country in which scientists are altering the genetic structure of animals ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, fishing, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health, marine life, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Lake Woe-be-here		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Lake Woe-be-here The pristine environment around Lake Baikal in Siberia, the world's deepest freshwater lake, is endangered by a joint Russian-Chinese plan to build an oil pipeline through the region, Greenpeace warned yesterday. A month ago, Russian and Chinese oil companies signed a 25-year deal to pump 30 million tons of Russian crude oil to China every year, alo ...
Topics: China, commercial and industry organizations, Greenpeace, lakes, Russia, United Nations (all these topics)

Camarooned		18 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Camarooned By the end of this year, hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil will flow through pipelines in Chad and Cameroon, bringing about $2.5 billion and $500 million to the two countries, respectively. But critics say those profits won't help the region's poorest and neediest, even though the project's major players -- an ExxonMobil-led oi ...
Topics: business, Cameroon, Chad, commercial and industry organizations, United States, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics)

Deep Blue See		13 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Deep Blue See Over the objections of lawmakers from coastal states, the U.S. Senate yesterday approved a plan to survey oil and natural gas deposits beneath the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Supporters say the country has the right to know the extent and nature of its energy reserves in case of a crisis. Critics say the plan could open the door to overturning a long-standing ban on n ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, United States (all these topics)

Ford Gored		03 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Ford Gored The Sierra Club hopes to embarrass Ford Motor Co. with ads slated to run in the New York Times and BusinessWeek pointing out that the company's vehicles are less fuel-efficient now than when Ford got its start 100 years ago. The Model T got 25 miles to the gallon; Ford's fleet now averages 22.6 miles per gallon, and its popular Ford Ex ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, 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)

Throwing It in Reverse		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Throwing It in Reverse Ford Motor Company backpedaled yesterday on its promise to increase the fuel economy of sport utility vehicles 25 percent by 2020. It now says it will continue to try to improve gas mileage but will not set a fixed deadline for reaching the 25-percent goal. The company chalked up the change in plan to technological difficulties and the lack of federa ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, placemaking, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Best Western		31 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Best Western The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has become a household name, but who's ever heard of the Western Arctic Reserve? Lots of folks will over the coming months if the Campaign for America's Wilderness gets its way. The Washington, D.C.-based group is trying to pin a new name onto the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska as part of a c ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Ready, Aim...		21 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: commercial and industry organizations Ready, Aim... At least three and as many as nine oil wells were burning yesterday in Iraq's Rumaila oil field, just north of the Kuwait border. News of the fires caused an abrupt spike in global oil prices, but the market settled down after Bush administration officials said the damage appeared to be limited. The Rumaila field is capable of producing more than 700,000 barrels per day, and the Bush administration has explicitly warned Iraq ag ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations (all these topics)

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