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A Big Pay Off?		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Big Pay Off? Led by climate change skeptic ExxonMobil, a collection of oil, gas, and other energy companies has pledged at least $175 million over 10 years to Stanford University to create a Global Climate and Energy Project. One goal of the project will be to help develop renewable energy technologies. Critics say the gi ...
Topics: climate, Colorado River, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, energy, Pacific Northwest, renewable energy (all these topics)

I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Halliburton and Hunt Oil, two Texas energy companies with strong ties to the Bush White House, are requesting hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing for a natural gas project in Peru that will tear through pristine rainforests. The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. and the Inter-American Development Bank are forbidden from funding projects that ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Peru, politics, Texas (all these topics)

Air Enforce Won		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Air Enforce Won After years of court battles, the U.S. EPA agreed yesterday to begin enforcing a stricter standard for ozone pollution that was developed by the Clinton administration in 1997. Industry groups such as the American Truckers Associations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to block the standard, bu ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, health, placemaking, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Detroit Rock City		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Detroit Rock City Detroit automakers sure aren't complaining about the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate. They anticipate having a close ally in the incoming chair of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who is known for his criticism of clean air regulations and the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. He once referred ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, James Inhofe, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

A Catalog of Ills		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Catalog of Ills Of the 17 billion catalogs mailed every year to American consumers (that's 59 catalogs for each and every one of us!), a surprising few contain recycled materials. An Environmental Defense survey released yesterday found that only six of 42 major catalog companies are using significant amounts of recycled paper, and most don't use any. Nary a sing ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Environmental Defense Fund, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Staples Gunned		13 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Staples Gunned In a milestone victory for trees and forest advocates, the office-supply giant Staples announced yesterday that it would phase out paper goods made from threatened forests and increase the average amount of recycled material in its paper products to 30 percent, up from the current average of less than 10 percent. No timetable has been se ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, Massachusetts, recycling, wilderness (all these topics)

Knock the Vote		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Knock the Vote In addition to suffering a loss at the federal level, the environmental movement came up short in several statewide and local votes on Tuesday. A huge majority of Oregonians voted down an initiative that would have made Oregon the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The Grocery Manu ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, GMOs, nuclear power, Oregon, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Apollo 18		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Apollo 18 To meet energy demands without escalating the problem of global warming, humankind must embark on a research effort as grand in scale as the Apollo project to put a man on the moon, say scientists in a study published today in the journal Science. The 18 researchers -- coming from government, universities, and even such traditional climate change naysayers as ExxonMobil -- ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sulfuring Succotash		31 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Sulfuring Succotash Refiners should have no problem producing nearly sulfur-free diesel by 2006, according to a report released yesterday by an advisory panel to the U.S. EPA. The panel was convened last year by EPA Administrator Christie Whitman to assess possible technological barriers to complying with a clean diesel rule issued in the final weeks of the Clinton admi ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, health, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Yukon Take Your SUV and Shove It		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Yukon Take Your SUV and Shove It Despite increasing awareness of alternative-fuel technologies and growing concern over U.S. dependence on foreign oil, the fuel economy of American cars is only getting worse. Statistics released today by the U.S. EPA show that the average fuel economy of the new fleet of cars for 2003 is 6 percent lower than it was 15 years ago. ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, placemaking, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Tripping Out		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Tripping Out A government-supported pilot project in Alberta, Canada, is offering companies greenhouse-gas credits for every employee who works from home, in order to reduce emissions associated with commuting. The plan is the first step in an effort to produce a Canadian carbon-credits market, whereby firms that cut greenhouse-gas emissions will be able to sell credits to oth ...
Topics: business, Canada, climate, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

Hitting the Bottle Michigan residents fight for control of the state's water	Keith Schneider	23 Oct 2002	Main Dish
Until two years ago, the 40,550 generally well-behaved Midwesterners of Mecosta County, Mich., regularly attended church, sent their children off to school on yellow buses, and never for a moment worried that their clean, freshwater supply would ever run dry. Mecosta County, after all, sits near the center of Michigan's lower peninsula, which itself sits at the center of the largest supply ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling, politics, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Bed Head		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Bed Head An Interior Department appeals board has upheld its earlier ruling that three of the leases for a coal bed methane (CBM) drilling project in Wyoming's Powder River Basin were issued without adequate environmental review. Environmentalists hope the decision will help block pending leases for such drilling on ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, Wyoming (all these topics)

Cheetos Sometimes Prosper		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Cheetos Sometimes Prosper Here are two words you never thought you'd see next to each other: organic Cheetos. Yep, it's true -- snack-food maker Frito Lay is entering the organic food market, along with dozens of other huge food companies. Heinz now makes organic ketchup, and General Mills owns Cascadian Farms, an organic brand started in the Northwest in the 1970s. Such companies hope ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Billions and Billions Swerved		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Billions and Billions Swerved It's been 13 years since the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, and eight years since a jury awarded $5 billion in punitive damages against the company -- and three days since a federal judge began hearing arguments that the award was inappropriate. After the 1994 case, Exxon appealed the award to the 9th U.S. Circuit ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Owl and the Pussycats		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Owl and the Pussycats Canadian wilderness activists still can't get over their astonishment or their delight over yesterday's announcement by International Forest Products (Interfor) that it would halt all logging in spotted owl habitat in British Columbia, Canada. The company is the second-most active logger in the endangered owl's terrain; not long ago it was considered Pub ...
Topics: business, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, logging, wildlife (all these topics)

Zero Down		10 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Zero Down Breaking with the federal government's long history of supporting California's clean-air efforts, the Bush administration is saying the Golden State went too far by revising its zero-emission-vehicle rule last year. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Justice Department, the White House sided with DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, which have taken ...
Topics: air pollution, California, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

The Dead Phone		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Dead Phone If you're thinking about chucking your cell phone, think twice: Most of the 128 million mobile phones currently in use in the U.S. will end up incinerated or at the bottom of a landfill, according to a report released by the environmental organization Inform and partly funded by the U.S. EPA. By 2005, 130 million cell phones will be discarded each ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

City of Angels		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
City of Angels The famously smog-choked city of Los Angeles will be home to the first zero-emission fuel-cell cars in the U.S., according to an announcement made yesterday by Mayor James Hahn (D). By the end of 2002, Honda Motor Company will lease five FCX hydrogen-powered cars to L.A., which will loan them to city employees for commuting. The car seats four people, has a ra ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Orange You Glad?		04 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Orange You Glad? The District Attorney's office in conservative Orange County, Calif., is beefing up its environmental crime division to become one of the most rigorous eco-SWAT teams in the nation. While resources for pursuing environmental criminals have been dwindling in many other areas in the state, Orange County has tripled its budget in the last three years and now has a team that includes 10 attorne ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations (all these topics)

De-railed		27 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
De-railed The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has voted to deny $1.2 billion in funding to Amtrak and pushed through a bill that threatens most, if not all, long-distance train service in the U.S. The Republican-backed bill would give the rail service $760 million next year -- about $500 million less than the $1.2 billion proposed by the Senate and requested by Amtrak to m ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, political groups, politics (all these topics)

All Griled Up		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
All Griled Up During his confirmation hearing in May 2001, J. Steven Griles promised the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that his former job with a lobbying firm, where he represented a broad array of utilities, mining companies, and energy producers, would not interfere with his new position as deputy interior secretary of the United States. He signed two letters pledging t ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, politics, United States (all these topics)

Feeling Gassy		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Feeling Gassy Negotiators for the U.S. House and Senate have reached an agreement on new fuel-economy rules that would expand rather than decrease the country's oil consumption. Under the agreement, automakers would continue to receive credits through the model year 2008 for manufacturing vehicles that can run on both ethanol and gasolin ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Ground Down		16 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Ground Down Hoping to fend off the utter collapse of several groundfish populations, U.S. regulators voted on Friday to ban bottom-fishing next year on most of the continental shelf in the Pacific. The vote, by the Pacific Fishery Management Council, was geared especially toward protecting populations of nine types of rockfish -- often sold in markets as red snapper -- that have been overf ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Sunny Delight?		13 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Sunny Delight? No, you wouldn't be on another planet if you saw this billboard: "Sun, 93,000,000 miles. Solar-powered station, the Bronx." You'd be in Times Square, Manhattan, looking up at an advertisement for a BP filling station. However, don't be thinking victory is at hand for enviros. The station doesn't power up cars on rays from the sun. Solar energy merely runs the pumps at the site; ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, water pollution (all these topics)

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