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In the Drink
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12 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| In the Drink In other news from the Golden State, regulators in California are reviving a campaign to clean up perchlorate, a Cold War-era pollutant that has been showing up in drinking water supplies across the country. Since the 1950s, the substance has been used as an oxidizer in rockets, munitions, and fireworks. It was not considered ... |
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| Topics: business, California, commercial and industry organizations, health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Paper Tiger
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10 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Paper Tiger Confusion over the definition of old growth is spurring a new campaign by ForestEthics against major paper retailers. In the past, the environmental organization has taken on lumber retailers such as Home Depot; now, it's turning its attention to Staples, accusing the company of misleading customers into thinki ... |
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| Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, logging, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Rhode Island Lead
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04 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Rhode Island Lead Rhode Island has taken eight paint manufacturers to court in a first-ever attempt by a state to hold companies accountable for decades of child lead poisoning. Rhode Island, which has one of the highest rates of such poisoning in the country, is claiming the manufacturers created a public nuisance by selling the paint. The paint companies counter that problems stem from ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics) |
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Another Anderson Scandal
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30 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Another Anderson Scandal A court in India has rejected efforts to reduce the charges against Warren Anderson, the former chair of the U.S.-based company Union Carbide, which was responsible for a 1984 gas leak in Bhopal that killed 3,000 people and sickened tens of thousands more. The leak from a pesticide plant in the central Indian city was one of the worst industrial ac ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, health, India, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Northern Light
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28 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Northern Light In a classic example of strange bedfellows, the Nature Conservancy has teamed up with Great Northern Paper, a pulp and paper mill company, to protect thousands of acres of wilderness in Maine -- and over a thousand jobs for company employees. The conservancy, whose Maine chapter was founded by legendary environmentalist Rachel Carson, provided t ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, land stewardship, Maine, Nature Conservancy, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Foster Care
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28 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Foster Care Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster (R) kicked off a campaign to save his state's coastline this week by bagging a $3 million, three-year grant from, of all places, Shell Oil. "America's Wetland: Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana" also earned the backing of several major national ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, environmental restoration, erosion, Louisiana, marine life, oceans, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Up a Tree
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26 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Up a Tree When Julia Butterfly Hill did it, it was a novelty. Now, it seems, it's becoming a trend: young people taking to the trees to fend off logging companies. From Santa Cruz, Calif., to the Pacific Northwest, dozens of tree-sitters are living in the canopy to protect old-growth forests from the axe -- so many that a cottage industry has grown up around them to provide food, water, clothes, company, encou ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging (all these topics) |
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Compassionate Conservation?
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26 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Compassionate Conservation? In the first of what the Bush administration hopes will be a series of public-private partnerships to create national wildlife refuges without using taxpayer dollars, the utility company Entergy is donating 600 acres of land along Louisiana's Red River to the government. The Entergy donation could be the first parcel of a 50,000-acre Red River National Wildlife R ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, land stewardship, politics (all these topics) |
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Billy Clubbed
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20 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Billy Clubbed Speaking of the whims of a chief executive: Ford Motor Company is currently struggling to strike a balance between the company's financial woes and the eco-friendly inclinations of CEO and Chair William Clay Ford, Jr. So far, the former seem to be winning out: In its latest corporate citizenship report, released this week, the company says it is having trouble meeting its ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Green Eyeshades
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19 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Green Eyeshades Scared off by corporate accounting scandals and a year of bad economic indicators, big investors are starting to keep an eye out for other possible financial red flags -- and the hidden risks associated with global warming are high on their lists. As increasing temperatures trigger environmental changes ranging from drought to rising sea levels, investors are growing wise to the poss ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations (all these topics) |
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Putting the Golf Cart Before the Horsepower
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16 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Putting the Golf Cart Before the Horsepower Seeking to comply with California regulations requiring automakers to reduce their emissions, General Motors has announced plans to give away thousands of electric vehicles over the next three years. The vehicles in question are literally modified golf carts (they have had seat belts, windshield wipers, and other parts added), and are only for use in ... |
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| Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking (all these topics) |
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When Push Comes to Chevron
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12 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| When Push Comes to Chevron In a classic David-and-Goliath battle, women in southern Nigeria are taking on oil giants ChevronTexaco and Royal Dutch/Shell to demand more responsible environmental and social policies. Last week, hundreds of women blocked access to company offices in the latest of a month of all-women protests. The unusual demonstrations are gaining a reputation ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, Nigeria, politics (all these topics) |
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Signs, Seals Not Delivered
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09 Aug 2002 |
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| Signs, Seals Not Delivered Thirteen years after the Exxon Valdez spill sent 11 million gallons of crude oil pouring into Alaska's Prince William Sound, some species still show no sign of recovery, according to the government panel overseeing the area's restoration. The long-suffering species include herring, ducks, harbor seals, and loons; others, such as some seabird and salmon s ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, water bodies and marine life (all these topics) |
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Shelling Out
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06 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Shelling Out The first lawsuit in the U.S. over contamination stemming from the gasoline additive MTBE was settled in California yesterday, when Shell Oil agreed to pay the South Tahoe Public Utility District $28 million to help fund the cleanup of tainted drinking water wells. The district filed the lawsuit in 1998, after MTBE contamination forced the closure of one-third of South Lake Tahoe' ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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To Russia, With Empty Tanks
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06 Aug 2002 |
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| To Russia, With Empty Tanks As President Bush weighs the pros and cons of waging war on Iraq, the issue of U.S. oil energy security looms large. And although no one would have believed it 50 years ago, the U.S. is increasingly contemplating Russia as a stable and desirable alternative source of oil. The strategic partnership between the Cold War-era e ... |
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| Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Middle East, oceans, politics, Russia, United States (all these topics) |
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Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist
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24 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Caterpillar Metamorphoses Into Beautiful Lobbyist House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and a coalition of Republican colleagues, manufacturers, and trucking industry reps are pressuring the Bush administration to postpone a strict new anti-pollution standard for diesel trucks. Why? Because Illinois-based Caterpillar ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Justice, health, Illinois, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Look for the Onion Label?
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24 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Look for the Onion Label? It's not quite like a pie in the face or mashed potatoes on the cafeteria ceiling, but Oregonians can still expect a food fight come November. The state seems poised to be the first in the nation to vote on a labeling law for genetically modified foods, now that the backers of the initiative, Oregon Concerned Citizens for Safe ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, GMOs, Oregon, political groups, politics (all these topics) |
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Hill's Tree Blues
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18 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Hill's Tree Blues Just as some butterfly species head south every year, so apparently did Julia Butterfly Hill, the environmental activist who became an international cause celebre after she lived in a redwood tree in California for two years to protest planned logging in the area. Most butterflies don't wind up in prison, but that's precisely where the environmental activist is; Hill a ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Ecuador, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Alcoa Can Wait
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16 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Alcoa Can Wait And now, some news from a place you seldom hear about: Iceland, which is forming the backdrop for the latest skirmish in the battle between conservationists and power companies. The country's Vatnajokull Glacier is Europe's second-largest wilderness, and is graced with mountains, lakes, canyons, rivers, and abundant wildlife. Iceland's national power company wants to ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, dams, energy, Iceland, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Simon Says
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20 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Simon Says In an apparent effort to give Republican candidate Bill Simon, Jr., an edge over incumbent Gray Davis (D) in the California governor race, the Bush administration questioned Davis' commitment to protect his state's coastline and agreed to work with Simon to end offshore drilling. After visiting the White House yesterday, Simon said he had won the administration's ... |
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| Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics) |
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Texas Toast
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18 Jun 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Texas Toast Like John and Yoko, industry and politics in the U.S. have climbed into bed together and just refuse to get out. Nowhere is that more evident than in Texas, homeland of the Bush clan and the most polluted state in the country. Let's spell it out: Texas is the number one spewer of toxic chemicals and carcinogens into the air, number one in chemical spills, number one in ozon ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, politics, Texas (all these topics) |
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Who's the Unfairest of Them All
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05 Jun 2002 |
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| Who's the Unfairest of Them All A major gas field development in the Arctic Circle's Barents Sea has won official approval from the European Free Trade Area, much to the dismay of environmentalists. Norway's state-owned energy group Statoil is running the $5.8 billion project, which will be the first commercial exploration of fossil fuel in the region and Europe's fi ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, commercial and industry organizations, marine life, mining and drilling, Norway (all these topics) |
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California Scheming
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31 May 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| California Scheming This week's announcement by President Bush that his administration would spend $235 million to protect Florida's pristine areas from oil and gas drilling has aroused both the ire and the envy of California environmentalists, who saw the deal as a family favor designed to aid the reelection bid of First Brother and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R). Cali ... |
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| Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, Florida, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics) |
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The Best Offense Is a Bad Defect
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17 Apr 2002 |
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| The Best Offense Is a Bad Defect In a groundbreaking decision, a San Francisco jury determined yesterday that gasoline containing the additive MBTE is a defective product and that two major oil companies were aware of but did not disclose the additive's dangers when they began marketing it. The lawsuit was brought by the South Tahoe Pub ... |
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| Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Cheshire Fat Cat
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17 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Cheshire Fat Cat Here's a whole new meaning for the phrase "company town": The village of Cheshire, in southeastern Ohio, will be purchased for $20 million by American Electric Power Company. Last year, the town was plagued by clouds of sulfuric acid drifting in from a nearby AEP power plant, Ohio's largest coal-burner. Notwithstanding a recent $175 million investment in polluti ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, health, Ohio (all these topics) |
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