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Coast Busters
Oil and gas drillers set their sights on U.S. coastal areas |
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08 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Coast Busters Oil and gas drillers set their sights on U.S. coastal areas A federal moratorium on oil and gas drilling off U.S. coasts has been in place for 24 years, but there are signs -- the debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge being just one -- that it may be in danger. The oil and gas industry has been heavily lobbying state governments, where they believe the decis ... |
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| Topics: energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news, oceans, oil (all these topics) |
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Giuliani-Come-Lately
Giuliani joins law firm renowned for defending energy interests |
Amanda Griscom Little |
08 Apr 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani -- whose name is often bandied about as a possible 2008 GOP presidential contender -- added a splash of deep red to his moderate-Republican profile when he announced last week his decision to join a Texas-based law firm known for representing heavy-hitting energy companies. Rudy Giuliani. Photo: NYC.gov. Enron, ChevronTexaco, Pacific G ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, energy, Muckraker, New York, politics, Rudy Giuliani (all these topics) |
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The Full Altamonty
Pombo questioned on wind-power conflict of interest |
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07 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Full Altamonty Pombo questioned on wind-power conflict of interest Ah, they grow up so fast! You can tell that wind energy has joined the ranks of mature industries -- it's now got its very own scandal over accusations of improper influence peddling. Aides to Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), it seems, sent a letter to Interior Department officials pressuring them to suspend en ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife, wind power (all these topics) |
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Half-Life Is Beautiful?
On nuclear energy |
Umbra Fisk |
07 Apr 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, What are your thoughts on the reconsidering of nuclear power as a viable solution for helping with energy shortages and improving environmental conditions? I was shocked to hear a "scientist" say (in a "no duh," matter-of-fact type of way) that nuclear power is far cheaper and cleaner than our current coal- and oil-based energy system. He even talked about how much radiation is leaked when burning ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, nuclear power (all these topics) |
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Announcing: Business as Usual
Plan for Colorado River to aid wildlife, preserve intensive water use |
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06 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Announcing: Business as Usual Plan for Colorado River to aid wildlife, preserve intensive water use Federal water managers this week joined the states of California, Arizona, and Nevada in trumpeting a new 50-year plan to aid native wildlife along parts of a 400-mile stretch of the Colorado River from Lake Mead to the Mexican border. Prompted by a 1997 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser ... |
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| Topics: Colorado River, dams, energy, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Shipping Spews
Shipping line agrees to pay $25 million for illegal oil dumping |
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06 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Shipping Spews Shipping line agrees to pay $25 million for illegal oil dumping Evergreen International, one of the world's largest shipping lines, agreed Monday to pay a $25 million fine after pleading guilty to 24 felony charges and one misdemeanor involving secretly dumping oil off the coasts of five U.S. states and purposefully lying to U.S. Coast Guard officials about the practice. The plea agreemen ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, oceans, oil, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Friedman Fighter
An interview with New York Times columnist and 'geo-green' advocate Thomas Friedman |
Amanda Griscom Little |
05 Apr 2005 |
Main Dish |
| An interview with New York Times columnist and "geo-green" advocate Thomas Friedman By Amanda Griscom Little 05 Apr 2005 Thomas Friedman. Photo: Greg Martin. As the green movement fends off accusations of impotence, Thomas Friedman has hatched an idea that could make a man out of environmentalism. In January, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times debuted his "geo-green" strategy, a powerful proposal for reframing America's ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, interview, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Busy Bee
Environmental series on Hetch Hetchy Valley wins Pulitzer Prize |
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05 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Busy Bee Environmental series on Hetch Hetchy Valley wins Pulitzer Prize The best opinion writing takes the unthinkable and makes it a live possibility. That's what Sacramento Bee Associate Editor Tom Philp did with "Hetch Hetchy Reclaimed," his editorial series on breaching the dam that has held Yosemite National Park's famed valley under water since 1923. The Pulitzer board, which yesterday awar ... |
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| Topics: California, dams, energy, national parks, news (all these topics) |
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Route Scootin' Boogie
Shell alters pipeline route to spare whale feeding grounds |
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30 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Route Scootin' Boogie Shell alters pipeline route to spare whale feeding grounds It's one small step for environmentalists, one giant leap for endangered gray whales: Energy giant Royal Dutch/Shell has agreed to alter the planned route of a massive oil and gas pipeline off of Russia's Sakhalin island by 12 miles to preserve the charismatic mammal's feeding grounds. Shell and its partners bowed to pressure from enviros c ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, oceans, oil, Russia (all these topics) |
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Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It.
Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests |
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29 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Climb Every Mountain. Then Remove It. Activists plan summer of mountaintop-removal protests Environmental activists are planning a summer of focused protest against mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virginia and surrounding coal states. "Mountain Justice Summer" will call for nonviolent protests against this highly destructive mining technique, whereby entire mountaintops ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, mining and drilling, news, Tennessee, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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Oil Together Now
Bipartisan coalition presses Bush to get behind oil-use reduction |
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28 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Oil Together Now Bipartisan coalition presses Bush to get behind oil-use reduction Lambasting U.S. oil addiction: It's not just for America-hating radical homosexual vegetarian Schiavo-killing eco-terrorists anymore! A growing bipartisan coalition is arguing that U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a serious national security threat. Today, a letter signed by 26 former national-security officials from both Republican and Democra ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Conquered in Concord
New Hampshire Senate approves stricter mercury rules than feds |
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25 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Conquered in Concord New Hampshire Senate approves stricter mercury rules than feds At risk of getting stuck with a number of toxic mercury hotspots under the Bush administration's new mercury cap-and-trade rule, New Hampshire's Senate approved a bill yesterday to adopt rules more stringent than the feds' and to ban the state's two coal-fired power plants from trading pollution allowances with cleaner ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, New Hampshire, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Sound of One Hull Splitting
Sixteen years after Exxon Valdez, tankers still not safe |
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23 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Sound of One Hull Splitting Sixteen years after Exxon Valdez, tankers still not safe This week, to mark the 16th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster that spilled 11 million gallons of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is running a special series on the environmentally precarious state of modern oil-tanker transport. Some key findings of its investigation: Post-Valdez initiatives inten ... |
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| Topics: energy, health, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Not Just Another Pretty Space
An interview with risk-taking park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith, author of Nature Noir |
Aaron Dalton |
23 Mar 2005 |
Arts and Minds |
| Jordan Fisher Smith. If you had to guess which federal agents in the U.S. face the greater danger, who would you put your money on: the officers who wage the endless War on Drugs, or the rangers who patrol the green acres of the national parks? Well, it's the rangers. According to a 2001 study by the Bureau of Justice, nature's security guards are twice a ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, interview, National Park Service, national parks (all these topics) |
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Waste
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David Roberts |
21 Mar 2005 |
Gristmill |
| On Energy Priorities, a short but interesting piece on France's struggles with nuclear waste. The good bit:Every day, about ten shipping containers arrive on trucks at the Soulaines-Dhuys storage facility outside Troyes, in the province of Ardennes, 180 kilometers east of Paris. On board are barrels of waste that isn't radioactive enough to be stored at Marcoule. Every year, 15,000 cubic meters of waste contaminated with uranium, plutonium and tritium arrive here. The ... |
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| Topics: energy, France, nuclear power, waste (all these topics) |
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Crude Awakening
An open letter to Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska |
Terry Tempest Williams |
18 Mar 2005 |
Soapbox |
| Dear Sen. Stevens, This week you got your wish: a 51 to 49 vote against the Cantwell amendment and in favor of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Caribou in the Arctic Refuge. Photo: Ken Whitten, Wilderness Society. The crude minds have spoken. Finally. You told your colleagues and anyone else who would listen that you have been clinically depressed for 24 years -- the same 24 y ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Arctic, energy, mining and drilling, oil, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics) |
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Scrubs
Debate over mercury-reduction technology rages on |
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18 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Scrubs Debate over mercury-reduction technology rages on The Bush administration's release of its Clean Air Mercury Rule this week has reignited debate over how well existing technology can remove mercury from emissions at coal-fired power plants. The rule mandates a 70 percent reduction in emissions by 2018, a number many enviros contend current mercury-removal technology can achieve within three to five years. ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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SUV-Loving Public Deems Itself Unpatriotic
Americans think fuel efficiency is patriotic, poll finds |
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18 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| SUV-Loving Public Deems Itself Unpatriotic Americans think fuel efficiency is patriotic, poll finds According to a new poll released yesterday, fuel efficiency ranks up there with apple pie, baseball, and hating liberals as emblematic of American patriotism. Some 66 percent of Americans believe it's "patriotic" to purchase a fuel-efficient vehicle, as it would aid the U.S. in kicking its addiction ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, oil, placemaking, United States (all these topics) |
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Rikipedia
Author and oil-spill expert Riki Ott answers readers' questions |
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18 Mar 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Riki Ott, author of Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$. We know that using oil is wasting our planet, ruining the atmosphere and oceans, and poisoning our water and children, but we still find using it a reasonable thing to do. Who is really at fault, Exxon or us? Are we destined to pollute earth to a point that destroys us all? -- Bruce Wright, Executive Director, Conservation Science Institute, Wasilla, Alask ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, business, energy, InterActivist, interview, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Caribou-Hoo-Hoo
Senate votes to open Arctic Refuge to drilling |
Amanda Griscom Little |
16 Mar 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Stickin' it to the porcupine caribou in the Arctic Refuge. Photo: Ken Whitten, Wilderness Society. Oil companies are closing in on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In a crushing blow to those who have fought for some 25 years to preserve the unspoiled Alaskan wildland, the Senate voted today to clear the way for oil and gas drilling within the Arctic Refuge. By a 51-49 vote, they rejected a ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, Arctic Refuge, energy, Muckraker, oil, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Riki-Tikki-Savvy
Author and oil-spill expert Riki Ott answers Grist's questions |
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14 Mar 2005 |
InterActivist |
| Riki Ott. What work do you do? What's your job title? For the past seven years -- 1998 to 2004 -- I researched and wrote a book, Sound Truth and Corporate Myth$: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Now I'm an author/activist/scientist on book tour. Titles: Well, I have been bestowed numerous titles by others. For example, "pain in the ass" by Alyeska, the consortium that operates and (sup ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, business, energy, InterActivist, interview, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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Green Tag, You're It
On Green Tags |
Umbra Fisk |
07 Mar 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, My power company (Florida Power and Light) sent me a letter asking me to choose its Sunshine Energy program, which, for an additional $9.75 a month, helps support the building of a 150-kilowatt solar facility in Florida. Do you think I should do it? Linda Coral Springs, Fla. Dearest Linda, Yes. And I am herewith going to foist my plans for 2005 upon all the rest of you: They involve deemphasizing insignificant widgets and ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, Florida, greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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Hawks speak out for U.S.-grown clean energy
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Aimee Christensen |
06 Mar 2005 |
Gristmill |
| 'It's not a hardship to drive it. It's fun.' -- George Shultz, former Secretary of State, referring to his Toyota Prius, a hybrid car that uses much less gasoline than a conventional vehicle, at the second annual summit of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, February 11. I found this nugget in my inbox, tucked into the recent issue of @stanford, 'a monthly newsletter of campus news and research,' in the 'Heard on Campus' segment (I am an alum of ... |
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| Topics: energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Kids Absorb the Darndest Things
Lower IQs in mercury-exposed children cost U.S. billions, study says |
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01 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Kids Absorb the Darndest Things Lower IQs in mercury-exposed children cost U.S. billions, study says The effects of mercury on fetal development are costing the U.S. economy $8.7 billion a year, says a new study. Some 317,000 to 637,000 children born in the U.S. each year have been exposed to unsafe mercury levels in the womb, and many of them sustain diminished IQs, researchers reported in a National Institutes of Health jour ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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He Wasn't Kidding About Being Back
Schwarzenegger returns with new, revamped solar initiative |
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01 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| He Wasn't Kidding About Being Back Schwarzenegger returns with new, revamped solar initiative Yesterday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) joined state senators from both parties to introduce a new version of his solar plan. What David Hochschild of Vote Solar called "the most ambitious solar initiative ever proposed in the United States" wou ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, legislation, news, politics, solar voltaic power (all these topics) |
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