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Mass. Devastation		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass. Devastation Laws designed to protect the environment are only useful if they're enforced -- and in the state of Massachusetts, they often are not. Indeed, the Bay State has one of the nation's worst enforcement records, according to a new federal website that allows the public to monitor enforcement of anti-pollution laws. Only 27 percent of Massachusett ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Massachusetts, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Calling in the Reserves		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Calling in the Reserves The debate over oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been in the limelight a lot lately -- but what about energy exploitation in the rest of the state? On Friday, the Bush administration released a report on the likely environmental impact of new dril ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, US Geological Survey, US Navy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Letters, Oh We've Got Letters		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: energy, green living, Massachusetts, New York, placemaking, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Basin and Strange		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has claimed that strict environmental laws are hindering oil and gas exploration in the West -- thereby compromising national security by forcing ongoing dependence on foreign energy sources. But a new federal study undermines that claim by showing that most oil and gas reserves on Western federal lands co ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

The Illumin-Naughty On mercury in compact fluorescent lights	Umbra Fisk	16 Jan 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Here in Texas, where it is very hot in the summer (granted, we deserve to be in hell for having produced George Bush), some of us have been enthusiastically switching our light bulbs to cooler compact fluorescents. Is this a bad thing due to the mercury they contain? Lisa Smithville, Texas Dearest Lisa, Thanks for your question, as it will allow me to keep shedding light on the compact fluoresc ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, mercury, toxics (all these topics)

Always a Big Turn-off On turning off fluorescent lights	Umbra Fisk	16 Jan 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, You'd be so proud of us! We just had an hour-long meeting about conservation and environmentalism here in our office. In the course of our discussion, the topic of leaving the lights on came up. I am a religious light-switcher, meaning I turn lights off in the bathroom or wherever they're left on. One of my colleagues was under the impression that it takes more energy to turn fluorescent lights on a ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy efficiency, green living (all these topics)

Range Bedfellows		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Range Bedfellows Energy exploration has been part of Western landscape and culture for decades -- but it seems the thrill of the drill may finally be wearing off. As the Bush administration pushes for further exploitation of Western resources (such as coal-bed methane mining in Wyoming and Montana an ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, Montana, New Mexico, North America, politics, ranching, renewable energy, West, Wyoming (all these topics)

Glow Worms		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Glow Worms It's been a busy week when it comes to nuclear security. Here in the U.S., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agreed to overhaul its management of the nation's atomic power plants in response to concern that it failed to rapidly detect potentially disastrous damage to a reactor in Ohio. Yesterday, the NRC adopted almost all 50 recommendations that s ...
Topics: energy, Greenpeace, health, New York, nuclear power, Ohio, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Oil and Water Don't Mix		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste, Spain, toxics (all these topics)

Texas, With Mess		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Texas, With Mess The Texas legislature is under pressure to find a way to fund a plan to cut smog in the state's major urban areas. If the lawmakers can't come up with the money soon, the U.S. EPA has threatened to reject the plan and take over the state's pollution-control efforts. That would jeopardize federal highway money, which is contingent on meeting cle ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, US EPA (all these topics)

Thank God		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Thank God Environmentalism is getting a big boost from religious communities that increasingly see protecting the Earth as central to their theology, according to the Worldwatch Institute. In its annual "State of the World" report released late last week, Worldwatch found that religious organizations from all corners of the globe are urging their congregations to sav ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, green living, Indonesia, rainforests, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

The Gas They Pass		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Gas They Pass In other news from the Golden State, California's two Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, have introduced legislation that would prevent energy companies in Mexico from using Californian natural gas in their plants near the California-Mexico border unless those plants complied with the state's strict air-quality standards. The legislation w ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Mexico, politics (all these topics)

Tilting at Windmills Activists are split on a proposed wind project off Cape Cod	Amanda Griscom	19 Dec 2002	Powers That Be
Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where 30 or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth." "Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. "What we see there are not giants ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, Massachusetts, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Is That USGS or USBS?		18 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Is That USGS or USBS? Here's some news to make you think twice about the reliability of government figures: The U.S. Geological Survey has announced that there is far more coal bed methane gas available in the Powder River Basin than previously thought -- while simultaneously acknowledging that the Rocky Mountain West contains far less oil than the agency had claimed in earli ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, Montana, politics, US Geological Survey, Wyoming (all these topics)

The Best Defense On staying sane in a mad world	Elizabeth Sawin	12 Dec 2002	Global Citizen
A Czech friend of mine sent me an email during the recent NATO summit in Prague as American fighter jets stood by and riot police filled the streets. "Sometimes," she wrote, "I feel as though the world has gone mad." Her words spoke my own thoughts so clearly it was as though I were reading a message I'd sent to myself. Quiet riot police. Do you sense it too -- the recklessness of this moment? H ...
Topics: climate, energy, green living, toxics (all these topics)

G.A.Oh, No!		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
G.A.Oh, No! In a victory for the Bush administration and a significant setback for congressional oversight of White House goings-on, a federal judge ruled yesterday that the investigative arm of Congress does not have legal standing to sue Vice President Dick Cheney for refusing to turn over documents related to the development of the national energy policy. The ruling goes beyond the Cheney matter to sta ...
Topics: energy, Government Accountability Office, politics (all these topics)

A Blow to the Solar Plexus		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
A Blow to the Solar Plexus Renewable energy use in the U.S. dropped sharply in 2001, according to a new report by the Department of Energy. Much of that decline stems from a drought that cut hydroelectric power generation by 23 percent, but the DOE's Energy Information Administration also found that in 2001, solar equipment was retired faster than it was replaced. The bulk of ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, hydropower, Iran, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost The discovery of what may be one of the world's largest oil fields under the Caspian Sea near Atyrau, Kazakhstan, has western oil companies excited, but environmentalists deeply concerned. The field, estimated to contain about 40 billion barrels of oil, 10 billion of them recoverable, is being developed by a consortium including British Gas, ExxonMobil, S ...
Topics: air pollution, Caspian Sea, energy, health, Kazakhstan, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Cell-ebrate		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Cell-ebrate In what could be the first significant step toward mass-marketing fuel-cell vehicles, Toyota and Honda put the world's first such cars on the road yesterday. The cars are being leased to the Japanese government and several public organizations in the U.S. -- at the whopping price of between $6,500 and $9,800 per month, meaning the dream of widesprea ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Japan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Oily to Bed Makes a State Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Oily to Bed Makes a State Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise In a triumph for environmentalists, a federal appeals court has blocked an attempt by the Bush administration to revive dormant oil leases off the coast of California. Last year, a federal court granted California the power to prevent new oil exploration in federal waters near the state's coastline, a ruling that was appealed by the Bush admini ...
Topics: California, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics (all these topics)

Oil and Trouble		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Oil and Trouble Coastal areas in Spain are suffering the effects of a Nov. 13 spill that sent millions of gallons of oil into the waters off the nation's northwestern coast. Although high winds and strong currents have kept most of the spilled fuel oil farther out in Atlantic waters, waves of oil crashed over a 20-foot sea wall along the Galician coast on Sunday, fouling towns and beaches with a layer of oil up to 10 inches thick. Oil slicks ...
Topics: energy, oceans (all these topics)

Pole Vault		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Pole Vault A plan to dramatically boost the use of biofuels in Poland has been approved by the country's lower house of parliament and is now being heard by its senate. The plan, which is backed by the nation's powerful farm lobby, would mandate that biofuels account for at least 4.5 percent of all domestic fuel sales beginning in 2003. That's well above the 2 percent minimum levels proposed ...
Topics: energy, European Union, food and agriculture, renewable energy (all these topics)

Braked Alaska		26 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Braked Alaska The oil giant BP has withdrawn from the lobbying group that is leading the campaign to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to drilling, company spokesperson Paul Laird said yesterday. The decision underscores the growing concern among oil companies that the drilling debate could damage their public image. In the past, BP had worked closely with the lobbying gro ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, mining and drilling (all these topics)

A Hard Rowe to Hoe		26 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Hard Rowe to Hoe Some heavyweight funders have ponied up $10 million to create a National Commission on Energy Policy, pulling together former members of the Bush and Clinton administrations and representatives from industry and environmental groups to recommend a long-range energy plan for the United States. Over the next two years, the commission intends to develop a "centrist approach" between Republicans and ...
Topics: energy, NRDC, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

New Source, Same Old Crap		25 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
New Source, Same Old Crap In the most far-reaching move to relax air pollution rules in years, the Bush administration on Friday gave refineries new flexibility to upgrade their facilities without having to reduce emissions. The U.S. EPA also outlined proposals that would give aging coal-fired power plants a similar advantage - ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Maryland, New England, New Jersey, New York, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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