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Fueltide Greetings		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Fueltide Greetings The Bush administration is weighing a proposal that would require auto manufacturers to improve the fuel efficiency of SUVs and light trucks by a teensy bit. Working off data submitted by the Big Three automakers in Detroit, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has sent a draft plan to the White House that would raise fuel efficiency by about half a mile per gallon for three years, starting with the 2005 ...
Topics: energy, placemaking (all these topics)

Spain and Suffering		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Spain and Suffering An oil tanker carrying twice as much oil as was lost by the Exxon Valdez in 1989 split in two today and sank in the Atlantic Ocean, threatening to cause an environmental disaster on the Spanish coast 133 miles away. The tanker "Prestige" first ran into trouble almost a week ago when its hull cracked in a storm; even before today's development, oil had been pouring from the boat, landing as ...
Topics: energy, marine life, oceans, Spain (all these topics)

The Rain in Spain Caused an Awful Lot of Pain		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Rain in Spain Caused an Awful Lot of Pain Thousands of tons of oil have begun to wash up on seaports and the beaches of Galicia, Spain, after the hull of a rusty oil tanker at sea cracked last week during a storm. The country has suspended fishing on parts of its northwestern coast and workers are trying desperately to limit any further damage from the accident. Dozens of tons of oil remain on ...
Topics: energy, marine life, oceans, Spain, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Prairie Dogged		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Prairie Dogged Faced with drought and plunging profits, Colorado farmers are under growing financial pressure to hawk their land to developers. Between 1993 and 2001, about 1.5 million acres of farmland in the state were put on the market and developed; 300,000 of the acres were sold in 2001 as a drought began to take hold. State officials are scrambling to come up with solutions that w ...
Topics: Colorado, dams, energy, food and agriculture, logging, placemaking (all these topics)

The Pardners' Tale		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Pardners' Tale Cowboys and environmentalists unite! The unlikely amigos are banding together to try to keep natural gas drillers away from ranches on public land in the San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico and southwestern Colorado. Yesterday morning, they blocked drilling crews from entering four ranches, arguing that ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, energy, erosion, mining and drilling, New Mexico, politics, ranching, renewable energy (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)

Back in Black		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Back in Black Now that President Bush has strengthened his hand with a Republican-controlled Congress, his once-doomed energy plan -- which would provide $30 billion in tax cuts for the fossil-fuel and nuclear-power industries and open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling -- stands a good chance of passing. Enviros are pinning their hopes on possible presidential contenders, John Kerry (D- ...
Topics: energy, logging, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Saving Grace		05 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Saving Grace The "energy crisis" may be a distant memory, but Californians are still saving juice. After the blackouts and price hikes of 2001, utility customer sales fell 6 percent to 9 percent due to conservation efforts. Today, from 40 percent to 90 percent of the drop persists -- and some experts say the shift could be around for the long haul. "We have seen a lifestyle change," says Christy Dennis ...
Topics: California, energy, green living (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)

Bambi Vs. Thumper		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Bambi Vs. Thumper The Bush administration's plan to expand fossil fuel exploration in the West ran into an obstacle Wednesday when a federal judge temporarily blocked the Interior Department from allowing energy prospecting on thousands of acres of public land in Utah. The ruling halted a project by a seismic exploration company to search for oil and gas reserves in Utah's Arches National Pa ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, national parks, politics, Utah (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)

Not With a Bang but a Whimper		30 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Not With a Bang but a Whimper The Bush administration's plan to open federal lands in the western U.S. to oil and gas drilling would produce a measly amount of energy and a massive amount of environmental destruction, according to a Wilderness Society report released yesterday. The proposed drilling areas, which are scattered throughout millions of acres in six Rocky Mountain states and include som ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, politics, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Half-baked Alaska		30 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Half-baked Alaska Anti-environmentalism in Alaska is at a fever pitch, and it's affecting the shape of nearly every political campaign in the final weeks before voters go to the polls. Incumbent state Rep. Harry Crawford (D), for example, has gone out of his way to try to convince his constituency that he's pro-development, not eco-friendly. "I believe I've had to explain it 100 times at the d ...
Topics: Alaska, business, energy, mining and drilling, politics (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)

On a Roll Back		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
On a Roll Back Turning up the heat on Republicans in the final weeks before the U.S. elections, Democrats and environmentalists are requesting documents from the U.S. EPA detailing the Bush administration's effort to roll back clean-air regulations on older coal-fired power plants and refineries. But EPA officials have refused to pony up the evidence, and Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), chair of the Se ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Massive a Tax		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Massive a Tax New Zealand has unveiled a carbon tax to help it meet the goals of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which the country expects to ratify by year's end. The tax, which would be implemented in 2007 assuming Kyoto has come into effect, would boost retail gas prices by up to 6 percent, diesel prices by up to 12 percent, and gas and electricity prices by as much as 9 percent, according to government doc ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, New Zealand (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Today is the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act -- and although the United States has made some strides in improving water quality, it has still got a long way to go. A whopping 81 percent of major wastewater treatment plants and chemical and industrial facilities in the U.S. contaminated waterways beyond what their permits allowed between 1999 a ...
Topics: energy, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

The Sub-zero Continent		17 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Sub-zero Continent Sun-scorched India is fast becoming one of the world's hottest markets for air conditioners, as manufacturers rush to capitalize on an unsaturated market and a consumer base with rising disposable incomes. The average price for air conditioners in India has dropped by about 20 percent over the past two years, and sales have been booming; LG Electronics, the world's largest AC manufacturer, expe ...
Topics: business, energy, green living, India (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)

Grease Be With You Advice on converting to biodiesel	Umbra Fisk	10 Oct 2002	Ask Umbra
Umbra, I own a diesel VW Golf, which I bought thinking it was a better choice for the environment than a gasoline engine. Therefore, I was disappointed to read your message that diesel is probably a worse choice. However, you didn't talk at all about biodiesel. Can you give us a rundown on this fuel -- how to get it, how it may be beneficial, and what you might have to do to ensure your car can run on it safely? Thank ...
Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, biofuels, cars, energy, food and agriculture, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, placemaking (all these topics)

Oh My Cod!		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Oh My Cod! Cape Wind Associates has been given the green light on a project to build a data-collection tower that could lead to the largest renewable-energy plant in the United States -- 170 windmills off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. The collection tower, opposed by locals for its possible harm to tourism and the environment, will collect information on air and water turbulence, the direction and veloci ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Gopher It!		04 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Gopher It! Twelve ethanol plants in Minnesota signed on to an unprecedented agreement with state and federal EPA officials earlier this week, agreeing to pay pollution fines and update their emissions-reduction technology. An official at the U.S. EPA said ethanol plants across the country would be expected to follow the lead of the Minnesota plants. A spokesperson for the plants said the industry had a " ...
Topics: energy, Minnesota, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Homeland Insecurity		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Homeland Insecurity Despite all the hype about guaranteeing "homeland security," the Bush administration has scrapped plans to impose strict regulations to protect chemical plants from possible terrorist attacks. The decision, which was confirmed yesterday by U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, came after months of administration infighting and heavy lobbying efforts against new rules by the ...
Topics: energy, politics, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

What in the Sand Hill?		02 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
What in the Sand Hill? High on the list of Very Remote Places on Earth are the Great Sand Hills, a 730-square-mile stretch of sage brush and dunes in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. There is one road in the region, and precious little traffic on it. The main residents are mule deer, coyotes, burrowing owls, and the endangered Ferruginous hawk. But the Sand Hills are also home to bountiful, close-to-the-sur ...
Topics: Canada, energy, mining and drilling, wildlife (all these topics)

Ashes of Fire		27 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Ashes of Fire Every year, coal-fired power plants in the U.S. produce more than 100 million tons of ash, a byproduct of the burning process containing heavy metals or metal-like substances such as boron, selenium, arsenic, and magnesium. The energy industry claims the ash is benign, but many others fear that it is bad for the environment and human health. Those concerns are all the more pr ...
Topics: energy, Kentucky, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

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