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Dodge Not Lest Ye Be Judged
Court rules with EPA on power-plant pollution controls |
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18 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Dodge Not Lest Ye Be Judged Court rules with EPA on power-plant pollution controls Imagine that gavel sound from Law & Order, and here we go: In 1999, the U.S. EPA sued Cinergy Corp. for modifying several coal-fueled power plants without following Clean Air Act pollution-control requirements. (Moment of silence for the days when eco-laws were enforced.) One month before Pre ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Smokey Robbin's On
Urban-style crime in national forests seems to be on the rise |
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03 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Smokey Robbin's On Urban-style crime in national forests seems to be on the rise In some parts of the U.S., being a forest ranger isn't the cushy job you might imagine. Far from keeping cartoon bears away from picnic baskets, rangers have been confronting a rising tide of urban-style crime: everything from domestic violence and drunken driving to armed robbery and marijuana culti ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Docket Science
Global warming likely to spur litigation against polluters |
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27 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Docket Science Global warming likely to spur litigation against polluters As global warming's effects reverberate across the planet, expect an uptick in litigation against governments and companies. Pacific Islanders whose homes are being swallowed by the ocean, African farmers with withered crops, and ski-resort owners resigned to offering mountaintop waterskiing may seek redress. "If the evidence [of ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics) |
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ELF Sacrifice
Three plead guilty to eco-motivated arson in the West |
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21 Jul 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| ELF Sacrifice Three plead guilty to eco-motivated arson in the West Three people pleaded guilty yesterday to being part of a group that set fire to ranger stations, wild-horse corrals, a ski resort, and lumber mill offices in the Western U.S. in recent years. The 16 attacks harmed no people, but caused more than $20 million in damage. "This is a substantial step in resolution of th ... |
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| Topics: Earth Liberation Front, environmental justice, news, politics, West (all these topics) |
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Bench Warmers
Supreme Court to decide whether EPA should regulate greenhouse gases |
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26 Jun 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Bench Warmers Supreme Court to decide whether EPA should regulate greenhouse gases The Supreme Court today announced that it will rule on whether the U.S. EPA should regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from automobiles. Against the advice of the Bush administration, SCOTUS will hear a suit brought by 12 states, a number of cities, and various environmental groups against the EPA. The plaintiffs argue ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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There's Something About Terry
Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers readers' questions |
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23 Jun 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Bryant Terry, founder of b-healthy. What do you think about Wal-Mart offering organic products? -- Haven Bourque, San Francisco, Calif. That's the million-dollar question. Jumping on the organic bandwagon will probably mean higher profits for Wal-Mart, so they gladly carry products with the organic seal. But it's important to remember that Wal-Mart has very little concern for public healt ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics) |
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Ay, There's the Grub
Bryant Terry, food-justice activist, answers Grist's questions |
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19 Jun 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Bryant Terry. What work do you do? I've committed myself to feeding people; illuminating the connections between poverty, malnutrition, and institutional racism; and working to create a more just and sustainable food system for everyone. b-healthy gets teenagers cooking. In 2001, I founded b-healthy (Build Healthy Eating and Lifestyles to Help Youth), a New York City-based food-justice organization ma ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, non-government organizations, politics (all these topics) |
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Docket Man
John Suttles, Southern environmental lawyer, answers readers' questions |
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26 May 2006 |
InterActivist |
| John Suttles, Southern Environmental Law Center. Would you recommend entering the law profession with the intention of becoming a public-interest attorney? There already seem to be a flood of people with the exact same idea. Can someone realistically earn a living as a public-interest lawyer? -- Jesse Langdon, Seattle, Wash. The short answer is: "yeah, but it ain't necessarily easy." Of c ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, South (all these topics) |
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The South Will Sue Again
John Suttles, Southern environmental lawyer, answers Grist's questions |
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22 May 2006 |
InterActivist |
| John Suttles. What work do you do? I'm a senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. How does it relate to the environment? For the past 20 years, the Southern Environmental Law Center -- the biggest environmental organization headquartered in the Southeast -- has used the full power of the law to conserve clean water, healthy air, wild lands, and livabl ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, South (all these topics) |
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Kicked in the Arson
'Eco-terrorists' indicted in connection to Vail ski-resort arson |
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22 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Kicked in the Arson "Eco-terrorists" indicted in connection to Vail ski-resort arson Four people -- dubbed "eco-terrorists" by the authorities, who aren't at all trying to scare you -- were indicted Thursday and face eight counts of arson in connection to fires set at a Vail, Colo., ski resort in 1998. A communiqué apparently released by the arsonists said the fi ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, Earth Liberation Front, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Michael Hayden Is Taking Notes
Chinese environmentalist faces trial on questionable charges |
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16 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Michael Hayden Is Taking Notes Chinese environmentalist faces trial on questionable charges Chinese environmental activist Tan Kai went on trial yesterday, facing charges widely considered dubious. Inspired by protests in the province of Zhejiang, where residents say chemical plants are destroying crops and causing birth defects, Tan and five others informally launched a group called Green Watch last summer. I ... |
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| Topics: China, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics) |
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A Cure for What Jails Ya
An interview with jailed 'eco-terrorist' Jeffrey Luers |
Gregory Dicum |
04 May 2006 |
Main Dish |
| An interview with jailed "eco-terrorist" Jeffrey Luers By Gregory Dicum 04 May 2006 In 2000, 21-year-old Jeff Luers and an accomplice set fire to three pickup trucks at a dealership in Eugene, Ore., to bring attention to gas-guzzlers' contribution to global warming. They were promptly arrested. Luers, who refused to plea bargain, was sentenced to 22 years, eight months in prison. It is the longest term ever handed down for environmentally motivated sabotage in ... |
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| Topics: Earth Liberation Front, eco-terrorism, environmental justice, interview, Oregon, politics (all these topics) |
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Sue and Improved
States to sue Bush admin over weak fuel-economy standards for SUVs |
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02 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Sue and Improved States to sue Bush admin over weak fuel-economy standards for SUVs Stop us if this sounds familiar: A group of states plans to sue the feds over lax environmental regulations. At this point, the feds have more suits than Armani! Their federalism federalisn't! Take my states ... please! (Hey, we have to liven these stories up somehow.) The latest suit -- to ... |
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| Topics: Department of Transportation, environmental justice, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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The Blew Danube
Ukrainian attorney Olya Melen stands up for the Danube Delta |
Michelle Nijhuis |
25 Apr 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Olya Melen doesn't think small. In her first-ever court case, the young Ukrainian attorney challenged a massive canal project proposed for the Danube Delta, an internationally recognized wetland on the edge of the Black Sea. Melen, a lawyer for the public-interest group Environment-People-Law, argued that the canal would disrupt the area's rural communities and diverse wildlife, violating ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, politics, rivers and watersheds, Ukraine (all these topics) |
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It Had to Be Yu
In China, Yu Xiaogang is helping locals fight back against dams |
Michelle Nijhuis |
25 Apr 2006 |
Main Dish |
| China has spent decades trying to harness its powerful river systems with dams. Enormous hydroelectric projects, most notably the Three Gorges Dam now under construction on the Yangtze River, have devastated local economies and ecosystems. Yu Xiaogang. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Chinese environmentalist Yu Xiaogang, founder of the group Green Watershed, says the people harmed ... |
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| Topics: China, dams, energy, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, politics (all these topics) |
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Hungry for Justice
Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking |
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06 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Hungry for Justice Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking Demonstrations against dams in India's Narmada Valley yesterday brought the heavy hand of police, who roughed up protestors and arrested India's most famous environmentalist eight days into a hunger strike on charges of -- get this -- attempting suicide. Medha Patkar's fast started when officials began raisin ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, environmental justice, India, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Movement Shakers
Two eco-leaders -- one mainstream, one radical -- debate the movement's past and future |
Kathryn Schulz |
29 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Eric Mann. When Eric Mann first encountered environmentalists, he saw them as a bunch of "arrogant, racist airheads." When Frances Beinecke first encountered environmentalists, she felt she'd found her cause. Frances Beinecke. Nearly four decades later, both are tireless proponents of environmental sanity, but they work in very different ways. Mann is ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, heroes, interview, NRDC, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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Slum Like It Not
In the world's slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide |
Mike Davis |
29 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| This article was originally published in OrionOnline. Precarious dwellings in North Sulawasi, Indonesia. Photos: iStockphoto. A villa miseria outside Buenos Aires, Argentina, may have the worst feng shui in the world: it is built in a flood zone over a former lake, a toxic dump, and a cemetery. Then there's the barrio perched precariously on stilts over the excrement-clogge ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, placemaking, politics, population, Poverty and the Environment, sprawl, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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ATLien Invasion
Will an Atlanta parks and redevelopment project benefit low-income residents? |
Na'Taki Osborne |
28 Mar 2006 |
Soapbox |
| Atlanta, Ga.: the famous "Hot-lanta" of Southern heat and hospitality, home of "down-home" fried chicken and a growing black middle class, cradle of the largest historically black college community in the world, hotbed of the civil-rights movement, and ... the sprawl capital of the South. As Atlanta gets greener, who will benefit? Photo: iStockphoto. As ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, Georgia, green space, placemaking, politics, Poverty and the Environment, sprawl (all these topics) |
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Gritty Woman
On Hollywood's downtrodden eco-chicks, and how they've changed |
Ken Eisen |
23 Mar 2006 |
Arts and Minds |
| "A working-class hero is something to be," said John Lennon. But for Hollywood, it's more likely to be a working-class heroine -- at least when environmental issues enter the picture. Charlize Theron in North Country. Photo: 78th Academy Awards® This year, Charlize Theron's crusading miner-activist in North Country garnered an Oscar nomination, following in the footsteps of such Academy ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental justice, movies, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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When the Chippewas Are Down
A virtual walking tour through Wisconsin's Sokaogon Chippewa community with Tina Van Zile |
Mary Wiltenburg |
23 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Click image to take the tour. Photo by Mary Wiltenburg. Like many tribal lands across North America, the Sokaogon Chippewa reservation in Northern Wisconsin faces environmental perils that threaten not only the land, but also the livelihood and culture of the people who live on it. The Sokaogon spent close ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, mining, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Wisconsin (all these topics) |
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Integrate Expectations
An interview with integration advocate Sheryll Cashin |
Jon Christensen |
21 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Space is the place where race, poverty, and the environment get sorted out, for better or worse. And the spaces where we live, work, learn, and play are the places where integration succeeds or fails, argues Sheryll Cashin. The Georgetown University law professor wrote 2004's The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream, one of the most important and p ... |
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| Topics: education, environmental justice, heroes, interview, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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So Happy Together
The environmental case for integrated communities |
Sheryll Cashin |
21 Mar 2006 |
Soapbox |
| The following passage is excerpted from The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream. (For more on this issue, read an interview with the author.) The growing concern with sprawl creates an interesting possibility for alignment of urban and suburban, white and minority, affluent and poor interests. Advocates for low-income people and for cities and older suburbs ... |
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| Topics: books, environmental justice, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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That'll Anacostia
A plan to spruce up D.C.'s Anacostia River has some residents anxious |
Ethan Goffman |
15 Mar 2006 |
Main Dish |
| In the southeast corner of Washington, D.C., the capital of the most powerful nation in history, lies a polluted, neglected neighborhood known as Anacostia. Slated for a grand renewal project centered on the local river that gives it its name, the area stands at the juncture of poverty and opportunity. If plans move forward, it will one day be a showcase of urban design, with revi ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, green space, placemaking, politics, Poverty and the Environment, public lands, Washington DC (all these topics) |
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Pyramid Schemes
A little time in the lab could teach big business how to help the poor |
John Elkington, Mark Lee |
14 Mar 2006 |
Full Disclosure |
| By John Elkington and Mark Lee 14 Mar 2006 |
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| Topics: business, environmental justice, Full Disclosure, health, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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