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Tipping the Scalias of Justice Cheney-Scalia Connection Raises Questions About Energy Task Force Case		20 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Tipping the Scalias of Justice Cheney-Scalia Connection Raises Questions About Energy Task Force Case In December, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from Vice President Dick Cheney, who had been ordered by lower courts to release documents related to his secretive energy task force meetings. In January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Cheney -- long-time friends -- went duck hunting i ...
Topics: environmental justice, Louisiana, New York, politics (all these topics)

They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics)

Adieu, Adieu, to You and You and You Top EPA Enforcers Abandon the Agency		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Poor Judgment Company Warns Poor and Minorities They Will Suffer if N-Plant Is Closed		24 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Poor Judgment Company Warns Poor and Minorities They Will Suffer if N-Plant Is Closed The power company Entergy Nuclear Northeast is warning low-income and minority citizens in New York that more power plants will be built in their neighborhoods if the state's highly controversial Indian Point nuclear power plant is closed. Critics say the move is an inap ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, New York, politics (all these topics)

Foam Call Canadian Tribes Fight Big Fish Farms in Court		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Foam Call Canadian Tribes Fight Big Fish Farms in Court Fish farms off Canada's west coast are under fire from native tribes that claim the big aquaculture operations are devastating the natural environment. Four tribes living in the Broughton Archipelago, off the coast of British Columbia north of Vancouver Island, are going to court to curb the spread of aquaculture, citing Canada's constit ...
Topics: Canada, environmental justice, fishing, marine life, politics (all these topics)

Tanks for Nothing Court Rejects $4 Billion Damage Award for Exxon Valdez Spill		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Tanks for Nothing Court Rejects $4 Billion Damage Award for Exxon Valdez Spill A federal appeals court has once again rejected a multibillion-dollar punitive damage award against the company responsible for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil-tanker spill in Alaska. Now thousands of Alaskan fishers, Natives, and others whose lives and livelihoods were disrupted by the ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Donkey Kick		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Donkey Kick The Bush administration received a serious dressing-down in absentia last night over its misbegotten environmental policies, as five of the nine Democratic hopefuls aired their own green views during a League of Conservation Voters forum held in Los Angeles. Rather than detailing the differences in their own positions, most of the candidates who were p ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, environmental justice, politics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Kerry on		22 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Kerry on Massachusetts Democratic Senator and 2004 presidential contender John Kerry is honoring Earth Day today by calling on the federal government to protect the human and ecological health of poor and minority communities through strengthening its commitment to environmental justice. In a speech this afternoon, Kerry demanded the creation of a new environmenta ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, environmental justice, health, Massachusetts, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Down Underdogs		16 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Australia, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Civil Wrongs		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Civil Wrongs In the South, low-income, black citizens are becoming more outspoken and effective as they fight the construction of landfills, polluting factories, and other environmentally hazardous facilities in their communities, and they're increasingly being joined by neighbors of all colors. "Companies now don't just bully in," said Robert Bullard, a sociology professor ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, South (all these topics)

Urban Bright		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Urban Bright In a groundbreaking move, New York state has developed guidelines for ensuring that low-income and minority neighborhoods are not disproportionately subjected to environmental health risks by developers. The environmental-justice guidelines were drafted by the state Department of Environmental Conservation to limit the ability of developers to build unpopular and potentially hazardous pr ...
Topics: environmental justice, New York, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

9021-woe		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
9021-woe Remember that episode of 90210 where Brenda and Dylan fell ill from toxic gases leaking out of oil wells and into Beverly Hills High School? Actually, that never happened on the show -- but according to famed environmental legal crusader Erin Brockovich, it happened in real life. Brockovich and her partner, Ed Masry, are preparing to sue Beverly ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics (all these topics)

In the Doghouse		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
In the Doghouse The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would review a clean air case that could determine when the federal government can overrule state environmental decisions. The case concerns the Red Dog mine in Alaska, which produces zinc and lead. Two years ago, when the mine sought to build a new diesel generator, the state Department of Environmental ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Reilly Factor		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Reilly Factor Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly (D) yesterday threw his weight behind opponents of a plan to build a wind farm off the state's coast. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court, Reilly argued that the seabed of Nantucket Sound belongs to the federal government and therefore cann ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, environmental justice, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Have a Heart How to have a Valentine's Day with a conscience	The Green Guide	12 Feb 2003	Earthly Possessions
Friday is Valentine's Day, but while you're buying bonbons and bouquets, be sure to be sweet to the planet, too. If Hershey's, Hallmark, and FTD aren't your idea of romance, never fear: Eco-friendly options smell good, taste good (well, maybe not the flowers), and just might land you a date. Flowers Don't say it with flowers -- unless they're organic. In 2001, Americans spent an estimated $50 per capita ...
Topics: agriculture, environmental justice, food, green living, holiday, organic food, politics (all these topics)

Smart Attack		10 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Smart Attack Smart-growth policies, designed to put a damper on runaway development and preserve local character, have recently come under attack in a handful of U.S. communities. In Loudon County, Va., on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., nearly 200 lawsuits were filed last week against the county's growth-control policies. Also last week, the mayo ...
Topics: Colorado, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, placemaking, politics, Virginia (all these topics)

Executive Carte Blanche		10 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Executive Carte Blanche Chalk one up for Big Energy and its boosters in the White House. On Friday, the General Accounting Office abandoned its efforts to force Vice President Dick Cheney to turn over information about which people he met with while heading up the administration's secretive energy task force. The GAO, Congress's investigative arm, had been fighting ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, politics (all these topics)

First Down		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
First Down The parent company of a power plant in eastern Ohio has become the first of 36 energy utilities to be tried for causing smog and health problems in the Northeast. In a lawsuit that began yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department accused FirstEnergy Corporation of significantly upgrading its W.H. Sammis plant without installing new pollution controls, a ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, Northeast, Ohio, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Mass-ive Attack		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass-ive Attack Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut will sue the U.S. EPA for violating clean air laws and imperiling the health of citizens by failing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, the states' attorneys general announced yesterday. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, the attorneys general will argue that CO2 emissions fr ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, Connecticut, energy, environmental justice, health, Maine, Massachusetts, ozone, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Haden Go Seek		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Haden Go Seek In a blow to environmentalists, a federal appeals court has overturned a ruling preventing the U.S. government from issuing permits to mountaintop-mining operations. The operations access coal seams by shearing off huge slabs of mountains; the increasingly common process has resulted in tons of rock and dirt being dumped into valleys and streams. Last ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Sweet Home, Alabama		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Home, Alabama A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama is failing to adequately enforce water-pollution laws, thereby paving the way for citizens of the state to sue under the national Clean Water Act. Under the terms of that act, citizens may go to court to enforce the law only if the state has failed to prosecute polluters and only after filing 60-day notice of ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Penn Is Mightier Than the Sword		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Penn Is Mightier Than the Sword Following in the footsteps of nine other northeastern states, Pennsylvania went to court yesterday to block new, less stringent federal air-pollution regulations from taking effect. The Pennsylvania case is separate from one filed by the other states, but the issue is the same: the New Source Review rules of the Clean Air Act, which once requ ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, Northeast, Pennsylvania, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Order in the Court		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Order in the Court With a staunchly anti-environmental White House and a Republican-dominated Congress, environmentalists are turning to the third branch of government to fight their cause. Happily, the courts have presented a relatively safe haven for greens, upholding strict clean air standards the Bush administration sought to water down, blo ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, logging, national forests, politics, West, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Muck Ado About Something		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Muck Ado About Something Russian journalist and environmental muckraker Grigory Pasko was paroled from prison yesterday after serving part of a highly contested term for treason. Pasko became the poster-child for concerns about Russian limitations on press freedoms when he was convicted for taking notes during a 1997 meeting of Russian naval ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

New Review Zoo		23 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
New Review Zoo In a blow to environmentalists, a Democratic effort to delay President Bush's plan to relax the New Source Review regulations of the federal Clean Air Act was struck down by the Senate yesterday in a 50-46 vote. The postponement effort had been led by Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), who wanted to give scientists six months to study the Bush proposal's likely effects on human ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, John Edwards, politics (all these topics)

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