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The Coast Is Murky		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Coast Is Murky The California Coastal Commission has been declared unconstitutional by an appellate court, a decision that could result in a significant power shake-up at the entity in charge of managing one of the world's most popular and politically charged coastlines. At issue is the balance of power on the commission: A maj ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, mining and drilling, oceans, Pacific Ocean, politics, state politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Black Labs		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Black Labs Private laboratories have been caught faking environmental test results, according to officials in the U.S. EPA and the Justice Department. Companies often use private laboratories to test air, water, soil, petroleum, underground tanks, and other products and indicators; a clean tests yields a certificate of compliance with environmental regulation ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Justice, environmental justice, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

The Truck Stops There		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops There In a setback for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court yesterday halted a federal plan to permit thousands of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, calling instead for environmental reviews that could take up to three years. In November, President Bush approved the entry of 30,000 Mexican trucks per year, citing ob ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, globalization, Mexico, North America, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Spotted Record		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Spotted Record Federal protections for the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet have been blamed by many in the anti-enviro camp for the collapse of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest during the 1990s. Now, the Bush administration has announced that it will review those protections, as well as the designation of & ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, logging, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Wet 'n' Not-so-wild		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wet 'n' Not-so-wild New guidelines unveiled by the Bush administration on Friday could spell trouble for 20 million acres of wetlands across the United States. The guidelines were prompted by a 2001 Supreme Court decision that found that isolated, non-navigable ponds and wetlands in Illinois did not merit protec ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental justice, Illinois, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (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)

Pombo and (Unfortunate) Circumstance		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Pombo and (Unfortunate) Circumstance U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) was chosen this week to lead the House Resources Committee, much to the dismay of environmentalists. As head of the committee, Pombo, who earned only a 9 percent approval rating from the League of Conservation Voters in the last session of Congress, will have significant say in shaping fe ...
Topics: environmental justice, League of Conservation Voters, national parks, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Flippering Out		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Flippering Out In a lawsuit made public late last week, Earth Island Institute and other environmental organizations have sued the U.S. government for relaxing labeling standards for "dolphin-safe" tuna. The suit stems from a decision by the U.S. Commerce Department to classify as dolphin-safe a previously prohibited method of fishing -- in which dolph ...
Topics: Department of Commerce, environmental justice, marine life, Mexico, politics, United States (all these topics)

New Issue, Same Old Jersey		16 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
New Issue, Same Old Jersey South Camden, N.J., has the distinction of being one of the nation's poorest cities -- and an important East Coast laboratory for the environmental justice movement. Environmental justice advocates believe South Camden's poverty goes a long way toward explaining why the city is home to so many plants and factory facilities, many of which spew toxic waste into the water and air. The cit ...
Topics: environmental justice, New Jersey, politics (all these topics)

Nevada Protest Site		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Nevada Protest Site Sixty-six environmental justice activists, hailing from a broad range of states, were arrested early this week in Nevada after demonstrating over the weekend against nuclear energy and weapons. The protesters, including individuals from South Carolina, Washington, and Mississippi, blamed nuclear facilities for high rates of cancer, birth defects, and skin disorders in bla ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Nevada, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Power to the People Plugging developing nations into renewable energy	Amanda Griscom	08 Oct 2002	Powers That Be
The groaning has largely subsided over last month's World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, but one of the biggest disappointments of the event still deserves scrutiny: the failure to create a strategy to disseminate renewable energy throughout the developing world. "The Johannesburg summit's plan for renewable energy has two fundamental flaws -- there is no pla ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

The Oriente Express		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
The Oriente Express Native residents of the rainforests of Ecuador and Peru were dealt a blow late last week when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied their petition to reopen litigation against the oil giant ChevronTexaco for devastating their environment and exposing them to carcinogenic pollutants. The court upheld an earlier ruling, which found that ...
Topics: business, Ecuador, environmental justice, Peru, politics, pollution and waste, rainforests (all these topics)

When Push Comes to Chevron		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
When Push Comes to Chevron In a classic David-and-Goliath battle, women in southern Nigeria are taking on oil giants ChevronTexaco and Royal Dutch/Shell to demand more responsible environmental and social policies. Last week, hundreds of women blocked access to company offices in the latest of a month of all-women protests. The unusual demonstrations are gaining a reputation ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, Nigeria, politics (all these topics)

Born to Be Wild		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Born to Be Wild In a blow to property-rights advocates, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service said yesterday that wild salmon should continue to be protected under the Endangered Species Act even though hatchery-born salmon are thriving. Last year, in a lawsuit brought by opponents of salmon protection, a federal judge told the agency to go back to the drawing board because ...
Topics: environmental justice, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics (all these topics)

Kenny Get Your Guinn		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Kenny Get Your Guinn President Bush signed into law yesterday the measure approving Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear-waste burial ground, which was approved two weeks ago by Congress. The signing, closed to journalists and attended by only a handful of allies who were instrumental in brokering the bill's passage, marks the official end of Nevada's legislative fight to keep the highly r ...
Topics: environmental justice, Nevada, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

It's a Criming Shame		28 May 2002	Daily Grist
It's a Criming Shame Environmental crimes are the train robberies of the 21st century: High-profit and low-risk, they are generally carried out by perpetrators that are better informed, better organized, and better funded than law enforcement agencies. That was the message delivered by the Environmental Investigation Agency at a Royal Institute of International Affairs seminar held yesterday in London, where speakers warned ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics (all these topics)

Taipei Personalities		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Taipei Personalities More than 200 former employees of an RCA television and semiconductor plant in northern Taiwan have died of cancer and at least 1,000 others are suffering from the disease, in what industry watchdogs are calling the worst cancer cluster in the history of high-tech. A group of former plant workers arrived in Silicon Valley yesterday to tell their ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Taiwan, toxics (all these topics)

My Favorite Martin		23 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
My Favorite Martin Robert Martin marked Earth Day by resigning yesterday from his position as ombudsperson for the U.S. EPA. Martin, who has held the post since 1992, was well-regarded by environmentalists for his handling of complaints about cleanups conducted under the EPA's Superfund program, but less beloved by higher-ups at the agency. In November, EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced plans to transfer Martin to ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics (all these topics)

Pests Aside		19 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Pests Aside For the first time in a decade, the U.S. EPA will assess the impact of 18 common pesticides on endangered salmon and forest plants, as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by three California environmental groups. The pesticides -- several million pounds of them -- are used every year in the state's fie ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, toxics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

The Best Offense Is a Bad Defect		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Best Offense Is a Bad Defect In a groundbreaking decision, a San Francisco jury determined yesterday that gasoline containing the additive MBTE is a defective product and that two major oil companies were aware of but did not disclose the additive's dangers when they began marketing it. The lawsuit was brought by the South Tahoe Pub ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Ski-don't		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ski-don't There's good news and bad news for environmentalists on the personal-watercraft front. On the up side, the National Park Service announced yesterday that it would permanently close five national parks to personal watercraft. Park officials and much of the general public object to personal watercraft i ...
Topics: environmental justice, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Shrimp Fried		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Shrimp Fried Under pressure from the Bush administration, a federal judge yesterday revoked the protected status of several hundred thousand acres of Southern California land considered essential for the survival of two imperiled species. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-a ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, food and agriculture, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Solutia-ns		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Solutia-ns Chemical giant Monsanto and its spin-off company Solutia are legally responsible for polluting the town of Anniston, Ala., with PCBs, a jury ruled Friday morning. The verdict represents an initial victory for the people of Anniston, but the battle is far from over: Some 3,500 individual claims of illness and financial loss ha ...
Topics: Alabama, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Grants' Tomb?		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Grants' Tomb? The U.S. EPA has awarded more than $2 billion in grants to nonprofit organizations since 1993 through a process that the agency's internal watchdog says is seriously flawed. Many grants were awarded without competitive bids, and some groups may have received preferential treatment. Some of the awards went to organizations that subsequently sued the EPA -- although presumably w ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Smoke Scream		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Smoke Scream The levels of pollutants spewed into the air over New York City following the Sep. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center exceeded even those of burning oil wells during the Gulf War, according to a new study released yesterday by scientists from the University of California at Davis. The study, which was the most thorough analysis of the dust and ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, New York, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

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