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No Buses, No Peace! Ansje Miller sends a dispatch from a conference on transportation and justice		20 Feb 2005	Dispatches
Ansje Miller is a program director for Redefining Progress and staffs the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a consortium of environmental-justice, religious, and policy groups. Sunday, 20 Feb 2005 LOS ANGELES, Calif. Driving down California's Interstate 5 from Oakland to Los Angeles, the need for a new vision for the future of transportation was clear. The pouring rain transform ...
Topics: California, Dispatches, environmental justice, non-government organizations, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Class Action Dismissed Enviros join chorus against class-action bill, but measure still likely to pass	Amanda Griscom Little	10 Feb 2005	Muckraker
Will class-action plaintiffs still get their day in court? The Erin Brockoviches of America could have a much tougher time going after polluters if the Class Action Fairness Act -- which the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve last week -- is signed into law. The bill, which will be put to a full Senate vote today, would move most major class-acti ...
Topics: Earthjustice, environmental justice, legislation, Muckraker, non-government organizations, NRDC, politics, Sierra Club, water pollution (all these topics)

Don't Do as the Romans Do Jared Diamond's Collapse traces the fates of societies to their treatment of the environment	Michael J. Kavanagh	08 Feb 2005	Arts and Minds
Jared Diamond. I will always think of Jared Diamond as the man who, for the better part of the late 1990s, somehow made the phrase "east-west axis of orientation" the most talked-about kind of orientation there was -- freshman, sexual, or otherwise. His 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Socie ...
Topics: environmental justice, globalization, green living, politics (all these topics)

Oops, We Did It Again Native Americans at risk from toxic military leftovers		29 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Oops, We Did It Again Native Americans at risk from toxic military leftovers More than a century ago, the U.S. slaughtered a bunch of indigenous folks and put the rest on reservations in the most arid, isolated, undesirable parts of the American West. A new study shows that many closed military sites in the Lower 48 states -- including bombing ranges, weapons-testing sites, and waste dumps -- are cl ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Arabian Fights Arabs and Latinos work together for environmental justice in Michigan		22 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Arabian Fights Arabs and Latinos work together for environmental justice in Michigan The area that includes south Dearborn and southwest Detroit is densely populated, ethnically diverse, and highly industrialized -- as such, it is a revealing test case for the environmental-justice movement. For at least five years now, particulate pollution in the area's air has exceeded federal standards by anywhere from 15 to ...
Topics: environmental justice, Michigan, politics (all these topics)

Sze Matters Julie Sze, enviro-justice advocate and professor, answers readers' questions		19 Nov 2004	InterActivist
Julie Sze, professor in American Studies at U.C.-Davis Where do you see the environmental-justice movement heading in the future? -- Max Weintraub, Oakland, Calif. Max, Max, Max! Max Weintraub is a friend and colleague of mine, who has founded an excellent organization called Environmental Justice and Health Union. This question is huge, and many actors will be involved in answering it: commun ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

Oh, Say, Can You Sze? Julie Sze, enviro-justice advocate and professor, answers Grist's questions		15 Nov 2004	InterActivist
What work do you do? I'm an assistant professor in American Studies at the University of California at Davis. How does it relate to the environment? My research and teaching interests are in environmental justice, race and science, the politics of the urban environment, health and risk, social movements, and community activism. What do you really do, on a day-to-day basis? I do a combina ...
Topics: education, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, politics (all these topics)

By Any Greens Necessary Enviro Justice Center Works to Link Green and Civil-Rights Movements		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
By Any Greens Necessary Enviro Justice Center Works to Link Green and Civil-Rights Movements Environmental degradation often falls hardest on poor and minority communities, but these communities can have difficulty organizing to fight for environmental justice, and they've received too little help from a mainstream environmental movement perceived as a white, middle- and upper-class affair. Sociology profess ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics, United States (all these topics)

Classified Adds As Feds Classify More Info, Environment Could Be Affected		27 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Classified Adds As Feds Classify More Info, Environment Could Be Affected Since 9/11, the Bush administration has upped secrecy at a growing number of agencies, all in the name of fighting terrorism. Much of the information newly deemed sensitive has direct implications for the environment and public health. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will no longer make safety scorecards for nuclear facilities publi ...
Topics: environmental justice, politics, United States (all these topics)

Circuit Boards Roasting on an Open Fire Dumped Electronics Poisoning Poor in Asia		25 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Circuit Boards Roasting on an Open Fire Dumped Electronics Poisoning Poor in Asia Computers and other electronics discarded in the West frequently end up in poor villages in China and India, where they are stripped for residues of valuable metals in primitive procedures that poison local communities. Enviro activists report that Chinese villagers cook circuit boards over open charcoal burners to s ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, recycling (all these topics)

Sting Ray Ray Vaughan, an environmental lawyer, answers readers' questions		23 Jul 2004	InterActivist
Ray Vaughan, executive director of WildLaw. What are your feelings about vegetarianism and its contribution to reducing environmental damage and alleviating world hunger? And why do you carry a gun? -- Marylou Noble, Portland, Ore. I admire folks who can truly reduce their impacts while still working on the big-picture problems; my comment was directed to people I know who make minimizing their impacts th ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, Southeast (all these topics)

WildLaw, You Make My Heart Sing Ray Vaughan, an environmental lawyer, answers Grist's questions		19 Jul 2004	InterActivist
Ray Vaughan. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am executive director of WildLaw. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? WildLaw is a nonprofit environmental law firm that represents hundreds of community, environmental, and conservation organizations around the country. We work mainly in the So ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, politics, Southeast (all these topics)

The Bobby Lobby An interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., environmental advocate and Bush basher	Amanda Griscom	13 Jul 2004	Main Dish
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Photo: John Chrisitn. He has the distinguished mien, the political brio, and the eloquence of his ancestors, not to mention degrees from Harvard and the University of Virginia School of Law. Yet despite Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s sterling credentials, he's never run for public office, much less held one. That's fine with him, and with his many supporte ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, interview, politics (all these topics)

Hollywood Golightly An interview with Hollywood eco-crusader Laurie David	Amanda Griscom	16 Jun 2004	Main Dish
Those who are quick to snub Hollywood environmental activists as dabblers in eco-chic or peddlers of a pet cause would likely have a change of heart after shooting the breeze with Laurie David. Laurie David Photo: Tierney Gearon. David began her career booking comedians for David Letterman and met her husband Larry David -- co-creator of Seinfeld and creator and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm -- ...
Topics: celebrity, consumerism, education, environmental justice, environmental movement, green living, greenwashing, interview, NRDC (all these topics)

Shell Game Margie Eugene-Richard of Louisiana battled Shell on behalf of her neighborhood	Michelle Nijhuis	20 Apr 2004	Main Dish
Eugene-Richard. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Old Diamond neighborhood of Norco, in far southern Louisiana, sits between a Shell Chemicals plant and an oil refinery owned by a Shell joint venture. "We're like the meat in the sandwich," says Margie Eugene-Richard, 62, who grew up just 25 feet from the fenceline of the chemical plant. For decades, the 1,500 ...
Topics: business, energy, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, interview, Louisiana, oil, toxics (all these topics)

Hy Jinx Hybrids Gaining Ground Among Celebs, But Still Pricey for the Rest of Us		08 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Hy Jinx Hybrids Gaining Ground Among Celebs, But Still Pricey for the Rest of Us Thanks to lobbying by intrepid enviro group Global Green USA, several high-profile celebrities arrived at the Academy Awards this year not in stretch limos, but in diminutive hybrid Toyota Priuses. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron, Robin Willi ...
Topics: cars, celebrity, consumerism, electric vehicles, environmental justice, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics)

And Justice for All Bush EPA dilutes meaning of environmental justice	Amanda Griscom	04 Mar 2004	Muckraker
The U.S. EPA has failed to integrate environmental justice research into the development of its policies, says a report [PDF] released on Monday by the EPA's inspector general (IG), who operates an independent office within the agency. Play at your own risk. Photo: Environmental Defense. More troubling still, the EPA under President Bush seems to have watered down the very definition of environmen ...
Topics: environmental justice, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

And Justice for All EPA Diluting Meaning of Environmental Justice, Says Inspector General		04 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Garbage Cans and Garbage Can'ts Federal Court Rules EPA Incineration Emission Standards Insufficient		25 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Garbage Cans and Garbage Can'ts Federal Court Rules EPA Incineration Emission Standards Insufficient Federal standards governing emissions from garbage incinerators are inadequate and must be rewritten by the U.S. EPA, ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., yesterday. The controversy over incineration emissions began in the 1980s, when garba ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Put Down the Drills and Back Away Slowly Enviro Groups Sue to Stop Alaska Drilling		18 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Put Down the Drills and Back Away Slowly Enviro Groups Sue to Stop Alaska Drilling A coalition of seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a plan to open 8.8 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil and gas development. The groups -- including t ...
Topics: Alaska, Bureau of Land Management, energy, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, politics, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

Snow News Day Yellowstone Snowmobile Saga Gets Even More Convoluted		18 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, national parks, outdoor recreation, placemaking, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster Negligence on the part of the Texas-based American Bureau of Shipping -- a company that conducts safety inspections of ships -- could be to blame for the notorious Prestige tanker disaster, which spilled millions of gallons of oil off the coas ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, politics, Spain, Texas, United States (all these topics)

Snowmobefuddlement Judge Issues Yet Another Reversal of Yellowstone Snowmobile Ban		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Snowmobefuddlement Judge Issues Yet Another Reversal of Yellowstone Snowmobile Ban An already-confusing winter for tourists and tour operators in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks got more muddled yesterday, when a federal judge overturned severe restrictions on snowmobiling in the parks. For those of you keeping score at home, a quick rundown of the ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, environmental justice, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Court and Spark Bush Nominates Eco-Hostile Lobbyist to Federal Appeals Court		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, politics, ranching (all these topics)

Morose Code		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Morose Code In a move that should mean cleaner air for Washington, D.C., a federal appeals court yesterday rejected the U.S. EPA's decision to accept a D.C.-area proposal to delay enforcement of Clean Air Act-mandated pollution levels for several years past the act's 1999 deadline. The area was classified as being in "severe" violation of federal ozone ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Washington DC (all these topics)

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