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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)

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)

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)

Grime Doesn't Pay		23 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Grime Doesn't Pay Tiny Delaware is getting tough on crime -- environmental crime, that is. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) and several state legislators want corporate leaders to sign annual sworn statements declaring that their companies are complying with environmental laws; if a company is then found to be in serious violation of such laws, its top management could face criminal charges. The prop ...
Topics: Delaware, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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