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My Favorite Martin
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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 ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, politics (all these topics) |
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Pests Aside
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, toxics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Ski-don't
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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 ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Best Offense Is a Bad Defect
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Shrimp Fried
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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 ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, food and agriculture, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Solutia-ns
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Alabama, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Grants' Tomb?
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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 ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Smoke Scream
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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 ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, New York, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Chesa-piqued
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11 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Chesa-piqued Saying that chemical contamination in the city's water supply led to miscarriages and infant deaths, 25 women have sued Chesapeake, Va., and almost 170 more plan to do so. According to a growing number of studies, the chlorine commonly used to purify drinking water can cause birth defects and miscarriages when it mixes with organic matter, su ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Virginia, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Rhode Island Lead
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08 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Rhode Island Lead A Superior Court judge in Rhode Island paved the way for a landmark lawsuit earlier this week when he gave state Attorney Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) permission to sue manufacturers of lead-based paint. The paint industry had attempted to derail the trial by calling for every one of an estimated 300,000 owners of ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics) |
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H-2-Oh-boy!
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05 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| H-2-Oh-boy! Utility companies can be sued for violating safe drinking water standards, the California Supreme Court unanimously decided on Monday. The decision is significant because it allows thousands of victims of polluted water to seek financial compensation from the private and public utilities that pipe tap water into homes; in the past, victims mos ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Shark Skin Suit
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30 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Shark Skin Suit Last summer, they were are our worst enemy; now they need a best friend. We're talking about sharks, of course. The much-maligned beach marauders are now the subject of a lawsuit filed earlier this week against the U.S. government by environmental organizations. The National Audubon Society, Earthjustice, and the Oc ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics (all these topics) |
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This Old Coal-fired Power Plant
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25 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| This Old Coal-fired Power Plant Even as the Bush administration works to relax clean-air regulations on coal-fired power plants, New Jersey's biggest energy supplier agreed yesterday to spend $337 million over the next 10 years to cut emissions from two plants. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the settlement between PSEG Power showed a "continuing commi ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, energy, environmental justice, New Jersey, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Garden State, Meet the Cement State
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18 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Garden State, Meet the Cement State Bad news on the environmental justice front: Poor and minority residents of Camden, N.J., aren't having much luck with efforts to sue the state for allowing a cement factory to spew pollution in their neighborhood. The residents successfully convinced U.S. District Judge Stephen Orlofsky that the siting of the plant was discriminatory, but Or ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, New Jersey, politics, pollution and waste, population (all these topics) |
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Fairy Fairy, Quite Contrary
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15 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Fairy Fairy, Quite Contrary The U.S. Supreme Court refused yesterday to hear a challenge to the protected status of the endangered fairy shrimp, a tiny crustacean that lives in rainwater ponds in California's Central Valley. The decision was a boon to fans of the Endangered Species Act, but a blow to property-rights advocates, for whom the case was one in a series of recent legal crusades to limit the ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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No Comment
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14 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| No Comment Here's the latest bit of unconscionable news from the U.S. Department of the Interior: Interior Secretary Gale Norton failed to submit comments from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service blasting a proposed Army Corps of Engineers plan to relax wetlands protection rules. As a result, the Army Corps will announce its final ver ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, environmental justice, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Victory at Sea
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11 Jan 2002 |
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| Topics: Department of Justice, environmental justice, food and agriculture, marine life, politics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Rey of Sunshine
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09 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Rey of Sunshine A controversial Bush administration plan to log trees harmed in fires that raged in the Bitterroot National Forest in 2000 was halted yesterday by a federal judge in Montana. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy also excoriated Mark Rey, natural resources and environment undersecretary for the Agriculture Department, for bypassing a 45-day public appe ... |
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| Topics: business, Department of Agriculture, environmental justice, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Taking Liberties?
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07 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Taking Liberties? The U.S. Supreme Court will begin today to consider a lawsuit over private property development in Lake Tahoe that has had lot owners and land-use planners squared off for more than two decades. At issue is a 1981 moratorium on the development of certain lots where runoff from rain and snowmelt would ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, lakes, Nevada, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Victor: Victoria
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04 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Victor: Victoria These days, press coverage of the Middle East is all bombs and burkhas, but Victoria Jamali is fighting a very different battle. The Iranian woman cofounded one of her country's most active nonprofits, the Women's Society Against Environmental Pollution. Now, along with colleagues at the Univers ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, Iran, Middle East, politics, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Running a Groundfish
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04 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Running a Groundfish The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service is breaking the law by failing to sufficiently protect groundfish in New England, a federal judge ruled last Friday. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said she would issue an order with specific directions for how the agency should stop overfishing, because the NMFS can't be trusted to enforce the ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, New England, politics (all these topics) |
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Anniston Get Your Gun
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03 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Anniston Get Your Gun For almost four decades, the Monsanto Company discharged toxic waste, including millions of pounds of PCBs, into creeks and landfills in Anniston, Ala. For most of that time, the company knew PCBs were highly toxic: Monsanto consultants placed fish in the contaminated creeks and watched them die within 10 seconds, and c ... |
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| Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Minority Report
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02 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Minority Report Officials in charge of reviving the Florida Everglades have created an outreach program to encourage minority involvement in the region's decades-long, multi-billion dollar restoration plan. The $11 million outreach program accords with 2000 legislation that granted federal funding for Everglades restoration and called on the South Florida Water ... |
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| Topics: business, environmental justice, environmental restoration, Florida, green living, politics (all these topics) |
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L.A. Confidential
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18 Oct 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| L.A. Confidential Environmental injustice appears to be alive and well in Los Angeles County, according to a study released today by the University of California at Los Angeles, which found that neighborhoods near major pollution sources are disproportionately low-income and Latino. Latinos make up 44 percent of the county population but 60 perce ... |
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| Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Green Camouflage
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04 Oct 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Green Camouflage The Pentagon spends about $5 billion a year on its "environmental security program," trying to reduce the environmental impact of the armed services. But many greenies think that's not enough, and up until the terrorist attacks, the military was facing growing pressure to take the environment more seriously. A proposal in Congress would require the mi ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, US Military, water pollution (all these topics) |
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