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Victory at Sea
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11 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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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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Cemental Case
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27 Sep 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Cemental Case A cement plant in Camden, N.J., shouldn't be allowed to operate because it may be imposing an unfair pollution burden on a poor, minority neighborhood, a South Camden citizens group argued before a federal appeals court on Tuesday. A lawyer for the group told a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, New Jersey, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Back Flipper
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24 Jul 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Back Flipper A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the U.S. government's bid to loosen the standard for "dolphin-safe" tuna. The U.S. wanted to open its dolphin-safe market to Mexican and Latin American fishers who catch tuna in large purse-seines and promise to set fre ... |
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| Topics: Department of Commerce, Earth Island Institute, environmental justice, globalization, marine life, Mexico, politics, South America, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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Kweisi for You
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16 Jul 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Kweisi for You The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said last week that it would sue companies that manufactured lead paint. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume described exposure to lead paint as a "civil rights issue." The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that low-income children are eight times more likely to live in hom ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, health, non-government organizations, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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Enviros Suck
"Clean cars" are the devil's tools, diverting attention from truly green solutions |
Jane Holtz Kay |
26 Jan 2001 |
Soapbox |
| The "clean car" is cool this season. "Is your car an energy hog? Get a new one," a web ad bombards me before I have finished the morning's second cup of coffee. "Your vote counts here," says the flashing ad that rates the energy efficiency of the web surfer's car, luring owners to buy a scrubbed-up replacement. The shock to my sy ... |
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| Topics: cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, environmental justice, greenwashing, hybrids, politics, Prius (all these topics) |
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What a Beauty!
Navajo pageant winner is an enviro star |
Lisa Jones |
23 Jan 2001 |
Main Dish |
| Outfitted in moccasins and traditional dresses, the four contestants in the 49th Miss Navajo Nation Pageant -- held this past September in Window Rock, Ariz. -- demonstrated a dazzling array of cultural skills. They discussed, in Navajo, the Treaty of 1868. They carded and spun wool, and they displayed rugs they had woven. They prepared fry bread from scratch over an open fire of their own making. Just about the onl ... |
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| Topics: Arizona, environmental justice, politics (all these topics) |
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Cabbage Patch Kid
One man taxes his way to a healthy relationship with the earth |
Lisa Jones |
19 Oct 2000 |
Main Dish |
| Dev Carey is a tall, handsome man with a Ph.D. in ecology. He can swing dance like a pro, identify every plant in the meadow outside his house, and talk nervous youths into rappelling off cliffs. He can do many things, but one thing he can't do is separate himself from the morality of any given situation. Especially the environmental morality of any given situation. Dev Carey, flower child. ... |
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| Topics: business, environmental justice, green living, Mexico, politics (all these topics) |
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The Dow Passes 10,000 -- Hooray?
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Donella H. Meadows |
19 Apr 1999 |
Global Citizen |
| Wow! The Dow Jones average is over 10,000! And still, as of this writing, rising. Judging from the media celebration, here is proof positive that America is thriving. But who or what is actually thriving? There are two ways to answer that question. One is to travel around America -- all of it, the inner cities and the uptown penthouses, the trailers and the trophy homes -- and see. The other is to look at the statistics. E ... |
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| Topics: business, environmental justice, politics (all these topics) |
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