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Pop Mart		15 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Pop Mart What do butter, meat loaf, cantaloupe, peanuts, and popcorn have in common? Persistent organic pollutants. Banned in the U.S. since the 1970s, POPs such as the pesticides DDT and deldrin still contaminate 20 percent of the food we eat, according to a report by the San Francisco-based Pesticide Action Network. Based on an analysis of U.S. government data, the gro ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Monkey in the Middle		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Monkey in the Middle The number of primate species or sub-species classified as endangered or critically endangered has risen 63 percent since 2000, according to "Primates in Peril: The World's Top 25 Most Endangered Primates," a report issued recently by Conservation International and the World Conservation Union. The report found that one-third of all primate species are at ri ...
Topics: Asia, Brazil, environmental non-government organizations, wildlife (all these topics)

Ceci N'est Pas Une Citizens Group		12 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Ceci N'est Pas Une Citizens Group U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton has nixed the idea of a citizens panel to oversee the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, to the dismay of many environmentalists. Green groups and oil company watchdogs have called for the creation of such a group, similar to the citizens councils mandated by Congress after the 1989 Exxon V ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Paper Tiger		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Paper Tiger Confusion over the definition of old growth is spurring a new campaign by ForestEthics against major paper retailers. In the past, the environmental organization has taken on lumber retailers such as Home Depot; now, it's turning its attention to Staples, accusing the company of misleading customers into thinki ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, logging, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Just Say Nano?		09 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Just Say Nano? Nanotechnology -- the rapidly evolving science of manipulating materials at the molecular level -- holds the promise of tiny computers, super-strong bridges, ultra-light airplanes, and cures for cancer. But will it be an environmental boon or bane? Some fear that nanotechnology could create contaminants whose tiny size would make them nearly impossible to cleanse from t ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Hazing Ritual		30 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Hazing Ritual It might be officially nicknamed the Golden State, but sometimes, it's more like the Yellowish-Brown State: California continues to lead the U.S. in dirty air, with nearly twice as many "smog days" as any other state in the union, a recent report by an e ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental non-government organizations, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste, Texas (all these topics)

Foster Care		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Foster Care Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster (R) kicked off a campaign to save his state's coastline this week by bagging a $3 million, three-year grant from, of all places, Shell Oil. "America's Wetland: Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana" also earned the backing of several major national ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, environmental restoration, erosion, Louisiana, marine life, oceans, wetlands (all these topics)

Think of New England		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Think of New England While tens of thousands of people from all over the world gather in South Africa to wrangle over global environmental issues, a far smaller coalition is meeting quietly this week to ensure that New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers follow through on their promise to combat climate change. The Connecticut Climate Action Group, a member of ...
Topics: climate, environmental non-government organizations, New England, renewable energy (all these topics)

A Ticket to Not Ride		23 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
A Ticket to Not Ride Tree-huggers, time-wasters, socialists, elitists, leftists, losers, homosexuals, Democrats -- those are just a few of the more printable epithets that have been directed at the members of Earth on Empty, an environmental organization dedicated to improving air quality and reversing global warming. What has Earth on Empty done to earn such malice? It has launched a campaign to &quo ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, placemaking (all these topics)

Putting Their Lives on the Lime		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Putting Their Lives on the Lime Hoping to halt a limestone mining plan that would destroy 15,000 acres of wetlands in the Florida Everglades, environmentalists sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday. The Corps has issued permits to mine 1.7 billion tons of limestone from Everglades wetlands for roads in so ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental non-government organizations, Florida, land degradation, mining and drilling, Sierra Club, wetlands (all these topics)

Fine, China		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Fine, China California is one of the most environmentally minded states in the U.S.; China is one of the most polluted countries in the world. Now, the two have teamed up to clean up: California scientists and entrepreneurs are working with the Chinese government to combat environmental degradation in its myriad forms. The effort is being led by the Energy ...
Topics: air pollution, California, China, environmental non-government organizations, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Zealander		23 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Zealander New Zealand is one of the last countries in the world to have a food-production system entirely free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). But that could change when nearly 4 million voters go to the polls this Saturday to decide whether to lift a moratorium on the use of GMOs next year. In fact, the vote will decide more than that; it wil ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, GMOs, New Zealand, political groups, politics (all these topics)

BK Whopper		19 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
BK Whopper Eighteen months ago, throngs of Filipinos gathered at a religious shrine for a rally that ended in the resignation of corrupt then-president Joseph Estrada. The massive turnout was widely attributed to mobile texting, with hundreds of thousands of Filipinos passing along messages encouraging people to attend. Now, the cell-phone-happy people of the Philippines are turning to ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, Philippines (all these topics)

Always a Bribe's Made		12 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Always a Bribe's Made Apparently inspired by the 2000 Gore-Nader brouhaha, the head of New Mexico's GOP tried to bribe Green Party leaders to field candidates in upcoming elections in order to drain votes away from Democrats. The state's Republican Party chair, John Dendahl, spoke with Green leaders about the possibility of making a six-figure contribution to their part ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

Bread and Butterfly		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bread and Butterfly Like a lot of Americans, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winters in Mexico. Trouble is, the Mexican government has been unable to protect the monarch's forest habitat from illegal logging. Reasoning that illegal logging stems from necessity -- the 200,000-odd largely impoverished people who live in the Monarch ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, green living, logging, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

The Methane of Their Existence Citizens battle to keep Delta County from becoming the coal bed methane capital of Colorado	Lisa Jones	14 Jun 2002	Soapbox
It started out as a simple item on a regional planning commission agenda in remote Delta County, Colo. A recently reworked natural gas well in Delta County. Photo: Jeremy Puckett, WSERC. But since that meeting on April 9, the possibility that up to 600 coal bed methane wells could be drilled here has whipped up a firestorm of dissent in this quiet w ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling (all these topics)

IBM: I Buy Megawatts		12 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
IBM: I Buy Megawatts The World Resources Institute has corralled several prominent companies (think General Motors, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Kinkos) into expanding their use of renewable energy. The group hopes that a coalition of companies will commit to using 1,000 megawatts of renewable electricity by 2010; so far, companies in a dozen states have signed on to use 15 MW of power. IBM sa ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, renewable energy (all these topics)

Chemical Bothers		12 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Chemical Bothers Led by a prominent pediatrician, the Center for Children's Health and the Environment at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine is waging war against industrial chemicals, saying they present significant health risks to children. At a press conference yesterday, Phillip Landrigan, the center's director, said that the country doesn't even have minima ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Much Bali-hoo About Nothing Public interest groups fight for elbow room in Indonesia	David Case	07 Jun 2002	Main Dish
Thousands of people have gathered on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, to talk about poverty and environmental degradation in preparation for the August 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa. Yet the big question among public interest participants here is not how to solve the world's woes, but rather whether they should participate at all. Try cr ...
Topics: business, environmental non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Taylor-made Destruction		04 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Taylor-made Destruction Charles Taylor, the president of Liberia, has spread instability within his nation's borders and helped foment a brutal civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. To fund the fighting, he has exploited his country's natural resources. At first, it was diamonds -- but as internati ...
Topics: Africa, business, Colombia, deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, Liberia, logging, national parks, Sierra Leone (all these topics)

Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges Some of Florida's natural wonders will be protected from oil and gas drilling, thanks to two major deals announced yesterday by President Bush. The first, a completed $115 million buy-back of drilling leases off the shores of Pensacola, will protect the beaches of the ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, land stewardship, Mexico, mining and drilling, National Environmental Trust, politics (all these topics)

Paper Tiger		10 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental non-government organizations, green living, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Parking Is Expensive		15 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Parking Is Expensive Today is tax day in the U.S. (need we remind you?), but not many of your tax dollars will go to support the national park system -- and certainly not enough, conservationists say. The system is suffering from a $4.9 billion backlog in maintenance and improvement projects, a 40 percent shortfall for interpretive and educational services, and a 33 percent shortfall for ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, national parks, politics (all these topics)

Comment Tally Voodoo		11 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Comment Tally Voodoo Environmental organizations had just 48 hours to submit policy proposals for consideration by Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, according to the latest batch of documents released by the Energy Department. Shortly after midday on Wednesday, March 21, 2001, Margot Anderson, a senior department official, sent an email message to a colleague instructing him to ...
Topics: Department of Energy, environmental non-government organizations (all these topics)

Favor Dis-Spencer		27 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Favor Dis-Spencer The word is out that U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham met only with energy industry executives and no environmental or consumer groups as he helped to write the Bush administration's energy policy last year. But only now is the extent of that exclusive access becoming clear. On Monday night, after a court-ordered release of 11,000 pages of documents relating ...
Topics: Department of Energy, environmental non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

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