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No Absurd Headline Necessary		22 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
No Absurd Headline Necessary The U.S. Department of Energy is preparing to claim that Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force did all it could to involve environmental groups in planning the Bush administration's energy plan. Last month, a federal court ruled in favor of the Natural Resources Defense Council and ordered the department to release as many as 14,000 documents relat ...
Topics: Department of Energy, environmental non-government organizations, NRDC (all these topics)

Shark Skin Suit		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 ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics (all these topics)

Victor: Victoria		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 ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, Iran, Middle East, politics, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Free-range Checking		04 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Free-range Checking The Sante Fe group Forest Guardians is hoping to raise $1 million to boot cattle from thousands of state-owned acres in Arizona and New Mexico. In late November, the group won a case before Arizona's Supreme Court that ended a state policy of allowing only ranchers to lease state school trust land, which includes about 8.3 million ...
Topics: Arizona, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, New Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

No Shrinking Violence Threats to Mexican environmentalists continue	Mark Hertsgaard	19 Nov 2001	Main Dish
Two political associates of peasant environmentalists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera have narrowly survived an apparent assassination attempt, raising grave questions about Montiel and Cabrera's own safety following their Nov. 8 release from jail by Mexican President Vicente Fox. Rodolfo Montiel. Felipe Arriga, the secretary general of the Ecologist Organization of the Mountain of Petatlan and ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, logging, Mexico, politics (all these topics)

Soothing the Savage Breasts		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Soothing the Savage Breasts We've been derelict in our duties: Only now are we telling you that the largest known environmental striptease in the history of the world took place last Friday. Nine bare-breasted women briefly halted logging near Northern California's Headwaters Forest, at a stand of second-growth redwood trees that didn't make it into the 1999 forest protection dea ...
Topics: California, environmental non-government organizations, logging, wilderness (all these topics)

Polar Opposition		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Polar Opposition Last month, the leader of an Eskimo village in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service claiming that the Alaska Wilderness League, which works to prevent oil drilling in the refuge, misrepresented itself to obtain nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax status. The complaint alleges that the ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, Internal Revenue Service (all these topics)

Starting From Ground Zero What's changed, what hasn't, and what should for the environmental movement	Kathryn Schulz	11 Oct 2001	Soapbox
I was in New York City on Sept. 11, so recently I've seen a lot of things go up in smoke. First there were the airplanes, careening nose-first into the World Trade Center towers and -- it seemed almost uncanny at the time -- failing to emerge on the other side. Then there were the buildings themselves, billowing abruptly into oblivion. Less spectacularly visible, bu ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, New York, politics, US Military (all these topics)

Moscowl		10 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Moscowl Not much of the northern forest in the European portion of Russia is still standing and many of the trees that haven't been felled are in jeopardy, according to a report released by Greenpeace Russia and Global Forest Watch. Russian researchers who spent five years mapping the forest for the report say that the largest stretches of intact forest aren't protected from logging. In total, ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Russia, wilderness (all these topics)

Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir?		05 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Fill Up Yer Camel, Sir? A court in Pakistan ruled yesterday that Britain's Premier Oil can go ahead with plans to test for natural gas in the country's largest national park, which is home to rare urial sheep, ibex, and chinkara gazelle. Shehri-Citizens for a Better Environment and Friends of the Earth International say Premier' ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental non-government organizations, national parks, Pakistan, wildlife (all these topics)

Where Everybody Knows Your Name		04 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Where Everybody Knows Your Name Former President Bill Clinton paid a visit to Hollywood yesterday to speak at a fundraising dinner for the American Oceans Campaign. Leonardo DiCaprio, Barbra Streisand, Dennis Quaid, Rhea Perlman, and other stars were on hand to honor the president for his past environmental work. The event raised $600,000 for American Oceans, which was founded by ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, celebrity, environmental non-government organizations, oceans (all these topics)

Better, Safe Safari		19 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Better, Safe Safari "The future of Kenyan tourism is green," says Judy Gona, executive director of the Ecotourism Society of Kenya, which is working to create a low-impact, more environmentally friendly tourism industry in the second-most visited country in Africa. ESOK's 80 members are mostly small, secluded camps and lodges that are built with local materials. They use alternative energ ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Kenya, travel (all these topics)

The Promised Land Managers		07 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
The Promised Land Managers In a victory for environmentalists, Israel's Supreme Court ruled last week that the Jewish National Fund, well known around the world for its tree-planting efforts in Israel, must now submit its forestry plans for public review. The ruling came on a petition filed by the Israel Union for Environmental Defense. The enviro group charged that the fund has man ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Israel, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

At the Head of the Class		06 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
At the Head of the Class Lawyers from top environmental groups in the U.S. are considering such new legal strategies as broad-based class-action lawsuits to force the U.S. and corporations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Whether in federal courts or international tribunals, the lawyers would sue on behalf of people or whole countries suffering from the effects of global warming. For example, the lawye ...
Topics: climate, environmental non-government organizations (all these topics)

Jakarta Four: The Hearse		31 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Jakarta Four: The Hearse In a big victory for the Indonesian environmental group Walhi, an Indonesian court this week found that mining giant Freeport Indonesia had given false information to the country's parliament about a fatal mining accident last year and ordered the company to improve its toxic waste management. Four workers died in a landslide at the mine last year, but Free ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Gopher It!		29 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Gopher It! In what could turn into an unprecedented deal to protect imperiled animals and plants in the U.S., the Interior Department and several environmental groups are working on an agreement to safeguard more than two dozen species under the Endangered Species Act. The agreement would cover such species as the coastal cutthroat trout in Oregon and Washington, the Big Cypress ...
Topics: Department of Interior, environmental non-government organizations, wildlife (all these topics)

Missile Offense		28 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Missile Offense Enviros and arms-control groups are suing the Pentagon today over its plans for a new missile defense test range in the Pacific. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and a number of Alaska-based plaintiffs charge that the Defense Department must cond ...
Topics: Alaska, California, Department of Defense, environmental non-government organizations, fishing, Greenpeace, Hawaii, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Boxy but Good		28 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Boxy but Good Greenpeace and the small London-based group Families Against Bush are using consumer pressure to try to embarrass corporations into supporting the Kyoto treaty on climate change. Earlier this summer, the groups put the heat on Ford by highlighting a rift between the U.S. automaker and its Swedish subsidiary Volvo. Volvo publicly supports Kyoto; Ford does not. A ...
Topics: air pollution, business, environmental non-government organizations, Greenpeace (all these topics)

Dodge Bawl		28 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Dodge Bawl Earlier this year, U.S. environmental groups and automakers met with congressional members to back a tax credit for fuel-efficient hybrid cars. Now enviros are saying the auto industry has violated the spirit of the agreement by pushing for tax credits for hybrid SUVs with low mileage ratings. Under a House bill, for example, a hybr ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Residon'ts		16 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Residon'ts Nearly half the fruit and vegetables sold in U.K. supermarkets since 1998 contained pesticide residues, according to an analysis of government pesticide data by Friends of the Earth. The group said most of the residues were within legal limits, but it raised concerns that the individual chemicals could be dangerous in combination, especially for u ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, health, toxics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Better Off Red Than Dead?		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Better Off Red Than Dead? The water level of the Dead Sea is dropping by about three feet a year and may go dry by 2050, says Friends of the Earth in the Middle East. The group is sponsoring a photo competition to raise awareness of the plight of the popular tourist attraction, using the catchy tag line, "Let the Dead Sea Live." Its campaign calls for the U.N. to take an int ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Middle East, United Nations (all these topics)

That '70s Show Leaked memo says GOPers must 'Carterize' the Dems to win support for their energy policy	Ben White	16 May 2001	Muckraker
Leaked memo says GOPers must "Carterize" the Dems to win support for their energy policy By Ben White 16 May 2001 President Bush draws the curtain on the administration's energy policy tomorrow, but there's not much anxious anticipation. This remarkably non-leaky White House has done a pretty good job drib-drabbing out the whole policy, so much so that you'll be forgiven if you feel you've read the same story about what's in the plan 10 different times. Muckraker, how ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Rough Riding	Ben White	03 Aug 2000	Muckraker
Giddy Republicans -- confident they will wipe the floor with Al Gore and return to the White House this fall after eight years in the wilderness -- gathered here this week for a conflict-free crowning of George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney. While Bush was promising to be a "unique leader for a unique moment" and Cheney was somewhat abashedly delivering the only red-meat attacks of the week, Muckraker was busy prowling the floor on the lookout for ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Yanking His Cheney	Ben White	25 Jul 2000	Muckraker
Environmentalists are wasting no time in aiming their fire at former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, who this morning became George W. Bush's running mate on the GOP presidential ticket. Enviros are criticizing Cheney's voting record in the House -- he got only a 13 percent career approval rating from the League of Conservation Voters -- and knocking his environmental record as current chair and CEO of the Halliburton oil company. Cheney says cheese. ...
Topics: climate, energy, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Primary Colors	Ben White	09 Mar 2000	Muckraker
The presidential primary contests came thundering to a halt this week and, on the Republican side, the environment appears to have played a major role in helping George W. Bush beat back John McCain. The height of the GOP battle was marked by bitter acrimony over a television ad paid for by Bush supporters that criticized McCain's environmental record and praised Bush's. First reports of the ad, which ran on the pricey airwaves of New York and Califo ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics)

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