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Sand Witches Artificial and Restored Beaches Threaten Marine Ecosystems		04 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Sand Witches Artificial and Restored Beaches Threaten Marine Ecosystems Beautiful sand beaches are one of Ma Nature's most splendid creations -- except sometimes they're actually the handiwork of humans. Every year, millions of dollars go to creating sand beaches on previously rocky coasts and rebuilding beaches at key tourist destinations that have been eroded by storms, changing currents, and risi ...
Topics: environmental restoration, erosion, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Ever Glad-handing		16 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Ever Glad-handing The federal government is footing half the $8.4 billion bill for restoring the Florida Everglades -- so no wonder eight U.S. lawmakers are expressing concern over what they see as the state's efforts to alter the Everglades Forever Act, which sets the terms of the cleanup. Florida Department of Environmental Protection chief David Struhs is in Washington, D.C., today to reassure those lawmaker ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, politics (all these topics)

Mining Gets the Shaft		15 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Mining Gets the Shaft The pay dirt has run out for gold miners in California. Last week the state mining board okayed the nation's toughest regulations on open-pit metallic mining, requiring companies to refill mining pits and flatten waste piles in order to restore the landscape to at least some semblance of its pre-mining state. The industry complains that the new rules wil ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Well, They Otter		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Well, They Otter Sea otters should be allowed to frolic freely along the Southern California coastline, according to a new recovery plan drawn up for the threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Hailed by enviros, the plan, developed over 14 years, advocates the end of a federal program that relocates otters away from shellfish grounds to benefit fishers. Th ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, marine life, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

The Ides of Marsh		27 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
The Ides of Marsh Verdant marshes and wetlands were much of what helped put the "fertile" in the Fertile Crescent, that swath of land between the Tigris and Euphrates that is considered the birthplace of Western civilization. But in the last few decades, those marshes have been all but destroyed by dam-building and civil strife in Iraq. Those marshes that do remain could disappear in a ...
Topics: environmental restoration, health, United Nations, wetlands (all these topics)

The Dow of Poo		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Dow of Poo Outgoing Michigan Gov. John Engler (R) is trying to relax the state standard for dioxin pollution, a move that unhappy environmentalists say is designed to minimize Dow Chemical's financial liability for future cleanup efforts. The proposed change, which has also angered Gov.-elect Jennifer Granholm (D) ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, health, Hudson River, Michigan, New York, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

This Wetland Is My Wetland		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
This Wetland Is My Wetland California is on the verge of unveiling two of the biggest wetland-rehabilitation projects in the history of the Western United States. By the end of the year, officials in Northern California will sign a $135 million agreement to buy and begin restoring salt ponds along the South San Francisco Bay from Cargill, Inc., whose salt-production practices have led to seve ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, San Francisco, wetlands (all these topics)

Great Lakes Minds Think Alike		21 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Great Lakes Minds Think Alike The U.S. government has pledged to spend billions of dollars to restore the Florida Everglades -- and now the Great Lakes states are trying to figure out how they can get a piece of the federal pie, too. For more than a year, the governors of the eight states have been meeting to formulate a plan for restoring the lakes. Slated to be released next month, the plan is l ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, Great Lakes, politics (all these topics)

Viva Las Vegas		15 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Viva Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nev., the desert-turned-oasis of slot machines, plastic pyramids, and indoor waterfalls, is now undergoing a new kind of metamorphosis: A former 10-mile-long sewage gully is being transformed into a wetlands park that will be one of the largest swaths of locally preserved land in the nation. For 25 years, the Las Vegas "Wash" was an eroded channel draining 150 million gallons ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Nevada, wetlands (all these topics)

Jeb and Flow		11 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Jeb and Flow Environmentalists and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) are duking it out over the regulatory language of the colossal $7.8 billion Everglades restoration project -- a battle that will work against Bush in the upcoming gubernatorial election. Critics say Bush is less interested in restoring the Everglades than in securing a water supply for South Florida businesses and developers. The U.S ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, politics, water pollution (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)

Trout Killing in America		26 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Trout Killing in America Dam operators could flood part of the Colorado River next year in an effort to save an endangered fish species, rebuild beaches, and kill part of an excessively large trout population. The flood plans were approved yesterday 17 to 1 by a federally appointed panel composed of every major group with an interest in the river. Wildlife officials, archaeologists, and raft ...
Topics: Colorado River, environmental restoration, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Good As Goldman		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Good As Goldman Three Gwich'in Native Americans who battled oil development in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have been doubly rewarded for their efforts: Last week, the Senate voted to block oil drilling in the refuge, and today, the activists are being honored with this year's Goldman Prize, the world's biggest ...
Topics: Arctic, deforestation, energy, environmental restoration, logging, mining and drilling, Poland, Puerto Rico, Somalia, Thailand (all these topics)

Supremely Bad Judgement		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Supremely Bad Judgement The Florida Supreme Court dealt a blow to environmentalists and landowners yesterday by ruling that property owners in the state must continue to foot most of the bill for Everglades restoration, despite overwhelming support for a 1996 amendment to the state constitution that would have made polluters pay instead. The court determined that the ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, food and agriculture, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Blood Is Thicker Than Water		10 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Blood Is Thicker Than Water It was a family affair, but the significance was national: President Bush and his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, signed an agreement yesterday to guarantee that water captured by a $7.8 billion Florida Everglades restoration effort ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, Florida, food and agriculture, green living, national parks, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, wetlands (all these topics)

Minority Report		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 ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, environmental restoration, Florida, green living, politics (all these topics)

The Dredge Great-Scott Decision		05 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
The Dredge Great-Scott Decision U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said yesterday that her agency would order General Electric to spend almost $500 million to dredge PCBs from the upper Hudson River. In doing so, Whitman disregarded a multi-million-dollar P.R. campaign by the giant company claiming that dredging would not improve the river's health. Enviros, who had feare ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Hudson River, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

I Wanna Be Like Myco		26 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
I Wanna Be Like Myco They're good in salads, lovely with pasta ... and great for the earth? The humble mushroom could help clean up everything from oil spills to pesticides, thanks to a new technology called mycoremediation. Mushroom expert Paul Stamets pioneered the technology against the bacteria E. coli and then partnered with scientists at the Pacific Northwest Na ...
Topics: environmental restoration, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Back in Black		16 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Back in Black Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in Arizona, South Dakota, ...
Topics: Arizona, Colorado, environmental restoration, Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Flood Insurance		15 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Flood Insurance Chinese officials and the United Nations Environment Programme hope a $10 million plan to restore lakes and reduce logging and erosion will prevent a repeat of the disastrous 1998 flooding of the Yangtze River. Severe environmental degradation exacerbated the effects of heavy rainfalls that year, causing floods that killed upwards of 3,60 ...
Topics: China, environmental restoration, land degradation, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Tanks a Lot		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, environmental restoration, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Examining Extinction Lisa Hymas reviews Watching, from the Edge of Extinction by Beverly Peterson Stearns and Stephen C. Stearns	Lisa Hymas	23 Apr 1999	Arts and Minds
Watching, from the Edge of Extinction by Beverly Peterson Stearns and Stephen C. Stearns Yale University Press, 1999, 287 pages Cynthia Salley makes an unlikely hero for an environmental fable. A Hawaiian cattle rancher, Salley has tussled for years with the National Audubon Society and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over an endangered s ...
Topics: environmental restoration, wildlife (all these topics)

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