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Soilant Green U.S. Fails to Inspect Farmed Fish Imports for Dangerous Chemicals		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Soilant Green U.S. Fails to Inspect Farmed Fish Imports for Dangerous Chemicals If the orange foam caused by Canadian aquaculture isn't enough to scare you away from farmed fish, how about the presence of malachite green, a fabric dye suspected to cause cancer, in Chilean farmed salmon? This year, European countries seized dozens of tons of farmed salmon from Chile that were found to have been con ...
Topics: Chile, globalization, marine life, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Better Biosafe than Sorry A new GMO treaty is about to get tangled up in trade tussles	Lissa Harris	11 Sep 2003	Main Dish
All but eclipsed by the somber anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety will become international law today with little fanfare. Nonetheless, its entry into force could mark the beginning of a new era in international trade -- with potentially sweeping consequences for the environment. Fields of grain -- GMO barley, to be precise. P ...
Topics: food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Mexican Standoff Feds Will Study Environmental Impact of Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads		27 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Mexican Standoff Feds Will Study Environmental Impact of Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads Bowing to a federal court order, the Bush administration announced yesterday that it will study what the environmental impact would be of an increase in Mexican trucks on U.S. roads. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals banned Mexican trucks from the U.S. in resp ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Transportation, globalization, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Nafta-shocks Thwarted by Environmental Rules, Mining Company Sues Under NAFTA		20 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Nafta-shocks Thwarted by Environmental Rules, Mining Company Sues Under NAFTA Critics have long said the North American Free Trade Agreement spells trouble for the environment. Now, mining company Glamis Gold is poised to prove them right: It plans to use an obscure provision of the treaty to challenge California's strict environmental laws. For years, the company, which is owned by a Canadian-based multinational, has bee ...
Topics: globalization, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Europe Paean		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Europe Paean Major American corporations may be getting off easy on environmental regulations in the U.S. these days, but they're being forced to toe the line in Europe. Rules adopted this year will require all electronics manufacturers doing business in European Union countries to eliminate use of lead, mercury, and other heavy metals from their products, ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, green living, politics, recycling, toxics, United States, waste (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Crying Shaman		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Crying Shaman A new oil pipeline that will run from the Russian region of Buryatiya into China is being hailed by industry officials and government leaders as a major economic boon, but many local residents beg to differ. Construction of the pipeline will involve bulldozing land and felling trees -- environmental problems anywhere and ...
Topics: Asia, China, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, green living, logging, national parks, wilderness (all these topics)

Above the Bar		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Above the Bar Great Britain may soon use DNA bar codes to make it easy to spot genetically modified (GM) foods. The technology, developed by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge, would help regulators quickly spot foods or crops contaminated with GM organisms. The British government is weighing the possibility of requiring biotech companies to use the technology, which involves add ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, GMOs, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Mongoose Step		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Mongoose Step Invasive species are a problem throughout the world -- but in Japan, with its fragile island ecosystems, the problem is particularly severe. The most prominent Japanese battle to protect native species is raging in Lake Biwa, the nation's largest freshwater lake and a cultural icon frequently referenced in literature, theater, and film. There, voracious Ameri ...
Topics: Asia, globalization, Japan, lakes, marine life, rivers and watersheds, wildlife (all these topics)

Test Ban Treat		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Test Ban Treat Here's one unintended consequence of the impending U.S. war against Iraq: The Bush administration has delayed a formal challenge to the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Recently, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick blamed the ban for widespread starvation in the developing world and said the administration was considering ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, GMOs, Iraq, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Quicksilver, Slow Kids		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Quicksilver, Slow Kids World leaders urgently need to take action to cut down on mercury emissions to protect human health, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme. Mercury is released into the atmosphere naturally from rocks, soils, and volcanic eruptions, but mercury emissions have dramatically increased from pre-industrial levels due to human act ...
Topics: energy, globalization, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

The Truck Stops There		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops There In a setback for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court yesterday halted a federal plan to permit thousands of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, calling instead for environmental reviews that could take up to three years. In November, President Bush approved the entry of 30,000 Mexican trucks per year, citing ob ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, globalization, Mexico, North America, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Big Ban Boom		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Big Ban Boom Robert Zoellick, the Bush administration's chief trade official, is calling on the U.S. to challenge the European Union's ban on genetically modified food. Zoellick claims the ban is both scientifically backward and "immoral," arguing that it deprives starving people in the developing world of food. The U.S. and t ...
Topics: Africa, European Union, globalization, GMOs, health, politics, population, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Trump Card		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Trump Card The U.S. wants the European Union to stop trying to weigh down trade rules with environmental considerations. (Silly Europeans, what were they thinking?) In a face-off at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City earlier this week, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and E.U. Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy argued about how international environmental agreements should interac ...
Topics: business, European Union, globalization, United States (all these topics)

Leaf Me Alone		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Leaf Me Alone At international talks underway on protecting endangered species, the Bush administration has announced that it is "neutral" and "undecided" in the debate over whether to restrict trade in big-leaf mahogany from Latin America. The U.S. position since the time of George Bush the Elder had been to call for stricter limits on trade in th ...
Topics: business, globalization, logging, politics, South America, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Trick or Treaty		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Trick or Treaty Ten years after the North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted, controversy continues over the environmental consequences of increased trade between the U.S. and Mexico. Some experts who bitterly opposed NAFTA at the start now feel that the treaty has led to some improvements in quality of life in U.S. border areas -- but they sa ...
Topics: business, globalization, Mexico, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Where Did All the Protesters Go?		30 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Where Did All the Protesters Go? Nearly three years after some 20,000 anti-globalization demonstrators all but shut down the city of Seattle, a fraction of that crowd showed up to protest this weekend's meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, D.C. The disappointing turnout (police, of whom there were plenty, placed the numbers at between 3,000 and 5,000) was widel ...
Topics: globalization, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics)

Money Shaving Steps		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Money Shaving Steps Many enviros have suspected for a while that the deregulation of electricity markets is bad for the environment. Now here's some proof: Spending on energy efficiency programs by North American power companies -- the biggest polluters on the continent -- dropped by 42 percent between 1995 and 1999, largely because of deregulation. The findings were made public this week in a report ...
Topics: air pollution, globalization, North America, politics (all these topics)

Dreading Water		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Dreading Water Industrial pollution in U.S. and Canadian lakes, rivers, and streams rose 26 percent from 1995 to 1999, according to a report released yesterday by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the environmental watchdog agency of the North American Free Trade Association. The report, entitled "Taking Stock," ...
Topics: Canada, globalization, pollution and waste, United States, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Privates Exposed		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Privates Exposed The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is coming under fire from environmentalists after the London Guardian published information from apparently secret E.C. documents describing efforts to liberalize trade by privatizing state-run services in ...
Topics: European Union, Friends of the Earth, globalization, international government agencies, solid waste treatment and disposal, water conflicts, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Silicon Death Valley		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Silicon Death Valley Nineteenth century labor conditions and 21st century technology are clashing in impoverished areas of Asia, where millions of tons of obsolete high-tech gear are shipped from the U.S. to be stripped of valuable parts. The practice, which is highly dangerous for both workers and the environment, is documented in a ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, energy, globalization, Haiti, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Kenya Believe It?		20 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Believe It? If Kenya gets its way, water distribution in east Africa could change dramatically: The nation's energy minister, Raila Odinga, has called for a review of the 1929 British colonial treaty that grants Egypt the right to veto projects involving use of the headwaters of the Nile. Od ...
Topics: Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, globalization, international government agencies, Kenya, Middle East, Nile River, rivers and watersheds, Sudan, water conflicts (all these topics)

Sting Operation		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Sting Operation Okay, everyone knows you can't take so much as a nail clipper on an airplane these days -- but how about a scorpion? Last month, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors in Miami impounded a shipment of 600 of the critters, plus 2,000 reptiles and other invertebrates. That's a lot of crawly things, but the shipment was just one of untold others that are, well, f ...
Topics: Florida, globalization, placemaking, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Kenya Opener		08 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Opener Even though Kenya is a major food exporter, it hasn't reaped much benefit from the $20 billion-per-year global market in organic foods. Now some farmers and nonprofits in the African nation are trying to change that. Many Kenyans already grow their crops without chemical inputs, but up till now, not a single one has been certified as an organic ...
Topics: Africa, commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, globalization, GMOs, Kenya (all these topics)

Cano Worms		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Cano Worms The Bush administration has asked for $98 million to help protect Colombia's Cano Limon oil pipeline from attacks by leftist guerrillas. The pipeline, which is owned by Occidental Petroleum, supplies crude oil to the U.S. and has the capacity to pump 240,000 barrels a day. But con ...
Topics: Colombia, commercial and industry organizations, energy, globalization, health, politics, pollution and waste, ranching, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

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