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When Methanol's Said and Done		06 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
When Methanol's Said and Done In the first-ever legal challenge to a U.S. environmental measure mounted under the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Canadian company is contesting California's ban on the gasoline additive MTBE. The state began phasing out the chemical compound because of its apparent threat to water quality and human health, b ...
Topics: California, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Area 51		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Area 51 Fair-to-middling was the U.S. ranking in a new study, presented at the World Economic Forum last week in New York, that rated the environmental health of 142 countries. In the study, conducted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, the U.S. came in ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, Canada, European Union, globalization, green living, Middle East, United States (all these topics)

I Believe in a Town Called 'Without Hope'		18 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Africa, business, globalization, green living, Kenya, recycling (all these topics)

Made in the Shade		11 Jan 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: business, globalization, green living (all these topics)

Tricks of the Trade		07 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Tricks of the Trade In a blow to environmentalists and unions, Republicans in the U.S. House pushed through a plan yesterday to give President Bush broad authority to negotiate trade agreements. The bill, which was approved by a single vote, would take away from Congress the power to amend trade deals brokered by the administration; lawmakers could merely vote yea or nay on the pacts. Enviro group ...
Topics: globalization, international government agencies, politics (all these topics)

Standards vs. the Poor?		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Standards vs. the Poor? The European Union is demanding that environmental issues be included in the latest round of World Trade Organization talks, which opened on Friday in Doha, Qatar. The E.U. wants environmental standards to be negotiated as a part of trade rules -- and says the issue could be a "deal breaker" at the talks -- but many developing nations fear that ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, Middle East, Qatar, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Borderline Inane		08 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Borderline Inane Almost every major community on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border suffers from poor air quality, according to a report due to be released shortly by U.S. and Mexican environmental agencies. The poor air is a byproduct of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which led to the construction of 84 assembly plants on the border in Mexico that are not answerable to s ...
Topics: air pollution, business, globalization, health, Mexico, United States (all these topics)

Malaise-ia		29 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Malaise-ia A proposed pipeline that would transport natural gas from the South China Sea through Thailand and into Malaysia is bringing only conflict to the region thus far. The Thai government sees possibilities for modernization, dependable energy, employment, and the economic unification of Southeast Asia in the pipeline, but many villagers see a threat to their land and way of life. Since March, re ...
Topics: business, energy, globalization, Malaysia, Thailand (all these topics)

Zed, last of his species, in 'Was It Something We Said?'		11 Oct 2001	Zed.
Zed, last of his species, in "Was It Something We Said?" 11 Oct 2001
Topics: globalization (all these topics)

Back Flipper		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 ...
Topics: Department of Commerce, Earth Island Institute, environmental justice, globalization, marine life, Mexico, politics, South America, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Dead in the Water	Donella H. Meadows	14 Feb 2000	Global Citizen
Here's a story of the global economy at its worst and maybe also at its best. Early this month a cry of alarm came over email from my friend Zoltan Lontay in Hungary. The Hungarian news had just announced an enormous fish kill in the Szamos river on that country's eastern border. A wave of cyanide was moving down the Szamos and into the Tisza, Hungary's second largest river. No one knew what had happened, but there was talk of a mine, operat ...
Topics: globalization, Hungary, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Cutting Globalization Down to Size Protesters make themselves heard in Seattle	Bill McKibben, TomPaine.com	30 Nov 1999	Main Dish
By Bill McKibben and TomPaine.com 30 Nov 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. The metaphor is irresistible. Between 8 and 10 this morning in downtown Seattle, the protesters owned the streets. Later in the day, they vied with police, back and forth; but as the day began the cops were back inside their perimeters, and the few thousand drumming, singing demonstrators were firmly in control. And so, as delegates began to arrive for the ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, globalization, grassroots activism, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Giving Unfair Trade a Shake	David Korten	29 Nov 1999	Soapbox
Delegates to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle will be met by as many as 50,000 protesters from all around the world. WTO advocates seek to dismiss the protestors as anti-trade extremists who want to turn back the clock on human progress. In truth, the vast majority of the protestors will be coming from mainstream churches, unions, universities, independent businesses, and a wide variety of civic organizations concerned with s ...
Topics: business, globalization, politics, Seattle, Washington, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

The Battle in Seattle	Donella H. Meadows	29 Nov 1999	Global Citizen
Last month The Economist ran a frustrated editorial wondering why environmental groups would picket the upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle. The headline read "Why Greens Should Love Trade." Actually greens see no particular reason either to love or hate trade. They don't share the religious beliefs of economists, who love trade as indiscriminately as they love growth. Greens are inclined to ask questions ...
Topics: globalization, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Seattle Crossroads Why tens of thousands are trekking to the Emerald City	Bill McKibben, TomPaine.com	24 Nov 1999	Main Dish
By Bill McKibben and TomPaine.com 24 Nov 1999 SEATTLE, Wash. For twenty years, the fight to globalize the world's economy has been a rout. The largest transnational corporations expanded their power in every direction -- Japanese conglomerates cut down forests across the tropics; American grain companies dictated the price of food; Baywatch found a billion viewers a week. But that rout has suddenly turned into a conte ...
Topics: globalization, green living, Seattle, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

What I Did on My Summer Vacation	Ben White	18 Aug 1999	Muckraker
August is prime R&R time for lawmakers, who are kicking back in their home states and pressing the all-important constituent flesh. No such vacation at the Sierra Club, however, where summer means it's time to drive lawmakers crazy by running ads against them. On the receiving end of the group's radio spots this time around are Reps. Chris John (D-La.), Anne Northup (R-Ky.), Heather Wilson (R-N.M.), and Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Mich ...
Topics: globalization, land stewardship, Muckraker, politics, Sierra Club, Washington (all these topics)

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