 Stories About: mercury
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Heavy Metal Madness
Pombo eggs on mercury debate with controversial report |
Amanda Griscom Little |
24 Feb 2005 |
Muckraker |
| Pombo says: Eat up! House Resources Committee Chair Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) -- longtime bete noire of the environmental community -- cooked up what appears to be some fishy science in a report released last week titled "Mercury in Perspective: Fact and Fiction About the Debate Over Mercury" [PDF]. The report -- written not by scientists but rather by aides to Pombo and a ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, fishing, mercury, Muckraker, National Academy of Sciences, National Wildlife Federation, NRDC, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Mercury Uprising
Bush's mercury proposal draws heat from both sides of the aisle |
Amanda Griscom |
30 Mar 2004 |
Muckraker |
| The Capitol is heating up over mercury. Photo: NIH. A handful of Beltway wags are contending that mercury is the new arsenic, the latest symbol of official disregard for environmental health. Their claim is lent credence by an ongoing flurry of controversies surrounding the Bush administration's plan for dealing with the toxic pollutant. A revealing article published in the Los Angel ... |
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| Topics: mercury, Muckraker, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Hot Spot and Bothered
With feds slow to tackle mercury pollution, state leaders step up |
Amanda Griscom |
12 Feb 2004 |
Muckraker |
| The Mercury Mutiny is gaining force on the state level, galvanizing some unlikely rebels. Eastern states including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York were the first to jump into the fray, launching local efforts to reduce mercury pollution in response to the Bush administration's widely criticized plan for dealing with mercury. Then last week, a new regional e ... |
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| Topics: East Coast, health, mercury, Muckraker, Northeast, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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Task Force Majeure
The Supreme Court may alleviate Cheney's energy task force troubles |
Amanda Griscom |
17 Dec 2003 |
Muckraker |
| On Monday, the Supreme Court offered Vice President Dick Cheney a possible escape hatch from the great energy task force imbroglio. The high court agreed to hear an appeal from Cheney, who for more than a year has been defying a federal judge's order to pony up documents about his infamous 2001 task force. Those behind the lawsuit against the veep are certain the documents will re ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, mercury, Muckraker, New Jersey, politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics) |
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It's Not Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings
Climate talks are on the rocks, but not dead yet |
Amanda Griscom |
03 Dec 2003 |
Muckraker |
| The hippest catwalk in Milan this week. Photo: IISD. Milan is famous for opera and fashion, so perhaps it's appropriate that the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol conference, being held in the Italian city this week and next, has so far been characterized by high drama and public spectacle. Some 180 negotiators from around the world have been treated to rumors of deliberate sabotage ... |
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| Topics: climate, international politics, Kyoto Protocol, mercury, Muckraker, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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The Illumin-Naughty
On mercury in compact fluorescent lights |
Umbra Fisk |
16 Jan 2003 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Here in Texas, where it is very hot in the summer (granted, we deserve to be in hell for having produced George Bush), some of us have been enthusiastically switching our light bulbs to cooler compact fluorescents. Is this a bad thing due to the mercury they contain? Lisa Smithville, Texas Dearest Lisa, Thanks for your question, as it will allow me to keep shedding light on the compact fluoresc ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, mercury, toxics (all these topics) |
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Order in the Court
The nitty-gritty on the ruling that lets citizens sue their way to a clean environment |
Michael Grynberg |
28 Mar 2000 |
Main Dish |
| Once upon a time, a South Carolina wastewater treatment plant repeatedly violated the Clean Water Act by dumping illegal amounts of mercury into a river. Unsurprisingly, several environmental organizations responded by suing. They could do so because the Clean Water Act contains "citizen suit" provisions that allow private citizens to sue for the law ... |
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| Topics: litigation, mercury, toxics, waste, water pollution (all these topics) |
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