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Down, but Not Out		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Down, but Not Out Here's a spot of good news: Releases of toxic chemicals by U.S. industries declined 15 percent between 2000 and 2001 (the most recent year for which data are available) and dropped by more than 50 percent since 1988. That's the latest word from the U.S. EPA's Toxics Release Inventory. Of course, that means there are still 6.2 billion pounds of toxic chemicals being ...
Topics: mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Welcome to the Ex-jungle		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Welcome to the Ex-jungle The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest jumped 40 percent in 2002, with 9,840 square miles of forest lost, according to figures released this week by Brazil's Environment Ministry. That loss -- the highest since 1995 -- prompted alarm among environmentalists and pledges by the Brazilian government to implement emergency measures to protect t ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, logging, mining and drilling, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mine		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Ghana, health, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mine Illegal gold mining in Ghana shafts locals' health and the environment	Josh Harkinson	24 Jun 2003	Main Dish
At I Trust My Legs, an illegal mining camp along a gray stream in the West African nation of Ghana, trespassers have bored vertical shafts deep into the ground. On a recent morning, Maxwell Adzoka strapped a lamp to his head, pressed his bare back and shoeless feet against the slick clay walls of one of these shafts, and climbed down, his yellow bulb disappearing i ...
Topics: Ghana, health, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Beauty and the Beasts		23 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Beauty and the Beasts India's tigers may be threatened by, of all things, rising demand for cosmetics. The growing market for talcum powder -- widely used in lipsticks, eye shadows, deodorants, and other such products -- is leading to the destruction of tiger habitat by illegal mining operations that sell talc to international cosmetics companies, including Revlon, Johnson & Joh ...
Topics: deforestation, India, logging, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Nature Conservancy Goes Back to Nature		16 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Nature Conservancy Goes Back to Nature The Nature Conservancy, which was sent reeling last month after a series of Washington Post articles exposed embarrassing problems and questionable practices within the organization, has announced a number of policy reforms decided upon in a board meeting last week. TNC, the world's wealthiest environmental group, will stop drilling for oil on land it controls, m ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Nature Conservancy, United States (all these topics)

Deep Blue See		13 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Deep Blue See Over the objections of lawmakers from coastal states, the U.S. Senate yesterday approved a plan to survey oil and natural gas deposits beneath the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Supporters say the country has the right to know the extent and nature of its energy reserves in case of a crisis. Critics say the plan could open the door to overturning a long-standing ban on n ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, United States (all these topics)

Greens Pan Greenspan		11 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Greens Pan Greenspan The Bush administration and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan are expressing increasing concerns about dwindling natural gas supplies, a move that environmentalists see as a ploy to drum up support for nuclear energy and drilling on public lands. The concern over natural gas comes as Congress debates a comprehensive energy bill that could include provisions for d ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

Don't Fear the Reefer		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Don't Fear the Reefer The Australian government today announced plans to put nearly one-third of the Great Barrier Reef off limits to fishing and trawling. "This will provide the largest network of protected marine areas in the world," said Minister for the Environment David Kemp. Environmental advocates praised the move but pointed out that the government needs to do more, including protect a ...
Topics: Australia, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans (all these topics)

Coal Comfort		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Comfort A four-and-a-half-year study by the federal government has confirmed what most residents of Appalachia figured was obvious: Mountaintop removal coal mining is destroying the region's forests and streams. Yet despite the findings, which were released yesterday, the Bush administration does not intend to impose concrete limits on the practice. In ...
Topics: Appalachia, deforestation, energy, mining and drilling, renewable energy, Southeast, wilderness (all these topics)

No Art-ic Refuge		02 May 2003	Daily Grist
No Art-ic Refuge Sometimes art gets political -- and sometimes it's the artist who suffers. Just ask Subhankar Banerjee, who spent his life savings to photograph Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. For a while, things were going swimmingly for Banerjee; he found a publisher for his photo collection and earned an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Then, in Marc ...
Topics: Alaska, green living, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Texa-cojones		02 May 2003	Daily Grist
Texa-cojones In 1992, Texaco called an end to almost three decades of oil drilling in Ecuador -- and left behind a legacy of miles of pipelines and 20 billion gallons of toxic waste that destroyed the rainforest, fouled waterways, and exposed residents to cancer-causing pollutants. Now, 30,000 jungle residents of Ecuador and Peru whose environment was permanently despoiled are suing ChevronTexaco for $1 billi ...
Topics: Ecuador, land degradation, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Why-oming		01 May 2003	Daily Grist
Why-oming In a much-anticipated decision, the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management announced yesterday that it would approve the development of as many as 51,000 coalbed methane wells in Wyoming and Montana's Powder River Basin. Although the BLM also called for a team of government representatives to monitor the air- and water-quality effects of the wells, environmentalists were disappointe ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Tribe-ulations		29 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: mining and drilling Tribe-ulations Oil and gas development on Indian lands in the U.S. could move forward unimpeded by environmental concerns if Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) gets his way. The only Native American in the Senate, Campbell wants to exempt energy projects on Indian lands from federal environmental regulation -- and as chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and a senior member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, he's in a position to get wh ...
Topics: mining and drilling (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)

Haunted House		11 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Haunted House The U.S. House of Representatives gave environmentalists plenty of headaches yesterday. First, House members backed oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as part of broad legislation designed to increase domestic energy production and provide tax incentives to the oil and power industries. Some see the move as beating a dead horse, since the Senate rejected drilling in the refuge last month and ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Gold Diggers		09 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gold Diggers The California gold rush of 1849 sent would-be miners rushing to the hills and streams of the Sierra Nevada. But some of them never made it that far, stopping instead to mine gold from Death Valley. Now, a proposal by the Colorado-based Canyon Resources to expand its operations by opening a second open-pit gold mine on 3,000 acres just outside of Death Valley National Park has got environmentalists and Native Am ...
Topics: California, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Nuclear Falling-Out The feds are backing nuclear power -- in the name of the environment	Amanda Griscom	03 Apr 2003	Powers That Be
It's a long-held tenet of U.S. environmentalists that nuclear power is bad news. Critics argue that the clean-air benefits of nuclear reactors are far outweighed by the consequences of uranium mining and radioactive waste storage -- not to mention the damage that could result from an accident at an atomic power station. Now more than ever, with growing concern about terrorist at ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, United Kingdom, United States, West (all these topics)

Dyna-shore		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Dyna-shore In a triumph for Golden State environmentalists, the Bush administration decided yesterday against asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn two lower court decisions upholding California's right to review proposed offshore drilling projects along its coast. Gov. Gray Davis (D) hailed the decision, noting, "The future of California beaches is now where it should be -- in ...
Topics: California, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

In the Doghouse		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
In the Doghouse The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would review a clean air case that could determine when the federal government can overrule state environmental decisions. The case concerns the Red Dog mine in Alaska, which produces zinc and lead. Two years ago, when the mine sought to build a new diesel generator, the state Department of Environmental ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Coal Play		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Play It would seem that preemptive measures are all the rage among anti-environmentalists these days. In Alaska, Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) is awaiting the Interior Department's response to a request he made last year (while still a senator) to prohibit the establishment of new wilderness areas in the state. "Congress set aside all this wilderness, ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Refuge-nix		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Refuge-nix Six GOP senators are throwing a wrench in the Bush administration's plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling. The six -- Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, John McCain of Arizona, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois, and Mike DeWine of Ohio -- announced last week that they will oppose plan ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, rivers and watersheds, wetlands (all these topics)

Haden Go Seek		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Haden Go Seek In a blow to environmentalists, a federal appeals court has overturned a ruling preventing the U.S. government from issuing permits to mountaintop-mining operations. The operations access coal seams by shearing off huge slabs of mountains; the increasingly common process has resulted in tons of rock and dirt being dumped into valleys and streams. Last ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Murky Outcome		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Murky Outcome Environmentalists did constant battle with Frank Murkowski when he was a U.S. senator -- and, if last night's "State of the State" address was any indication, they will have to redouble their efforts now that he is the new Republican governor of Alaska. During the speech, Murkowski said he would push for more road development, expand the Alaskan salmon market, oppose lawsuits harmful to the timbe ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling (all these topics)

I Think That I Shall Never See, a Poem As Lovely As a Job?		23 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
I Think That I Shall Never See, a Poem As Lovely As a Job? Nearly half of the Canadian province of British Columbia could be opened to logging and other commercial interests if the provincial government has its way. In an effort to encourage business and stabilize B.C.'s economic base, the government is proposing to set aside 48 percent of the province, or some 45 million hectares, as ...
Topics: Canada, logging, mining and drilling, politics, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

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