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Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Coal Bed		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, energy, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Who's the Unfairest of Them All		05 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Who's the Unfairest of Them All A major gas field development in the Arctic Circle's Barents Sea has won official approval from the European Free Trade Area, much to the dismay of environmentalists. Norway's state-owned energy group Statoil is running the $5.8 billion project, which will be the first commercial exploration of fossil fuel in the region and Europe's fi ...
Topics: Arctic, commercial and industry organizations, marine life, mining and drilling, Norway (all these topics)

California Scheming		31 May 2002	Daily Grist
California Scheming This week's announcement by President Bush that his administration would spend $235 million to protect Florida's pristine areas from oil and gas drilling has aroused both the ire and the envy of California environmentalists, who saw the deal as a family favor designed to aid the reelection bid of First Brother and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R). Cali ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, Florida, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Brotherhood Has Its Priviliges Some of Florida's natural wonders will be protected from oil and gas drilling, thanks to two major deals announced yesterday by President Bush. The first, a completed $115 million buy-back of drilling leases off the shores of Pensacola, will protect the beaches of the ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, land stewardship, Mexico, mining and drilling, National Environmental Trust, politics (all these topics)

They'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Gold		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
They'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Gold What if the environmental movement could do to gold what the animal-rights movement did to fur -- convince the public that far from being a badge of success, it is a symbol of cruelty and vanity? Some environmentalists would like to do just that, and they've got the facts to back them up: Gold mining leads to cyanide contamination in water sources, w ...
Topics: green living, mining and drilling, Nevada, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

TRI a Little Tenderness		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
TRI a Little Tenderness The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment dropped 8 percent in 2000, continuing a decade-long trend of declining industrial pollution, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The Toxics Release Inventory compiles data from more than 23,000 factories, refineries, hard-rock mines, power plants, and chemica ...
Topics: business, energy, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Miner Threat		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
Miner Threat The Bush administration canceled yesterday a two-year ban on new mining claims in roughly 1.2 million acres in and around southern Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest. The ban was imposed by the Clinton administration in response to lobbying efforts by conservationists, who wanted the area declared a national monument. Instead, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt imposed the moratorium to a ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Oregon, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Shaft!		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Shaft! The cost of closing and cleaning up old and abandoned mines around the world likely runs into the trillions of dollars, an amount that is far beyond anything mining companies can handle on their own, according to Robert Wilson, chair of the metals giant Rio Tinto. Wilson, who made his comments during a mining industry conference being held this week in Toronto, put the estimated cost of cleanup in the U.S. alone at $35 ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Blowing His Top		14 May 2002	Daily Grist
Blowing His Top The Bush administration appealed a federal court decision yesterday that would limit mountaintop-removal mining and asked the judge to clarify that the ruling "should be read as not applying nationwide or to activities other than coal mining." On May 8, U.S. District Judge Charles H. Haden II of West Virginia ruled that coal mining valley fills, ...
Topics: Appalachia, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, West Virginia (all these topics)

Mountain Mama's Day		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mountain Mama's Day A federal judge ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday to stop allowing coal companies to deposit tons of dirt and rock from their mountaintop-removal mining operations into streams and valleys. U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II in Charleston, W.Va., also said a move by the Bush administration last Friday to make the "valley fills" lega ...
Topics: energy, Kentucky, mining and drilling, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

The Agency Formerly Known As the EPA		26 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Agency Formerly Known As the EPA Perhaps belying its name, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing revisions to some of its own rules in order to allow mining companies to dump dirt and rock waste from mountaintop-removal coal operations into rivers and streams. In mountaintop-removal mining, companies raze mountains to access coal veins and then dump the leftover debris into nearby valleys. Environmentalists s ...
Topics: mining and drilling, US EPA (all these topics)

Phil Anthropist		25 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Phil Anthropist Phil Anschutz is an unlikely hero for Native Americans and environmentalists. One of the richest people in the country and a mega-donor to the Republican Party, Anschutz made his fortune in oil before launching Qwest Communications. Last year, his oil company, Anschutz Exploration, won permission from the Bureau of Land Management to drill in Montana's Weatherman Dr ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land stewardship, mining and drilling, Montana (all these topics)

Quick Draw, McGraw		25 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Quick Draw, McGraw A tiff has broken out between the Department of Interior and the U.S. EPA over proposed gas drilling in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. The energy industry would like to drill more than 39,000 new wells in the area, a plan enthusiastically backed by the Bush administration, especially in the wake of its defeat over oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildli ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, US EPA, wilderness, Wyoming (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)

A Rocky Start		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
A Rocky Start Before you celebrate too much ... The Bush administration has already set its sights on another drilling target: the Rocky Mountains. Dozens of petitions to drill on public lands throughout the Rocky Mountain states have been submitted to the White House, which has established a Task Force on Energy Project Streamlining "to expedite the increased sup ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, North America, politics, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

Logan's Heroes		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Logan's Heroes Here's a stellar example of your tax dollars at work: Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published an Anna Karenina-sized draft study of a proposal by Arch Coal to strip mine 3,100 acres of West Virginia. The strip mine would be the largest ever in the state, and the company has been seeking a permit since 1997. The environmental impact study, a necessary step on ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, mining and drilling, West Virginia (all these topics)

Litter of the Law		08 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Litter of the Law The Chicago-based Oil-Dri Corporation, which, as the maker of Cat's Pride, is the world's largest kitty litter company, wants to dig an open-pit clay mine on public land outside of Reno, Nev. But county commissioners have effectively thwarted that plan by refusing to issue a permit to operate a processing plant for the cat litter on nearby private property. The controversy has ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, Nevada, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Seam Stress		05 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Seam Stress After Sept. 11, the folks in the White House found a favorite tune -- the need to decrease U.S. reliance on foreign oil any which way but through conservation -- and it seems they just can't stop singing it. First it was used to promote drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; now, in a variation in a miner key, the Bush administration says our national securit ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, land degradation, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Foot-in-mouth Disease?		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Foot-in-mouth Disease? Dealing a blow to advocates of natural resource extraction in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, biologists working for the U.S. Geological Survey have produced a report finding that oil and gas drilling in the refuge could substantially threaten caribou, musk oxen, polar bears, migrating birds, and other wildlife. Although the report acknowledges that the risk coul ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, US Geological Survey, wildlife (all these topics)

Land O' Flakes		19 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Land O' Flakes The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has got a blueprint for implementing the Bush administration's energy plan, and it involves speeding up approval for petitions to drill for oil and gas, creating easier access to petroleum deposits, reducing royalty payments by industry to the government, and easing environmental restrictions. All that, without harming the environment, BLM Assistant ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

For Peat's Sake		27 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
For Peat's Sake As a source of fossil fuel and gardening compost, peat bogs, those eminently British landscape features, are highly in demand -- so much so that some environmentalists fear they are in danger of disappearing. But that danger might be staved off for a while, thanks to a multi-million dollar plan to use taxpayer money to save some of the United Kingdom's most valuable peat bogs. ...
Topics: energy, land stewardship, mining and drilling, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Joltin' Joe		21 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Joltin' Joe In the most scathing attack on George W. Bush since the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) blasted the president's environmental record in a speech made yesterday in California. Lieberman, a possible presidential candidate in 2004 and one of 15 senators to be recognized by the League of Conservation Voters f ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, elections, energy, League of Conservation Voters, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Doe, Oh Dear!		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Doe, Oh Dear! In the latest sad litany of pro-extraction industry decisions handed down by the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Doe Run Company should be allowed to drill up to 232 holes in Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest to search for possible lead mining sites. About 80 percent of the n ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Missouri, pollution and waste, toxics, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Shore: Enough		15 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Shore: Enough An innovative if controversial bill could protect offshore waters in California from oil drilling by allowing oil companies to swap drilling claims in California for others in the Gulf of Mexico. The legislation, introduced yesterday by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and John Breaux (D-La.), would convert 40 offshore tra ...
Topics: California, Gulf of Mexico, mining and drilling, oceans, wilderness (all these topics)

Coal-burning Bush		23 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Coal-burning Bush In other mining news, President Bush did not mince words about his energy plan during an address in the town of Belle, W.Va., yesterday: "We need to use coal. We got a lot of it," he said. The president touted exploitation of domestic coal and other traditional energy resources as a way to avoid dependence on foreign oil and jumpstart a flagging ec ...
Topics: elections, energy, green living, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

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