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Year of the Draggin' China had a cruddy eco-year, still sees big picture more clearly than the U.S.		11 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Year of the Draggin' China had a cruddy eco-year, still sees big picture more clearly than the U.S. In China, officials are assessing their 2006 eco-successes. The short version: there were none. The somewhat longer version: the country saw a pollution-related accident roughly every two days. Officials got 600,000 environmental complaints, 30 percent more than in 2005. Goals to improve efficiency by 4 percent and cut emiss ...
Topics: China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Relax, It's Just Pollution EPA relaxes industry pollution-reporting rules		19 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Relax, It's Just Pollution EPA relaxes industry pollution-reporting rules In a holiday gift to industry, the U.S. EPA has relaxed rules on reporting toxic pollution. Under rule amendments approved yesterday, industrial plants will not have to file detailed public Toxic Release Inventory reports unless they spew 2,000 pounds of pollution or more, four times the previous limit, and they'll face looser requirements for repor ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Dirty Movies Hollywood spews excess pollution along with its blockbusters		15 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Dirty Movies Hollywood spews excess pollution along with its blockbusters Hollywood is facing an inconvenient truth: it's a dirty industry. A UCLA report says TV and film productions pollute more than four other local industries, including aerospace and semiconductor manufacturing (but likely less than oil refineries, so that's a comfort). Set construction, special effects, and other excesses emit 140,0 ...
Topics: California, green living, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Dropping Pounds From Their Waste U.K. shoppers encouraged to bully manufacturers that create excess waste		15 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Dropping Pounds From Their Waste U.K. shoppers encouraged to bully manufacturers that create excess waste Offering hope to scofflaws everywhere, U.K. Environment Minister Ben Bradshaw says British shoppers should leave "unnecessary and excessive" packaging at store checkouts and tattle on package-happy manufacturers. The government-sanctioned shop and skedaddle plan sounds delightfully nau ...
Topics: green living, news, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics)

When the Blights Go Down in the City List ranks top ten most polluted spots on earth		20 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
When the Blights Go Down in the City List ranks top ten most polluted spots on earth Looking for that perfect vacation getaway, where you and that special someone can recapture the magic by going into acute respiratory distress together? Look no further: The Blacksmith Institute has released a list of the 10 most polluted spots on earth. Chernobyl in Ukraine is the best known on the list; Russia has the distinction of being home t ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

You Can Call Them Algae Marine 'dead zones' on the rise around the world		20 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
You Can Call Them Algae Marine "dead zones" on the rise around the world There are now at least 200 oxygen-starved "dead zones" in the world's seas and oceans, a rise of more than a third over the past two years, the United Nations Environment Program announced yesterday. The algae blooms that suck up oxygen and cause dead zones -- killing off or driving out fish, oysters, sea gra ...
Topics: marine life, news, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Things That Go Dump in the Night Illegal dumps sprout up across the American West		10 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Things That Go Dump in the Night Illegal dumps sprout up across the American West Amber waves of grain? Purple mountain majesties? These days in the American West, it's illegal dumps that are proliferating under the spacious skies: heaps of car parts, furniture, appliances, and household trash discarded on public land. The Bureau of Land Management has identified 6,482 illegal dumps since 2000, p ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, news, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

Sludge, Jury, and Executioner Toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast unleashes chaos		19 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Sludge, Jury, and Executioner Toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast unleashes chaos Chaos still reigns in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, a month after 400 tons of toxic waste were illegally dumped at 14 open-air sites near residential areas. The black sludge -- petroleum waste containing hydrogen sulfide and hydrocarbons -- is letting off fumes that have sickened tens of thousands, killed seven, and angered countless others. ...
Topics: Africa, news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Smoky Chokey National parks aren't breathing easy		18 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Smoky Chokey National parks aren't breathing easy From California to Maine to Alaska -- sea to shining sea, as it were -- almost a third of America's national parks suffer poor air-quality conditions, says a new study by the National Parks Conservation Association. Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury threaten wildlife, plants, visitors, and staff, and can reduce the visibility of scenic views in some park ...
Topics: national parks, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Port Reform Two busiest California ports propose pollution regulations		28 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Port Reform Two busiest California ports propose pollution regulations The peerlessly polluting ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., will propose far-reaching environmental policies today. "What we're doing right now is a no-growth, job-losing, cancer-causing plan, and we're just not going to do that anymore," said David Freeman, chair of the L.A. Harbor Commission. What they aim to do ins ...
Topics: business, California, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Refining Fault Green groups sue EPA over refinery emissions rules		21 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Refining Fault Green groups sue EPA over refinery emissions rules Yet again, environmental groups are suing the U.S. EPA for issuing rules the enviros say will increase pollution. In the old days, refineries and other industrial plants were required to submit a malfunction contingency plan to the EPA; under a rule that went into effect in April, the agency has discretion in asking for such plans, and refineri ...
Topics: California, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

And Things Were Going So Well ... Struggling Iraqi refineries dump oil byproduct near Tigris River		19 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
And Things Were Going So Well ... Struggling Iraqi refineries dump oil byproduct near Tigris River The government of Iraq has been disposing of millions of barrels of oil refinery byproduct by pumping it into mountain valleys in the north of the country and setting it on fire. The result: huge black bogs and thick smoke carried as far as 40 miles downwind. The oily bogs are threatening to seep into the nearby ...
Topics: energy, Iraq, news, oil, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Great Pall of China Despite cleanup efforts, China's environment just keeps getting worse		06 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
The Great Pall of China Despite cleanup efforts, China's environment just keeps getting worse China's efforts toward environmental protection in the last five years have ... how do we say this nicely? ... totally flopped. The country's economy is growing about 10 percent annually, but with pollution reduction targets based on an economic growth rate of 7.5 percent, the environment is taking a hit. According to a government ...
Topics: China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Sulfur, So Good EPA is jazzed about new rules on ultra-low sulfur diesel		02 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Sulfur, So Good EPA is jazzed about new rules on ultra-low sulfur diesel New federal clean-air rules came into effect yesterday, requiring sulfur content to be cut by 97 percent in at least four-fifths of U.S.-refined diesel fuel. The new "ultra-low sulfur diesel" will hit service stations in the fall. The U.S. EPA estimates it will raise the cost of diesel fuel by about five cents a gallon; other estimates rang ...
Topics: news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Soon We Can Just Call It the Styx Yangtze River so polluted it's on the verge of death		30 May 2006	Daily Grist
Soon We Can Just Call It the Styx Yangtze River so polluted it's on the verge of death The Yangtze River is "cancerous" with pollution -- mainly industrial waste and agricultural runoff -- according to reports in China's state media. Experts estimate that within five years, up to 70 percent of its water may be unusable, particularly as drinking water for the 186 cities that borde ...
Topics: China, news, pollution and waste, water pollution, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Far From the Madding Cloud Pollutants contribute to Arctic warming some more		11 May 2006	Daily Grist
Far From the Madding Cloud Pollutants contribute to Arctic warming some more The Arctic climate is already sensitive to global warming; now it turns out human pollutants are kicking it -- or rather, warming it more -- while it's down. According to a new study in Nature, particulate pollution (mostly from cities in Europe) changes the size and number of water droplets in clouds above the Arctic, increasing their ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Mardi Gross New Orleans opens new landfill without environmental safeguards		08 May 2006	Daily Grist
Mardi Gross New Orleans opens new landfill without environmental safeguards Without environmental studies or community consultation, a new landfill has been opened on the eastern edge of New Orleans. The site is less than two miles from a community of more than a thousand Vietnamese-American families and across a canal from the largest urban wildlife refuge in the country. Oh, and the landfill will lack certain safegua ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Rhymes With Blagojevich Mercury emissions from power plants on the rise in the U.S.		02 May 2006	Daily Grist
Rhymes With Blagojevich Mercury emissions from power plants on the rise in the U.S. Mercury emissions in the U.S. fell by nearly 2 percent between 2003 and 2004, according to newly released federal data, but that small bit of good news masks a troubling trend. Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants were actually up 4 percent over the same period, according to a Chicago Tribune analysis, thanks to i ...
Topics: coal, energy, news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Pollute Suit Riot States sue EPA for not regulating CO2		28 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Pollute Suit Riot States sue EPA for not regulating CO2 Ten states have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. EPA over what has become a central point of contention between the feds and ... people who have to live on the planet for the next 50 years: whether or not the agency has the authority to regulate planet-warming carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Plaintiffs -- who've been joined by two cities and three gree ...
Topics: air pollution, news, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Think of It as Saran Wrap, to Keep the Ocean Fresh An enormous patch of plastic trash swirls in the Pacific Ocean		25 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Think of It as Saran Wrap, to Keep the Ocean Fresh An enormous patch of plastic trash swirls in the Pacific Ocean When it was a kid, the Pacific Ocean always wanted a Garbage Patch of its very own. Now it's got one: a patch of trash, at least twice the size of Texas (!), floating midway between Hawaii and San Francisco. Held together by swirling ocean currents, the refuse clump used to be mostly driftwood and rando ...
Topics: news, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste (all these topics)

That's Some Good Ship Calif. plan would curb air pollution from shipping and cargo industries		21 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
That's Some Good Ship Calif. plan would curb air pollution from shipping and cargo industries Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board approved a far-reaching plan to reduce air pollution by the cargo-moving industry to 2001 levels -- no small feat, as the amount of goods entering California ports is expected to triple in the next 15 years. A combination of regulations and business incentives, the plan would redu ...
Topics: California, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

I'm the Train Wreck They Call the City of New Orleans New Orleans debris heads to the landfill, isn't reused or recycled		14 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
I'm the Train Wreck They Call the City of New Orleans New Orleans debris heads to the landfill, isn't reused or recycled New Orleans is taking great pains to recycle the waste left by Hurricane Katrina. Wait, you believed that? We're totally lying. Debris from the pummeled city is being dumped in the landfill by the truckload, including heaps of potentially reusable building materials such as ...
Topics: green living, Louisiana, news, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Hell Bent for Leather Chinese villagers attack polluting leather factories and sewage plant		12 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Hell Bent for Leather Chinese villagers attack polluting leather factories and sewage plant Environmental protests are increasingly common in China, where environmental protection often takes a backseat to cronyism and profit-making. But a group of 200 Chinese villagers in the eastern province of Fujian, fed up with drinking polluted water, took things a step further. Armed with iron bars, they attacked two leather factori ...
Topics: China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Benzene There, Might Do That New EPA regs would slash benzene emissions from cars by 2030		02 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Benzene There, Might Do That New EPA regs would slash benzene emissions from cars by 2030 The Bush administration delighted enviros yesterday (yes, we just wrote that) by unveiling long-awaited proposals to cut toxic tailpipe emissions. Of course, it took a lawsuit to get the plan released, but why look a gift regulation in the mouth? According to the U.S. EPA, the proposed rules would cut benzene e ...
Topics: news, placemaking, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Brave Newmont World Newmont Mining to pay Indonesia $30 million to settle pollution suit		17 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Brave Newmont World Newmont Mining to pay Indonesia $30 million to settle pollution suit Colorado-based Newmont Mining Corp. has agreed to pay $30 million to the government of Indonesia to settle a long-running pollution lawsuit, but the parties have agreed to disagree about the pesky question of whether, um, any illegal pollution occurred. Indonesia's civil ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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