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I'm Wreckin' It
Greenpeace investigation links European fast food to Amazon destruction |
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10 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| I'm Wreckin' It Greenpeace investigation links European fast food to Amazon destruction Which came first, Chicken McNuggets or deforestation? A recent Greenpeace investigation has uncovered the depressing answer: the McDonald's supply chain begins with felled rainforest. Much of the chicken gobbled at European Mickey D's is supplied by a subsidiary of American agri-biz behem ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, commercial and industry organizations, European Union, Greenpeace, news (all these topics) |
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A Low Blow
Congressional committee OKs amendment to kill Cape Wind project |
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10 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| A Low Blow Congressional committee OKs amendment to kill Cape Wind project The Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound may have blown its final ... may have been blown ... in a gust of ... oh, never mind. We're out of wind puns, and the proposed offshore wind farm is out of steam: If a recent, sneaky effort in Congress succeeds, the project will die once and for all. A congressional conference committee att ... |
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| Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, politics, wind power (all these topics) |
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Carat Top
Ringing in a new era of ethically and ecologically responsible jewelry |
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07 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Carat Top Ringing in a new era of ethically and ecologically responsible jewelry Did you know 30 tons of waste rock can be generated in producing one gold ring? Us neither, but now we're never getting married. Trying to keep a step ahead of consumers' growing social and environmental consciousness, the jewelry industry is making some changes. Some specialty outfits are marketing so-called ethical jewelry, or creatin ... |
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| Topics: green living, mining and drilling, news (all these topics) |
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Aral Be There
Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage |
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07 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Aral Be There Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage The dramatic diminution and pollution of Central Asia's Aral Sea is one of the 20th century's most stunning eco-disasters -- but its restoration may become an eco-miracle of the 21st. Since the World Bank's $85.8 million Kok-Aral Dam project began in 2001, the Aral has regained millions of cubic feet of water. Long-abandoned v ... |
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| Topics: Aral Sea, environmental restoration, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Fuel Me Once ...
Enviros sue Bush admin over lax fuel-economy rules for light trucks |
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07 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Fuel Me Once ... Enviros sue Bush admin over lax fuel-economy rules for light trucks In a new lawsuit, the Center for Biological Diversity has charged the Bush administration with violating the 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act, which requires the feds to regularly update fuel-economy standards to the "maximum feasible level." With currently available technologies, light trucks could readily achi ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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Good Mennonite, and Good Luck
Discovery of oil in Belize leads to craziness all around |
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06 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Good Mennonite, and Good Luck Discovery of oil in Belize leads to craziness all around A few years ago, a Mennonite farmer in Belize dug a well looking for water and found something else entirely: Black gold. Texas tea. Oil, that is, in a country where it had never before been discovered. This brought on a private firm, which hit the jackpot: three wells of petroleum so sweet and light that tractors could run on the unprocessed ... |
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| Topics: Belize, energy, news, oil (all these topics) |
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How Not to Prove Your Innocence
BP under criminal investigation for oil pipeline problems in Alaska |
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06 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| How Not to Prove Your Innocence BP under criminal investigation for oil pipeline problems in Alaska When your massively profitable oil company is under criminal investigation by the U.S. government for possible violations of the Clean Water Act, it's not a good idea to spill tens of thousands of gallons of crude onto the Alaskan tundra. So oopsie at BP. Turns out that fe ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Hungry for Justice
Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking |
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06 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Hungry for Justice Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking Demonstrations against dams in India's Narmada Valley yesterday brought the heavy hand of police, who roughed up protestors and arrested India's most famous environmentalist eight days into a hunger strike on charges of -- get this -- attempting suicide. Medha Patkar's fast started when officials began raisin ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, environmental justice, India, news, politics (all these topics) |
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A Cure for What Whales Ya
Five major food firms dump shares in whaling operator |
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05 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| A Cure for What Whales Ya Five major food firms dump shares in whaling operator The Gorton's fisherman is going cold turkey on whale meat. Five major food companies, including Japanese seafood giant Nissui -- the owner of Gorton's -- announced that they are ending support for Japanese whaling by dumping their one-third share in Kyodo Senpaku, the largest operator of whaling ships in ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Greenpeace, Japan, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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Up the Arsenic
Chicken with arsenic a daily part of American diet |
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05 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Up the Arsenic Chicken with arsenic a daily part of American diet You may be getting a significant dose of poison with your Chick'n Stix. Arsenic is a U.S. government-sanctioned supplement to chicken feed -- it's used to kill parasites and promote growth -- despite being a known carcinogen and being implicated in other illnesses. Although the average American's chicken consumption has incre ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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Waddle They Do Now?
Global warming also affects -- noooooooo! -- penguins |
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05 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Waddle They Do Now? Global warming also affects -- noooooooo! -- penguins Need a new weapon in your arsenal against global-warming skeptics? Try baby penguin fuzzy-wuzziness. According to a new study, penguins and other Antarctic seabirds are nesting and laying eggs later than they did half a century ago, and scientists blame ... the usual culprit. In eastern Antarctica, overall sea ice has declined, while local coolin ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, climate, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Obama Hiccups; Grist Rushes to Transcribe
Obama slams Bush admin for inaction on America's oil addiction |
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04 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Obama Hiccups; Grist Rushes to Transcribe Obama slams Bush admin for inaction on America's oil addiction Sen. Barack Obama, progressive golden boy, rebuked the Bush administration yesterday for being all talk, no walk on curbing oil use. When President Bush said America is addicted to oil, "I was among the hopeful," said the Illinois Democrat. "But then I saw the plan." Obama said ... |
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| Topics: Barack Obama, energy, Illinois, news, oil, politics (all these topics) |
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We've Got Poll, and We're Super Bad
Polls find Americans worried about energy and climate problems |
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04 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| We've Got Poll, and We're Super Bad Polls find Americans worried about energy and climate problems To paraphrase Benjamin Disraeli, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and poll results. So take the following factoids from three recent polls with a big block o' salt. An Environmental Defense survey found that 71 percent of Americans think global warming is real and 53 percent think it' ... |
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| Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, news, United States (all these topics) |
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Jilting at Windmills
Measure in Congress could kill Cape Wind project |
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04 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Jilting at Windmills Measure in Congress could kill Cape Wind project The Cape Wind project on Nantucket Sound may soon receive another blow -- oh, we're so funny! -- if Congress passes an amendment giving Massachusetts power to veto the controversial wind farm if it would interfere with navigation. Of course, it depends on what the definition of "navigation" is, but Gov. Mitt Romney (R) would ... |
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| Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, politics, wind power (all these topics) |
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With Rules Like These, Who Needs Rules?
Draft EPA regulation could up air pollution |
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04 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| With Rules Like These, Who Needs Rules? Draft EPA regulation could up air pollution The U.S. EPA is considering a regulatory change that could massively increase air pollution -- which is really its job, when you think about it. Currently, oil refineries, chemical factories, and other operations that emit more than 25 tons of toxics into the air a year must apply best available pollution-control technologies; emissions then typ ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, US EPA (all these topics) |
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You Want a Lease of Me?
Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest |
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03 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| You Want a Lease of Me? Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest Wyoming is plenty bullish on a local natural-gas boom -- but Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) has put his foot down at the Wyoming Range, asking the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to halt sales of drilling leases on 19,000 acres of western Wyoming's Bridger-Teton Nati ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news, US Forest Service, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Coal Decliner
Idaho legislature passes two-year moratorium on coal-fired power plants |
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03 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Coal Decliner Idaho legislature passes two-year moratorium on coal-fired power plants In a two-for-one snub of President Bush and Idaho Gov. (and likely future Interior Secretary) Dirk Kempthorne (R), Idaho's Republican-controlled legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill last week that would put a two-year moratorium on new coal-fired power plants in the state. The bill -- which says the plants "may have a significant negat ... |
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| Topics: coal, energy, Idaho, news (all these topics) |
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Cap in Hand
California bill would mandate serious greenhouse-gas emissions caps |
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03 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Cap in Hand California bill would mandate serious greenhouse-gas emissions caps California will jump (farther) into the lead on state-level action to combat global warming if a soon-to-be-introduced bill requiring stiff emissions caps becomes law. The measure would mandate greenhouse-gas pollution cuts to 1990 levels by 2020; that's 25 percent lower than they would otherwise be by that time, according to the bill's sponsors. Shoc ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, news (all these topics) |
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What Fresh Eliot Is This?
Spitzer claims green mantle in race for governor of New York |
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31 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| What Fresh Eliot Is This? Spitzer claims green mantle in race for governor of New York As attorney general of New York, Eliot Spitzer (D) has garnered a reputation for many things, but subtlety is not one of them. So it's fitting that he kicked off the first big environmental speech of his gubernatorial campaign with this: "George Bush is, hands down, the worst president on environmental and energy issues that thi ... |
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| Topics: elections, New York, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Space Inveighers
New NASA policy emphasizes open communication with media |
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31 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Space Inveighers New NASA policy emphasizes open communication with media Stung by recent press reports of political interference with scientists -- the dictum that "Big Bang" be accompanied by "theory" was amusing; the suppression of global-warming findings less so -- NASA has scrambled to repair the PR damage. Yesterday, administrator Michael Griffin released a new policy making clear that agency scientists can freely s ... |
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Slippery When Wet
Bush admin declares that wet lands are wetlands, says acreage is way up |
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31 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Slippery When Wet Bush admin declares that wet lands are wetlands, says acreage is way up Yesterday, betraying no hint of irony, the Bush administration announced that even though the U.S. lost a net total of 523,500 acres of natural swamps and tidal marshes between 1998 and 2004, the country actually gained 715,300 acres of wetlands -- if you count features like ornamental lakes, golf course ponds, and mining pits f ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, news, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Bay City Tollers
San Francisco looks into congestion charging |
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30 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Bay City Tollers San Francisco looks into congestion charging If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear ... a money clip. The city creatively known as "The City" plans to study the possibility of "congestion charges" -- making drivers pay to enter downtown during business hours. Critics include some stores in high-traffic areas, which fear that disincentives for down ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, London, news, placemaking, San Francisco (all these topics) |
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Left Behind
Pentagon aims to avoid cleanup costs by attacking EPA science |
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30 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Left Behind Pentagon aims to avoid cleanup costs by attacking EPA science Confused over who they're supposed to be killing -- their enemies? themselves? -- the Defense Department in recent years has often defied U.S. EPA recommendations for environmental cleanups and toxicity standards. Case in point: A 2001 EPA draft report estimated that the chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) -- a widespread water pollutant fou ... |
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| Topics: Department of Defense, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Meet the New Boss, Slightly Less Irascible Than the Old Boss
New Exxon chair mouths same old wheeze in a breezier style |
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30 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Meet the New Boss, Slightly Less Irascible Than the Old Boss New Exxon chair mouths same old wheeze in a breezier style Watch for new ExxonMobil Chair Rex Tillerson to lighten up the company's communication style, but don't expect any substantial changes in how the world's largest publicly traded petro-corp responds to global warming. "We recognize that climate change is a serious is ... |
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| Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, news, oil (all these topics) |
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Southern Land Do Need You Around, Anyhow
Big conservation deal will protect 218,000 acres of forest in the South |
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30 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Southern Land Do Need You Around, Anyhow Big conservation deal will protect 218,000 acres of forest in the South Conservationists are celebrating the biggest sale of private land for preservation in the South's history. The Nature Conservancy and the Conservation Fund have put up a combined $300 million for 218,000 acres of forestland owned by International Paper in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisian ... |
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| Topics: Nature Conservancy, news, South, wilderness (all these topics) |
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