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A Bad Case of Gas		07 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
A Bad Case of Gas The Montreal Protocol to heal the ozone hole is the poster child of successful environmental treaties; the general consensus is that as the treaty's targets are met, the ozone hole will disappear, and the earth will be protected from the harmful ultraviolet radiation that leaks through. Not so fast, says the Environmental Invest ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, England, Environmental Investigation Agency, ozone, toxics, Washington DC (all these topics)

The Hole in the Ozone Policy Are higher temperatures the price of saving the ozone layer?	Jason Anderson	14 Dec 2001	Main Dish
After 15 years as the poster child for international environmental agreements, the Montreal Protocol has slipped into the relative anonymity of a well-functioning accord. As Kyoto Protocol negotiations grab headlines before even yielding a ratified deal, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are quietly on their way to oblivion, through unprecedented, concerted efforts worldwide. That ...
Topics: ozone, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Anti-air Force?		23 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Anti-air Force? In yet another environmental compromise made in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks, the U.S. EPA has backed off from pressuring the Air Force to eliminate the use of the gas Halon in its fighter planes. Although Halon is banned for most purposes because it breaks down the ozone layer, the Air Force continues to use it in F-16s, the most popular planes in its arsenal and the biggest emitters of the gas. Fo ...
Topics: ozone, US EPA, US Military (all these topics)

Fly the Friendly Skies?	Todd Hettenbach	29 Aug 2001	Counter Culture
350 million -- number of pounds of smog-producing chemicals (nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) released by planes landing and taking off from U.S. airports in 1993 200 million to 600 million -- number of gallons of wastewater created each year from airplane deicing 219 -- number of volatile organic chemicals found in the air around Chicago's O'Hare Airport 5.6 -- number of miles a passenger could travel in an intercity bus usin ...
Topics: ozone, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Sonic Bust		27 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Sonic Bust The emissions from Boeing's new high-speed plane, the Sonic Cruiser, may pose a direct threat to the ozone layer. Two years ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that 1,000 supersonic aircraft flying in the stratosphere would thin the ozone layer by about 1 percent a year. Boeing expects to sell, gulp, several thousand of the new planes. Cambridge ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, ozone, placemaking, United Nations (all these topics)

Bonn Jour		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Bonn Jour Negotiators from 178 countries reached agreement today on how to tackle climate change, fleshing out the Kyoto treaty and leaving the U.S. isolated from the rest of the world. Margot Wallstrom, the European Union's environmental commissioner, said, "The rescue operation succeeded." In the final pact reached in Bonn, the E.U. held firm against efforts to weaken enforcement mechanisms for penalizing countrie ...
Topics: air pollution, Germany, ozone (all these topics)

Electric Boogie	Todd Hettenbach	16 Mar 2001	Counter Culture
12,133 -- per capita annual electricity consumption (kilowatt-hours) in the U.S. in 1997 1,381 -- per capita annual electricity consumption (kilowatt-hours) in the rest of the world in 1997 21.5 -- percentage increase in U.S. electricity consumption from 1990 to 1999 43 -- percentage decrease in utility funding for energy efficiency from 1993 to 1998 90 -- percentage of total U.S. coal consumption used to generate electricity in 1998 33 -- percentag ...
Topics: green living, ozone, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Don't Follow the Leaders Americans dragged their heels at The Hague, but others are acting to stop climate change	Donella H. Meadows	04 Dec 2000	Global Citizen
The most earth-shaking event of the past two weeks had to do with leadership, or lack thereof, but it did not unfold in Florida. It happened in the Netherlands. The stunning lack of leadership came from the Clinton-Gore administration. The meeting in The Hague was the sixth attempt since the Kyoto conference of 1997 to forge an international agree ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, ozone, politics (all these topics)

How Does Your Garden Grow? Two brothers talk carbon sequestration	Donella H. Meadows	06 Nov 2000	Global Citizen
A while ago I wrote about Jonathan Foley, an environmental scientist at the University of Wisconsin, who is so appalled at the lack of government action on global warming that he has taken matters into his own hands. Through energy efficiency and solar energy, he and his family have greatly reduced their use of gas, oil, or coal (whose burning produces the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide). When they ...
Topics: climate, green living, ozone (all these topics)

It's the Pits	Suzy Becker	14 Feb 2000	Ha.

Topics: health, ozone (all these topics)

The Latest News on the Ozone Layer	Donella H. Meadows	07 Sep 1999	Global Citizen
Twenty-five years ago, there appeared two scientific papers that rocked the industrial world. One of them, by Richard Stolarski and Ralph Cicerone, said that if chlorine atoms ever got wafted up into the stratosphere, they could eat up the ozone layer. The second, by Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland (who got the Nobel Prize for this work in 1995), said that chlorine atoms were already up there and that they came from human-mad ...
Topics: ozone, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Climate Scientist Takes His Computer Model Seriously	Donella H. Meadows	21 Jun 1999	Global Citizen
At the University of Wisconsin's program on Climate, People, and Environment, Dr. Jonathan Foley makes computer models to study what might happen if the human economy continues to emit greenhouse gases. Like hundreds of other climate scientists, he is deeply worried about global warming. Unlike most scientists I know, he carries that worry into his personal life. Jonathan Foley, cool guy. For some time, Jona ...
Topics: climate, green living, ozone (all these topics)

The Great North American Carbon Sink -- Maybe	Donella H. Meadows	03 May 1999	Global Citizen
"Aha! We knew it!" a number of conservative columnists have been crowing lately. "Greenhouse, schmeenhouse, go right on driving those sports utility vehicles." The cause of their excitement is an article published in Science magazine, one of the most prestigious places a scientific article can be published, claiming that the North American continent is a huge carbon sink. The authors found, es ...
Topics: climate, ozone, toxics (all these topics)

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