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Oily Residue Judge Imposes $4.5 Billion in Damages in Exxon Valdez Case		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Oily Residue Judge Imposes $4.5 Billion in Damages in Exxon Valdez Case A federal judge in Alaska on Wednesday imposed $4.5 billion in punitive damages on ExxonMobil Corp. for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill in Prince William Sound. The judgment marks t ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, marine life, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Houston, We Have a Solution Supporters Claim $300 Billion Energy Plan Would Create 3.3 Million Jobs		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Houston, We Have a Solution Supporters Claim $300 Billion Energy Plan Would Create 3.3 Million Jobs A coalition called the Apollo Alliance released a report on Wednesday proposing and outlining a 10-year, $300 billion investment in alternative energy sources, which it claimed would create 3.3 million jobs and more than pay for it ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, elections, energy, nuclear power, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics)

A Few of Your Favorite Things The Grist Inbox Is Brimming With Opinions on Biodiesel, Urinals, More		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, energy, green living, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Deck the Hauls U.S. High Court Will Hear Mexican Truck Pollution Case		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Deck the Hauls U.S. High Court Will Hear Mexican Truck Pollution Case The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will wade into a dispute over whether tens of thousands of highly polluting Mexican trucks should be allowed to cross the border and deliver goods throughout the U.S. The Bush administration, arguing the free-trade point of view, welcomes the trucks, but enviros and union mem ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Baby, We Use Corn to Run House and Senate Reach Agreement Over Ethanol in Energy Bill		06 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Baby, We Use Corn to Run House and Senate Reach Agreement Over Ethanol in Energy Bill Clearing one of the last major hurdles on the way to a final energy bill, negotiators from the House and Senate agreed yesterday on most parts of a plan to almost double the use of ethanol by 2012 and provide a new tax credit for diesel fuels that are blended with soybeans or other farm p ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, Midwest, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sprawl in a Day's Work Slow Growth Sees Rapid Setback in Virginia County		05 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Sprawl in a Day's Work Slow Growth Sees Rapid Setback in Virginia County The vote took place yesterday in Loudoun County, Va., but the outcome was a blow to smart-growth advocates around the nation. Four years ago, voters propelled slow-growth advocates into eight out of nine county board positions, turning Loudoun into a national model of environmentally friendly urban planning. But yesterday's elections reshuffled the boa ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, Virginia (all these topics)

Run Out on a Rail Senate Rejects White House Proposal to Restructure Amtrak		03 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Run Out on a Rail Senate Rejects White House Proposal to Restructure Amtrak A White House plan to restructure Amtrak was, uh, derailed yesterday by nearly unanimous bipartisan opposition in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The six-year Amtrak reauthorization bill proposed ending federal operating subsidies for the passenger rail service, opening some routes to private operators, and turnin ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Mexican Standoff Feds Will Study Environmental Impact of Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads		27 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Mexican Standoff Feds Will Study Environmental Impact of Mexican Trucks on U.S. Roads Bowing to a federal court order, the Bush administration announced yesterday that it will study what the environmental impact would be of an increase in Mexican trucks on U.S. roads. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals banned Mexican trucks from the U.S. in resp ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Transportation, globalization, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

A Man With a Plan		16 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
A Man With a Plan Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), a top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, made a bid for green votes on Friday when he unveiled an energy plan that would, among other things, tighten fuel-economy standards for automobiles and push the U.S. toward getting 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Kerry wants to end U.S. dependence on Middle East oil imports ...
Topics: elections, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Adding Fuel Cells to the Fire		13 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Adding Fuel Cells to the Fire The Bush administration has been busily touting fuel-cell cars as a critical component of its energy plan and the solution to many an environmental woe. But what if the solution turns out to cause its own problems? According to new research published in this week's issue of Science, the technology used in hydrogen fuel cells could contribute to the destruction of ...
Topics: ozone, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Green Collar Jobs		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Green Collar Jobs In an unusually strong gesture of blue-green solidarity, 10 major labor unions called on presidential candidates yesterday to back a decade-long, $300 billion research plan to boost energy efficiency, reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, and preserve jobs. Known as the Apollo Project, the plan calls for the promotion of hybrid and hydrogen cars, energy-efficient factor ...
Topics: elections, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Miles Per Cup of Coffee	Suzy Becker	28 Apr 2003	Ha.

Topics: energy, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Daewoozy		24 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Daewoozy An automobile company lobbying for stricter emissions standards? It might sound like an unlikely tale, but not when the bottom line is at stake. General Motors is pressuring the South Korean government to impose tougher standards for diesel emissions than it is currently considering. Here's why: The automaker is trying to increase the competitiveness of its Korean affiliate, G ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, South Korea (all these topics)

Everybody Wants to Play the Fuel		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Everybody Wants to Play the Fuel Sports utility vehicles, vans, and pickup trucks will be subject to slightly more stringent fuel-economy standards under a new rule released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Beginning in the 2007 model year, auto manufacturers will have to attain a fleet average of 22.2 miles per gallon for those vehicles, together classified as "light trucks." ...
Topics: Department of Transportation, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Urban Bright		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Urban Bright In a groundbreaking move, New York state has developed guidelines for ensuring that low-income and minority neighborhoods are not disproportionately subjected to environmental health risks by developers. The environmental-justice guidelines were drafted by the state Department of Environmental Conservation to limit the ability of developers to build unpopular and potentially hazardous pr ...
Topics: environmental justice, New York, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Tough Cell What can we learn from Bush's FreedomCAR plan?	Amanda Griscom	26 Feb 2003	Powers That Be
Following the State of the Union address in which President Bush laid out his new FreedomCAR and Fuel Initiative, which was cheered by automakers and jeered by environmentalists, hydrogen fever swept from the Beltway into the printing presses and airwaves of mainstream media. CNN, Business Week, the New York Times, and U.S. News and World Report, among others, ran stories that, although sometimes skeptical of ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Energy, education, Mexico, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Road Warriors A travel club provides a greener alternative to AAA	Michelle Nijhuis	11 Feb 2003	Main Dish
It's not easy to knock AAA. The venerable organization has 45 million members who count on it for trip insurance, travel advice, and, most of all, emergency services. It's no wonder that many members have sworn lifetime loyalty to Triple A: Rescuing drivers marooned on dark, lonely highways can do wonders for membership renewal rates. Triple eh? But is there a seedier side to this respected organiza ...
Topics: placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Smart Attack		10 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Smart Attack Smart-growth policies, designed to put a damper on runaway development and preserve local character, have recently come under attack in a handful of U.S. communities. In Loudon County, Va., on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., nearly 200 lawsuits were filed last week against the county's growth-control policies. Also last week, the mayo ...
Topics: Colorado, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, placemaking, politics, Virginia (all these topics)

Hydra-gen		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Hydra-gen President Bush yesterday tried out several neat-o gadgets powered by hydrogen fuel cells (a video camera and cell phone, among others) and reinforced the lofty language of his State of the Union speech, saying that he would ask Congress to spend $1.2 billion on "a new national commitment to take fuel-cell cars from the laboratory to the showroom." Enviros and Democratic presidential cand ...
Topics: energy, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydrogen		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydrogen In his State of the Union address, President Bush outlined a vision of nonpolluting, hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars and promised to pony up $1.5 billion over five years to make that vision a reality. Almost everyone, from environmentalists to automakers, agrees that the transition toward hydrogen is a good thing, at least in theory: It is clean, abundant, and could ultimately free the U. ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Truck Stops There		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops There In a setback for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court yesterday halted a federal plan to permit thousands of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, calling instead for environmental reviews that could take up to three years. In November, President Bush approved the entry of 30,000 Mexican trucks per year, citing ob ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, globalization, Mexico, North America, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

You're in the Army Now		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
You're in the Army Now Environmentalists and the Pentagon have never been the best of friends -- in fact, the folks at the Department of Defense are currently trying to wiggle out of complying with as many environmental regulations as possible in the name of national security -- but it would seem that military leaders can think green when it suits them. The U.S. Army and General Mot ...
Topics: Department of Defense, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, US Army (all these topics)

Highway Robber Mexico City's mayor plans to reduce pollution by building more roads	Simeon Tegel	15 Jan 2003	Main Dish
Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has come a long way in the last decade -- too far, some environmentalists would argue. O, brador. Photo: Gobierno del Distrito Federal. In February 1996, AMLO (as the Mexican press calls him) was arguably the country's most prominent environmentalist, organizing a string of high-profile protests in his native Tabasco, in southeastern Mexico ...
Topics: air pollution, Mexico, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

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