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I'll Have No Truck With That		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Have No Truck With That An unlikely partnership of environmental, labor, and trucking groups filed for an emergency injunction yesterday to prevent the Bush administration from allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, claiming that doing so would worsen U.S. air quality. Last week, in compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bush called an end to 20-year-ol ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Air Enforce Won		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Air Enforce Won After years of court battles, the U.S. EPA agreed yesterday to begin enforcing a stricter standard for ozone pollution that was developed by the Clinton administration in 1997. Industry groups such as the American Truckers Associations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to block the standard, bu ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, health, placemaking, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Detroit Rock City		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Detroit Rock City Detroit automakers sure aren't complaining about the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate. They anticipate having a close ally in the incoming chair of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who is known for his criticism of clean air regulations and the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. He once referred ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, James Inhofe, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Back in Black		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Back in Black Now that President Bush has strengthened his hand with a Republican-controlled Congress, his once-doomed energy plan -- which would provide $30 billion in tax cuts for the fossil-fuel and nuclear-power industries and open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling -- stands a good chance of passing. Enviros are pinning their hopes on possible presidential contenders, John Kerry (D- ...
Topics: energy, logging, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Boston Z-E-V Party		17 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Boston Z-E-V Party Massachusetts is preparing to adopt California's ambitious zero-emission vehicle legislation, which would require 10 percent of cars and trucks sold within the state to produce no pollution. For the moment, though, the U.S. government is still bickering internally over whether California's legislation is legal. Earlier this month, the Bush administration said California had overstepped i ...
Topics: California, Massachusetts, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Zero Down		10 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Zero Down Breaking with the federal government's long history of supporting California's clean-air efforts, the Bush administration is saying the Golden State went too far by revising its zero-emission-vehicle rule last year. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Justice Department, the White House sided with DaimlerChrysler and General Motors, which have taken ...
Topics: air pollution, California, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

De-railed		27 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
De-railed The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has voted to deny $1.2 billion in funding to Amtrak and pushed through a bill that threatens most, if not all, long-distance train service in the U.S. The Republican-backed bill would give the rail service $760 million next year -- about $500 million less than the $1.2 billion proposed by the Senate and requested by Amtrak to m ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, political groups, politics (all these topics)

Feeling Gassy		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Feeling Gassy Negotiators for the U.S. House and Senate have reached an agreement on new fuel-economy rules that would expand rather than decrease the country's oil consumption. Under the agreement, automakers would continue to receive credits through the model year 2008 for manufacturing vehicles that can run on both ethanol and gasolin ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, green living, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Speed Limit		19 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Speed Limit President Bush issued an executive order yesterday directing federal agencies to speed environmental reviews of important transportation projects, arguing that highways, airports, and other such projects are critical to the nation's economy and need to be freed of red tape. Environmentalists immediately denounced the move, calling it part of a systemic effort to restrict public debate and undermine environm ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Fee: 'Fie,' Foes Fume		18 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Fee: "Fie," Foes Fume Is it a tax or is it not a tax? That's the question in London, where diplomats are up in arms over a proposed daily fee on cars driving into the city center, in order to discourage congestion and clean up the city's air. They say the fee most certainly is a tax, and that therefore embassies should be exempt from it under the 1961 Vienna Convention, which bars governm ...
Topics: air pollution, business, England, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Sin Diesel		04 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Sin Diesel Long-term exposure to diesel exhaust probably triggers a wide range of respiratory illnesses and causes lung cancer, according to a study released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. Based on decades of research, the study found "persuasive" evidence that the diesel engines operating on highways, farms, and construction sites around the country are hazardous to human health. The same concl ...
Topics: air pollution, health, placemaking, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Got Sun? Marketing the revolution in clean energy	Amanda Griscom	29 Aug 2002	Powers That Be
Last month, 10 solar-powered race cars zipped around a 1.5-mile NASCAR track at the legendary Texas Motor Speedway, some of them reaching the dizzying speed of 35 miles per hour. With all its technological novelty and timely political implications, the Dell and Winston Solar Challenge (named for the computer and cigarette companies that sponsored it) might have been a grand public spectacle. But the entire 155,000-se ...
Topics: advertising, Bill McKibben, cars, grassroots activism, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, United States (all these topics)

Unsettling		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Unsettling The Bush administration is asking a federal judge to put the kibosh on a settlement that it reached 19 months ago with environmental groups to protect endangered manatees off the coast of Florida. The feds last year agreed to tighten procedures for issuing permits for waterfront development plans that might affect manatee habitat; they also said they would create manatee refuges where boating would b ...
Topics: Florida, marine life, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Dozing Off		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dozing Off More than 8,500 premature deaths are caused every year by pollution from off-road diesel-fueled equipment not regulated by the federal government, according to a new study by state air pollution control officials. Earthmovers, bulldozers, agricultural equipment, and other such vehicles emit extraordinarily high levels of pollution that have been linked ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Get the Bali Rolling		28 May 2002	Daily Grist
Get the Bali Rolling The fate of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August, could rest on a meeting that opened yesterday on the Indonesian island of Bali. The U.N.-sponsored meeting, which runs for two weeks, aims to smooth out differences among nations on how to achieve the twin and rather daunting goals of protecting the environment and eliminating ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, population, United Nations (all these topics)

The Truck Stops Here		02 May 2002	Daily Grist
The Truck Stops Here Speaking of the blue-green alliance, a coalition of labor and environmental groups, plus the trucking industry, filed suit yesterday to prevent the U.S. government from allowing some 30,000 Mexican trucks onto American roads. On Friday, the Bush administration is scheduled to sign regulations that would allow Mexican trucks to cross the border for the first time in 20 years. The coalition contends ...
Topics: air pollution, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

A Tale of Two Mayors The improbable story of how Bogota, Colombia, became somewhere you might actually want to live	Lisa Jones	04 Apr 2002	Main Dish
"We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people," said a man in a speech last year. "Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. ... We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and pl ...
Topics: Colombia, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

What Fuels These Mortals Be		02 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
What Fuels These Mortals Be Surprise, surprise: The U.S. Department of Transportation decided yesterday not to increase fuel-efficiency requirements for sport utility vehicles and other light trucks for the model year 2004. The decision comes after the Senate voted last month against a sharp increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, instead directing the National Highway Traffic Safety Admini ...
Topics: Department of Transportation, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Mess Transit		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Mess Transit As perhaps the most famous national park in the United States, the Grand Canyon occupies an equally vast space in our national psyche as in our national landscape. Unfortunately, it is also our national bottleneck. Each year, 5 million people flock to the park, leaving 6,000 cars to battle for 2,400 parking spaces every day during the summer. Park officials have recognized the probl ...
Topics: Arizona, national parks, placemaking, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Taking Liberties?		07 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Taking Liberties? The U.S. Supreme Court will begin today to consider a lawsuit over private property development in Lake Tahoe that has had lot owners and land-use planners squared off for more than two decades. At issue is a 1981 moratorium on the development of certain lots where runoff from rain and snowmelt would ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, lakes, Nevada, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Daschling Through the Senate		06 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Daschling Through the Senate U.S. Senate Democrats unveiled an energy bill yesterday that would place more emphasis on conservation and efficiency than the GOP alternative, while keeping the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drill-free. Currently, about 2 percent of the country's electricity comes from renewable sources; the new bill would require the number to jump to 12 percen ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

They've Got Our Vote		07 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
They've Got Our Vote Environmentalists scored significant victories in yesterday's gubernatorial elections, with Democrats James McGreevey and Mark Warner taking office in New Jersey and Virginia, respectively. McGreevey defeated Republican candidate Bret Schundler in a race where environmental issues, especially open spaces and clean air and wat ...
Topics: air pollution, California, New Jersey, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, Virginia, water pollution (all these topics)

Sog Story		25 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Sog Story Mexico City's new airport will be built on a soggy former lake bed east of the city, federal officials announced this week. Environmentalists are angry about the decision, saying it will endanger the geese, ducks, and other birds that nest on the lake bed. The airport is also furthering tension between conservative President Vicente Fox, who supports it, and Mexico City's progressive mayor, Andres ...
Topics: lakes, Mexico, placemaking, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Hodge Podge		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Hodge Podge South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D) said last week that he would do "whatever it takes" to keep plutonium shipments from coming to the Savannah River Site, a nuclear-processing complex run by the U.S. Energy Department near Aiken, S.C. Hodges says the Bush administration has gone back on a plan he worked out with the Clinto ...
Topics: nuclear power, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Virginia Slims		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Virginia Slims One of America's fastest-growing counties, Loudoun County in Virginia, voted last night to adopt rough development controls and try to keep two-thirds of the county as farmland. The vote by the county board of supervisors removed 83,000 potential homes from county plans and ended support for studying a proposed new highway to connect Dulles International Airport wi ...
Topics: food and agriculture, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Virginia (all these topics)

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