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How Much for the Whole State? Mining Plan Raises Questions About Bush Political Contributor		11 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, New Mexico, political groups (all these topics)

Spoilent Green Many Enviros Unhappy About Nader's Presidential Bid		24 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, political groups, politics (all these topics)

A Green and Pleasant Continent Europe's Green Parties Unite		23 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
A Green and Pleasant Continent Europe's Green Parties Unite Thirty-two national Green parties united on Saturday to become the European Green Party, predicting that a unified voice will gain them influence and votes in the coming elections. The Greens, now the first pan-European political party, will run under a common banner and with a common age ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, European Union, Germany, green living, Italy, political groups (all these topics)

Shout, Trout, Let It All Out Western Hunters and Anglers Oppose Energy Bill		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Shout, Trout, Let It All Out Western Hunters and Anglers Oppose Energy Bill A group of outdoor enthusiasts descended on Washington, D.C., Wednesday to lobby against attempts by Republicans to revive the omnibus energy bill, defeated in the Senate last year. They object to provisions in the bill that would drastically increase oil ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, marine life, outdoor recreation, political groups, politics, West, wildlife (all these topics)

MTBE-Free or Die EPA Attempts to Defuse MTBE Issue in New Hampshire		28 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, elections, New Hampshire, political groups, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Gore Text Gore Calls Bush a 'Moral Coward' in Speech on Environment		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Gore Text Gore Calls Bush a "Moral Coward" in Speech on Environment The Bush administration is "wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility, and mining companies," said former Vice President Al Gore in a fiery address to a packed theater in New York City on Thursday. The speech -- fourth in a series co ...
Topics: air pollution, Al Gore, climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, New York, political groups, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Do Good Get the Presidential Candidates to Talk Green		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Do Good Get the Presidential Candidates to Talk Green With the Iowa caucuses next week, the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination will really get rollicking. Remind the candidates to come out swinging for the environment. More than 80 percent of Americans agree that the environment should be a national priority, but you wouldn't know it from listening to candidates' stump speeches. Sig ...
Topics: elections, green living, Iowa, political groups, politics (all these topics)

Green Quixote Humboldt-Based Candidate New Front-Runner for Green Party Nomination		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Green Quixote Humboldt-Based Candidate New Front-Runner for Green Party Nomination Meanwhile, far from the madding crowds in Iowa, Green Party activists are fishing about for a standard-bearer of their own. Ralph Nader said no thanks; he's planning to lose the 2004 presidential race as an Independent. But a potential front-runner has emerged in the person of David Cobb, a lon ...
Topics: California, elections, Florida, political groups, politics, Texas, Wisconsin (all these topics)

To Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Energy Execs Pay to Create Environmental 'To-Do' List with GOP Reps		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
To Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Energy Execs Pay to Create Environmental "To-Do" List with GOP Reps Business execs from power, coal, and mining companies are powwowing with more than a dozen GOP lawmakers from Western states this week in Phoenix, Ariz., at a conference focused on energy and environmental issues that boasts, among other activities, a session during which attendees can draw up a " ...
Topics: Arizona, business, political groups, politics, West (all these topics)

Commission: Possible? Kerry Proposes Commission to Protect Integrity of Environmental Regulation		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Commission: Possible? Kerry Proposes Commission to Protect Integrity of Environmental Regulation John Kerry, the Massachusetts senator who has slipped substantially in the ranks of Democratic presidential contenders, sought to reinvigorate his campaign yesterday by returning to one of his keystone issues: environmental protection. Speaking in New Hampshire, Kerry pr ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, New Hampshire, political groups, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Green Thumbs-Down Don't gamble with your vote in 2004	Norman Soloman	15 Oct 2003	Soapbox
Is Ralph ready to run? Photo: Nader 2000. Activists have plenty of good reasons to challenge the Democratic Party operatives who focus on election strategy while routinely betraying progressive ideals. Unfortunately, the national Green Party now shows appreciable signs of the reverse problem -- focusing on admirable ideals without plausible strategy. If Ralph Nader runs for president next year, as now appears qui ...
Topics: political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

MTBE Promises Energy Bill Likely to Include Liability Protections for MTBE Makers		26 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
MTBE Promises Energy Bill Likely to Include Liability Protections for MTBE Makers The makers of a gasoline additive that can contaminate groundwater will almost certainly be protected from liability issues under the terms of the nation's energy bill, negotiators of the legislation announced yesterday. Methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, has been added to gasoline since the 1990s to reduce e ...
Topics: business, political groups, politics, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Last Scoundrels of Refuge Republicans Push for Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge -- Again		22 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Last Scoundrels of Refuge Republicans Push for Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge -- Again It's the story that never dies: Republicans are once again plotting to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas drilling, this time by adding a provision to a major energy bill that is now being hammered out in a congressional conference committee. Most Democ ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

License to Drill GOP Energy Bill Would Do a Big Favor for Halliburton		08 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
License to Drill GOP Energy Bill Would Do a Big Favor for Halliburton A measure in a big Republican-backed energy bill would exempt from federal regulation a natural-gas-drilling procedure refined by Halliburton Co., the oil and gas services company previously headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. The process, called hydraulic fracturing, is used widely in Western states and invo ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

A Voice in the Wilderness Grist Launches New Editorial Column		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

ACT Up Can the new PAC on the block unseat Bush in '04?		12 Aug 2003	The Gist
With a substantial chunk of money but a minimum of fanfare, environmentalists, labor leaders, feminist organizations, and other left-leaning groups convened last week to launch Americans Coming Together, a new PAC dedicated to defeating President Bush in 2004. The name of the alliance is terrible going on tawdry, but the acronym is apt: If we want ACT's dream to become reality, then precisely what we must do is act -- or, more b ...
Topics: political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

Field of Greens Greens plan to field a presidential candidate in 2004 -- consequences be damned	Norman Soloman	06 Aug 2003	Soapbox
For the 2004 presidential race, the Green die is cast. "The Green Party emerged from a national meeting ... increasingly certain that it will run a presidential candidate in next year's election, all but settling a debate within the group over how it should approach the 2004 contest," the Washington Post reported on July 21. The Green Party promptly put out ...
Topics: political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

Field of Greens The Green Party Plans to Field a Presidential Candidate in 2004		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, political groups, politics, United States (all these topics)

Howell of Protest		13 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Howell of Protest Under federal regulations, private developers have to pay market rates to lease land bordering the 456 lakes owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. But last month, Ronald Howell signed a 50-year rent-free lease on 280 along Oklahoma's Skiatook Lake, which is owned by the corps, to build a $10 million resort, complete with marina and golf course. What gives? It s ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Oklahoma, outdoor recreation, political groups (all these topics)

Out to Luntz		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Out to Luntz Worried that their party is vulnerable on environmental issues, some Republicans in recent months have been trying to foster a gentler, greener image. An influential memorandum penned last fall by GOP strategist Frank Luntz advises Republicans to sprinkle terms like "balance" and "common sense" into their environmental speeches, and to stick to the word "conservationist," which he says s ...
Topics: political groups, politics (all these topics)

Refuge-nix		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Refuge-nix Six GOP senators are throwing a wrench in the Bush administration's plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling. The six -- Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, John McCain of Arizona, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois, and Mike DeWine of Ohio -- announced last week that they will oppose plan ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, rivers and watersheds, wetlands (all these topics)

Homeland Defense		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental non-government organizations, New England, political groups, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Schoolhouse Rocked		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Schoolhouse Rocked Graduate students holding teaching and research positions at Cornell University announced late last week that they would not join the United Auto Workers, bucking a growing trend toward grad student unionization. According to Allen MacKenzie, co-founder of At What Cost?, a student group opposed to unionizing, many students disliked the UAW's political views, especially regarding t ...
Topics: New York, non-government organizations, political groups (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)

Look for the Onion Label?		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Look for the Onion Label? It's not quite like a pie in the face or mashed potatoes on the cafeteria ceiling, but Oregonians can still expect a food fight come November. The state seems poised to be the first in the nation to vote on a labeling law for genetically modified foods, now that the backers of the initiative, Oregon Concerned Citizens for Safe ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, food and agriculture, GMOs, Oregon, political groups, politics (all these topics)

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