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We've Got Mail Grist Readers Opine on Greens, Kucinich, Schwarzenegger, and More		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

Browner-nosing EPA Nominee Asks Former Agency Chief for Support		14 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Browner-nosing EPA Nominee Asks Former Agency Chief for Support Mike Leavitt, President Bush's choice to become the next head of the U.S. EPA, knows that environmentally minded Democrats are going to make his confirmation hearings tough, so he's getting his ducks in a row. Within a day of his nomination by Bush, Leavitt had called Carol Browner, the EPA administrator under President Clinton, to ask if he could use her as a ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (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)

The West Swing Bush Visiting Western States to Push His Environmental Agenda		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The West Swing Bush Visiting Western States to Push His Environmental Agenda During the next three weeks, President Bush will be making pit stops in a number of Western states both to tout his environmental agenda and to raise big bucks for his reelection campaign. Even though Bush's advisors consider the environment to be a "second-tier issue," they recognize that it's a ...
Topics: Arizona, deforestation, elections, politics, United States, wilderness (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)

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)

Impaired Judgement Judge Who Struck Down Roadless Rule May Have Ethics Conflict		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Impaired Judgement Judge Who Struck Down Roadless Rule May Have Ethics Conflict The federal judge who struck down the Clinton-era roadless rule last month may have violated ethics laws, according to two legal watchdog groups that filed a formal ethics complaint yesterday. The groups say the judge should have recused himself from hearing the case because he potentially stood to profit from its outcome. The roadless rule ...
Topics: politics, United States, wilderness (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)

Connaughton in the Act Bush Environmental Advisor Plays Powerful Behind-the-Scenes Role		05 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Connaughton in the Act Bush Environmental Advisor Plays Powerful Behind-the-Scenes Role He might just be the most powerful environmental player you've never heard of. James Connaughton, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is credited with (or, in some circles, accused of) being the architect of the Bush administration's environmental policy. In large part, his role consists of mediating between ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States (all these topics)

That's Terror-bull Rules Aimed at Curbing Funding for Terrorists Could Hurt Nonprofits		05 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
That's Terror-bull Rules Aimed at Curbing Funding for Terrorists Could Hurt Nonprofits Small environmental groups and other nonprofits around the globe could see important funding sources dry up as the U.S. government tries to stop the diversion of charitable funds to terrorist groups. The Treasury Department, which says crooked Islamic charities are major financiers of global terrorism, has issued voluntary guidelines on internatio ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Howard's Beginning Howard Dean Calls for Renewables, Fuel Efficiency, Global Cooperation		01 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Howard's Beginning Howard Dean Calls for Renewables, Fuel Efficiency, Global Cooperation Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean delivered the first major environmental speech of his campaign in San Francisco yesterday, calling for increased use of renewable resources, better fuel efficiency, and the elevation of the U.S. EPA to a cabinet-level agency. Specifically, Dean said that as president, he wo ...
Topics: elections, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Parks Stuck in Neutral		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Parks Stuck in Neutral The Bush administration defended itself yesterday against charges of neglecting the national park system, saying it has spent billions to maintain and repair parks around the country. According to U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton, $2.9 billion has been spent on a maintenance and repair backlog and 900 related projects have been completed; in addition, she said, the department i ...
Topics: national parks, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Clear and Present Danger?		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Clear and Present Danger? For months, the U.S. EPA has withheld findings indicating that President Bush's proposed "Clear Skies" legislation would lead to more pollution-related deaths than a bipartisan Senate bill to fight air pollution, and that the bipartisan bill would not be much more costly than Clear Skies. A leaked copy of the EPA's data showed, among other things, that a bill spons ...
Topics: air pollution, ozone, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A Declaration of Energy Independence New clean-energy coalitions talk up national security and the economy	Amanda Griscom	30 Jun 2003	Powers That Be
Two ambitious clean-energy coalitions made headlines this month, sweeping out from under the rug vital and far-reaching environmental issues that the Bush administration has steadfastly ignored. The Energy Future Coalition, boasting endorsements from heavies on both sides of the party line as well as from high-profile industry and environmental interests, calle ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, environmental non-government organizations, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Fisher Cuts Bait		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Fisher Cuts Bait U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman officially stepped down today -- and she wasn't alone. The agency's second-in-command, Linda Fisher, unexpectedly resigned as well, leaving the EPA without an obvious leader until a permanent successor is nominated and approved, a process that is expected to take many months. Like Whitman, Fisher expressed pride in the work done by the EPA during her tenure and said i ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Donkey Kick		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Donkey Kick The Bush administration received a serious dressing-down in absentia last night over its misbegotten environmental policies, as five of the nine Democratic hopefuls aired their own green views during a League of Conservation Voters forum held in Los Angeles. Rather than detailing the differences in their own positions, most of the candidates who were p ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, environmental justice, politics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Stow It		25 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Stow It The U.S. famously declined to sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, but yesterday it jumped on the bandwagon of another effort to control global warming: a research program dedicated to exploring technologies for capturing and storing carbon dioxide. Such technologies, collectively known as carbon sequestration, seek to keep CO2 out of the atmosphere through storage innovations, rather than through lim ...
Topics: climate, ozone, politics, United States (all these topics)

White House Whitewash		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
White House Whitewash In a first-of-its-kind environmental survey released today, the U.S. EPA said that the nation's air, water, and land are cleaner and better protected than they were 30 years ago, though sprawl and air quality, among other problems, continue to pose challenges for the nation. But the survey's credibility was compromised by reports last week that the White House heavily edi ...
Topics: health, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Aw, Shoot		23 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Aw, Shoot People accused of shooting endangered species are getting off the hook thanks to a U.S. Justice Department policy that some federal wildlife officials say amounts to a loophole in the Endangered Species Act. Adopted in 1998 under the Clinton administration, the policy requires government prosecutors to prove that a suspect knew the animal they were killing was endangered. "We have to show a mental state, wh ...
Topics: politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Censor Censure		19 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Censor Censure Bowdlerizing what was meant to be the first-ever comprehensive report on environmental problems facing the U.S., the White House has deleted most of the information the report contained on global climate change and reduced the remainder to a few vague paragraphs. The omitted sections referred to findings that climate change is at least partly caused by emissions from vehicles and power plants and could have d ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

American Idle Who needs Superfund when we've got reality TV?	Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	19 Jun 2003	Soapbox
By the end of the year, only $28 million will be left in the U.S. EPA's Superfund account. Superfund pays for the reclamation of abandoned toxic-waste sites, and $28 million barely affords a study just to figure out how to clean up one of the 1,200 deserted dumps wasting away in American communities. Money's tight to fund cleanups of Superfund sites like this one in Pennsylvania. Photo ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Dire Strait		17 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Dire Strait Russian poachers are killing 200 to 400 polar bears each year in the Bering Strait region, a trend that threatens to halve the strait's bear population by 2020, according to new research by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Russia and the U.S. are currently considering ratification of a treaty the two nations signed in 2000 that is intended to protect the region's population of about 4,000 polar bea ...
Topics: politics, Russia, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Hydrogen Hijacking?		17 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Hydrogen Hijacking? The European Union and the U.S. agreed yesterday to team up on research into hydrogen fuel cells, widely touted as a potentially clean power source that will revolutionize future energy use. But while the E.U. wants to develop hydrogen using renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, the U.S. has plans to use fossil fuels and nuclear energy to power a hydro ...
Topics: European Union, green living, politics, renewable energy, 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)

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