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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)

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)

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)

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)

Environmental What Agency?		12 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Environmental What Agency? Rumors are heating up about who will fill the shoes of U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, who announced her resignation last month and will step down June 27. Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne (R) and Tom Skinner, the EPA's Midwest regional administrator, seem to have risen above two earlier possibilities -- Deputy EPA Administrator Linda Fisher and Florida Department of Environmental Protection Se ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Greens Pan Greenspan		11 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Greens Pan Greenspan The Bush administration and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan are expressing increasing concerns about dwindling natural gas supplies, a move that environmentalists see as a ploy to drum up support for nuclear energy and drilling on public lands. The concern over natural gas comes as Congress debates a comprehensive energy bill that could include provisions for d ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, nuclear power, politics, 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)

Chop Shop		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chop Shop The environmental policies of the Bush administration are endangering our nation's woodlands, according to a coalition of environmental groups that yesterday released a list of the 10 most at-risk forests. The coalition, which included Greenpeace and the National Forest Protection Alliance, assessed the risks po ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, Greenpeace, logging, politics, United States, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Data Dumping		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Data Dumping Think the U.S. EPA is keeping tabs on water pollution around the country? Think again. The agency's computer system for tracking and controlling water pollution is outmoded, riddled with bad data, and lacks information on thousands of sources of serious pollution, according to a report released last week by the EPA's inspector general. Efforts to fix the computer system have been slow, underfu ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Crop Dustup		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Dustup Speaking before the United States Coast Guard Academy yesterday, President Bush accused the European Union of undermining efforts to end widespread hunger in Africa by banning genetically modified (GM) food. Bush praised "high-yield bio-crops" as key to increasing productivity and ameliorating hunger in developing nations, and claimed the E.U. ban was based on "unfounde ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, population, United States (all these topics)

Forests Fired		21 May 2003	Daily Grist
Forests Fired The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed President Bush's "Healthy Forests" initiative, which would limit environmental and judicial reviews of proposed tree-cutting projects in the name of preventing forest fires. Approval of the initiative came despite a report released last week by the General Accounting Office that found that, contrary to White House allegations, very few ...
Topics: logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Rebel With a Cause?		21 May 2003	Daily Grist

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

Growl		19 May 2003	Daily Grist
Growl Along with whales and pandas, grizzly bears are among the most famous and most beloved poster children of the environmental movement. But that hasn't deterred the Bush administration from consistently making land-use decisions that environmental activists say threaten the animals. The administration's actions -- most notably, the halting of a hard-won, Clinton-era plan to reintroduce grizzlies to central Idaho and the removal ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

The Evidence Is Thin		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Evidence Is Thin A new report by the federal government has found that very few forest-thinning projects have been stalled by appeals from environmentalists, giving the lie to allegations to the contrary by the Bush administration. The General Accounting Office reported yesterday that the U.S. Forest Service was able to proceed with 95 percent of thinning projects within 90 days or fewer, u ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Pay Dirt		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
Pay Dirt The "polluter pays" principle may be languishing in the U.S. under the business-friendly Bush administration, but it's alive and well in Europe, where the European parliament voted this week to strengthen rules to make companies pay for the environmental problems they cause. Spurred on by the recent Prestige disaster, in which a tanker spilled ten ...
Topics: business, European Union, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Ban Rollover		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
Ban Rollover Starting up what's likely to be an ugly trade tussle, the Bush administration yesterday filed suit at the World Trade Organization against the European Union, challenging E.U. policies that severely restrict the import of genetically modified (GM) crops. U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick contends that the E.U. has in effect instituted a ban on GM products, which ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Greening the Elephant Republicans for Environmental Protection need not be an oxymoron	Martha Marks, Writers on the Range	13 May 2003	Soapbox
In the seven years since I cofounded Republicans for Environmental Protection, officially known as REP America, I have answered two questions more often than any others: "Isn't Republicans for Environmental Protection an oxymoron?" And, "If you care so much about conservation and environmental protection, why don't you become a Democrat?" Th ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, politics, United States (all these topics)

Green Old Party		13 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Fuel Independent Candidate		08 May 2003	Daily Grist
Fuel Independent Candidate Jockeying for name recognition and post position, the candidates for the 2004 Democratic primary are busily trying to stake out the issues that will define them as the election unfolds -- and Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman has settled on energy independence. In his first major policy speech, given yesterday to environmentalists, Lieberman declared a goal of reducing U.S. depen ...
Topics: elections, green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Chaos Theory Looting is as American as apple pie	Mark Fiore	22 Apr 2003	Soapbox
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Topics: green living, Iraq, politics, United States (all these topics)

Europe Paean		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Europe Paean Major American corporations may be getting off easy on environmental regulations in the U.S. these days, but they're being forced to toe the line in Europe. Rules adopted this year will require all electronics manufacturers doing business in European Union countries to eliminate use of lead, mercury, and other heavy metals from their products, ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, green living, politics, recycling, toxics, United States, waste (all these topics)

Made to Border		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Made to Border Mexico and the U.S. shook hands Friday on a 10-year agreement to fight pollution along their shared 2,000-mile border, while some enviros contended that without money behind the deal, it won't make a real dent in the region's many problems. The intent is to reduce air pollution, protect water supplies, and prevent pesticide contamination in the border area, which is home to almost 12 mil ...
Topics: Mexico, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Nuclear Falling-Out The feds are backing nuclear power -- in the name of the environment	Amanda Griscom	03 Apr 2003	Powers That Be
It's a long-held tenet of U.S. environmentalists that nuclear power is bad news. Critics argue that the clean-air benefits of nuclear reactors are far outweighed by the consequences of uranium mining and radioactive waste storage -- not to mention the damage that could result from an accident at an atomic power station. Now more than ever, with growing concern about terrorist at ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal, United Kingdom, United States, West (all these topics)

Peace Vigilantes	Suzy Becker	31 Mar 2003	Ha.

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

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