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The Bucks Stop Here		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Bucks Stop Here The Bush administration slaps fewer polluters with fines than did the Clinton administration, and those it does nab get far gentler punishments, according to federal records compiled by Eric Schaeffer, the former head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement. In the first 20 months of the Bush administration, civil penalties plunged nearly 56 percent, compared to those lev ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Leaf Me Alone		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Leaf Me Alone At international talks underway on protecting endangered species, the Bush administration has announced that it is "neutral" and "undecided" in the debate over whether to restrict trade in big-leaf mahogany from Latin America. The U.S. position since the time of George Bush the Elder had been to call for stricter limits on trade in th ...
Topics: business, globalization, logging, politics, South America, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow, but Not Fonder		04 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow, but Not Fonder The Bush administration indicated last week that it might withdraw its support from a landmark international agreement on population over concerns that it promotes abortion. At a U.N. meeting last Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand, U.S. State Department official Louise Oliver said the 1994 Cairo accord included terms such as "reproductive services" and "reproduc ...
Topics: politics, population, United States (all these topics)

On a Roll Back		28 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
On a Roll Back Turning up the heat on Republicans in the final weeks before the U.S. elections, Democrats and environmentalists are requesting documents from the U.S. EPA detailing the Bush administration's effort to roll back clean-air regulations on older coal-fired power plants and refineries. But EPA officials have refused to pony up the evidence, and Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.), chair of the Se ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Sen. Wellstone Killed in Plane Crash		25 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Sen. Wellstone Killed in Plane Crash U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) was killed today along with seven others in a plane crash in northern Minnesota. Wellstone, 58, was one of the most outspoken liberals in Congress; he opposed the use of force in Iraq and was a longtime ally to environmentalists, earning a near-perfect 96 percent lifetime score from the Washington, D.C.-based League of Conservation Voters. Wellstone's wife and d ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

A Dehli-cate Balance		23 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
A Dehli-cate Balance Delegates from around the world are meeting in New Delhi, India, today for the latest round of international talks on climate change. In part because the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions -- the United States -- has rejected the Kyoto Protocol, the meeting is focusing on ways to adapt to climate change rather than on ways to curb it. Delegates will discuss "minimizing vul ...
Topics: climate, India, politics, United States (all these topics)

Staircase Closed		21 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Staircase Closed Former President Clinton acted within his authority when he created new national monuments during his final year in office, a federal court ruled Friday. The ruling was a victory for environmentalists and a blow for property-rights advocates and others who had challenged seven of the 15 monument designations in court. The Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., heard two separate ca ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Security: Blank It		21 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Security: Blank It In the name of keeping sensitive information out of the hands of terrorists, the Bush administration has restricted access to a broad range of scientific research -- removing Internet links, deleting information from websites, and even requiring federal librarians to destroy a CD-ROM about public water supplies. The information lockdown is ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, National Academy of Sciences, politics, United States (all these topics)

Smoky Signals		04 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Smoky Signals The superintendent of Yosemite National Park announced yesterday that he would retire rather than accept a transfer to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where he would have been called upon to oversee two controversial projects opposed by environmentalists and others. One project involves building a road across the largest undeveloped wilderness in the eastern U.S. to enable area residents to reach ...
Topics: national parks, politics, United States (all these topics)

Homeland Insecurity		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Homeland Insecurity Despite all the hype about guaranteeing "homeland security," the Bush administration has scrapped plans to impose strict regulations to protect chemical plants from possible terrorist attacks. The decision, which was confirmed yesterday by U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, came after months of administration infighting and heavy lobbying efforts against new rules by the ...
Topics: energy, politics, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

All Griled Up		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
All Griled Up During his confirmation hearing in May 2001, J. Steven Griles promised the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that his former job with a lobbying firm, where he represented a broad array of utilities, mining companies, and energy producers, would not interfere with his new position as deputy interior secretary of the United States. He signed two letters pledging t ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, politics, United States (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)

Acting Up		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Acting Up The Bush administration announced yesterday that it plans to consider new rules for enforcing the Clean Water Act. Some conservative lawmakers have been pressuring the administration to revise the enforcement rules since January 2001, when the Supreme Court imposed new limits on the scope of the act. Some interpreted that court ruling to suggest that the feder ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United States, water pollution (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)

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)

No Island Is an Island		16 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
No Island Is an Island Climate change was the leading concern at the annual Pacific Island Forum this week, where leaders of small island nations chastised the United States for abandoning the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The islands have an unusually vested interest in the protocol because they face a high risk of being swallowed up by seas swollen from melting ice caps a ...
Topics: air pollution, Australia, climate, Pacific Islands, politics, United States (all these topics)

Absence Makes Some Hearts Grow Fonder		15 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Absence Makes Some Hearts Grow Fonder By all appearance, President Bush will not be attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the end of the month -- much to the delight of his conservative allies. "We applaud your decision not to attend the summit," read a letter signed by more than 30 conservative activists and sent to the president this week. The letter went on t ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Burned		15 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Burned In addition to scorching millions of acres of habitat and killing wildlife, the fires that have raged throughout the western U.S. this summer have taken another toll on the environment -- a financial one. The federal government expects to spend more than $1.5 billion battling wildfires this year, and millions of those dollars will come from sources that would otherwise be used to pa ...
Topics: politics, United States, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Outward Boundary		12 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Outward Boundary In a federal lawsuit over the legality of a new Navy sonar system said to harm marine animals, the Bush administration is challenging the scope of one of the most important pieces of U.S. environmental legislation, the National Environmental Policy Act. The act requires federal agencies to review the environmental implications of their projects, but the Justice Department ...
Topics: Department of Justice, marine life, NRDC, politics, United States (all these topics)

Choosy Administrations Choose GEF		09 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Choosy Administrations Choose GEF The U.S. and 31 other countries pledged this week to allocate a total of $2.92 billion over four years to support the Global Environmental Facility, an international fund to promote clean and efficient energy, biodiversity protection, and water-restoration efforts in developing nations. The Bush administration contributed $500 million of that total, but is currently about $270 million in ...
Topics: business, politics, United States (all these topics)

That Sinking Feeling		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
That Sinking Feeling In other scientific news of the day, trees might not be a climate change magic bullet after all, according to a study published in today's edition of Nature. Trees and shrubs have been regarded as an ideal carbon sink (meaning they absorb excess carbon dioxide, reducing the concentration of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere) and therefore an effective means to fend off global warming. President Bus ...
Topics: politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Think Globally, Act Selfishly		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, politics, United States (all these topics)

Watered Down		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Watered Down Nearly a third of all major industrial facilities and state-operated sewage-treatment plants in the U.S. have significantly violated clean water regulations in the last two years, and one out of four operated on an expired pollution permit last year, according to a recent report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Moreover, relatively few of the noncompliant facilities have fa ...
Topics: politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

To Russia, With Empty Tanks		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Russia, With Empty Tanks As President Bush weighs the pros and cons of waging war on Iraq, the issue of U.S. oil energy security looms large. And although no one would have believed it 50 years ago, the U.S. is increasingly contemplating Russia as a stable and desirable alternative source of oil. The strategic partnership between the Cold War-era e ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Middle East, oceans, politics, Russia, United States (all these topics)

Everyone's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Task Force		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Everyone's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Task Force The Bush administration has 30 days to turn over more documents related to Vice President Dick Cheney's National Energy Policy Development Group, a federal judge ordered late last week. A number of other federal agencies involved in the secretive energy task force have already turned over thousands of pages of related documents, ...
Topics: non-government organizations, politics, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

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