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United They Stand		10 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
United They Stand In a sign-of-the-times statement, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said yesterday that his committee would stop work on an energy bill for the rest of year to avoid "issues that divide, rather than unite us." Prior to the Sept. 11 attacks, a sweeping energy package was a top congressional priority; now, broad legislation will probably be shelved unti ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Going With the Grain		05 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Going With the Grain In a closely contested vote yesterday, the U.S. House defeated an amendment to a massive farm bill that would have shifted $19 billion from crop subsidies to conservation efforts. The defeat, which was engineered largely by lawmakers from traditional farming states, paves the way for approval of a 10-year, $171 billion farm bill that would increase subsides for grain and cotton farmers. Cr ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States (all these topics)

Precedent of the United States		03 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Precedent of the United States A federal judge dismissed an effort by the timber industry and users of off-road vehicles (ORVs) to overturn former President Clinton's order to designate 328,000 acres of federal land in California's Sierra Nevada as Giant Sequoia National Monument. The plaintiffs challenged the 1906 Antiquities A ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging, mining and drilling, outdoor recreation, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

The Right Stuff Has Bush done the environment a favor with his extreme agenda?	Keith Schneider	30 Aug 2001	Main Dish
Oh, it's getting fun. As Congress prepares to reconvene next week, the question is not whether the White House will adjust its strategy on the environment, but how. When President Bush and his congressional allies went home for vacations this month, the message they heard away from the Beltway was consistent: The administration's approach on energy, global warming, public health, and nat ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

The Kratzer-Jammin' Kid		23 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
The Kratzer-Jammin' Kid Two new U.S. government reports raise big concerns about a Bush administration plan to cut federal environmental enforcement staff by 8 percent and shift resources to the states. A report by the U.S. EPA's inspector general found that states are doing a poor job of monitoring and punishing water polluters. A report by the General Accou ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Don't Be a Hog		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Don't Be a Hog Factory hog farms, as well as the cattle and poultry industries, are pressuring the U.S. Congress to pass a bill that would use taxpayer dollars to help the farms pay for cleaning up their environmental messes. The U.S. EPA is considering costly regulations to reduce pollution from the livestock operations -- and the industries don't want to get stuck with the bill ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Rocky Mountain Low		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Rocky Mountain Low Hoping to give himself a green sheen, President Bush traveled to Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday to engage in trail work for a few minutes and talk about character. "There's a grand vision embodied in these mountains," he said. "And the vision is that we can teach our children right from wrong." He also criticized environmentalists who ...
Topics: elections, energy, logging, mining and drilling, politics, United States (all these topics)

Mighty Morphin' Power Rearrangers		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Mighty Morphin' Power Rearrangers Not wanting to provoke another attack from environmentalists, the Bush administration said yesterday that it would delay announcing its plan for overhauling regulation of aging power plants and instead include the plan as part of a more comprehensive package of clean-air policy options in September. President Bush had ordered the U.S. EPA to reassess th ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Spreading Like Wildfire		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Spreading Like Wildfire The Bush administration and governors from Western states agreed yesterday to the outlines of a 10-year plan to reduce the risk of wildfire, but postponed until next spring discussion on how the plan would be implemented. In the past, fire authorities focused on suppressing fires that had already begun. The new plan focuses on better collaboration among federal, state, and local governm ...
Topics: logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Time Off for Bad Behavior?		13 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Time Off for Bad Behavior? U.S. President Bush told ABC News on Friday that his administration could have done a better job spinning its environmental policies. Bush, in an interview from his Texas ranch, where he is vacationing for the month, said, "My administration's made a lot of very thoughtful and environmentally sensitive decisions, but you get no credit for it. ... Listen, ours is a ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

I've Got a Secret and I'm Not Telling		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
I've Got a Secret and I'm Not Telling Vice President Dick Cheney has formally refused to turn over documents relating to the development of the Bush administration's energy plan to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress. The GAO may now take the White House to court over the issue. Democrats and enviros believe the energy plan was tailor-made for energy exe ...
Topics: energy, Government Accountability Office, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

At Whit's End		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
At Whit's End U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman now thinks her decision to revoke a Clinton administration rule to reduce arsenic in drinking water was a bone-headed move. She told USA Today that her decision wasn't bad policy, but bad politics: "Politically, if I'd been smart, I would've never changed it. ... I would've let the courts decide. We were going to be sued anyway by the West ...
Topics: politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Sum Dum Gai Satire		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist

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

Sum Dum Gai In the wake of Bonn, Bush's isolationism takes a page from China	Chris Colin	06 Aug 2001	Soapbox
After reading more than a dozen articles about the failure of the U.S. to engage in the recent Kyoto negotiations in Bonn, President Jiang Zemin of China angrily called President Bush yesterday. "Isolationism has always been our thing," Jiang reportedly said during the phone call. "This would be like your Seinfeld saying, 'Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?'" Bush responded ...
Topics: China, politics, United States (all these topics)

Hard Corps		03 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Hard Corps The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday did an about-face and abandoned a plan to change the way it manages the Missouri River, even though it has publicly acknowledged that the current system violates the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said for years that the river must be returned to a mor ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Parental Guidance Suggested		03 Aug 2001	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, politics, United States (all these topics)

Back Flipper		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Back Flipper A federal appeals court yesterday rejected the U.S. government's bid to loosen the standard for "dolphin-safe" tuna. The U.S. wanted to open its dolphin-safe market to Mexican and Latin American fishers who catch tuna in large purse-seines and promise to set fre ...
Topics: Department of Commerce, Earth Island Institute, environmental justice, globalization, marine life, Mexico, politics, South America, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Gallons of Gasp		17 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Gallons of Gasp A panel appointed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has drafted a report recommending that the U.S. require automakers to improve the fuel economy of new vehicles. The 13-member panel, made up mostly of engineers and consultants who have worked for auto and oil companies, contends that fuel economy for cars and SUVs could be raised by as much as eight to 11 miles per gallon over the next six to 1 ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

Fuel on the Hill		17 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Fuel on the Hill U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, five cabinet secretaries, and 25 congressional Republicans fanned out across the country yesterday to try to bolster public support for the Bush administration's drill-based energy plan. Now that fuel costs are falling and fuel supplies are rising, the administration has taken to describing the current energy situation in the country as a "challenge," rather than a "cr ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Non Bonn Jovial		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Non Bonn Jovial Delegates from about 180 countries began talks today in Bonn, Germany, to try to salvage the Kyoto treaty on climate change, even though the U.S. has withdrawn from it. The European Union is lobbying Japan not to follow U.S. President Bush's lead by rejecting Kyoto. But Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday downplayed the talks in Bonn, suggesting that negotiations sche ...
Topics: air pollution, Germany, Japan, politics, United States (all these topics)

Visibly Upset		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Visibly Upset The 1,900 new power plants called for in U.S. President Bush's energy plan pose a big threat to air quality in places where smog is already bad, experts say. They are also concerned about moves by the Bush administration to end efforts by former President Clinton to force dozens of dirty, old coal-powered plants to install modern pollution-control equipment. Last week, the ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Confessions of an Energy Task Force Member Diary of Dick Cheney's secretive group discovered!	Chris Colin	29 Jun 2001	Soapbox
Congressional investigators were thwarted by the White House this week in their attempts to determine the identities of the people who met with Vice President Dick Cheney's secret energy task force. Indeed, even the names of some task force members remain unknown. The task force's influential report gave short shrift to various environmental concerns long-believed to be pressi ...
Topics: energy, politics, United States (all these topics)

Chicken Soup for the Soulless Benefit from Dick Cheney's motivational speeches!	Chris Colin	29 May 2001	Soapbox
Foreign leaders, whom the Bushies have occasionally punctured in the hopes of finding oil, continue to complain about the White House's recently released energy plan like little babies. Vice President Cheney has bravely turned their nagging on its ear, pointing out that foreigners often marry dogs and then eat them. Welcome to Cheney's America. "Conservation may be a sign of personal v ...
Topics: politics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

On the Roadless Again Have the Bushies done enviros a favor?	Jon Margolis, Writers on the Range	18 May 2001	Soapbox
Remember that old line that tells you to beware of getting what you wished for? The Bush administration and the timber industry may be on the verge of providing another illustration. Even with a federal judge on their side. The roadless travails. Photo: U.S. Forest Service. The administration wished to get rid of the National Forest Roadless Rule, both because Bill Clinton promulgate ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, logging, national forests, politics, United States (all these topics)

Dear Christie ... 10 Reasons to Stay the Course In a confidential memo, President Bush tells EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman what's on his mind	Chris Colin	09 Apr 2001	Soapbox
Christie -- Heard they hammered you in Montreal about the Kyoto thing. Don't let it get you down, Whitman! They're foreigners, these people, and foreigners feed on confrontation. It's cultural. Did you see that recent French or German movie, in black and white? Cultural. Good of you to leave the conference early. I ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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