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We'll Drink to That
Americans prefer their water clean, poll shows |
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09 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| We'll Drink to That Americans prefer their water clean, poll shows "An overwhelming majority" -- some 86 percent -- of Americans believe clean, safe water is a national issue worthy of government spending, a new poll concludes. The two polling firms (one from each side of the partisan divide) conducting the opinion survey asked 900 adults a variety of questions related to hypothetical federal leg ... |
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| Topics: news, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics) |
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The Chuck Stops Here
An interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel, Republican from Nebraska, on his new climate bills |
Amanda Griscom Little |
01 Mar 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Sen. Chuck Hagel. A possible GOP presidential contender in 2008, Nebraskan Sen. Chuck Hagel has lately sprung to the public stage as one of the leading Republican voices on climate change. In mid-February, he introduced three bills designed to be economic jumper cables that would boost the development of clean-energy technologies -- one focusing on inte ... |
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| Topics: climate, interview, legislation, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Operation Squander
As Kyoto goes live, U.S. green groups offer tepid response |
Amanda Griscom Little |
16 Feb 2005 |
Muckraker |
| It's an action-packed week on the climate front: The Kyoto Protocol finally goes into effect today throughout the vast majority of the industrialized world (the U.S. conspicuously not included), and Capitol Hill is awash in climate-related assaults and initiatives. As Kyoto and climate bills heat up, greens' response is tepid. Congress is facing a double whammy of President Bush's m ... |
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| Topics: climate, Environmental Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Kyoto Protocol, legislation, Muckraker, National Environmental Trust, NRDC, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Sign Here to Save the Planet
Join a people's campaign to ratify the Kyoto Protocol |
Ross Gelbspan |
16 Feb 2005 |
Soapbox |
| The much-discussed Kyoto Protocol takes effect today, Feb. 16. In the face of the United States' continuing refusal to ratify the international agreement, a group of progressive activists is launching a drive to gather millions of signatures from U.S. citizens for a "People's Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty." Ross Gelbspan, a Grist contributor and author of tw ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Faith-Based Initiative
Religious leaders make the environment a 'values issue' |
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07 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Faith-Based Initiative Religious leaders make the environment a "values issue" More than 1,000 Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious leaders from some 35 states have signed and begun circulating a statement opposing President Bush's environmental policies. And evangelicals aren't far behind, having drawn up an "Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility" that emphasizes Christians' ... |
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| Topics: politics, religion and spirituality, United States (all these topics) |
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Old MacDonald Had a Conniption
Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies |
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07 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Old MacDonald Had a Conniption Proposed Bush budget cuts environment spending and ag subsidies Turns out tax cuts for the wealthy aren't cheap. President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget, sent to Congress today, would cut the U.S. EPA budget by about 6 percent and the National Park Service budget by nearly 3 percent, part of a broad range of cuts that will also affect Medicaid, home-heating aid for the poor ... |
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| Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Shocked, Shocked to Find Politicization in This Establishment
EPA inspector general finds proposed mercury rule biased for industry |
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04 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Shocked, Shocked to Find Politicization in This Establishment EPA inspector general finds proposed mercury rule biased for industry Brace yourself -- your entire worldview is about to be shaken. Turns out, in coming up with its new rules on power-plant mercury emissions, the U.S. EPA violated agency protocol and ignored scientific evidence in order to stay in line with a predetermined goal that favors industry. ... |
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| Topics: business, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
In SOTU speech, Bush mentions eco-responsible energy, dodges climate |
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03 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means In SOTU speech, Bush mentions eco-responsible energy, dodges climate In his State of the Union speech last night -- in between 27 utterances each of the words "freedom" and "terror" or their variants -- President Bush squeezed in a brief nod to green issues. He said that the country needs "environmentally responsible" energy sources, just before touting n ... |
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| Topics: politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Are Too!
Judge says Bush admin wrong in claiming NW wolves aren't endangered |
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02 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Are Too! Judge says Bush admin wrong in claiming NW wolves aren't endangered Yesterday, a federal judge rescinded the 2003 federal rule downgrading gray wolves in the Northwest U.S. from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act, saying the Bush administration's decision was "not based on the present or future threats to the wolf or the best available science." Interior Secretary Gale Norton bas ... |
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| Topics: politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Shallow End of the Secretarial Pool
Senate confirms Bodman to head Energy Department |
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01 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Shallow End of the Secretarial Pool Senate confirms Bodman to head Energy Department Sam Bodman's nomination to serve as energy secretary sailed through the Senate yesterday, despite his having little to no experience working on energy issues. Now he can get to work pushing Bush's big energy bill through Congress, fighting for the opening of the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., a ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Yucca, Who Needs Ya?
Nuclear advocates take back the whole 'Yucca is a necessity' thing |
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31 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Yucca, Who Needs Ya? Nuclear advocates take back the whole "Yucca is a necessity" thing Nuclear advocates have long insisted that the planned nuclear-waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain is necessary before new nuclear reactors can be built, because on-site storage of waste is just too dangerous. But with Yucca's prospects (at least in the short term) looking dim, and the prospects for new ... |
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| Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman
Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism |
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28 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Here a Whitman, There a Whitman, Everywhere a Whitman-Whitman Christie Whitman does the rounds criticizing Republican radicalism Ex-EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman's new book It's My Party Too is out now, and she is having her moment of media ubiquity, bashing what she calls the increasing extremism of the Republican Party. In interviews and appearances on such commie-pinko outlets as NPR's "Fresh Air& ... |
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| Topics: green living, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Where Do We Go, Where Do We Go Now?
Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight |
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27 Jan 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Thursday, 27 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. Here's the different thing about this conference. Although participants spanned the generations, it was organized in large measure by 20 students here at Middlebury ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Clear Skies' the Limit
Lawmakers defend states' rights, introduce Clear Skies competition |
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26 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Clear Skies' the Limit Lawmakers defend states' rights, introduce Clear Skies competition Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) and George Pataki (R-N.Y.), in a letter to a Senate committee that's convening today to deliberate the Bush administration's Clear Skies bill, emphasized the importance of protecting state environmental enforcement powers. Both California and New York have put i ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Arnold Schwarzenegger, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It
Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation |
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26 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Lion, the Switch, and the ... Oh, Forget It Neoconservatives and greens find common cause on energy conservation And the lion shall lie down with the lamb indeed. A strange political alliance is taking shape in Washington, D.C., as neoconservatives anxious to sap political strength from their Middle Eastern nemeses form common cause with enviros anxious to slow global warming. What unites them? A desire to reduce oi ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?
Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight |
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26 Jan 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Wednesday, 26 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. The bad boys of American environmentalism made their case this morning, and they made it well. By the time Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus had finished pre ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Changing the Climate-Change Climate
Bill McKibben sends dispatches from a conference on winning the climate-change fight |
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25 Jan 2005 |
Dispatches |
| Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and a member of Grist's board of directors. His latest book is Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 Tuesday, 25 Jan 2005 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. A crisp, cold, blue-sky New England day, fresh snow on the ground, and everything right with the world. Except that last night, as I was preparing to attend a thre ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, climate change impacts, Death of Environmentalism, Dispatches, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Executive Disorder
Industry unhappy with Bush's back-up air-pollution plan |
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21 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Executive Disorder Industry unhappy with Bush's back-up air-pollution plan President Bush's Clear Skies legislation has stalled out in Congress, unable to muster support even from a sufficient number of Republicans. To compensate, Bush is planning to implement some of the bill's provisions by issuing executive orders -- for instance, an order establishing a mercury-emissions trading program. But the electric-utilit ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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You're Fired Up
Former Berkeley professor fights biotech industry |
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20 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| You're Fired Up Former Berkeley professor fights biotech industry Former University of California at Berkeley professor and one-time biotech supporter Ignacio Chapela is fighting against what he alleges are huge sums of money being used by the biotech industry to influence research at U.S. universities. After what he says was a coordinated PR push by the industry, the science journal Nature abandoned support for his research ... |
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| Topics: GMOs, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Courting Disaster
Bush judicial nominees could shake the foundations of environmental law |
Glenn Scherer |
20 Jan 2005 |
Main Dish |
| William G. Myers III is George W. Bush's choice for a lifetime position on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court's jurisdiction covers three-quarters of all federal lands, in nine Western states where contentious battles rage over energy, mining, timber, and grazing. Which way will the scales of justice tip? Unlike most judicial nominees, Myers has never been a judge ... |
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| Topics: politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Ford: 'Tough'
Two California drivers fight Ford to keep their electric vehicles |
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19 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Ford: "Tough" Two California drivers fight Ford to keep their electric vehicles An around-the-clock protest began Friday in Sacramento, Calif., to save two electric vehicles from being repossessed and scrapped by their maker. The electricity-powered Ford Ranger pickup trucks were two of many produced by Ford Motor Co. during a new-vehicle pilot program in 1999 and then leased to drivers. Lessees David Rabo ... |
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| Topics: placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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The Axis of Intransigence
U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks |
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19 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks The U.S. delegation to an upcoming global conference on natural disasters is pushing to have references to global warming removed from the U.N. action plan to be ratified there. The document cites global warming as one factor among many leading to "a future where disasters could increasingly threaten the wor ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics) |
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Clear Skies and Present Danger
Clean Air Act more effective than proposed Clear Skies bill, panel says |
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14 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Clear Skies and Present Danger Clean Air Act more effective than proposed Clear Skies bill, panel says A new report by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the Bush administration's proposed reform of current air-quality standards will effectively do less to reduce pollution than existing Clean Air Act regulations, much as critics, including John Kerry (remember him?), charged ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, National Academy of Sciences, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Don't Fear the Reapers
A special series on the alleged 'Death of Environmentalism' |
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13 Jan 2005 |
Main Dish |
| A special series on the alleged "Death of Environmentalism" 13 Jan 2005 Environmental leaders were rather dismayed late last year when upstarts began offering high-profile obituaries of their beloved movement. Is environmentalism dead? We are reminded of a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which a wizened old man is offered to the collector of dead bodies in plague-ridden London. "I'm not dead," the geezer wheezes. "I'm getting bette ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, Death of Environmentalism, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Death Wish
An interview with authors of the controversial essay 'The Death of Environmentalism' |
Amanda Griscom Little |
13 Jan 2005 |
Main Dish |
| An interview with authors of the controversial essay "The Death of Environmentalism" By Amanda Griscom Little 13 Jan 2005 Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus stirred up quite a fuss when they unveiled their essay "The Death of Environmentalism" last fall, declaring the environmental movement kaput and calling for a more visionary and inspiring progressive movement to take its place. In an interview with Grist, Shellenberger and Nordhaus talk about their ideas, ... |
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| Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental movement, interview, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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