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Executive Disorder Industry unhappy with Bush's back-up air-pollution plan		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 ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States (all these topics)

You're Fired Up Former Berkeley professor fights biotech industry		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 ...
Topics: GMOs, politics, United States (all these topics)

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

Ford: 'Tough' Two California drivers fight Ford to keep their electric vehicles		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 ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Axis of Intransigence U.S. pushes to remove global-warming references from disaster talks		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 ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics)

Clear Skies and Present Danger Clean Air Act more effective than proposed Clear Skies bill, panel says		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 ...
Topics: air pollution, National Academy of Sciences, politics, United States (all these topics)

Don't Fear the Reapers A special series on the alleged 'Death of Environmentalism'		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 ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Death of Environmentalism, politics, United States (all these topics)

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, ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental movement, interview, politics, United States (all these topics)

Over Our Dead Bodies Green leaders say rumors of environmentalism's death are greatly exaggerated	Amanda Griscom Little	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
The leadership of the U.S. environmental movement took quite a beating in Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus's "The Death of Environmentalism." We invited four mainstream green leaders to respond: Carl Pope of the Sierra Club Phil Clapp of National Environmental Trust Frances Beinecke of the Natural Resources Defense Council Dan Carol of the Apollo ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

We've Got Issues What we talk about when we talk about the future of environmentalism		13 Jan 2005	The Gist
This is the first in a series of editorials Grist will publish over the coming months to address the issues raised by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus's essay "The Death of Environmentalism" and Adam Werbach's speech "Is Environmentalism Dead?" Get the backstory here. Whatever the merits of their arguments, we think it all to the good that Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordha ...
Topics: Death of Environmentalism, environmental movement, politics, United States (all these topics)

Buy the Balls Inauguration funded by industry; cynics jump to conclusions		13 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Buy the Balls Inauguration funded by industry; cynics jump to conclusions Yesterday we reported on an interview in which President Bush said that nuclear energy answers the "environmental issue" and the "dependency issue." Turns out it also partially answers the "incredibly expensive inauguration issue." The Nuclear Energy Institute, a lobbying group, is coughing up $100,000 for ...
Topics: business, elections, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Death of Environmentalism Global warming politics in a post-environmental world	Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
This essay by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus was released at an October 2004 meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association, and it's been ruffling feathers ever since. Get the backstory here. Foreword By Peter Teague, Environment Program Director, Nathan Cummings Foundation As I write this, the fourth in a series of violent hurricanes has just b ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Different An in-depth response to 'The Death of Environmentalism'	Carl Pope	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
An in-depth response to "The Death of Environmentalism" By Carl Pope 13 Jan 2005 In December 2004, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope distributed this response to the essay "The Death of Environmentalism." Get the backstory here. There Is Something Different About Global Warming Dear Environmental Grant-Maker: You may have recently received a memorandum entitled "The Death of Environmentalism" by Michael Shellenber ...
Topics: climate, politics, United States (all these topics)

Is Environmentalism Dead? A speech on where the movement can and should go from here	Adam Werbach	13 Jan 2005	Main Dish
Adam Werbach presented this speech at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco on Dec. 8, 2004. Further discussion of the issues he raises can be found on 3Nov.com. And read more on the debate over environmentalism's prospects here. Adam Werbach. I am here to perform an autopsy. Autopsies begin with these words. Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae Translated from Latin, th ...
Topics: climate change adaptation, politics, United States (all these topics)

Please Pass the Hemp, Billy DEA drops resistance to hemp food products		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Please Pass the Hemp, Billy DEA drops resistance to hemp food products Hemp may be the new soy. Recently, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency quietly ended its attempts to ban hemp oil and sterilized industrial hemp seed in food products. (Yes, these products are taken from the Cannabis plant, but no, they won't even get your little brother high.) "It's a victory [for the hemp industry]," says food s ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, United States (all these topics)

The Fabulous Baker Boy President to bake up crisp decisions, answer environmental issue		12 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Fabulous Baker Boy President to bake up crisp decisions, answer environmental issue In an interview with The Wall Street Journal -- his first newspaper interview since winning re-election -- President Bush pledged to, among other things, renew the push for his long-stalled energy bill and aggressively promote nuclear power, saying he looked forward to "making good, crisp, sound decisions." Bush spoke o ...
Topics: nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

Embargoing, Going ... Discovery of Cuban oil deposits raises hopes for eased restrictions		11 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Embargoing, Going ... Discovery of Cuban oil deposits raises hopes for eased restrictions With the recent hardening of U.S. trade policy toward Cuba, analysts are now speculating that one thing could help ease the restrictions: Oil, that is. Black gold. Texas tea. Two Canadian companies have discovered oil in Cuba's waters off the Gulf of Mexico, announced President Fidel Castro in a Dec. 25 speech to parli ...
Topics: Cuba, energy, oil, politics, United States (all these topics)

Harmer's Market Energy execs vacation with Bush admin officials -- innocently, of course		05 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Harmer's Market Energy execs vacation with Bush admin officials -- innocently, of course High-level Bush administration environmental officials and members of Congress are canoodling with energy execs at a posh resort in Arizona this week, discussing policy over golf, wine, and canapes. They are, of course, shocked -- shocked! -- at the implication that anything untoward, like, say, purchasing of influence, might be goin ...
Topics: business, politics, United States (all these topics)

Political Science An interview with Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists	Jennifer Weeks	05 Jan 2005	Main Dish
The Bush administration is gearing up to push for second-term priorities -- including an energy bill, power-plant emissions legislation, and amendments to the Endangered Species Act -- under a cloud of accusations that it has manipulated federal scientific research on these and other issues to support its agenda. These arguments have been voiced most prominently by the ...
Topics: interview, politics, United States (all these topics)

Darling Nikki EPA inspector general making enemies on Capitol Hill		04 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Darling Nikki EPA inspector general making enemies on Capitol Hill Nikki Tinsley, the inspector general of the U.S. EPA, is ruffling feathers in Washington, D.C., these days. A registered independent appointed by President Clinton in 1999, she has developed a reputation for integrity, professionalism, and steely resolve. She views her job not simply as monitoring for fraud and waste, but ensuring that the EPA is doing its ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

A Cartoonist's New Year's Resolution	Suzy Becker	04 Jan 2005	Ha.

Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

'And Now!' Grinned the Grinch, 'I Will Stuff Up the Tree!' Bush admin overhauls forest management policy		03 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
"And Now!" Grinned the Grinch, "I Will Stuff Up the Tree!" Bush admin overhauls forest management policy The Bush administration unveiled sweeping changes to federal forest-management policy on Dec. 22, while Americans milled through malls and airports, minds dancing with visions of, well, everything but forest management. The changes will "streamline" approval of forest-management plans b ...
Topics: politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Hagelian Dialectic Kyoto opponent Hagel may ally with Blair for new climate agreement		16 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Hagelian Dialectic Kyoto opponent Hagel may ally with Blair for new climate agreement U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to cajole the U.S. into doing something about climate change -- and shake off his rep as a Bush "poodle" -- may have found an ally in Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). Hagel met with Blair this week in London at the PM's request to discuss the kinds of initiatives the countries ...
Topics: climate, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

First, Do More Harm Bush admin delays new air-quality rules, pushes 'Clear Skies'		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
First, Do More Harm Bush admin delays new air-quality rules, pushes "Clear Skies" The White House has told the U.S. EPA to hold off on issuing the Clean Air Interstate Rule, which would curtail emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, in deference to a renewed push in Congress to pass the Bush administration's long-stalled "Clear Skies" legislation. Delaying the rule will increase ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Leavitt to Leave It Leavitt to move from EPA to HHS		13 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Leavitt to Leave It Leavitt to move from EPA to HHS President Bush announced today that he intends to move U.S. EPA chief Mike Leavitt into a new position as secretary of health and human services, ending Leavitt's tenure of just over a year at the agency. Leavitt, a rising star in the Republican Party and a fierce Bush loyalist, managed to raise the ire of environmentalists numerous times during his short stint at EPA as ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

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