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What Fuels These Mortals Be
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02 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| What Fuels These Mortals Be Surprise, surprise: The U.S. Department of Transportation decided yesterday not to increase fuel-efficiency requirements for sport utility vehicles and other light trucks for the model year 2004. The decision comes after the Senate voted last month against a sharp increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, instead directing the National Highway Traffic Safety Admini ... |
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| Topics: Department of Transportation, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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Right in the Solar Plexus
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29 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Right in the Solar Plexus From the believe-it-or-not department: To cover the costs of printing its 170-page energy plan last May, the Bush administration tapped into the Department of Energy's solar and renewable energy and energy conservation budgets. Documents released under court order by the DOE on Monday night indicate that $135,615 of the renewables and conservation budget was spent to print 10,000 c ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Safety Dance, Part Two
Is the U.S. nuclear industry writing its own ticket on security? |
Shelley Smithson |
28 Mar 2002 |
Main Dish |
| Over the last 15 years, the nuclear power industry has lobbied the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Congress to weaken security requirements at atomic plants, even as the threat of terrorism has grown. But in reality, as Shelley Smithson shows in Part I of this series, nuclear energy security is already poor. In drills conducted by the NRC over the last decade, guards at nearl ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Parroty, Not Parody
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28 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Parroty, Not Parody In the latest disheartening news about the energy task force, documents released Monday night by the Energy Department show that an executive order on energy policy released by President Bush last May was copied nearly verbatim from the energy policy proposed to the administration by oil lobbyists. On March 20, representatives from the American Petroleum Institute se ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, politics (all these topics) |
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Slim Victory for Whitman
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27 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Slim Victory for Whitman The U.S. Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the Clinton administration's clean air standards for ozone and particulate pollution, ending a five-year campaign by industry groups to have the standards overturned. To the chagrin of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Trucking Associations, and others, the court ruled that the U.S. EPA did not exceed its authority in setting the standards and that ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Favor Dis-Spencer
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27 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Favor Dis-Spencer The word is out that U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham met only with energy industry executives and no environmental or consumer groups as he helped to write the Bush administration's energy policy last year. But only now is the extent of that exclusive access becoming clear. On Monday night, after a court-ordered release of 11,000 pages of documents relating ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, environmental non-government organizations, politics (all these topics) |
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Safety Dance, Part One
How secure are U.S. nuclear power plants? |
Shelley Smithson |
26 Mar 2002 |
Main Dish |
| Roughly 40 miles from the rubble of the World Trade Center, U.S. Navy cutters patrol the chilly waters of the Hudson River. Military planes circle overhead. On the ground, members of the National Guard stand ready. The Indian Point nuclear power station, which churns out electricity to nearly 2 million homes around New York City, is defended by land, sea, and air. Yet many people -- and especiall ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, energy, health, New York, nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, politics, United States (all these topics) |
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Not-So-Super Power
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21 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Not-So-Super Power Amid heated controversy over the Bush administration's plans to weaken air pollution regulations, two environmental organizations and a large New Jersey utility are releasing today a new study ranking the worst polluters in the power industry. The study, "Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Generation Owners in the U.S. -- 2000," tracked company emissions records ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Wham, Bam, No Thank You, Graham
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20 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: politics Wham, Bam, No Thank You, Graham The Bush administration has announced plans to hire more scientists for its regulatory review office, seek more input from citizens and businesses, and adopt cost-benefit analyses for rulemaking. The White House's point person on regulatory reform, John Graham, said the plan reflected the administration's "commitment to science-based quality regulation." Industry reps, who know they have a friend in the White House, found reason ... |
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Really Endangered Species
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20 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: politics Really Endangered Species In a sweeping policy shift that has environmentalists deeply worried, the Bush administration is urging federal judges to roll back legal protections for almost two dozen populations of endangered species. Government officials say the rollbacks are necessary because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, which both enforce the Endangered Species Act, are facing nearly a dozen lawsuits from developers. Last ... |
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Land O' Flakes
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19 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Land O' Flakes The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has got a blueprint for implementing the Bush administration's energy plan, and it involves speeding up approval for petitions to drill for oil and gas, creating easier access to petroleum deposits, reducing royalty payments by industry to the government, and easing environmental restrictions. All that, without harming the environment, BLM Assistant ... |
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| Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics) |
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Remote Controls
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18 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Remote Controls After months of internal debate, the Bush administration has decided (surprise, surprise) to replace pollution lawsuits with voluntary incentives to encourage coal-powered utilities and oil refineries to clean up their acts, according to U.S. EPA officials. The Clinton administration sued dozens of the country's worst polluting power plants for violating New Source Review rules, which r ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Is That a Lawmaker in Your Pocket, or ... ?
A breakdown of the renewables vote in the Senate |
Amanda Griscom |
15 Mar 2002 |
Muckraker |
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| Topics: energy, legislation, Muckraker, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Jonna Higgins-Freese
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15 Mar 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Jonna Higgins-Freese is environmental outreach coordinator at Prairiewoods: Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, Iowa. She is a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 15 Mar 2002 HIAWATHA, Iowa Thank God it's Friday. I love my work, and I feel lucky to be able to spend my days in this beautiful setting, but enough is enough. I find it hard to simplify my time commitments, even though part of my job is to give presentat ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, Iowa, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Gross Out
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15 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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Jonna Higgins-Freese
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14 Mar 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Jonna Higgins-Freese is environmental outreach coordinator at Prairiewoods: Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, Iowa. She is a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 14 Mar 2002 HIAWATHA, Iowa This has been a big week for our work with the Interfaith Climate Campaign. The Iowa Campaign has been active for three years, and we're now coordinating our efforts with campaigns in 20 others states. As part of our own campa ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, Iowa, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Is That a Lawmaker in Your Pocket, or ... ?
A breakdown of the CAFE standards yeas and nays in the Senate |
Amanda Griscom |
14 Mar 2002 |
Muckraker |
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| Topics: energy, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics) |
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Voluntary Complicity
Bush's global warming plan is just the tip of the iceberg |
Chris Colin |
14 Mar 2002 |
Soapbox |
| MEMO TO: All National Petroleum Unlimited employees FROM: Jack Morris, CEO Has this CEO gone soft, or was there something sweet -- nay, touching -- in the details of President Bush's new emissions plan? Rather than demand that we do our part to slow the pace of global warming, he's simply letting us volunteer! Friends, this man trusts us, and America's coal and oil industry must rise t ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, George Bush, politics (all these topics) |
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Jonna Higgins-Freese
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13 Mar 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Jonna Higgins-Freese is environmental outreach coordinator at Prairiewoods: Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, Iowa. She is a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 13 Mar 2002 HIAWATHA, Iowa This week took an interesting turn for me when an ongoing debate within Prairiewoods about how best to do our environmental work heated up. It's the time of year when we start going over our budget -- and number-crunching always ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, Iowa, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Supercuts
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13 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Supercuts U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman faced tough questioning from Congress members yesterday as she tried to defend her agency's decision to cut the number of Superfund toxic waste cleanups in half, from more than 80 per year during the Clinton administration to about 40 under President Bush. Whitman blamed the cuts on lack of funding; House Republicans have blocked reauthorization of an expired tax on polluting compa ... |
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| Topics: politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Green-goes
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13 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Green-goes Giving the lie to the myth that lower income and minority Americans don't care about the environment, Latino voters are proving to be some of the most dedicated environmentalists in California. For example, 74 percent of Latino voters approved a recent $2.6 billion parks and open space measure that was supported by just 56 percent of white voters. A 1999 survey found that while Latinos often felt cut off from the mainstream ... |
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| Topics: California, politics (all these topics) |
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Jonna Higgins-Freese
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12 Mar 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Jonna Higgins-Freese is environmental outreach coordinator at Prairiewoods: Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, Iowa. She is a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 12 Mar 2002 HIAWATHA, Iowa I've been doing environmental work with churches in the Cedar Rapids area for almost four years now, and sometimes I feel like a voice crying in the wilderness. While every major Christian denomination has a social statement about ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, Iowa, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Jonna Higgins-Freese
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11 Mar 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Jonna Higgins-Freese is environmental outreach coordinator at Prairiewoods: Franciscan Spirituality Center in Hiawatha, Iowa. She is a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 11 Mar 2002 HIAWATHA, Iowa Just for the record, I am not a nun. I do work for nuns, so folks often want to know if I'm one of them. I usually say that I'm not qualified on two counts: I'm married, and I'm a Quaker. The place where I work, Prairiewoods: ... |
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| Topics: Dispatches, Iowa, politics, religion and spirituality (all these topics) |
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Resigned to His Fate
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01 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Resigned to His Fate In the most dramatic move yet relating to the Bush administration's internal battle over federal clean air policy, a senior U.S. EPA official resigned this week to protest White House efforts to weaken tough emissions standards for power plants and oil refineries. Eric Schaeffer, head of the agency's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, accused the Energy Depart ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Department of Energy, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Tricky Dick
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01 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Tricky Dick Critics have long suspected that the Bush administration's energy policy was the result of very cozy relations with corporations, and now they've got the evidence to back it up: Eighteen of the energy industry's top 25 financial contributors to the Republican Party advised Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, according to interviews and election records. The White House has refused to release the names ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, politics (all these topics) |
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