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Adding Fuel Cells to the Fire		13 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Adding Fuel Cells to the Fire The Bush administration has been busily touting fuel-cell cars as a critical component of its energy plan and the solution to many an environmental woe. But what if the solution turns out to cause its own problems? According to new research published in this week's issue of Science, the technology used in hydrogen fuel cells could contribute to the destruction of ...
Topics: ozone, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Blair Switch Project		13 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Blair Switch Project As part of a broad cabinet reshuffle that has British politicians and citizens alike shaking their heads, U.K. Environment Minister Michael Meacher was asked yesterday by Prime Minister Tony Blair to step down. Meacher, who has held his post since 1997, was increasingly at odds with Blair over the issue of genetically modified crops; Meacher opposes them while Blair is pushing for their acceptance. First ...
Topics: GMOs, politics, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Environmental What Agency?		12 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Environmental What Agency? Rumors are heating up about who will fill the shoes of U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, who announced her resignation last month and will step down June 27. Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne (R) and Tom Skinner, the EPA's Midwest regional administrator, seem to have risen above two earlier possibilities -- Deputy EPA Administrator Linda Fisher and Florida Department of Environmental Protection Se ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Greens Pan Greenspan		11 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Greens Pan Greenspan The Bush administration and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan are expressing increasing concerns about dwindling natural gas supplies, a move that environmentalists see as a ploy to drum up support for nuclear energy and drilling on public lands. The concern over natural gas comes as Congress debates a comprehensive energy bill that could include provisions for d ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, nuclear power, politics, United States (all these topics)

Chop Sticks		10 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chop Sticks Old-growth trees in roadless areas of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska could soon be on the chopping block. The Bush administration announced yesterday that it plans to exempt the nation's largest national forest from the Clinton-era "roadless rule," which blocks logging and road-building on more than 58 million acres of wild land in national forests. The proposal, part of an effort to sett ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Green Collar Jobs		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Green Collar Jobs In an unusually strong gesture of blue-green solidarity, 10 major labor unions called on presidential candidates yesterday to back a decade-long, $300 billion research plan to boost energy efficiency, reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, and preserve jobs. Known as the Apollo Project, the plan calls for the promotion of hybrid and hydrogen cars, energy-efficient factor ...
Topics: elections, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Chop Shop		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chop Shop The environmental policies of the Bush administration are endangering our nation's woodlands, according to a coalition of environmental groups that yesterday released a list of the 10 most at-risk forests. The coalition, which included Greenpeace and the National Forest Protection Alliance, assessed the risks po ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, Greenpeace, logging, politics, United States, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Air Care		03 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Air Care With the feds having fallen down on the job, the California state Senate stepped in yesterday to keep up the fight against air pollution. The state Senate voted to add New Source Review rules to the state's clean-air regulations -- the same type of rules that the Bush administration did away with on a national level in December 2002. The federal rules had required older power plants and fact ...
Topics: air pollution, business, California, energy, politics (all these topics)

Wallowing in the Myers		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: politics Wallowing in the Myers Environmentalists are up in arms over President Bush's nomination of William Myers III to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Based in San Francisco, the famously liberal court has long been a friend to the environment. But not so Myers, the top lawyer in the Interior Department and a longstanding supporter of ranchers, the livestock industry, and other for-profit sectors that use public lands. His supporters say he would bring balance to a c ...
Topics: politics (all these topics)

The Endangered Endangered Species Act		29 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Endangered Endangered Species Act The federal Endangered Species Act is so cash-strapped that it is effectively "broken," the Interior Department announced yesterday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service blamed the financial trouble on the act's "critical habitat" provision, which requires federal agencies to consult wit ...
Topics: Department of Interior, endangered species, litigation, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Hunger Strike		29 May 2003	Daily Grist
Hunger Strike The backlash has begun against President Bush's comment last week that a European Union ban on genetically modified (GM) foods is contributing to world hunger. The reality, critics say, is that the dispute over GM crops is an international agricultural battle with billion-dollar stakes, and that concern about famine in the developing world is a sideshow at best and a smokescreen ...
Topics: Africa, business, European Union, GMOs, politics, population (all these topics)

Data Dumping		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Data Dumping Think the U.S. EPA is keeping tabs on water pollution around the country? Think again. The agency's computer system for tracking and controlling water pollution is outmoded, riddled with bad data, and lacks information on thousands of sources of serious pollution, according to a report released last week by the EPA's inspector general. Efforts to fix the computer system have been slow, underfu ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Go, West, Young Man		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Go, West, Young Man Jason West, a 26-year-old member of the Green Party, is shaking things up in New Paltz, N.Y., where he was elected mayor earlier this month -- an outcome that has the local political establishment in a tizzy. West ran on an ambitious environmental platform that rallied support from many students at the State University of New York at New ...
Topics: elections, environmental non-government organizations, local politics, New York, news, politics (all these topics)

Crop Dustup		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Dustup Speaking before the United States Coast Guard Academy yesterday, President Bush accused the European Union of undermining efforts to end widespread hunger in Africa by banning genetically modified (GM) food. Bush praised "high-yield bio-crops" as key to increasing productivity and ameliorating hunger in developing nations, and claimed the E.U. ban was based on "unfounde ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, population, United States (all these topics)

Rebel with a Cause? A Grist interview with Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean	Amanda Griscom	21 May 2003	Main Dish
With George W. Bush boasting perhaps the worst environmental record of any president in U.S. history, it almost goes without saying that any contender in the 2004 election will appear to be an environmentalist nonpareil by comparison. Indeed, nearly every Democrat running for president is advertising himself as just that, and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is no exception. On A ...
Topics: elections, interview, politics (all these topics)

Whittled Away		21 May 2003	Daily Grist
Whittled Away U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman handed President Bush her letter of resignation yesterday, citing the desire to spend more time with her family. Whitman, who was frequently at odds with the Bush administration and constantly under fire from conservationists and industry leaders alike, did not mention political differences as a factor in her decision to step down from her post. Her resignation -- which will be effectiv ...
Topics: politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Rebel With a Cause?		21 May 2003	Daily Grist

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

Neverglades		21 May 2003	Daily Grist
Neverglades In more bad news for the environment, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) yesterday signed into law a highly controversial plan that will delay cleanup of phosphorus from the Everglades by a decade and, critics say, potentially result in the loss of $4 billion in federal funding for the massive restoration project. Bush -- who said signing the Everglades Forever Act was "the tough ...
Topics: Florida, legislation, national parks, news, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Forests Fired		21 May 2003	Daily Grist
Forests Fired The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed President Bush's "Healthy Forests" initiative, which would limit environmental and judicial reviews of proposed tree-cutting projects in the name of preventing forest fires. Approval of the initiative came despite a report released last week by the General Accounting Office that found that, contrary to White House allegations, very few ...
Topics: logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Whittled Away Read U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman's letter of resignation		21 May 2003	Muckraker
Christine Todd Whitman sent the following communication to all U.S. EPA employees on May 21, 2003, the day after she resigned her post as EPA administrator. The communication includes her letter of resignation to President Bush, dated May 20, 2003. To All EPA Employees: Yesterday afternoon, I met with President Bush at the White House and tendered to him my resignation as Administrator of the EPA, ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Growl		19 May 2003	Daily Grist
Growl Along with whales and pandas, grizzly bears are among the most famous and most beloved poster children of the environmental movement. But that hasn't deterred the Bush administration from consistently making land-use decisions that environmental activists say threaten the animals. The administration's actions -- most notably, the halting of a hard-won, Clinton-era plan to reintroduce grizzlies to central Idaho and the removal ...
Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

The Evidence Is Thin		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
The Evidence Is Thin A new report by the federal government has found that very few forest-thinning projects have been stalled by appeals from environmentalists, giving the lie to allegations to the contrary by the Bush administration. The General Accounting Office reported yesterday that the U.S. Forest Service was able to proceed with 95 percent of thinning projects within 90 days or fewer, u ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Pay Dirt		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
Pay Dirt The "polluter pays" principle may be languishing in the U.S. under the business-friendly Bush administration, but it's alive and well in Europe, where the European parliament voted this week to strengthen rules to make companies pay for the environmental problems they cause. Spurred on by the recent Prestige disaster, in which a tanker spilled ten ...
Topics: business, European Union, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Ban Rollover		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
Ban Rollover Starting up what's likely to be an ugly trade tussle, the Bush administration yesterday filed suit at the World Trade Organization against the European Union, challenging E.U. policies that severely restrict the import of genetically modified (GM) crops. U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick contends that the E.U. has in effect instituted a ban on GM products, which ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, United States, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Green Old Party		13 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

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