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Houston, We Have a Solution Supporters Claim $300 Billion Energy Plan Would Create 3.3 Million Jobs		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Houston, We Have a Solution Supporters Claim $300 Billion Energy Plan Would Create 3.3 Million Jobs A coalition called the Apollo Alliance released a report on Wednesday proposing and outlining a 10-year, $300 billion investment in alternative energy sources, which it claimed would create 3.3 million jobs and more than pay for it ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, elections, energy, nuclear power, placemaking, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Keen on Dean Babbitt, Hawken, and other enviros throw their weight behind Dean	Bruce Babbitt, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben, Terry Tempest Williams	15 Jan 2004	Soapbox
By Bruce Babbitt, Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben and Terry Tempest Williams 15 Jan 2004 We've spent much of our lives working for environmental change -- for a response to global warming, for the preservation of biodiversity, for wild places, for family farms. But this winter, we're working for Howard Dean for president -- backing him in the confident hope that his victory will mean that the deep environmental principles ...
Topics: politics, United States, Vermont (all these topics)

Green Quixote Humboldt-Based Candidate New Front-Runner for Green Party Nomination		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Green Quixote Humboldt-Based Candidate New Front-Runner for Green Party Nomination Meanwhile, far from the madding crowds in Iowa, Green Party activists are fishing about for a standard-bearer of their own. Ralph Nader said no thanks; he's planning to lose the 2004 presidential race as an Independent. But a potential front-runner has emerged in the person of David Cobb, a lon ...
Topics: California, elections, Florida, political groups, politics, Texas, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Keen on Dean Babbitt Joins With Other Enviros to Endorse Dean		15 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Interior, elections, green living, politics (all these topics)

The Green Elephant in the Room Whitman highlights Republican rift on environment	Amanda Griscom	14 Jan 2004	Muckraker
Whitman has her say. On Monday, former U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman published an uncharacteristically opinionated commentary in the New York Times lamenting the Bush administration's disregard for moderate Republican viewpoints. Though gently worded, the op-ed stands as the closest thing Whitman has made to a confession that she abandoned her post over an ideological cla ...
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Hasta La Vista, Fishies Schwarzenegger Cuts Moola for California Marine Reserves Plan		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Hasta La Vista, Fishies Schwarzenegger Cuts Moola for California Marine Reserves Plan In a boon for headline-writers who still haven't exhausted their Terminator puns, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has put an indefinite hold on planning for a more than 1,000-mile-long necklace of no-fishing marine reserves along the California coast -- mandated by a 1999 state law ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, marine life, oceans, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
They're Going to Pump You Up Supreme Court to Review Two Important Environmental Cases In what court-watchers are calling an unusually in-depth review of environmental issues, the Supreme Court is set to hear two cases today with potentially nationwide implications for clean ...
Topics: air pollution, California, energy, environmental justice, Florida, national parks, Northeast, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Southeast, toxics, West, wetlands (all these topics)

The Green Elephant in the Room Far Right's Environmental Commitment Weak; Whitman's Ampler		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, health, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Sales Pitched Forest Service Cancels Timber Sales in Tongass		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Sales Pitched Forest Service Cancels Timber Sales in Tongass The U.S. Forest Service plans to cancel 20 timber sales in Alaska's Tongass National Forest -- not because it's dedicated to preserving old growth in the vast rainforest, but because the sales were sure to be money-losers for logging companies. Enviros are feeling vindicated by the development; they say it proves ...
Topics: Alaska, business, logging, politics, rainforests, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Interior Design An interview with Interior's Lynn Scarlett, one of the architects of Bush's 'new environmentalism'	Amanda Griscom	12 Jan 2004	Main Dish
An interview with Interior's Lynn Scarlett, one of the architects of Bush's "new environmentalism" By Amanda Griscom 12 Jan 2004 The people who make policy don't always make headlines. The Bush administration boasts more than a few strong-minded, behind-the-scenes strategists with almost as much influence as cabinet members. Lynn Scarlett is one of them. As assistant secretary of the Department of Interior's Office of Policy, Management, and Budget, Scarlett helps deter ...
Topics: Department of Interior, interview, politics (all these topics)

Interior Design Interior's Lynn Scarlett Defends Bush's 'New Environmentalism'		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Interior Design Interior's Lynn Scarlett Defends Bush's "New Environmentalism" When it comes to the environment, Lynn Scarlett may be the most influential Bush administration member you've never heard of. As an assistant secretary in the Interior Department, charged with analyzing rules and determining budgets throughout the agency, she has significant say over everything from mining to wildlife refuges. And as fo ...
Topics: Department of Interior, politics (all these topics)

A Few of Your Favorite Things The Grist Inbox Is Brimming With Opinions on Biodiesel, Urinals, More		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, energy, green living, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Terror Error Top British Scientist Calls Global Warming Bigger Threat Than Terrorism		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Terror Error Top British Scientist Calls Global Warming Bigger Threat Than Terrorism Which menacing global problem should be keeping you up at night: terrorism or climate change? Britain's top government scientist is creating a bit of a stir by arguing that it's the latter, and lambasting President Bush for having his priorities all out of whack. In an article in today's issue of the U.S. jo ...
Topics: climate, green living, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Down, Down, and Away -- It's Superfund Superfund Sites to Remain Toxic Due to Lack of Funding		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Down, Down, and Away -- It's Superfund Superfund Sites to Remain Toxic Due to Lack of Funding According to the U.S. EPA's inspector general, the Superfund program faces a $175 million shortfall this year; as a result, cleanup will not begin on 11 of the nation's worst toxic waste sites. Superfund was established in 1980 as an attempt to force polluting industries to pay to clean up their messes. Cleanup of to ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mine Every Mountain, Fill Every Stream Bush Admin. Rule Change Would Give a Boost to Mountaintop Mining		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Mine Every Mountain, Fill Every Stream Bush Admin. Rule Change Would Give a Boost to Mountaintop Mining Mountaintop-removal mining is poised to get even easier thanks to a rule change proposed by the Bush administration yesterday. Significant chunks of Appalachia have already been devastated by this mining technique, which involves blasting off the t ...
Topics: Department of Interior, mining and drilling, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

To Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Energy Execs Pay to Create Environmental 'To-Do' List with GOP Reps		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
To Do Do Do, De Da Da Da Energy Execs Pay to Create Environmental "To-Do" List with GOP Reps Business execs from power, coal, and mining companies are powwowing with more than a dozen GOP lawmakers from Western states this week in Phoenix, Ariz., at a conference focused on energy and environmental issues that boasts, among other activities, a session during which attendees can draw up a " ...
Topics: Arizona, business, political groups, politics, West (all these topics)

Super Markets Free Markets May Be the Ticket to a Clean Energy Revolution		08 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Jumping Ship at the EPA Environmental enforcers get out while the getting's good (and everything else is bad)	Amanda Griscom	07 Jan 2004	Muckraker
When John Suarez, the U.S. EPA's top enforcement official, resigned on Monday to take a job at a Wal-Mart division, he assured his colleagues and President Bush that the EPA has "been able to provide more compliance assistance to industry than ever before." The operative wording here, of course, is "assistance to industry," seeing as Suar ...
Topics: Alaska, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Grinch Who Stole Tongass Bush Reverses Logging Ban in Alaska's Tongass Forest Doing their part for holiday spirit, the Bush administration announced just two days before Christmas that it is exempting Alaska's Tongass National Forest -- America's largest, and a longtime environmental battleground -- from a controversial Clinton-era ban on development in roadless areas o ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, logging, marine life, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Adieu, Adieu, to You and You and You Top EPA Enforcers Abandon the Agency		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

The National Wink-Wink Convention	Suzy Becker	07 Jan 2004	Ha.

Topics: politics, United States (all these topics)

Hey, Where Is Everybody? Deafening Silence Greets Bush's Call for Voluntary Pollution Cuts		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Hey, Where Is Everybody? Deafening Silence Greets Bush's Call for Voluntary Pollution Cuts Two years in, President Bush's "Climate Leaders" program -- a call for commitments from companies to voluntarily cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent or more within a decade -- has seen only 50 of the thousands of polluting companies in the U.S. sign up, and of those only 14 have set concrete go ...
Topics: business, climate, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Come On, Everybody Else Is Doing It On climate change, other nations get cracking while the U.S. is slacking	Amanda Griscom	19 Dec 2003	Powers That Be
The recent Milan conference on the Kyoto Protocol started out with a bang -- a commotion of rumors about Russia's ratification of the treaty -- and went out with a whimper, offering no clear signal that the landmark accord on climate change would ever become international law. But one important development became clear amidst the flimflam: Kyoto-supporting c ...
Topics: Canada, climate, climate change mitigation, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

Willy Wonks Judge Orders Feds to Reconsider Protections for Puget Sound Orcas		18 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Willy Wonks Judge Orders Feds to Reconsider Protections for Puget Sound Orcas The Bush administration's environmental policies are taking a beating from the judicial branch this week. Not only did a federal court yesterday reject a plan to allow snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Glacier national parks; today, a different federal judge struck down the administration's decision not to extend Endangered Species Act protections ...
Topics: marine life, politics, Washington (all these topics)

A Smog-and-Pony Show Bush Team Unveils Plan to Cut Smog-Forming Pollution		18 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
A Smog-and-Pony Show Bush Team Unveils Plan to Cut Smog-Forming Pollution A new rule proposed yesterday by the Bush administration would cut emissions of smog- and soot-causing pollutants from power plants in the Midwest and East -- but not deeply or quickly enough, say enviros. The plan would reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution by implementing a market-based cap-and-trade system that would allow utilities to ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

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