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Storm Troopers		10 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Storm Troopers The Bush administration announced on Friday that oil and gas companies will not be bound by new regulations that require storm water runoff plans to be developed for small construction sites, a means of keeping dangerous chemicals and metals from contaminating waterways. Saying it needs more time to study the situation, the U.S. EPA has granted oil and gas companies a ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Defense Offensive		06 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Defense Offensive Citing the specter of impending war in Iraq, the Bush administration asked Congress this week to exempt the Pentagon from a wide range of environmental laws. Congress rejected a similar request last year, but now, war looms and Republicans control both the House and the Senate. Under the plan proposed by the administration, the Pentagon would be exempt from the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, th ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Watery Grave		05 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Watery Grave The environment, public health, and global political stability all stand to suffer from shrinking freshwater supplies around the world, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations. In the most complete appraisal of global water resources to date, the U.N. found that the average per-person water supply will decline by one-third in 20 years, and as many as 7 billion people could face ...
Topics: politics, United Nations, water conflicts (all these topics)

Sticking Out Their Tongass		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Sticking Out Their Tongass It's a big bummer, but not a big surprise: The Bush administration ruled on Friday that it will not provide wilderness protection for any additional land in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, a move that will open up hundreds of thousands of acres of old-growth forest to logging. Public opinion was overwhelmingly in favor of creating more wilderness in the Tongass; about ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, politics, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Out to Luntz		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Out to Luntz Worried that their party is vulnerable on environmental issues, some Republicans in recent months have been trying to foster a gentler, greener image. An influential memorandum penned last fall by GOP strategist Frank Luntz advises Republicans to sprinkle terms like "balance" and "common sense" into their environmental speeches, and to stick to the word "conservationist," which he says s ...
Topics: political groups, politics (all these topics)

New Sours Review		28 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
New Sours Review Opposition to the Bush administration's efforts to weaken the Clean Air Act is growing, with California, Wisconsin, and Illinois yesterday joining 10 Northeastern states in filing lawsuits against the U.S. EPA. At issue is a decision to weaken the act's New Source Review rules, which historically have prohibited aged power plants from upgrading their facilities without installing state-of-the-art pollution ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

F Is for Fish		27 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
F Is for Fish The Bush administration received an "F" from the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition for failing to make progress on protecting endangered salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The coalition, which is comprised of regional environmental and conservation organizations, said the administration has not implemented three-quarters of the measures mandated under a salmon-recovery plan adopted in 2000. Sin ...
Topics: fishing, marine life, Northwest, politics (all these topics)

Tough Cell What can we learn from Bush's FreedomCAR plan?	Amanda Griscom	26 Feb 2003	Powers That Be
Following the State of the Union address in which President Bush laid out his new FreedomCAR and Fuel Initiative, which was cheered by automakers and jeered by environmentalists, hydrogen fever swept from the Beltway into the printing presses and airwaves of mainstream media. CNN, Business Week, the New York Times, and U.S. News and World Report, among others, ran stories that, although sometimes skeptical of ...
Topics: placemaking, politics, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Withering Heights		26 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Withering Heights The Bush administration's proposal for addressing climate change was subjected to withering criticism by 17 experts in a report released yesterday. The experts, who were convened by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences at the request of the administration, said that the proposal lacked "a guiding vision, executable goals, [and] clear timetables" and that its goal -- to determine ...
Topics: climate, National Academy of Sciences, politics (all these topics)

Freedom Riders		26 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, politics (all these topics)

9021-woe		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
9021-woe Remember that episode of 90210 where Brenda and Dylan fell ill from toxic gases leaking out of oil wells and into Beverly Hills High School? Actually, that never happened on the show -- but according to famed environmental legal crusader Erin Brockovich, it happened in real life. Brockovich and her partner, Ed Masry, are preparing to sue Beverly ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, energy, environmental justice, health, politics (all these topics)

Tony Tony Tony!		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Tony Tony Tony! In a speech that compared the danger of environmental degradation to the threat of terrorism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday outlined a sweeping plan to combat global warming. Blair called on his country, the European Union, and would-be E.U. members in Eastern Europe to cut carbon dioxide emissions 60 percent ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, European Union, international government agencies, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

In the Doghouse		25 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
In the Doghouse The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would review a clean air case that could determine when the federal government can overrule state environmental decisions. The case concerns the Red Dog mine in Alaska, which produces zinc and lead. Two years ago, when the mine sought to build a new diesel generator, the state Department of Environmental ...
Topics: air pollution, Alaska, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Homeland Insecurity	Suzy Becker	19 Feb 2003	Ha.

Topics: climate, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Oakless Creek Canyon		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Oakless Creek Canyon Flagstaff, Ariz., is shaping up to be the testing grounds for the Bush administration's Healthy Forests initiative, a highly controversial effort to ease environmental reviews of logging projects on many Western public lands and ban reviews entirely in areas where forest fires could threaten human developments. Some 2,000 suburban Flagstaff homes are located just seven ...
Topics: Arizona, logging, politics, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

We've Got Mail		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Department of Energy, education, Mexico, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Global Village Who will represent the voice of the world's people?	Elizabeth Sawin	18 Feb 2003	Soapbox
Petitions have been arriving in a flurry in my email inbox lately. I have some doubts about the efficacy of all this petitioning and tend to be quick with the delete button, but one recent petition drew me in. The message itself -- which stated that the United Nations was collecting signatures of people opposed to a U.S. invasion of Iraq -- wasn't that different from the others that arrived that day ...
Topics: politics, United Nations (all these topics)

I Want to Be Your Pledge Hammer		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
I Want to Be Your Pledge Hammer In what the Bush administration hailed as proof that voluntary environmental initiatives can work, representatives from 13 different industries gathered in the Energy Department cafeteria yesterday to pledge their commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The industries, ranging from energy companies to paper manufacturers, have agreed to ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, politics (all these topics)

Farm Band-aid		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Farm Band-aid Here's another provision to watch out for in the national spending bill: $3.1 billion in disaster assistance for farmers in the wake of this summer's (and, in many places, this winter's) drought. Sounds good -- but if the spending bill is approved, the money will come at the expense of a national conservation program. The brainchild of Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the Conservation Security Program was app ...
Topics: climate, food and agriculture, politics (all these topics)

Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Wooda, Coulda, Shouldn't The U.S. Congress is readying to pass its catch-all domestic spending bill this week -- and with it, a provision that would give the timber industry responsibility for managing millions of acres of national forests throughout the West. Under the provision, which was added at the last min ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, business, land stewardship, logging, national parks, politics, Ted Stevens, US Forest Service, West, wilderness (all these topics)

The Reilly Factor		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Reilly Factor Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly (D) yesterday threw his weight behind opponents of a plan to build a wind farm off the state's coast. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court, Reilly argued that the seabed of Nantucket Sound belongs to the federal government and therefore cann ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, energy, environmental justice, green living, Massachusetts, oceans, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Pain in the Tongass		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Pain in the Tongass Moderate Republicans, as well as Democrats and environmentalists, are up in arms over eleventh-hour language added by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to a huge $395 billion spending bill that would boost logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The provision would exempt nearly 2 million acres in the Tongass from a rule approved by former President Clinton that ban ...
Topics: Alaska, logging, national forests, politics, Ted Stevens, wilderness (all these topics)

Have a Heart How to have a Valentine's Day with a conscience	The Green Guide	12 Feb 2003	Earthly Possessions
Friday is Valentine's Day, but while you're buying bonbons and bouquets, be sure to be sweet to the planet, too. If Hershey's, Hallmark, and FTD aren't your idea of romance, never fear: Eco-friendly options smell good, taste good (well, maybe not the flowers), and just might land you a date. Flowers Don't say it with flowers -- unless they're organic. In 2001, Americans spent an estimated $50 per capita ...
Topics: agriculture, environmental justice, food, green living, holiday, organic food, politics (all these topics)

Coal Play		11 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Play It would seem that preemptive measures are all the rage among anti-environmentalists these days. In Alaska, Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) is awaiting the Interior Department's response to a request he made last year (while still a senator) to prohibit the establishment of new wilderness areas in the state. "Congress set aside all this wilderness, ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Road Warriors A travel club provides a greener alternative to AAA	Michelle Nijhuis	11 Feb 2003	Main Dish
It's not easy to knock AAA. The venerable organization has 45 million members who count on it for trip insurance, travel advice, and, most of all, emergency services. It's no wonder that many members have sworn lifetime loyalty to Triple A: Rescuing drivers marooned on dark, lonely highways can do wonders for membership renewal rates. Triple eh? But is there a seedier side to this respected organiza ...
Topics: placemaking, politics (all these topics)

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