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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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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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Gross Out
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15 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Read more about: politics |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pander-monium
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28 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Pander-monium BP, the world's third-largest oil company, announced last night that it will halt all of its political contributions worldwide. The decision appears to reflect a desire to avoid accusations of influence peddling in the era of Enron, and could set a precedent for other companies. It could also be seen as a triumph for anti-globalization activists and other organizations, which BP CEO Sir John Bro ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, politics (all these topics) |
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Shrimp Fried
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26 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Shrimp Fried Under pressure from the Bush administration, a federal judge yesterday revoked the protected status of several hundred thousand acres of Southern California land considered essential for the survival of two imperiled species. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson called on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-a ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, food and agriculture, politics, ranching, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Solutia-ns
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25 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Solutia-ns Chemical giant Monsanto and its spin-off company Solutia are legally responsible for polluting the town of Anniston, Ala., with PCBs, a jury ruled Friday morning. The verdict represents an initial victory for the people of Anniston, but the battle is far from over: Some 3,500 individual claims of illness and financial loss ha ... |
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| Topics: Alabama, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics) |
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Nothing New
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22 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Nothing New In what was billed as her first major environmental speech of the year, Interior Secretary Gale Norton called Wednesday for "a new environmentalism" in which local residents and landowners, not just the government, would take responsibility for protecting the Earth. Norton also called for an environmentalism that did not threaten jobs. The Interior secretary said that a number ... |
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| Topics: business, Department of Interior, politics, Sierra Club (all these topics) |
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Joltin' Joe
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21 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Joltin' Joe In the most scathing attack on George W. Bush since the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) blasted the president's environmental record in a speech made yesterday in California. Lieberman, a possible presidential candidate in 2004 and one of 15 senators to be recognized by the League of Conservation Voters f ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, elections, energy, League of Conservation Voters, mining and drilling, politics, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Hatching a New Plan
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20 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Hatching a New Plan In the first systematic attempt to reform Washington State's fish-hatchery system -- the world's largest -- the Hatchery Scientific Review Group issued a report yesterday recommending the closure of one Puget Sound-area hatchery and alterations for 22 others. The salmon born in Washington State's 100-plus hatcheries are thought to pose a threat to wild salmon because t ... |
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| Topics: fishing, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, Washington (all these topics) |
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Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet
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15 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Plan Nein From Our Space Cadet And the reaction: At home and abroad, the response to President Bush's strategy for dealing with global warming was tepid at best. Pointing to counterexamples in Europe, U.S. critics disagreed with Bush's claim that mandatory emissions limits would damage the economy and said the plan was simply a sweet deal for big business. Sen ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Asia, European Union, France, Japan, politics, United Nations, United States (all these topics) |
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Grants' Tomb?
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13 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Grants' Tomb? The U.S. EPA has awarded more than $2 billion in grants to nonprofit organizations since 1993 through a process that the agency's internal watchdog says is seriously flawed. Many grants were awarded without competitive bids, and some groups may have received preferential treatment. Some of the awards went to organizations that subsequently sued the EPA -- although presumably w ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, green living, politics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics) |
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Beating Around the Bush
A look at the president's first year in office |
Mathew Gross, Writers on the Range |
12 Feb 2002 |
Soapbox |
| Remember the eager young Naderites? Although it seems like another lifetime, it was only 15 months ago that supporters of the Green Party were telling us, with a sense of foreboding in their cracking voices, that there was "no difference" between presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush. In the Naderite view, both were shills of corporations who would pursu ... |
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| Topics: George Bush, politics (all these topics) |
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Smoke Scream
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12 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Smoke Scream The levels of pollutants spewed into the air over New York City following the Sep. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center exceeded even those of burning oil wells during the Gulf War, according to a new study released yesterday by scientists from the University of California at Davis. The study, which was the most thorough analysis of the dust and ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, New York, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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A Year of Living Dangerously
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12 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
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| Topics: climate, education, politics (all these topics) |
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Chesa-piqued
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11 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Chesa-piqued Saying that chemical contamination in the city's water supply led to miscarriages and infant deaths, 25 women have sued Chesapeake, Va., and almost 170 more plan to do so. According to a growing number of studies, the chlorine commonly used to purify drinking water can cause birth defects and miscarriages when it mixes with organic matter, su ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Virginia, water pollution (all these topics) |
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