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Mitt's Catch		20 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Mitt's Catch Here's a tidbit of holiday cheer: Massachusetts Gov.-elect Mitt Romney (R) has picked Douglas Foy to fill a key position in his administration, and environmentalists couldn't be more delighted with the choice. As president of the Conservation Law Foundation since 1977, Foy has been an outspoken advocate of environmentally friendly urban planning. (He's also made it a habit of riding his bike to work from h ...
Topics: Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, politics (all these topics)

Things That Make You Go Hum-vee		20 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Things That Make You Go Hum-vee Tax deductions granted by the federal government to small-business owners and the self-employed provide an incentive to purchase oversize, gas-guzzling vehicles like a General Motors Hummer, rather than small, more fuel-efficient cars like the hybrid Toyota Prius. An eligible buyer of a 2003 Hummer H2 could deduct $34,912 of the base price of the vehicle, for a tax savings ...
Topics: cars, hybrids, jackassery, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Red Tape, Brown Results		20 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: politics Red Tape, Brown Results The Bush administration released yesterday a list of more than 300 federal regulations that could be altered or scrapped in the coming year, including many pertaining to the environment. The list grew out of an announcement made by President Bush in March, when he urged companies to contact the administration "[if] there are nettlesome regulations which are costly for you to operate your business that you don't think make any sense." Th ...
Topics: politics (all these topics)

We Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden		19 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
We Got to Get Ourselves Back to the Garden New Jersey may be the Garden State -- but can it be known as green in other ways as well? Gov. James McGreevey (D) thinks it can, and he's embarking on an ambitious plan to make the state a national leader in clean energy. Earlier this year, the state government agreed to purchase at least 12 percent of the electricity it consumes from renewable energy ventures. Last week, M ...
Topics: New Jersey, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Morgue of Orca		19 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Morgue of Orca Environmental organizations sued the U.S. government yesterday for failing to grant protections under the Endangered Species Act to orcas in Washington state's Puget Sound. The population of orcas in the region has declined almost 20 percent since 1996. Earlier this year, the National Marine Fisheries Service acknowledged that the region's orcas were at risk of becoming extinct, but said the population was ...
Topics: marine life, politics, Washington (all these topics)

One Night in Bangkok		18 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
One Night in Bangkok In a triumph for population-control efforts and another sign that the U.S. is out of step with international policy trends, Asia-Pacific countries yesterday rejected the Bush administration's stand against abortion and condom use among teens. The vote came during a U.N.-sponsored Asian and Pacific Population Conference, held this week in Bangkok, which concluded with the adoption of an action plan on population pol ...
Topics: politics, population (all these topics)

Is That USGS or USBS?		18 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Is That USGS or USBS? Here's some news to make you think twice about the reliability of government figures: The U.S. Geological Survey has announced that there is far more coal bed methane gas available in the Powder River Basin than previously thought -- while simultaneously acknowledging that the Rocky Mountain West contains far less oil than the agency had claimed in earli ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, Montana, politics, US Geological Survey, Wyoming (all these topics)

Hogwash		17 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Hogwash The U.S. EPA unveiled new livestock-waste regulations yesterday designed to keep billions of pounds of unhealthful pollutants out the nation's waterways annually. The rules, which were issued in compliance with a court mandate from a 1989 lawsuit brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council, will require some 15,500 factory farms to obtain government permits to dispose of live ...
Topics: food and agriculture, NRDC, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

No Virginia, There Is No Santa Claus		17 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
No Virginia, There Is No Santa Claus Virginia may be the cradle of American democracy, but it's also the stingiest state in the union when it comes to the environment. According to a fiscal analysis released yesterday, the state spends less on environmental protections than any other; moreover, current environmental spending rates are lower than they have been since 1984, as calculated as a percentage of the overall ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, Virginia (all these topics)

The No-good, the Bad, and the Ugly		17 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The No-good, the Bad, and the Ugly During the 2000 budget year, the federal government awarded more than $855 million worth of contracts to companies that had violated at least one federal law in the previous three years, the General Accounting Office reported yesterday. In all, 39 companies winning contracts of $100,000 or more were guilty of violating federal environmental, labor ...
Topics: business, Government Accountability Office, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

New Issue, Same Old Jersey		16 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
New Issue, Same Old Jersey South Camden, N.J., has the distinction of being one of the nation's poorest cities -- and an important East Coast laboratory for the environmental justice movement. Environmental justice advocates believe South Camden's poverty goes a long way toward explaining why the city is home to so many plants and factory facilities, many of which spew toxic waste into the water and air. The cit ...
Topics: environmental justice, New Jersey, politics (all these topics)

Gas-p		13 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Gas-p Fuel economy standards could change for the first time in six years if a Bush administration proposal to modestly increase gas mileage in sport utility vehicles, vans, minivans, and pickup trucks is approved. The proposal would increase the fuel economy of those vehicles by 1.5 miles per gallon over three years, beginning in 2005, from the current standard of 20.7 mpg to 22.2 mpg. (The standard of 27.5 mpg for passenger cars wou ...
Topics: placemaking, politics (all these topics)

At Whitman's End? Rumors of the EPA chief stepping down may not be greatly exaggerated		13 Dec 2002	Muckraker
It takes one to know one, they say, so when Eric Schaeffer indicates that U.S. EPA Administrator Christine Whitman might jump ship, we sit up and take notice. Schaeffer, the former director of the EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, resigned last February to protest the agency's failure to fulfill its mission to advocate on behalf of the environment. It's unlikely, to say the least, that Whitma ...
Topics: Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

On the Roadless Again		13 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
On the Roadless Again In a victory for environmentalists, a federal appeals court has reinstated a Clinton administration rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forests from logging, mining, and construction. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco lifted an injunction against the roadless rule yesterday, simultaneously affirming its legal basis and criticizing a lower court fo ...
Topics: logging, outdoor recreation, politics, wilderness (all these topics)

Texan's Chainsaw Massacre		12 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Texan's Chainsaw Massacre Disregarding opposition in both houses of Congress, President Bush announced a plan yesterday to expedite the cutting of trees and brush in national forests by streamlining environmental reviews and judicial oversight. Bush says the plan will help reduce fire danger, but critics say last summer's wildfires merely provided the pretext for permitting more logging on public lands, including commer ...
Topics: logging, national forests, politics (all these topics)

Oh, Yeah, Canada		11 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Oh, Yeah, Canada Canada's House of Commons voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol yesterday, concluding months of rancorous debate and paving the way for a concerted international effort to curb emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. A triumphant Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who staked a fair bit of political capital on Kyoto, will sign Canada's official ratification by the end of the year. Though ...
Topics: Canada, climate, politics (all these topics)

G.A.Oh, No!		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
G.A.Oh, No! In a victory for the Bush administration and a significant setback for congressional oversight of White House goings-on, a federal judge ruled yesterday that the investigative arm of Congress does not have legal standing to sue Vice President Dick Cheney for refusing to turn over documents related to the development of the national energy policy. The ruling goes beyond the Cheney matter to sta ...
Topics: energy, Government Accountability Office, politics (all these topics)

Imperious		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Imperious Ignoring threats of dire consequences by state and federal officials, California's Imperial Irrigation District refused yesterday to approve a huge water sale to San Diego County. Members of the Imperial Valley irrigation district's governing board said they resented the threats, which ranged from intimations that the board would be disbanded to suggestions that the valley's own water supply ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Rebel Without a Forest		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Rebel Without a Forest The state of Chiapas, in southeastern Mexico, is home to the last remaining stands of rainforest in the nation -- and also to almost half a million impoverished people, many of them living on the brink of starvation. In the past, the forest has been ravaged by monied interests, such as foreign companies looking to cut down the region's mahogany and cedar trees; now, the region's ...
Topics: Mexico, politics, population, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

The Dow of Poo		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Dow of Poo Outgoing Michigan Gov. John Engler (R) is trying to relax the state standard for dioxin pollution, a move that unhappy environmentalists say is designed to minimize Dow Chemical's financial liability for future cleanup efforts. The proposed change, which has also angered Gov.-elect Jennifer Granholm (D) ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, health, Hudson River, Michigan, New York, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Credit Where Credit Is Due		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Credit Where Credit Is Due The Kyoto Protocol on climate change has not yet gone into effect, but the first sale of greenhouse gas credits negotiated within the treaty's proposed framework is officially a done deal. Slovakia (of all places) has sold emissions credits equivalent to 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to a Japanese trading house, which declined to ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, Japan, politics, Slovakia, United States (all these topics)

I'll Have No Truck With That		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
I'll Have No Truck With That An unlikely partnership of environmental, labor, and trucking groups filed for an emergency injunction yesterday to prevent the Bush administration from allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, claiming that doing so would worsen U.S. air quality. Last week, in compliance with the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Bush called an end to 20-year-ol ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, Mexico, placemaking, politics, United States (all these topics)

You're Out of the Club?		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
You're Out of the Club? A Utah chapter of the Sierra Club has been threatened with disbandment because of its decision to speak out against the possibility of a U.S. war against Iraq. The development may bring to a head a discussion that has been going on within the club throughout the fall. In October, 13 former national board members called on the organization to pass a resolution urging the Bush admini ...
Topics: Iraq, politics, Sierra Club, United States, Utah (all these topics)

Oily to Bed Makes a State Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Oily to Bed Makes a State Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise In a triumph for environmentalists, a federal appeals court has blocked an attempt by the Bush administration to revive dormant oil leases off the coast of California. Last year, a federal court granted California the power to prevent new oil exploration in federal waters near the state's coastline, a ruling that was appealed by the Bush admini ...
Topics: California, energy, mining and drilling, oceans, politics (all these topics)

Can't See the Forest for the Stumps		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Can't See the Forest for the Stumps Here's something you probably weren't feeling very thankful for on Thursday: The Bush administration issued a proposal last week that would allow managers of the country's 155 national forests to approve logging and other commercial activities without thoroughly assessing the potential environmental damage that could result. The proposal would radically alter Clinton-era ru ...
Topics: logging, national forests, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

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