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Into Thin Air, and Thick Refuse		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Into Thin Air, and Thick Refuse In the 50 years since Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary first scaled Mt. Everest, so much refuse piled up on the world's highest mountain that some took to calling it the world's highest garbage dump. By the early 1990s, an estimated 50 tons of metal, glass, and plastic, including many hundreds of abandoned oxygen canisters, had been lef ...
Topics: Nepal, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Greener Curry		23 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: California, education, food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Self-Destructive Behavior		23 May 2003	Daily Grist
Self-Destructive Behavior It sounds like a bad movie. Wait, it IS a bad movie. A bad DVD, to be precise -- at least from an environmental standpoint. A division of Walt Disney this August will begin selling DVDs that self-destruct after 48 hours, dubbed EZ-Ds. After an EZ-D's plastic packaging is opened and it's exposed to oxygen, the disk plays perfectly for 48 hours; then a chemical ...
Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

They Can't Strongarm Armstrong		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
They Can't Strongarm Armstrong A federal judge has issued an excoriating dismissal of a lawsuit filed by 22 Southern California inland cities that challenged rules requiring them to help prevent trash from reaching the ocean. The ruling, from U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong, is significant because it dismisses the first of 13 legal challenges to new state and feder ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Too Cool, from School		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Too Cool, from School Pennsylvania State University has undertaken a massive new recycling program -- not for paper or plastics or food waste, but for the mammoth piles of stuff that students leave behind at the end of every school year, from sneakers to TVs to sofas. The end-of-term junk problem grew into a major headache on U.S. campuses during the 1990s, as ...
Topics: green living, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Their Dumpsters Runneth Over		16 May 2003	Daily Grist
Their Dumpsters Runneth Over They're talking trash in Naples, Italy -- literally. For the past week, the city and its suburbs have been overwhelmed by garbage, which is oozing from dumpsters, blowing down sidewalks, causing school closures, blocking traffic, and dominating local conversation as residents and city officials alike wonder what to do about it. Although a solution is evasive, the p ...
Topics: Italy, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

A Loophole in the Ozone		16 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Loophole in the Ozone Ending a six-year battle, the U.S. EPA reintroduced proposals yesterday for new standards to combat ozone, which causes smog. At issue in the battle was whether the ozone-pollution controls outlined by Congress in the 1990 Clean Air Act should apply to moderately polluted metropolitan areas. The act divided polluted areas into categories ranging from mild to severe ...
Topics: air pollution, ozone, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (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)

A Green and Pleasant Meadowlands		13 May 2003	Daily Grist
A Green and Pleasant Meadowlands Plans are underway to create a huge urban park in New Jersey that would be 10 times the size of New York City's Central Park -- on land now pocked by old garbage dumps and sewage sites. Unofficially dubbed the Meadowlands Preserve, the new park would encompass 8,400 acres of wetlands and green space, and would include sports fields, ...
Topics: New Jersey, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Sheep Trick		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
Sheep Trick Angering environmentalists, Aboriginals, and regional government officials alike, the Australian government has announced that it will build a controversial nuclear waste dump at a sheep station in South Australia. Located near the desert town of Woomera, the dump will house low-level radioactive waste from medical, university, industrial, and research facilities around the cou ...
Topics: Australia, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

No Cruise Control		07 May 2003	Daily Grist
No Cruise Control Within 24 hours of Friday's start of the 2003 cruise season, a ship owned by Norwegian Cruise Lines dumped more than 40 tons of raw sewage into the waters off the coast of Washington state. It's unclear whether the discharge from the Norwegian Sun was illegal, but the cruise line acknowledged that it violated company policy. The dumping came on the heels of months of disagreement among environmentalists, th ...
Topics: pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

We're All Ears		06 May 2003	Daily Grist
We're All Ears Everyone knows you can eat corn -- but can you eat using plates, cups, and forks made from corn? Absolutely, and doing so can help reduce both waste and oil consumption, say advocates of biodegradable corn products. Although it's not quite true that "anything that can be made from a barrel of crude oil can be made from a kernel of corn," as Randy Cruise, a Nebraska farmer put it, it's not far off: ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Mexi-can't		06 May 2003	Daily Grist
Mexi-can't The U.S. Department of Energy acted illegally when it found that two Mexican power plants would not have a significant impact on the air and water quality in the border region between northwestern Mexico and Southern California, a federal judge in San Diego ruled yesterday. That ruling calls into question the legitimacy of U.S. permits granted to the power companies ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Department of Energy, Mexico, pollution and waste (all these topics)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: marine life, oceans, Peru, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Pollution in North America decreased by 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a report released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 2000, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico released 3.6 million tons of pollution. Of that, 1.5 million ...
Topics: business, Canada, globalization, green living, health, Mexico, North America, pollution and waste, recycling, United States (all these topics)

Lead Story		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Lead Story Lead levels that are currently assumed to be safe for children can significantly impair intellectual development, according to a groundbreaking report published in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The current U.S. and international allowable blood lead level is 10 micrograms per deciliter, but researchers found that lead levels lower than that caused a drop in IQ of up to 7.4 points. That ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Down Underdogs		16 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Australia, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Mining Gets the Shaft		15 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Mining Gets the Shaft The pay dirt has run out for gold miners in California. Last week the state mining board okayed the nation's toughest regulations on open-pit metallic mining, requiring companies to refill mining pits and flatten waste piles in order to restore the landscape to at least some semblance of its pre-mining state. The industry complains that the new rules wil ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Made to Border		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Made to Border Mexico and the U.S. shook hands Friday on a 10-year agreement to fight pollution along their shared 2,000-mile border, while some enviros contended that without money behind the deal, it won't make a real dent in the region's many problems. The intent is to reduce air pollution, protect water supplies, and prevent pesticide contamination in the border area, which is home to almost 12 mil ...
Topics: Mexico, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Civil Wrongs		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Civil Wrongs In the South, low-income, black citizens are becoming more outspoken and effective as they fight the construction of landfills, polluting factories, and other environmentally hazardous facilities in their communities, and they're increasingly being joined by neighbors of all colors. "Companies now don't just bully in," said Robert Bullard, a sociology professor ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, South (all these topics)

Make 'em Walk the Plank		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Make 'em Walk the Plank Speaking of polluting ships, U.S. officials have recently uncovered a rash of illegal sludge dumping at sea, and they say it may only be the tip of the iceberg. A number of ships have been caught releasing tons of oily, toxic sludge that's produced in their engine rooms, even as captains, crews, and corporate managers go to extremes to cover up their dirty deeds, doing everything from faking ...
Topics: placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Low Prestige		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Low Prestige More than four months after the Prestige oil tanker sank off the coast of Spain, a new plan is underway for permanently cleaning up what proved to be the worst environmental disaster in the nation's history. About half of the ship's load of 77,000 tons of fuel oil has already leaked out and devastated the local environment; now a Spanish company will attempt to extract and cap ...
Topics: France, placemaking, pollution and waste, Spain, water pollution (all these topics)

Brazilian Whacks		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Brazilian Whacks In what may be the worst industrial accident in Brazil's history, a massive chemical spill into two rivers has cut off the supply of clean water to some 600,000 people in three states near Rio de Janeiro. A reservoir at a pulp and paper factory leaked 320 million gallons of caustic soda and chlorine into the Paraiba do Sul River last weekend before being contained on Mon ...
Topics: Brazil, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Sweet Tooth and Nail		03 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Tooth and Nail Efforts to restore Florida's Everglades hit a snag yesterday, when the state's top environmental regulator suggested delaying by 20 years the cleanup of phosphorus from South Florida waters. David Struhs, secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, had previously backed a plan to reduce the presence of phosphorus from a whopping 300 parts per billion to just 10 pp ...
Topics: Florida, food and agriculture, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Tupperscare Parties		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Tupperscare Parties A chemical commonly used in food packaging and other plastics may cause miscarriages and Down's syndrome, according to a study published this week in the journal Current Biology. Geneticists at Ohio's Case Western Reserve University found that exposure to even small quantities of bisphenol A (BPA), a substance that mimics the hormone estrogen, can disrupt chromosomal alignment in mouse embryos, killi ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

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