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They Brought Bad Things to Life		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
They Brought Bad Things to Life Meanwhile, in another legal victory on the other side of the country, a federal court yesterday rejected General Electric's constitutional challenge to the U.S. EPA's power to force the company to clean up the Hudson River. From the 1940s to the 1970s, GE dumped 1.3 million pounds of PCBs into the upper Hudson, where 500,000 to 700,00 ...
Topics: business, Hudson River, New York, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Flexing Their Mussels		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Mussels Roughly 1,000 miles of rivers and streams in Alabama could be protected as critical habitat for endangered species, under a new proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposal, which is designed to protect eight endangered and three threatened species of mussels, was great news for environmentalists and bad news ...
Topics: Alabama, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Cleaner Smoke Stacki Thanks to Pataki		27 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Cleaner Smoke Stacki Thanks to Pataki New York state now boasts the nation's strictest pollution controls on power plants, thanks to measures approved yesterday by Gov. George Pataki (R). The announcement was met with joy by environmentalists, who had been pushing for the tougher rules for upwards of three years, but the electricity industry said the move would cost custumers while doing little to redu ...
Topics: air pollution, health, New York, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Reformer in the Dell		20 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
The Reformer in the Dell Beginning on March 25, owners of outdated Dell personal computers will be able to treat them like glass, aluminum, plastic, and paper -- by leaving them on the curb for recycling. For $15, Dell will haul away up to 50 pounds worth of discarded computer components (monitors, hard drives, laptops, and the like) for recycling or donation to other users. The plan is an improvement on a recy ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Kentucky Green Gas		19 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Kentucky Green Gas Kentucky is soon to get its first-ever methane power plants, which will rely on gases given off by landfills to generate electricity. The plan represents a landmark energy development for the famously coal-dependent state. The three plants will cost $4 million each and generate a total of 10 megawatts of power from the gases given off by decaying trash. Currently, those gases escape into t ...
Topics: climate, energy, Kentucky, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Burden of Proof What we don't know about the toxic chemicals in our bodies	Elizabeth Sawin	19 Mar 2003	Soapbox
Scientists call the accumulation of chemical contaminants (such as PCBs, mercury, and pesticides) within a person's body the "body burden." Body burden is just a number, a concentration in parts per billion or micrograms per liter. But the term calls forth an image, too, of a body bent over and struggling beneath a heavy load. When scientists start taking about body burden, I think ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Ontario Clean-air Scenario		17 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Ontario Clean-air Scenario In Ontario, Canada, the three major political parties have agreed to shut down all five of the province's coal-burning power plants by 2015, the biggest success so far in an anti-coal campaign that is gaining momentum in Canada. Enviros will be particularly glad to get rid of the Nanticoke power plant on the northern shore of Lake Erie, which has earned the distinction of being Canada's top ai ...
Topics: Canada, energy, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Weapons of Mass Distruction		12 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Weapons of Mass Distruction A coalition of activists in four states sued the federal government yesterday over the U.S. Army's practice of incinerating chemical weapons. The coalition, led by the Kentucky-based Chemical Weapons Working Group, charges the Army with violating the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to consider less dangerous alternatives for disposing of the country's chemical weapons stockpile, including ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Splurging General		12 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Splurging General Calling homeland security an environmental issue, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced yesterday that the Justice Department would crack down on companies that failed to protect their plants, pipelines, storage tanks, and transportation systems from terrorist attacks. The attorney general said the department would use civil and criminal lawsuits to enforce compliance with environmental a ...
Topics: Department of Justice, pollution and waste (all these topics)

You Be Illin'		11 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
You Be Illin' Almost 150 power plants, factories, and other businesses in Illinois are operating without federal clean-air permits, according to a statewide coalition of environmental and public-health organizations. Federal law required Illinois' 733 worst polluters to pass emissions standards and receive appropriate permits by March 1998, but as of yesterday, four years after the deadline, only 80 pe ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Illinois, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Skull and Bones		11 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Skull and Bones In a victory for environmentalists, public-safety advocates, and nuclear-watchdog organizations, the federal Atomic Safety and Licensing Board yesterday rejected plans for storing spent nuclear fuel in Skull Valley, Utah. The ruling was also a win for the state, which had lobbied against the proposed storage facility, slated to be built on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation, just a few miles from the bigge ...
Topics: pollution and waste, Utah (all these topics)

Dump Yuck		06 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Dump Yuck Twenty-two of 50 landfills tested in California have been found to contain unusually high levels of radiation, and radioactive waste from seven of those dumps has contaminated nearby groundwater, state environmental officials announced yesterday. The findings raise new questions about the ongoing impact of a now-defunct California policy that allowed mildly radioactive waste in ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

New King Coal		28 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
New King Coal Coal has a reputation as the dirtiest fuel around, but the U.S. Department of Energy hopes to reinvent the stuff as clean energy by building an experimental, coal-fired, emissions-free power plant. The project, known as FutureGen, will be built within 10 years and will cost just 10 percent more than an ordinary coal plant to run, DOE officials predict. Currently, coal-fired power plants are r ...
Topics: Department of Energy, energy, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Motherboard of Invention		28 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Motherboard of Invention As Grist reported Monday, discarded electronic equipment poses a serious environmental and health hazard in the developing world, where obsolete computers and other products are stripped and recycled. Now, we have some good news to add; 16 electronics recyclers in the U.S. and Canada have committed to keeping monitors, cables, and motherboards out of the hands of impoverish ...
Topics: green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

First in Fright		27 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
First in Fright A bankrupt paper mill in North Carolina is refusing to take responsibility for millions of gallons of wastewater, polluted landfills, and toxic chemicals it produced, leaving state environmental regulators stymied and alarmed. "We've just never dealt with anybody who said, 'We're going to walk out the door and leave it,'" said Forrest Westall, the regional water-quality supervi ...
Topics: North Carolina, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Gorging Themselves		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Gorging Themselves China's controversial Three Gorges dam looks like small potatoes next to the country's latest proposed water project, a gargantuan network of dams and canals designed to divert water from the south to thirsty northern cities such as Beijing. The project would cost $60 billion over 50 years (twice as muc ...
Topics: Asia, China, dams, energy, international government agencies, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, Yangtze River (all these topics)

The Hunger! The Hunger!		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Hunger! The Hunger! The world's population is growing, yet world hunger is on the wane -- a testament to the success of agriculture. But with the global population expected to increase 50 percent by mid-century, many doubt whether our current food system can continue to provide. The problem isn't the ability to keep producing more food; the problem is the potentially serious ecol ...
Topics: food and agriculture, land degradation, pollution and waste, population (all these topics)

Maple Syrup		19 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Maple Syrup Canada yesterday set aside $1.3 billion over five years to slash its greenhouse gas emissions and another $660 million for other environmental initiatives, as part of what Environment Minister David Anderson called "the greenest budget this country has ever seen." The government also approved a tax break for cleaner diesel and agreed to priorit ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, energy, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste (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)

Mr. Blackwell's Worst Polluting List		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Mr. Blackwell's Worst Polluting List No surprise: Pickup trucks and oversized SUVs scored the lowest on the U.S. EPA's latest ranking of vehicles based on tailpipe emissions. The list graded vehicles on a scale of 0 to 10. Large SUVs like BMW's X5 and General Motors' Hummer H2 earned a 0 and a 2, respectively, while most small and medium SUVs earned ...
Topics: air pollution, business, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

The Fire Down Below		14 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Fire Down Below Forget about car emissions for a moment; coal fires, hundreds of which are raging out of control around the world, pump so much carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere that researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science yesterday called them a "global catastrophe." Coal fires burn both ...
Topics: China, Colorado, energy, India, Indonesia, Pennsylvania, pollution and waste (all these topics)

When You Dish Upon a Star		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
When You Dish Upon a Star Minnesota would become the first state in the U.S. to effectively ban phosphorus in automatic-dishwashing detergent if a bill working its way through the state legislature gets the eventual thumbs-up. Phosphorus, which helps to remove those oh-so-unsightly spots from glasses and dishware, ultimately g ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, lakes, Minnesota, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

First Down		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
First Down The parent company of a power plant in eastern Ohio has become the first of 36 energy utilities to be tried for causing smog and health problems in the Northeast. In a lawsuit that began yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department accused FirstEnergy Corporation of significantly upgrading its W.H. Sammis plant without installing new pollution controls, a ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, Northeast, Ohio, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Quicksilver, Slow Kids		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Quicksilver, Slow Kids World leaders urgently need to take action to cut down on mercury emissions to protect human health, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme. Mercury is released into the atmosphere naturally from rocks, soils, and volcanic eruptions, but mercury emissions have dramatically increased from pre-industrial levels due to human act ...
Topics: energy, globalization, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

Taking a Smaller Bite Out of Grime		31 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Taking a Smaller Bite Out of Grime Polluting industries are getting off easy under the Bush administration, according to U.S. EPA data released yesterday by Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.). In the two years since President Bush took office, civil penalties for breaking environmental laws dropped by almost 50 percent, to $55 million, while criminal penalties dropped by more than one-third, to $62 ...
Topics: business, John Dingell, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

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