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Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops Lakes and streams in New England have been slow to recover from the ill effects of acid rain, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The regional reduction in acid rain lagged 10 percent behind the national rate of 40 percent in the 1990s; more worrisome, the number of "acidic systems" in ...
Topics: lakes, land degradation, Midwest, New England, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US EPA (all these topics)

Sweet Home, Alabama		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Home, Alabama A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama is failing to adequately enforce water-pollution laws, thereby paving the way for citizens of the state to sue under the national Clean Water Act. Under the terms of that act, citizens may go to court to enforce the law only if the state has failed to prosecute polluters and only after filing 60-day notice of ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Drinking Problems		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Drinking Problems As concerns grow about possible global water shortages, the United Nations Environment Programme has published a new report on the quantity, quality, and availability of worldwide water supplies. But unlike many scientific studies that are all-but-incomprehensible to the general public, this report uses simple visual images to convey its message. The graphs and photo ...
Topics: climate, health, pollution and waste, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Super-efficient Cheeseheads		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Super-efficient Cheeseheads Going green could save Wisconsin more than $225 million over the next two years, according to a coalition of state environmental groups. Yesterday, the groups released a "Green Budget" itemizing ways Wisconsin could save money while protecting the environment. One of the budget's simplest recommendations -- using more efficient lighting and turning ...
Topics: business, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Muck Ado About Something		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Muck Ado About Something Russian journalist and environmental muckraker Grigory Pasko was paroled from prison yesterday after serving part of a highly contested term for treason. Pasko became the poster-child for concerns about Russian limitations on press freedoms when he was convicted for taking notes during a 1997 meeting of Russian naval ...
Topics: environmental justice, green living, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Grime Doesn't Pay		23 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Grime Doesn't Pay Tiny Delaware is getting tough on crime -- environmental crime, that is. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D) and several state legislators want corporate leaders to sign annual sworn statements declaring that their companies are complying with environmental laws; if a company is then found to be in serious violation of such laws, its top management could face criminal charges. The prop ...
Topics: Delaware, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Mass. Devastation		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Mass. Devastation Laws designed to protect the environment are only useful if they're enforced -- and in the state of Massachusetts, they often are not. Indeed, the Bay State has one of the nation's worst enforcement records, according to a new federal website that allows the public to monitor enforcement of anti-pollution laws. Only 27 percent of Massachusett ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Massachusetts, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Park and Writhe		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Park and Writhe The National Parks Conservation Association has released its annual list of endangered parks -- and, sadly, it includes some of the most treasured wild areas in the U.S.: Yellowstone, Denali, and the Great Smoky Mountains, among others. The unlucky parks made the list because they ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Georgia, Montana, National Park Service, national parks, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, Virginia, wilderness (all these topics)

Texas, With Mess		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Texas, With Mess The Texas legislature is under pressure to find a way to fund a plan to cut smog in the state's major urban areas. If the lawmakers can't come up with the money soon, the U.S. EPA has threatened to reject the plan and take over the state's pollution-control efforts. That would jeopardize federal highway money, which is contingent on meeting cle ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, US EPA (all these topics)

Put It on Credit		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Put It on Credit Industrial polluters will be allowed to buy credits from cleaner competitors to help comply with the Clean Water Act, under a plan released yesterday by the Bush administration. The National Water Quality Trading Policy would allow industrial, agricultural, and wastewater-treatment operations that cannot meet clean water regulations to purchase credits from cleaner facilities in th ...
Topics: business, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Oil and Water Don't Mix Is the U.S. prepared for a major oil spill in its waters?	David Helvarg	14 Jan 2003	Soapbox
In the wake of November's massive oil spill off the coast of Spain that continues to despoil hundreds of miles of undeveloped shoreline, disrupt vast fisheries, and jeopardize the livelihoods of the people who depend on them, the European Union has begun to crack down on old, poorly maintained, single-hulled tankers like the sunken "Prestige." Meanwhile, what is the U.S. doing ...
Topics: mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Oil and Water Don't Mix		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste, Spain, toxics (all these topics)

Home Is Where the Environmental Devastation Is		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Home Is Where the Environmental Devastation Is Divorce has been blamed for everything from falling academic grades to rising crime rates -- and now a new report says broken homes are partly to blame for environmental devastation. According to a study appearing in the journal Nature, social trends such as living alone, having fewer children, divorcing more often, and remaining single longer have led to an increase in the numb ...
Topics: pollution and waste, population (all these topics)

In Deep Du Du		09 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
In Deep Du Du The U.S. Navy regularly tests one of its weapons by firing radioactive ammunition into prime fishing waters off the coast of Washington state, a practice that fishers, scientists, and activists say could be harmful to human and environmental health. The weapon, known as the Phalanx or the Close In Weapons System, fires up to 4,500 rounds per minute of ...
Topics: marine life, Northwest, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, toxics, US Navy, Washington (all these topics)

Homeland Defense		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental non-government organizations, New England, political groups, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Just Goshute Me		19 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Just Goshute Me The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday that it was not responsible for evaluating the potential environmental impacts of a terrorist attack on a proposed nuclear-waste storage facility in western Utah. Opponents of the $3.1 billion facility, which would be located about 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City on sovereign lands belonging to Skull Valley Go ...
Topics: nuclear power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, pollution and waste, Utah (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)

Sucker Punch		17 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Sucker Punch Thanks (or maybe no thanks) to a deal struck by the federal government and the Washington state Attorney General's Office, some 170 barrels of highly radioactive plutonium waste will be shipped from California and Ohio to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington beginning as early as next week. In exchange for being allowed to transport the waste, the feds promised to renegotiate t ...
Topics: Department of Energy, nuclear power, pollution and waste (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)

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)

This Ain't Rocket Science. Oh Wait, Yes It Is.		16 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
This Ain't Rocket Science. Oh Wait, Yes It Is. The U.S. Pentagon is a major source of perchlorate, the main ingredient of solid rocket fuel and a toxic chemical that can cause neurological problems and developmental damage in infants and children, and possibly cancer and other serious ailments in adults. For decades, millions of Americans have been exposed unknowingly to perchlorate through their ...
Topics: Department of Defense, health, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Sperm Wail		11 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Sperm Wail Next time you're perusing the cosmetics counter at Macy's or the personal-care aisle of CVS, you might want to take a pass on the lip liner and aftershave. According to new research conducted by scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health, exposure to monoethyl phthalate, a chemical commonly used in cosmetics and fragrances, may lead to DNA damage in men's sperm. Other studies have linked chemicals in the phthal ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Mice That Roared		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Mice That Roared Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, have established a first-ever link between urban air pollution and genetic damage that can be passed on from generation to generation. In a study published in the most recent issue of the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, biologists at the university f ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, health, National Academy of Sciences, Ontario, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Filling Up Wide Open Spaces		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Filling Up Wide Open Spaces Forget about urban sprawl; the new menace facing the U.S. landscape is rural sprawl, according to some experts. In seeking refuge from city life, Americans started by moving to the suburbs; then they started building beyond the suburbs, creating "exurbs"; now, they're gradually expanding into some of the country's most remote a ...
Topics: food and agriculture, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Perc Up		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Perc Up The nation's first-ever ban on perchloroethylene, or "perc," went into effect on Friday when Southern California air quality officials approved a regulation mandating a phase-out of the chemical by the year 2020. The long lead-time to the phase-out is a concession to the dry-cleaning industry, which relies on perc to remove stubborn stains from delicate fabrics. The measure is consi ...
Topics: air pollution, California, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

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