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Drain, Drain, Go Away		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drain, Drain, Go Away Now, back to typically depressing fare: California's Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board said yesterday that it would extend exemptions on pollution limits for farmers, meaning that pesticides, salts, and other pollutants will continue to drain from agricultural fields into the region's watershed. The exemptions were set to expire on Dec. ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drag Your Computer to the Recycle Bin In an abrupt departure from past policy, high-tech giant Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will support California legislation requiring computer manufacturers to pay for safe disposal of electronic waste. In October, HP used its considerable clout as the world's largest maker of personal com ...
Topics: California, China, commercial and industry organizations, green living, health, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics (all these topics)

Dodge Bawl		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Dodge Bawl Looking to minimize your impact on the environment? Don't buy a car -- and especially don't buy anything made by DaimlerChrysler. The U.S.-based automaker ranked dead last on a survey, released yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scientists, of pollution levels in vehicle fleets. The survey looked at the environmental implications of the six largest car manu ...
Topics: air pollution, commercial and industry organizations, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bright Lights on the Big City		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Bright Lights on the Big City Residents of New York, rejoice: Your city might be noisy, crowded, and crass, but it's also the most compact megalopolis in the U.S. That's right -- the Big Apple ranked number one on Smart Growth America's recently released list compar ...
Topics: air pollution, California, Florida, Hawaii, health, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, placemaking, pollution and waste, Rhode Island (all these topics)

The Science of the Lambs		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Science of the Lambs It ain't easy being a scientist in farm country: Researchers studying the health effects of agricultural pollution say they are being silenced by fearful superiors and harassed by individual farmers, farm groups, and even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which funds and controls much of the research ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, health, Iowa, Midwest, North Carolina, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Wine, Wine, Wine		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Wine, Wine, Wine Napa Valley, Calif., is known as the heart of U.S. wine country, not exactly as a toxic cesspool. But local environmentalists say soaring wine production in the valley has lead to unhealthy farming practices that pollute the land, place heavy pressures on natural resources, and harm wildlife. The county has passed legislation designed to limit soil erosion ...
Topics: erosion, food and agriculture, placemaking, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

The Shipping News		25 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Shipping News Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn has announced an agreement in which several of the largest shipping companies in Asia will work with L.A. to clean up air quality in the city's port. Last year, the port received 2,200 cargo ship visits, each burning about 14 tons of heavy bunker fuel. Under the new plan, the ships will shut off their engines while docked and plug into the ...
Topics: air pollution, California, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Rome If You Want to		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Rome If You Want to One-third of Italy's most important cultural sites are in a state of emergency, according to the Italian environmental group Legambiente, which studied 36 areas in the country that have been designated World Heritage sites by the United Nations. The group said water pollution was threatening Venice, while smog and sprawl were damaging Naples, Flore ...
Topics: air pollution, Italy, Mediterranean, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

I Double Dairy You		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I Double Dairy You Got pollution controls? Five dairy farms in California soon will -- and environmentalists hope the new rules will eventually apply to dairies nationwide. To avoid legal action by environmental groups, the five farms in the Inland Empire region of the state have agreed to modernize their operations by developing greener plans for manure lagoon ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Sound Off		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sound Off Some 92,000 acres of mud and sand at the bottom of the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound is contaminated with dioxin, toxic metals, and PCBs (just for starters), all the result of industrial pollution. In turn, these nasties make their way into the sound's critters. Crabs are poisoned, while orca whales, salmon, and even some herring stocks are disappearing. The sound's be ...
Topics: climate, marine life, Northwest, oceans, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Random Acts of Unkindness		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Random Acts of Unkindness The Earth Liberation Front is back in the news, after vandals went about their business and then etched the group's initials on the windows of two McDonald's and one Burger King in the Richmond, Va., area, as well as on the windows of 25 SUVs at a local dealership. Those incidents occurred this fall; earlier this year, vandals slashed a number of SUV tires in a R ...
Topics: Earth Liberation Front, placemaking, pollution and waste, Virginia (all these topics)

Elder Hostile		12 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Elder Hostile Older Americans living in the country's most polluted cities are more likely to need medical treatment than those living elsewhere, according to the first large-scale study of the impact of pollution on medical care costs. The study by Stanford University economist Victor Fuchs, which was published today in the journal Health Affairs, found that pollution significantly increases Medicare recipients' ...
Topics: air pollution, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Sound the Alarm		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sound the Alarm The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the midst of a five-year effort to catalogue the woes of the Puget Sound ecosystem, gathering information for what could become an undertaking as grand in size as the $8 billion Everglades restoration project. Many of the 2,354 miles of the sound's seashore, containing tide flats, marshes, and bluffs, are under ass ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, pollution and waste, Washington, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire Horrendous wildfires in Indonesia five years ago accounted for a whopping 13 to 40 percent of the world's total carbon emissions that year, according to new research published by European and Indonesian scientists in the journal Nature. The fires were probably ignited by timber companies and farmers trying to clear the drought-parched land; ultimately, the fires swept through an area twice the ...
Topics: climate, Indonesia, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Knock the Vote		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Knock the Vote In addition to suffering a loss at the federal level, the environmental movement came up short in several statewide and local votes on Tuesday. A huge majority of Oregonians voted down an initiative that would have made Oregon the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The Grocery Manu ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, GMOs, nuclear power, Oregon, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

The Bucks Stop Here		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Bucks Stop Here The Bush administration slaps fewer polluters with fines than did the Clinton administration, and those it does nab get far gentler punishments, according to federal records compiled by Eric Schaeffer, the former head of the U.S. EPA's Office of Regulatory Enforcement. In the first 20 months of the Bush administration, civil penalties plunged nearly 56 percent, compared to those lev ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Sunken Ships, Loose Lips		04 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sunken Ships, Loose Lips Toxic goop leaking from more than one thousand sunken World War II vessels is threatening fish stocks, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and other tourist destinations. The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme has begun cataloguing the risks posed by the 1,080 wrecks, which are loaded with such toxic goodies as chemicals, ordnance, and oil. Las ...
Topics: Japan, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

Keep the Pedal From the Metal		31 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Keep the Pedal From the Metal The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is barring off-road enthusiasts from one of their favorite playgrounds in Utah -- but this time, it's to safeguard their own health, not that of the environment. At Manning Canyon, a recreation area near Salt Lake City, the soil is contaminated with arsenic, lead, mercury, and other heavy metals f ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, toxics, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

Sites for Sore Eyes		31 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Sites for Sore Eyes High-priority toxic waste clean-ups at seven sites in the U.S. will be left incomplete this year due to Superfund shortages, according to a report by the U.S. EPA's inspector general. The sites include two former wood-treatment facilities in Texas that are leaching chemicals into nearby water supplies, an abandoned copper mine in Vermont polluting a river, and a former Indiana steel plant containing ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Trick or Treaty		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Trick or Treaty Ten years after the North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted, controversy continues over the environmental consequences of increased trade between the U.S. and Mexico. Some experts who bitterly opposed NAFTA at the start now feel that the treaty has led to some improvements in quality of life in U.S. border areas -- but they sa ...
Topics: business, globalization, Mexico, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

Superfund Meets Kryptonite		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Superfund Meets Kryptonite Under the Bush administration, the Superfund program to clean up toxic-waste sites is seemingly becoming not-so-super. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the U.S. EPA completed cleanups at 42 toxic waste sites, down from 47 in the previous 12 months. This year's total was unimpressive compared to the average of 76 sites cleaned annually during the Clinton administration. The to ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Pop Mart		15 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Pop Mart What do butter, meat loaf, cantaloupe, peanuts, and popcorn have in common? Persistent organic pollutants. Banned in the U.S. since the 1970s, POPs such as the pesticides DDT and deldrin still contaminate 20 percent of the food we eat, according to a report by the San Francisco-based Pesticide Action Network. Based on an analysis of U.S. government data, the gro ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Dead Phone		08 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Dead Phone If you're thinking about chucking your cell phone, think twice: Most of the 128 million mobile phones currently in use in the U.S. will end up incinerated or at the bottom of a landfill, according to a report released by the environmental organization Inform and partly funded by the U.S. EPA. By 2005, 130 million cell phones will be discarded each ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Old MacDonald Had an Idea Altering the market to promote sustainable farming	Elizabeth Sawin	07 Oct 2002	Global Citizen
The Aug. 16 issue of Science magazine features an ominous headline: "Dead Zone Grows." To the right of the headline is a map of the Gulf of Mexico with an irregular green stripe hugging the shoreline. This is the Dead Zone, an area of the gulf where oxygen levels are so low that most marine organisms -- including crab and shrimp -- cannot survive. A primary cause of the problem i ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, marine life, Mississippi River, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Saints Haven't Come Marching in		07 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
The Saints Haven't Come Marching in Almost 75 percent of Utah residents object to plans to store tons of nuclear waste at the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, 50 miles outside of Salt Lake City -- so why isn't the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Utah's main opinion-setter, taking a stand on the issue? So far, the silence of the Mormon leadership on the issue has set the tone for the entire opposition movement, accord ...
Topics: pollution and waste, Utah (all these topics)

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