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Dozing Off		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dozing Off More than 8,500 premature deaths are caused every year by pollution from off-road diesel-fueled equipment not regulated by the federal government, according to a new study by state air pollution control officials. Earthmovers, bulldozers, agricultural equipment, and other such vehicles emit extraordinarily high levels of pollution that have been linked ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Boy, You're Gonna Carry That Weight		10 Jun 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Boxer Rebellion		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Boxer Rebellion President Bush scored a victory yesterday when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved his plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but he was challenged by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on other environmental ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Jay Inslee, logging, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Dentist the Menace		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dentist the Menace Here's one more reason to dread your dentist: Many dental offices flush old fillings down the drain, washing the mercury inside them into the nation's waterways. That makes dentists the single largest discharger of the toxic metal, according to a national study entitled "Dentist the Menace?" and published by a collection of health and environmental groups. All told, dentist ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing Does access to information protect us, or put us at risk? That question is at the heart of an environmental debate that's taken on a different shape -- and different stakes -- since Sept. 11. At issue is the public's right to know about chemical plants and other factories manufacturing hazardous materials. Environmentalists maintain that people have a right to know about haz ...
Topics: business, Greenpeace, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Dreading Water		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Dreading Water Industrial pollution in U.S. and Canadian lakes, rivers, and streams rose 26 percent from 1995 to 1999, according to a report released yesterday by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the environmental watchdog agency of the North American Free Trade Association. The report, entitled "Taking Stock," ...
Topics: Canada, globalization, pollution and waste, United States, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Is This the Place?		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
Is This the Place? Tooele County, Utah, is already the hazardous heartland of the United States -- the place where the Army tests anthrax and other chemical, nerve, and biological agents, and incinerates half of the nation's chemical weapons; where the Air Force has its largest bombing and cruise missile ranges; where a private company buries low-level nuclear waste; and where some of ...
Topics: pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, Utah (all these topics)

TRI a Little Tenderness		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
TRI a Little Tenderness The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment dropped 8 percent in 2000, continuing a decade-long trend of declining industrial pollution, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The Toxics Release Inventory compiles data from more than 23,000 factories, refineries, hard-rock mines, power plants, and chemica ...
Topics: business, energy, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Graceless Slick		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Graceless Slick Massive ships spilling sheets of oil across the sea might make for dramatic photo ops -- yet the vast majority of oil pollution in North America comes not from leaking oil rigs or troubled tankers, but rather from thousands of small, diverse sources, most of them on the land, according to a new report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. These non-point pollution sourc ...
Topics: pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Taipei Personalities		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Taipei Personalities More than 200 former employees of an RCA television and semiconductor plant in northern Taiwan have died of cancer and at least 1,000 others are suffering from the disease, in what industry watchdogs are calling the worst cancer cluster in the history of high-tech. A group of former plant workers arrived in Silicon Valley yesterday to tell their ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Taiwan, toxics (all these topics)

Snoop Dog		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Snoop Dog Almost everyone's been embarrassed at one time or another by an over-eager dog sniffing in the wrong places. Now car owners have to worry about the "smog dog," designed to "sniff" tailpipes to detect air pollution. Formally called the AccuScan Remote Vehicle Emissions Testing System, the smog dog analyzes exhaust from cars as they pass roadside monito ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, placemaking, pollution and waste, Virginia, West (all these topics)

Stranger in a Familiar Land		23 May 2002	Daily Grist
Stranger in a Familiar Land If politics makes for strange bedfellows, sometimes it makes for strange enemies as well: Tensions are brewing between environmentalists and animal-rights activists over federal efforts to establish the health effects of industrial chemicals and pesticides by testing them on laboratory animals. Under pressure from environmentalists, who were concerned ...
Topics: animal welfare, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

New Sue Review		22 May 2002	Daily Grist
New Sue Review Oral arguments were heard yesterday in the U.S. EPA's lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation's largest public power provider. Lawyers for the EPA argued that the TVA violated the New Source Review rule of the Clean Air Act by failing to install state-of-the-art pollution-control equipment when upgrading its older coal-burning ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, pollution and waste, Tennessee Valley Authority, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Fermenting Rebellion		17 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, Minnesota, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Yuck A-Mounting		17 May 2002	Daily Grist
Yuck A-Mounting In more nuclear news, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham acknowledged yesterday that a proposed nuclear waste depository in Yucca Mountain, Nev., could only handle a portion of the waste that will be generated by commercial power plants and the government in the coming decade. The acknowledgement undercut President Bush's pro-Yucca argument that radioactive waste shou ...
Topics: Nevada, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Slim Pickins, Whitman		16 May 2002	Daily Grist
Slim Pickins, Whitman In an apparent effort to diffuse criticism from environmentalists, the Bush administration is considering stepping up legal action against some polluting utility companies. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman has ordered the agency's regional enforcement officials to look for companies that have violated the Clean Air Act by upgrading power plants with ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Carolina in Their Minds		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Carolina in Their Minds The Bush administration is unhappy about a new ad campaign attacking its plan to move some 30 tons of plutonium from Colorado to South Carolina for temporary storage. The campaign was launched last week by South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D), who opposes the plan, fearing that his state could become the permanent resting grounds for the rad ...
Topics: Colorado, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Dutch Treat		10 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: business, Netherlands, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Toxics: Australian for Fertilizer		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Toxics: Australian for Fertilizer Businesses across Australia are legally disposing of their industrial waste by selling it as fertilizers for farms and home gardens, according to an investigative report by the Sydney Morning Herald. The fertilizers often contain such toxic metals as arsenic, mercury, chromium, and lead. In western Australia, radioactive mat ...
Topics: Australia, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Bagladesh		08 May 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: pollution and waste Bagladesh Now consider a less sophisticated but equally troublesome form of trash -- plastic bags. Polyethylene-based bags are hazardous to produce and, once discarded, can take up to 1,000 years to decompose. The bags are all but omnipresent: Consumers in the U.K. go through 8 billion per year; four out of five shoppers in the U.S. use plastic bags over paper or cloth; and the bags are so commonly seen tangled in trees and fence posts in South Africa that th ...
Topics: pollution and waste (all these topics)

Abandon Ships		02 May 2002	Daily Grist
Abandon Ships About 15 percent of the world's nitrogen- and sulfur-based pollution is produced by ships -- some 30,000 of them worldwide -- yet the vessels are among the least controlled pollution sources on the planet. That wouldn't change much under rules proposed by the U.S. EPA yesterday. The new regulations, modeled after a five-year-old international accord that has been widely criticized as too lax, would re ...
Topics: placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Have Trash, Will Travel		25 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Have Trash, Will Travel Like a cross between hitchhikers and shipwrecked sailors, marine animals are straying from their normal habitats by catching rides on sea-borne trash, according to an article appearing in the current issue of the journal Nature. Marine organisms have always traveled from place to place via natural debris such as floating wood and pumice, but now the vehicle of choice seems to be plastic. In the old m ...
Topics: marine life, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Letting the Gene Out of the Bottle		23 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Letting the Gene Out of the Bottle Delegates from almost 200 countries are meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, this week to discuss the future of genetically modified organisms. Their challenge is to strike a balance between the fondest hopes of the multi-billion dollar biotech industry and the deepest fears of environmentalists, who worry that GMOs could adversely affect ecosystems and human health. During the ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Sharri Baby		22 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sharri Baby After years of mistrust and fear, Albanians and Serbs are coming together over a common interest: protecting the environment. In a project funded by the Norwegian and Dutch governments, environmental groups in Kosovo are setting up an electronic network to enable the former enemies to share resources and information on ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, European Union, green living, Kosovo, Netherlands, Norway, pollution and waste, wilderness (all these topics)

Jeanne Genie		19 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Jeanne Genie In the absence of federal leadership on climate change issues, New Hampshire yesterday passed a precedent-setting bill to curb global warming. The measure, which was approved 21-2 by the state Senate, was supported by a broad bipartisan coalition, the state's largest environmental groups, and its largest utility, Public Service Company of New Hampshire. It would require Public Service to re ...
Topics: climate, energy, New Hampshire, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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