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Death to Coughy		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Death to Coughy Almost 6,000 people will die prematurely from respiratory illness due to emissions from power plants owned by eight utility companies that the Clinton administration sued for violating the Clean Air Act, according to a private report released yesterday. In addition to the deaths, the report predicted that the pollution would lead to 140,000 asthma attacks and 14,000 ca ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Midwest, politics, pollution and waste, South (all these topics)

Ski-don't		17 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Ski-don't There's good news and bad news for environmentalists on the personal-watercraft front. On the up side, the National Park Service announced yesterday that it would permanently close five national parks to personal watercraft. Park officials and much of the general public object to personal watercraft i ...
Topics: environmental justice, National Park Service, national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, pollution and waste, Texas, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Southern Inhospitality		16 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Southern Inhospitality U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham informed South Carolina yesterday that the federal government would ship plutonium to the state, over the objections of Gov. Jim Hodges (D). The announcement was the latest in the country's ongoing debate about what to do with its surplus weapons-grade plutonium. The feds want to store some of it in South Carolina on a temporary basis whi ...
Topics: Department of Energy, pollution and waste, South Carolina (all these topics)

Supremely Bad Judgement		12 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Supremely Bad Judgement The Florida Supreme Court dealt a blow to environmentalists and landowners yesterday by ruling that property owners in the state must continue to foot most of the bill for Everglades restoration, despite overwhelming support for a 1996 amendment to the state constitution that would have made polluters pay instead. The court determined that the ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, food and agriculture, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Russian to the Brink		10 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Russian to the Brink Russian environmentalists announced yesterday that they would take their government to court over its decision to accept spent nuclear waste from foreign countries for storage and reprocessing. The law allowing the country to import such waste was signed by President Vladimir Putin last summer. Proponents say it could generate up to $20 billion over 10 years for Russia -- money that could be used in part to ...
Topics: pollution and waste, Russia (all these topics)

Sludge Hammer		10 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sludge Hammer After highway infrastructure, the U.S. water and sewage system is the single biggest public works network in the country -- and it is in trouble. Annual spending on the system falls tens of billions of dollars short of what is needed to maintain and expand it enough to keep up with population growth and stricter health and pollution standards, according to a draft report by the U.S. EPA. By 2019, the report ...
Topics: pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Guinn-ess Record		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Guinn-ess Record In the first-ever gubernatorial veto of a presidential decision, Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn (R) yesterday rejected George Bush's proposal to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Federal lawmakers granted the state veto power over any presidential decision related to Yucca Mountain in 1982; now, two decades later, Congress has 90 working day ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Dirty Duncing		05 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Dirty Duncing The majority of the nation's dirtiest power plants are getting even dirtier, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. The report was based on U.S. EPA data on smog, soot, and global warming emissions from power plants from 1995 to 2000. It found that greenhouse gas emissions increased 8 percent, with a total of 175 million tons of carbo ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, ozone, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Left Wing		04 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Left Wing Ah, the ever-elusive boundary between art and life. Who knows where it lies, but by all indications, somewhere right down the middle of the NBC drama "The West Wing." Here's the proof: This week, New Mexico's Department of Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources felt the need to issue a press release explaining that Wednesday's episode of the hit show was fictional. In the show, a truck car ...
Topics: energy, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Lake Manna From Heaven?		03 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Lake Manna From Heaven? The U.S. EPA has unveiled a new Bush administration plan to protect and restore the Great Lakes. The plan aims to reduce PCB concentration in some Great Lakes fish species, restore or enhance 100,000 acres of wetland in the Great Lakes Basin, decrease introductions of invasive species, and accelerate the clean-up of contaminated sites. However, the government has not set ...
Topics: Great Lakes, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Mustard Greens		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Mustard Greens In a hard-won triumph for environmentalists, the Pentagon announced yesterday that it will use a water-neutralization process, rather than incineration, to destroy 2,600 tons of mustard gas stored at Colorado's Pueblo Chemical Depot and other sites. The Chemical Weapons Working Group, a watchdog organization, applauded the decision, calling neutralization safe and effective. But in Oregon, Gov. John ...
Topics: Department of Defense, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Deep Du Du		29 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Deep Du Du Three years after NATO's 78-day air campaign against Yugoslavia, depleted uranium (DU) has been found at five of six sites investigated by scientists from the U.N. Environment Programme. The sites, in Serbia and Montenegro, had "widespread but low-level" contamination. Although the scientists did not report any current direct threat to humans or the environment, they expressed con ...
Topics: NATO, pollution and waste, United Nations, Yugoslavia (all these topics)

You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em		28 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
You Got to Know When to Hold 'Em Betting comes naturally to Nevadans, but the stakes are high and the odds are poor for a last-ditch effort to keep 77,000 tons of nuclear waste out of a proposed high-level radioactive waste facility in Yucca Mountain. The state's U.S. senators are about to unveil a multi-million dollar media blitz aimed at swaying the votes of key Republican lawmakers -- largely by ...
Topics: green living, Nevada, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Park and Writhe		25 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Park and Writhe Air pollution, development, and funding cuts are just some of the problems facing the U.S. national parks system, according to the National Parks Conservation Association's annual report on the country's 10 most endangered parks. The diversion of water from the Rio Grande and air pollution from Mexico are threatening Big Bend National Park in Texas, the group says. Pollution from power plants is ...
Topics: health, national parks, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Who's That Breathin' That Nastri Air? Nastri Boys!		25 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Who's That Breathin' That Nastri Air? Nastri Boys! Ever since President Bush took office, the war against air pollution hasn't been going well -- but environmentalists do win the occasional battle. Case in point: The U.S. EPA's Pacific Southwest region chief, Wayne Hector Nastri, recently succeeded in convincing one of the biggest polluters in the Southwest to clean up its act. Tucson Electric Power Co. hoped to double ...
Topics: Arizona, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Problems Swept Under the Afghan		25 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Problems Swept Under the Afghan Soviet-era chemical agents; a pond full of sewage that children use as a play area; highly radioactive material -- these are just a few of the environmental and health hazards found so far in Kabul, Afghanistan, by U.N. peacekeepers and a team of U.N. scientists that began an environmental assessment of the country last week. The situation outside of the capital city is no better. Ab ...
Topics: Afghanistan, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Dis Solutia		25 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Dis Solutia The U.S. EPA and the Department of Justice plan to file a cleanup consent decree today with Solutia and Pharmacia (the company that owns Monsanto), in a move that could overrule any court-ordered cleanup of PCBs from a former Monsanto chemical plant in Anniston, Ala. Under the decree, the two companies would investigate the scope of contamination from the former plant and the resulting ecological and human h ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Not-So-Super Power		21 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Not-So-Super Power Amid heated controversy over the Bush administration's plans to weaken air pollution regulations, two environmental organizations and a large New Jersey utility are releasing today a new study ranking the worst polluters in the power industry. The study, "Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Generation Owners in the U.S. -- 2000," tracked company emissions records ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Mind the Gap		20 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Mind the Gap Environmentalists and public-health advocates in California are upset over a new state regulation that allows low-level radioactive waste to be dumped in municipal landfills instead of federally regulated nuclear waste storage facilities. Citing the possibility of increased cancer risks, the Sierra Club and a nuclear policy group, the Committee to Bridge the Gap, are ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA (all these topics)

Remote Controls		18 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Remote Controls After months of internal debate, the Bush administration has decided (surprise, surprise) to replace pollution lawsuits with voluntary incentives to encourage coal-powered utilities and oil refineries to clean up their acts, according to U.S. EPA officials. The Clinton administration sued dozens of the country's worst polluting power plants for violating New Source Review rules, which r ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Bananarama Price tags don't tell the full story	Elizabeth Sawin	11 Mar 2002	Global Citizen
I have a young friend who, I think, will never eat another banana without thinking a great deal about its history. Going bananas. On a trip to Belize, Hannah and other home-schooled teenagers saw monkeys, the rainforest, and Mayan villages. But the memory that seems to stand out most vividly is of a banana plantation. The workers at the plantation Hannah visited do not wear protective clothing. When planes fly overhea ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Don't Lose Hope		08 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Don't Lose Hope For marine life, Mt. Hope Bay might be the most inappropriately named place on Earth. In the 13-square-mile stretch of water straddling Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 15 fish species have all but disappeared over the last decade, leading some fishers to describe the area as a dead zone. Some scientists blame the deaths on Brayton Point, New England's largest fossil fuel plant, ...
Topics: marine life, Massachusetts, pollution and waste, Rhode Island (all these topics)

Resigned to His Fate		01 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Resigned to His Fate In the most dramatic move yet relating to the Bush administration's internal battle over federal clean air policy, a senior U.S. EPA official resigned this week to protest White House efforts to weaken tough emissions standards for power plants and oil refineries. Eric Schaeffer, head of the agency's Office of Regulatory Enforcement, accused the Energy Depart ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Energy, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Solutia-ns		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Solutia-ns Chemical giant Monsanto and its spin-off company Solutia are legally responsible for polluting the town of Anniston, Ala., with PCBs, a jury ruled Friday morning. The verdict represents an initial victory for the people of Anniston, but the battle is far from over: Some 3,500 individual claims of illness and financial loss ha ...
Topics: Alabama, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Silicon Death Valley		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Silicon Death Valley Nineteenth century labor conditions and 21st century technology are clashing in impoverished areas of Asia, where millions of tons of obsolete high-tech gear are shipped from the U.S. to be stripped of valuable parts. The practice, which is highly dangerous for both workers and the environment, is documented in a ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, energy, globalization, Haiti, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

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