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Bay Watch		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bay Watch If three environmental groups have their way, California's mammoth agriculture industry will be subject to state water-pollution laws for the first time in history. The three groups (San Francisco BayKeeper, DeltaKeeper, and the California Public Interest Research Group) filed suit yesterday against the Central Valley Regional Water Cont ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Mickey Mao's		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Mickey Mao's It might be the Magic Kingdom, but sometimes it has to face reality: That's the message of an environmental study released today on a future Disney theme park in Hong Kong. Environmentalists have attacked the $1.8 billion project as an ecological nightmare, and now the report seconds the opinion. The park is slated to be built in Penny's B ...
Topics: Asia, business, food and agriculture, Hong Kong, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Little Drummer Buoy		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Little Drummer Buoy For almost a quarter-century, government and private research agencies dumped drums of radioactive waste into the waters just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- and now the waste is leaking into the Gulf of Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Federal officials say they don't have enough money to determine the extent of the damage; ...
Topics: California, marine life, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Doe, Oh Dear!		19 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Doe, Oh Dear! In the latest sad litany of pro-extraction industry decisions handed down by the federal government, the U.S. Forest Service said Friday that the Doe Run Company should be allowed to drill up to 232 holes in Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest to search for possible lead mining sites. About 80 percent of the n ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Missouri, pollution and waste, toxics, US Forest Service, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Bang Dugong		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bang Dugong The animal that inspired seafarers to tell tales of mermaids is disappearing from the planet, according to a report released this week. The dugong, a large sea mammal that is a cousin to the famous manatee of Florida and the Caribbean, was thought by ancient sailors to be half-woman, half-fish, perhaps because of its habit of holding its young with one f ...
Topics: Caribbean, Florida, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Smoke Scream		12 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Smoke Scream The levels of pollutants spewed into the air over New York City following the Sep. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center exceeded even those of burning oil wells during the Gulf War, according to a new study released yesterday by scientists from the University of California at Davis. The study, which was the most thorough analysis of the dust and ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, health, New York, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Rhode Island Lead		08 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Rhode Island Lead A Superior Court judge in Rhode Island paved the way for a landmark lawsuit earlier this week when he gave state Attorney Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) permission to sue manufacturers of lead-based paint. The paint industry had attempted to derail the trial by calling for every one of an estimated 300,000 owners of ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

Cano Worms		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Cano Worms The Bush administration has asked for $98 million to help protect Colombia's Cano Limon oil pipeline from attacks by leftist guerrillas. The pipeline, which is owned by Occidental Petroleum, supplies crude oil to the U.S. and has the capacity to pump 240,000 barrels a day. But con ...
Topics: Colombia, commercial and industry organizations, energy, globalization, health, politics, pollution and waste, ranching, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Bada Bing!		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bada Bing! In a potentially significant breakthrough for the environmental justice movement, New Jersey has become the first state to propose environmental-equity regulations for companies looking to move into minority or low-income communities. The rules, which were drafted by the state Department of Environmental Protection, would feed companies' plans into a ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, New Jersey, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

H-2-Oh-boy!		05 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
H-2-Oh-boy! Utility companies can be sued for violating safe drinking water standards, the California Supreme Court unanimously decided on Monday. The decision is significant because it allows thousands of victims of polluted water to seek financial compensation from the private and public utilities that pipe tap water into homes; in the past, victims mos ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

'No Way,' Says Norway		01 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
"No Way," Says Norway Long unhappy about pollution from Britain's Sellafield nuclear power plant, Norway announced yesterday that it would call for a binding international agreement to force polluting countries to pay for toxic cleanups beyond their own borders. The nation's foreign affairs committee voted unanimously to ask the government to impose economic san ...
Topics: European Union, nuclear power, pollution and waste, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

Low-carbon Riders		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Low-carbon Riders In a move that could have radical implications for the automobile industry, the California Assembly passed a bill yesterday that would make it the first state to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles as a step toward curbing global warming. Because about 10 percent of the nation's new cars are sold in California, legislation affecting emis ...
Topics: air pollution, business, California, climate, ozone, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Italian Nice		29 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Italian Nice The president of northern Italy's Lombardy region, Roberto Formigoni, proposed on Sunday that only eco-friendly vehicles be sold in the region by as early as 2005. He hopes gas-electric hybrid vehicles and, later, hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles can help eliminate the region's pollution woes. Smog levels in Lombardy have recently surged to five times the legally permitted amounts; the region's capi ...
Topics: European Union, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Shanty Shanty Shanty		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Shanty Shanty Shanty Despite its terrible environmental rap, Mexico City remains one of the greenest cities in the world, with more than half the city's acreage designated as open space and fully 25 percent blanketed with forest. Unfortunately, all that is being threatened by the city's uncontrolled urban sprawl, most of it in the form o ...
Topics: deforestation, land degradation, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, population, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

This Old Coal-fired Power Plant		25 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
This Old Coal-fired Power Plant Even as the Bush administration works to relax clean-air regulations on coal-fired power plants, New Jersey's biggest energy supplier agreed yesterday to spend $337 million over the next 10 years to cut emissions from two plants. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the settlement between PSEG Power showed a "continuing commi ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, environmental justice, New Jersey, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Duck, Duck, Gross		24 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Duck, Duck, Gross More than a dozen years after an Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil, nearly 10,000 gallons of the oil remain buried under the shoreline. The lingering oil was documented during a three-month field study last summer; the study's results were presented this week during t ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Garden State, Meet the Cement State		18 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Garden State, Meet the Cement State Bad news on the environmental justice front: Poor and minority residents of Camden, N.J., aren't having much luck with efforts to sue the state for allowing a cement factory to spew pollution in their neighborhood. The residents successfully convinced U.S. District Judge Stephen Orlofsky that the siting of the plant was discriminatory, but Or ...
Topics: environmental justice, New Jersey, politics, pollution and waste, population (all these topics)

Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire Fires that rage in thousands of underground coal seams around the world are polluting the air and releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas. Although coal fires occur naturally from spontaneous combustion, scientists say the frequency of such fires has risen as mining has exposed coal deposits to mo ...
Topics: air pollution, China, climate, energy, mining and drilling, ozone, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Once There Were Brownfields		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Once There Were Brownfields President Bush headed to Pennsylvania on Friday to sign into a law a five-year plan to revitalize brownfield sites around the country. Under the plan, which was approved by Congress last month, the feds will allocate up to $250 million per year to states, local governments, and Native American tribes, with the goal of cleaning up some 450,000 of the polluted industrial sites. ...
Topics: Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Taps		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Taps Drinking chlorinated tap water puts pregnant women at a higher risk for miscarrying or bearing children with birth defects, according to a new study by two environmental organizations. The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group and U.S. Public Interest Research Group studied water quality data from thousands of water utilities before publishing their findings yesterday. Chlorine is use ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Taking Liberties?		07 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Taking Liberties? The U.S. Supreme Court will begin today to consider a lawsuit over private property development in Lake Tahoe that has had lot owners and land-use planners squared off for more than two decades. At issue is a 1981 moratorium on the development of certain lots where runoff from rain and snowmelt would ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, lakes, Nevada, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Victor: Victoria		04 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Victor: Victoria These days, press coverage of the Middle East is all bombs and burkhas, but Victoria Jamali is fighting a very different battle. The Iranian woman cofounded one of her country's most active nonprofits, the Women's Society Against Environmental Pollution. Now, along with colleagues at the Univers ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, Iran, Middle East, politics, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Anniston Get Your Gun		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Anniston Get Your Gun For almost four decades, the Monsanto Company discharged toxic waste, including millions of pounds of PCBs, into creeks and landfills in Anniston, Ala. For most of that time, the company knew PCBs were highly toxic: Monsanto consultants placed fish in the contaminated creeks and watched them die within 10 seconds, and c ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Coughing in a Winter Wonderland		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Coughing in a Winter Wonderland Be glad you're not on the planning committee for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. First there was terrorism to worry about; now there's the weather. Salt Lake's squeaky-clean image could suffer a blow if the world gets a glimpse of the woeful air pollution that plagues the city in the winter. Snow in Salt Lake City usually means a temperature inversion, ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

'Tis the Treason		02 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
'Tis the Treason It was a grim holiday season for Grigory Pasko, a Russian journalist who was sentenced on Dec. 25 to four years in prison on charges of high treason. A military reporter with an interest in environmental issues, Pasko documented the Russian Navy's practice of dumping old weapons and nuclear waste into the ocean. The treason charges stem from allegat ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, Russia, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

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