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Clean Up Your Vroom		05 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: pollution and waste Clean Up Your Vroom The German army is developing "green" weaponry meant to reduce the pollution coming from guns and military rockets. In place of missiles and space rockets whose emissions contribute to acid rain and ozone-layer depletion, German scientists hope to produce explosives and missile fuels that emit nothing more than a puff of hot air. Thomas Klapotke, a chemistry professor at the University of Munich, said two greener explosives have ...
Topics: pollution and waste (all these topics)

Fly the Friendly Skies?	Todd Hettenbach	29 Aug 2001	Counter Culture
350 million -- number of pounds of smog-producing chemicals (nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds) released by planes landing and taking off from U.S. airports in 1993 200 million to 600 million -- number of gallons of wastewater created each year from airplane deicing 219 -- number of volatile organic chemicals found in the air around Chicago's O'Hare Airport 5.6 -- number of miles a passenger could travel in an intercity bus usin ...
Topics: ozone, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Missile Offense		28 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Missile Offense Enviros and arms-control groups are suing the Pentagon today over its plans for a new missile defense test range in the Pacific. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and a number of Alaska-based plaintiffs charge that the Defense Department must cond ...
Topics: Alaska, California, Department of Defense, environmental non-government organizations, fishing, Greenpeace, Hawaii, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bay of Pigs' Waste		24 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Bay of Pigs' Waste The U.S. Congress should give farmers more than $6 billion a year to help them restore wetlands and prevent agricultural waste from polluting the nation's waterways, according to American Rivers and Environmental Defense. They said yesterday that nearly half of the country's bays are too polluted for fishing and swimming because of fertilizer and manure runoff from farms and r ...
Topics: food and agriculture, oceans, pollution and waste, wetlands (all these topics)

The Kratzer-Jammin' Kid		23 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
The Kratzer-Jammin' Kid Two new U.S. government reports raise big concerns about a Bush administration plan to cut federal environmental enforcement staff by 8 percent and shift resources to the states. A report by the U.S. EPA's inspector general found that states are doing a poor job of monitoring and punishing water polluters. A report by the General Accou ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Give a Hoot, Don't Commute		22 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot, Don't Commute The U.S. Transportation Department launched a new campaign yesterday to reduce pollution and encourage telecommuting by offering smog-emissions credits to companies that get more employees to work from home. Under a two-year pilot program, businesses that earn the credits will be able to swap them for air-quality requirements or sell them to other companie ...
Topics: business, Department of Transportation, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Holding Schregardus in Low Regardus		21 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Holding Schregardus in Low Regardus U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said yesterday he would join with U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) to block President Bush's nomination of Donald Schregardus to be the U.S. EPA's chief enforcement officer. Schumer said he would use parliamentary tactics to stall the nomination until the Bush administration indicated whether it would withdraw from Clinton-era lawsuits aga ...
Topics: Ohio, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Send My Schregardus to Broadway		20 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Send My Schregardus to Broadway If the Bush administration withdraws from Clinton-era pollution lawsuits against power plants in the Midwest and South, Northeast states that also sued the plants will have a hard time continuing with the cases. The states don't have the resources of the federal government, and they would have trouble building cases against plants more than 400 miles away. Enviros are skeptical that the ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Glow With the Flow		20 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Glow With the Flow Artificial lakes containing 50 years of radioactive waste could leak into the rivers of the Ural Mountains within a few years, according to a letter sent by the governor of Russia's Chelyabinsk region to Russia's prime minister last month. The area near the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant is known as one of the most radioactive places on the planet. Chelyabinsk's vice governor, Gennady ...
Topics: Asia, nuclear power, pollution and waste, Russia (all these topics)

Land of a Thousand Bottled Waters	Suzy Becker	20 Aug 2001	Ha.

Topics: pollution and waste (all these topics)

Don't Be a Hog		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Don't Be a Hog Factory hog farms, as well as the cattle and poultry industries, are pressuring the U.S. Congress to pass a bill that would use taxpayer dollars to help the farms pay for cleaning up their environmental messes. The U.S. EPA is considering costly regulations to reduce pollution from the livestock operations -- and the industries don't want to get stuck with the bill ...
Topics: food and agriculture, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Mighty Morphin' Power Rearrangers		15 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Mighty Morphin' Power Rearrangers Not wanting to provoke another attack from environmentalists, the Bush administration said yesterday that it would delay announcing its plan for overhauling regulation of aging power plants and instead include the plan as part of a more comprehensive package of clean-air policy options in September. President Bush had ordered the U.S. EPA to reassess th ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Hodge Podge		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Hodge Podge South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D) said last week that he would do "whatever it takes" to keep plutonium shipments from coming to the Savannah River Site, a nuclear-processing complex run by the U.S. Energy Department near Aiken, S.C. Hodges says the Bush administration has gone back on a plan he worked out with the Clinto ...
Topics: nuclear power, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Time Off for Bad Behavior?		13 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Time Off for Bad Behavior? U.S. President Bush told ABC News on Friday that his administration could have done a better job spinning its environmental policies. Bush, in an interview from his Texas ranch, where he is vacationing for the month, said, "My administration's made a lot of very thoughtful and environmentally sensitive decisions, but you get no credit for it. ... Listen, ours is a ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Getting the Munchies		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Getting the Munchies Over the next few months, a Mobile Muncher bus will visit every large town in Spain to help the country reach its goal of recycling 100 tons of mobile phones within a year. The country developed the Mobile Muncher mascot as a way to increase public support for the campaign and inform people of the danger of throwing out their old phones; ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, Spain, toxics (all these topics)

Law and Disorder		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Law and Disorder At the same time it was hired by the U.S. Energy Department to help determine whether Yucca Mountain in Nevada would be a suitable site to store the country's nuclear waste, a Chicago-based law firm was taking money from the nuclear power industry to lobby Congress and the White House to get the site approved. Critics of the Yucca site are crying foul, saying the ...
Topics: Department of Energy, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Gulp of Mexico		27 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Gulp of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, where nutrient pollution from farms in the Midwest has chocked off fish life, is bigger this year than ever before, according to university researchers. Stretching from the Mississippi River delta to Texas waters, the 8,000-square-mile, low-oxygen area is forcing crabs and other bottom feeders to the surface. Enviro ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Jesus, Christie!		27 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Jesus, Christie! U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman yesterday proposed replacing five of the government's toughest air-pollution programs with a single approach favored by the electricity industry. Rules to limit mercury emissions, reduce emissions from Midwestern power plants, and restore visibility in national parks would be scrapped. As a replacement, Whitman sketched a plan to reduce nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, ...
Topics: pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Backstroke to the Future		26 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Backstroke to the Future Christopher Swain of Eugene, Ore., plans to swim all 1,243 miles of the Columbia River to call attention to what he describes as "a contaminated beauty." The feds are now investigating the river for sources of mercury and other nasties. Swain, who works for Columbia Riverkeeper, will embark on the 160-day swim next summer ...
Topics: Columbia River, education, Northwest, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Virginia Slims		24 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Virginia Slims One of America's fastest-growing counties, Loudoun County in Virginia, voted last night to adopt rough development controls and try to keep two-thirds of the county as farmland. The vote by the county board of supervisors removed 83,000 potential homes from county plans and ended support for studying a proposed new highway to connect Dulles International Airport wi ...
Topics: food and agriculture, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Virginia (all these topics)

Fright Train		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Fright Train Sometime this summer, the feds are planning to transport nuclear waste from power plants via train from New York to a U.S. Energy Department reservation in southeastern Idaho. Dubbing the shipment a "mobile Chernobyl," anti-nuke advocates plan to raise a ruckus when the freight train comes through. Although the shipment a ...
Topics: energy, Idaho, New York, nuclear power, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Data Dump		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Data Dump State officials in the Pacific Northwest are searching for ways to reduce the amount of high-tech waste ending up in landfills. The waste in Oregon has more than doubled since 1998, and it can be nasty stuff -- computer monitors and televisions contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The officials are considering a "bottle bill&q ...
Topics: business, green living, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, pollution and waste, recycling, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Visibly Upset		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Visibly Upset The 1,900 new power plants called for in U.S. President Bush's energy plan pose a big threat to air quality in places where smog is already bad, experts say. They are also concerned about moves by the Bush administration to end efforts by former President Clinton to force dozens of dirty, old coal-powered plants to install modern pollution-control equipment. Last week, the ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

The Ties That Blind		16 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Ties That Blind The scientists who advise the U.S. EPA on regulatory decisions often have ties to the very industries that would be affected by the regulations being assessed, according to a study scheduled to be released today by the General Accounting Office, a congressional watchdog agency. In one case, seven of 17 members of a Science Advisory Board panel studying the cancer risks of a toxic chem ...
Topics: pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Mississippi Delta Blues Pollution is flushing marine life down the drain	David Helvarg	24 May 2001	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from Blue Frontier: Saving America's Living Seas. Predictable but unreported impacts from this spring's flooding on the Mississippi River will be an expanded dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, more southern beach closures, and more dying coral in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. A pesticide begins its journey to the sea. Every day, some 32 billion gallons of ag ...
Topics: marine life, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

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