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Beyond Blunderdome
Secret plan would put U.K. nuke waste in 'interim' domes for 1,000 years |
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14 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Beyond Blunderdome Secret plan would put U.K. nuke waste in "interim" domes for 1,000 years The U.K.'s government-owned British Nuclear Fuels has developed an innovative solution to the nuclear-waste problem: procrastinate! The company wants to dump waste from nuclear power plants into giant domes designed to last up to 1,000 years -- at which point, presumably, f ... |
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| Topics: environmental planning, news, nuclear power, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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Bond Ambition
Missouri senator delays small-engine pollution regulation, again |
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10 Jun 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Bond Ambition Missouri senator delays small-engine pollution regulation, again Small engines have a big impact -- when you use a standard gas-powered lawn mower for an hour, you've spewed as much pollution as 50 cars driving 20 miles each. Nevertheless, someone builds those small engines, and that means jobs -- specifically, jobs in Missouri, or more specifically yet, jobs at engine manufacturer Briggs & ... |
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| Topics: Missouri, news, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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An Offer: They Can't Dump E-Refuse
NYC considers tough e-waste bill |
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26 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| An Offer: They Can't Dump E-Refuse NYC considers tough e-waste bill One of the toughest electronic-waste bills in the U.S. was introduced in the New York City Council yesterday. It would require producers of electronic equipment like computers and televisions to collect and recycle those devices -- that is, if they want to maintain selling rights within the city. City officials like council me ... |
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| Topics: green living, New York, news, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics) |
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Situation Normal All Canucked Up
Air pollution on the rise in Canada |
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25 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Situation Normal All Canucked Up Air pollution on the rise in Canada Canada's self-image as North America's most enlightened steward of the environment has taken a blow with the release of a new report from the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Studying the period from 1998 to 2002, the report concludes that air pollution rose by 8 percent in the Great White North even as it fell by 21 percent in th ... |
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| Topics: Canada, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Olympic Heights
Green-roof project aims to clean up Beijing for Olympics |
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23 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Olympic Heights Green-roof project aims to clean up Beijing for Olympics With the 2008 Olympics in Beijing inching closer, the Chinese are hard at work cleaning up the notoriously smog-ridden city. Polluting factories are being relocated, new pipelines are bringing in natural gas to replace dirty coal, and higher emissions standards are being applied to the city's millions of cars. A green-rooftop ... |
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| Topics: China, environmental planning, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Revenge of the Filth
Space is getting awfully dirty |
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20 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Revenge of the Filth Space is getting awfully dirty Litter encircles our planet, in the form of thousands -- or even millions -- of bits of space debris: abandoned satellites and rockets, chunks blown apart by collisions, radioactive fuel, and that one blue sock you lost. "It's sort of a classic environmental problem, not unlike air pollution or water pollution," says NASA's Nicholas L. Johnson. "If you wait until y ... |
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Got to Admit, It's Getting Brighter, It's Getting Brighter All the Time
Global dimming reversed in past decade; now brightening again |
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06 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Got to Admit, It's Getting Brighter, It's Getting Brighter All the Time Global dimming reversed in past decade; now brightening again So, remember that big hubbub about "global dimming" a while back, whereby particulates (e.g., smog) in the earth's atmosphere were reflecting light and taking the edge off global warming? Yeah, well, funny story: That's not happening anymore. Two new papers in the journal Science ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Ceci N'est Pas une Wipe
Disposable wipes not just for baby bums anymore |
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27 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Ceci N'est Pas une Wipe Disposable wipes not just for baby bums anymore The season of spring cleaning is upon us, and for many Americans that means taking to dirty surfaces with a few -- or a few million -- disposable wipes. With varieties specially made for scrubbing, dusting, disinfecting, and buffing everything from microwaves to granite countertops to leather goods, it's estimated that North Americans used some ... |
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| Topics: green living, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Do the Riot Thing
Chemical factory pollution sparks riot in eastern China |
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12 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Do the Riot Thing Chemical factory pollution sparks riot in eastern China Thousands of farmers rioted in a village in eastern China over the weekend, taking a stand against encroachment of the country's fast-growing industries onto their land, and the pollution and health problems that result. Villagers had set up roadblocks to interfere with deliveries to and from the 13 chemical plants in the area that now sit on what us ... |
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| Topics: China, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Waste
Like absentminded professors, nuclear plants misplace their waste |
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12 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Waste Like absentminded professors, nuclear plants misplace their waste A comprehensive new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office reveals pervasive problems in the nuclear industry, abetted by lax federal regulation. You know all that waste nuclear plants produce, the stuff that stays radioactive for a kajillion years? Yeah, well, seems they keep ... |
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| Topics: news, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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The Shipping Spews
Shipping line agrees to pay $25 million for illegal oil dumping |
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06 Apr 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Shipping Spews Shipping line agrees to pay $25 million for illegal oil dumping Evergreen International, one of the world's largest shipping lines, agreed Monday to pay a $25 million fine after pleading guilty to 24 felony charges and one misdemeanor involving secretly dumping oil off the coasts of five U.S. states and purposefully lying to U.S. Coast Guard officials about the practice. The plea agreemen ... |
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| Topics: energy, news, oceans, oil, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Je Syracuse
Onondaga Nation sues for land rights in New York state |
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31 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Je Syracuse Onondaga Nation sues for land rights in New York state The Onondaga Nation earlier this month filed a lawsuit claiming ownership of some 3,100 square miles of New York state, including Onondaga Lake in northwest Syracuse -- a large body of water to which the community claims to have ancestral connection. That lake also happens to be one of the most polluted in the country; once a source of trout and ... |
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| Topics: lakes, New York, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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All Your Base Are Befouled By Us
Military base closures leave behind toxic, uninhabitable land |
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30 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| All Your Base Are Befouled By Us Military base closures leave behind toxic, uninhabitable land Military bases frequently serve as economic engines for the communities they inhabit, and with what could be the biggest round of base closures ever on its way from the Department of Defense, those communities hope that developing the land freed up by the closed bases will replace some of the lost revenue. But the ... |
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| Topics: Department of Defense, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Eh, Just Throw It Out Back in the Shed
Nuke industry says cheapest waste-disposal plan is plenty safe |
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29 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Eh, Just Throw It Out Back in the Shed Nuke industry says cheapest waste-disposal plan is plenty safe With the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste disposal facility mired in technical, legal, and political difficulties, nuke boosters have decided, hey, who needs it anyway? "People are no longer saying Yucca Mountain has to be finished in order for the nuclear industry to have a revival in this country," says a s ... |
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| Topics: news, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Emission Creep
Critics question World Bank's role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder |
Daphne Wysham |
25 Mar 2005 |
Soapbox |
| For as long as it's been around, the World Bank has been prone to mission creep. Established 60 years ago to rebuild war-torn Europe, it morphed into an institution whose raison d'etre was to help developing countries advance, then refined its focus on poverty alleviation and sustainable development in the 1980s and '90s. During that time, it took on the role of effectively creatin ... |
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| Topics: Brazil, business, climate, India, pollution and waste, South Africa (all these topics) |
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Virtually Reality
Automakers launch ad campaign claiming cars are squeaky clean |
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22 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Virtually Reality Automakers launch ad campaign claiming cars are squeaky clean Fed up with negative publicity, automakers are making their vehicles virtually emission-free. Oh, wait, did we say "making"? We meant "calling." The "virtually emission-free" claim is at the heart of a new print ad campaign targeted at federal legislators by a coalition of automakers including Ford, Toyota, a ... |
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| Topics: news, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Global Spillage
Pollution from around the globe taints U.S. air and water |
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14 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Global Spillage Pollution from around the globe taints U.S. air and water Even as battles rage in Washington, D.C., over controlling air pollution from domestic sources, dirty emissions from overseas are complicating the problem. Some 30 percent of the ozone in the U.S. may be drifting in from other countries, says NOAA scientist David Parrish. Dust from as far abroad as the Sahara Desert regularly ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics) |
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Polluter Actually Pays
Illinois power plants will spend half a billion on pollution controls |
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08 Mar 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Polluter Actually Pays Illinois power plants will spend half a billion on pollution controls A 1999 lawsuit against Illinois Power has ended in a proposed settlement of more than $520 million, most of which will go to installing new pollution controls. The suit charged that Illinois Power had violated the Clean Air Act by upgrading several plants without modifying pollution-reduction equipment, as requi ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Illinois, news, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Exhausted
Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year |
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23 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Exhausted Old diesel engines kill more than 20,000 Americans a year Particulate pollution generated by old diesel engines is killing more people per year than drunk driving, said a report released yesterday. Using data and methodologies from the U.S. EPA, the Clean Air Task Force and a coalition of public health groups found that more than 20,000 Americans -- particularly those in urban area ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, news, placemaking, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics) |
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The Apple Dumping Gang
Enviros say Apple's iPod isn't green |
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09 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| The Apple Dumping Gang Enviros say Apple's iPod isn't green New legislation introduced in the House of Representatives last week would establish a consumer fee on computer and television purchases to fund a national electronics recycling program. But activists say the real answer to the "e-waste" problem is increased responsibility from manufacturers, and many are focusing their ire on Apple, maker o ... |
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| Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics) |
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Burial's Vetting
BP spending $100 million to bury CO2 under Sahara, hopes it stays there |
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07 Feb 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Burial's Vetting BP spending $100 million to bury CO2 under Sahara, hopes it stays there With the countdown to Kyoto nearing its end, oil and gas company BP is experimenting with burying some of its carbon-dioxide emissions deep underground in the Sahara desert. The burial project's price tag of $100 million is expected to cover the injection of about one million tons of CO2 each year for some 20 years -- ... |
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| Topics: Algeria, business, climate, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Who Will Screensave Us Now?
Big climate-modeling experiment predicts disaster |
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27 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Who Will Screensave Us Now? Big climate-modeling experiment predicts disaster A worldwide, collaborative climate-modeling study has produced its first results, and the news is not good. More than 95,000 volunteers from 150 countries participated in the study by downloading a program, run as a screensaver, which created slightly different climate simulations on each computer and sent them back to researchers. The distributed e ... |
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| Topics: climate, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Two Degrees of Separation
Report warns of major climate catastrophe in as few as 10 years |
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25 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Two Degrees of Separation Report warns of major climate catastrophe in as few as 10 years A task force of leading politicians, academics, and business leaders from around the world has quantified global warming's so-called "point of no return." And it's bloody soon! In as little as 10 years, says a report by the task force, the global average temperature could rise 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit from its pre-ind ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics) |
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Design of the Times
Electronics manufacturers hop on the cradle-to-cradle bandwagon |
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24 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Design of the Times Electronics manufacturers hop on the cradle-to-cradle bandwagon Mindful of the growing impact of consumer electronics on the waste stream -- and of the likelihood that government regulations could one day require them to recycle their own wares -- electronics manufacturers like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Panasonic are beginning to design products with their full lifecycle in mind. ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics) |
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Terra Cognita
New company offers guilty motorists a way to offset emissions |
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20 Jan 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Terra Cognita New company offers guilty motorists a way to offset emissions In what is likely to be a growing trend, a private company is stepping in to make money by offering people a concrete way to take positive action against global warming. Benven LLC runs a program called TerraPass, which emerged from a classroom project at the Wharton School of Business. TerraPass sells carbon-dioxide re ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics) |
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