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Something Old, Something Newmont Mining giant Newmont continues to juggle pollution claims and lawsuits		03 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Something Old, Something Newmont Mining giant Newmont continues to juggle pollution claims and lawsuits The last two weeks have seen a continued flurry of activity surrounding charges that mining giant Newmont fouled the environment and sickened villagers around its operations in Indonesia's Buyat Bay. The New York Times revealed a 2001 internal memo from a Newmont VP recommending a cut in executive bonus ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

We Know, We Know, You're Sick of Hearing About Tajikistan, but ... Former Soviet republic littered with radioactive mine sites		16 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
We Know, We Know, You're Sick of Hearing About Tajikistan, but ... Former Soviet republic littered with radioactive mine sites The former Soviet republic of Tajikistan may be on the brink of environmental disaster as decades-old abandoned uranium mines lie open to the elements and some 55 million tons of nuclear waste contaminate the northern part of the country, left in the wake of Stalin's arms race with the U.S. ...
Topics: Asia, nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

A Post Whipping Newmont Mining Corp. accused of environmental misdeeds across the globe		15 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
A Post Whipping Newmont Mining Corp. accused of environmental misdeeds across the globe The Denver Post has put together an extensive two-part investigative series on Denver-based precious-metal giant Newmont Mining Corp., detailing questionable environmental practices at a number of the corporation's mining operations worldwide. Among the findings: Newmont violated water-quality standards in Nevada, op ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Green, Even in the Dark Nuclear industry lobbies for 'green' credit		14 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Green, Even in the Dark Nuclear industry lobbies for "green" credit Nuclear-plant owners in the Northeastern U.S. are campaigning to be recognized as "green" energy sources. Following the success of a New Hampshire plant that last year received credits for not polluting the air, the nuclear industry is lobbying to be included in the Northeast's nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initia ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Would You Like to Come Up for a CO2 Cap? Bipartisan energy-policy panel calls for CO2 caps		08 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Would You Like to Come Up for a CO2 Cap? Bipartisan energy-policy panel calls for CO2 caps The notion of imposing mandatory restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S. continues to gather steam among those with no power to impose them. A privately funded panel of energy experts -- including Republicans, Democrats, academics, environmentalists, and energy-industry representatives -- wrapped up two years ...
Topics: climate, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Original Cinergy Energy giant Cinergy comes out in favor of greenhouse-gas regulations		03 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Original Cinergy Energy giant Cinergy comes out in favor of greenhouse-gas regulations For some time, enviros have been predicting that with states and other countries starting to regulate their greenhouse-gas emissions, sooner or later large energy companies in the U.S. would begin craving the predictability of consistent federal guidelines. It appears that day is upon us, as energy giant Cinergy, a major own ...
Topics: business, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Hull to Pay Delaware River oil spill elicits new criticism of single-hulled oil tankers		02 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
Hull to Pay Delaware River oil spill elicits new criticism of single-hulled oil tankers Last weekend's oil spill on the Delaware River -- which U.S. Coast Guard officials now say may be considerably worse than previously estimated, involving up to 473,500 gallons of crude -- is drawing attention to single-hulled oil tankers. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) calls them "accident[s ...
Topics: energy, oil, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United States (all these topics)

Paulding Gray Mega-farms in Ohio offer stench but little else to communities		29 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Paulding Gray Mega-farms in Ohio offer stench but little else to communities The Plain Dealer examines the effects of eight giant hog farms built in Paulding County, Ohio, since 1994 and five mega-dairies since 2000, and comes away with a grim cautionary tale. A number of local families have fled from their homes, some unable to live with the stench from open manure pits, others because the hydrogen sulfide ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Ohio, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Next Up: Hybrid Zambonis Canada vows to get tough on vehicle CO2 emissions		18 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Next Up: Hybrid Zambonis Canada vows to get tough on vehicle CO2 emissions The greenhouse-gas emissions of cars and trucks in Canada will be cut by 25 percent by 2010, according to a duo of Canadian government ministers. In a joint interview, Natural Resources Minister John Efford and Environment Minister Stephane Dion said that they were committed to the deadline and the amount. "Are we going to ...
Topics: Canada, climate, placemaking, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Dude, the Powder Is Nuclear Today! Extreme microbes may aid nuclear waste disposal		17 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Dude, the Powder Is Nuclear Today! Extreme microbes may aid nuclear waste disposal Researchers with the Department of Energy, hip to the latest trends, have developed genetically manipulated "extreme microbes" that reportedly survive entirely on Red Bull and communicate via appropriated skater slang. Ah, we kid. But there are some pretty bitchin' microbes out there. Able to survive in earth's most inhospitabl ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste (all these topics)

I'll Have a Side of Hash Browns U.S. joins 13 other nations in plan to reduce methane emissions		17 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
I'll Have a Side of Hash Browns U.S. joins 13 other nations in plan to reduce methane emissions Fourteen nations agreed yesterday to a non-binding agreement to curtail methane emissions by trapping the gas and using it as a relatively clean-burning fuel before it's released into the atmosphere. Methane is the second most common heat-trapping greenhouse gas -- albeit a distant second to carbon dioxide, as methane accounts for ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Exx the Foul ExxonMobil's greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise		09 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Exx the Foul ExxonMobil's greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company, supported President Bush's decision to keep the U.S. from ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. In a wacky coincidence, the company's greenhouse-gas emissions have been increasing, last year rising 2 percent to almost 150 million tons -- more than twice the emissions of the entire country of Norway. Exxon is ad ...
Topics: business, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Meek Shall Inherit the Dearth Climate change threatens to reverse progress on fighting poverty		20 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
The Meek Shall Inherit the Dearth Climate change threatens to reverse progress on fighting poverty Global warming will disproportionately harm the world's poorest people and "perpetuate injustices unprecedented in human history," says Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth. Such is the conclusion of a sobering report called "Up in Smoke," released this week by a 17-member coalition of environmental a ...
Topics: climate, energy, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Martial Flaw Bush admin fights off environmental restraints on military		14 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Martial Flaw Bush admin fights off environmental restraints on military In the presidential campaign of 2000, Bush vowed to force the military to "comply with environmental laws by which all of us must live," but according to a comprehensive investigation by USA Today, he has done the opposite. Since assuming power, the Bush White House has worked closely with the Defense Depa ...
Topics: Department of Defense, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Unsuitable Lawsuits against polluters decline under Bush administration		13 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Unsuitable Lawsuits against polluters decline under Bush administration In the first three years of the Bush administration, the number of civil lawsuits filed by the federal government against polluters declined by 75 percent compared to the last three years of the Clinton administration, according to data compiled by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project. Eric Shaeffer, who quit the U.S. EPA ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

What 'Hard Work' Really Looks Like Iraqi environment minister faces armed attack, underfunding		08 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
What "Hard Work" Really Looks Like Iraqi environment minister faces armed attack, underfunding Mishkat Al Moumin, head of Iraq's Ministry of Environment since June, has an unenviable job. In August, an attack on her convoy left four of her bodyguards dead. Security concerns lead her to avoid having her picture taken or discussing her family. In a land ravaged by wars and repression, she's confronted ...
Topics: Iraq, land degradation, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Enfant, Terrible Most-polluted places in California see highest infant mortality rates		04 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Enfant, Terrible Most-polluted places in California see highest infant mortality rates The results of a San Francisco Chronicle analysis of infant morality rates in California zip codes are, while depressing as hell, not surprising: In short, pollution kills babies. Agricultural waste, toxic chemicals, smog -- while these sources of pollution are difficult to link to any single infant death, and their interaction is not we ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Ocean's 212 Government ocean commission calls for sweeping reforms		21 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Ocean's 212 Government ocean commission calls for sweeping reforms The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, concluding two and a half years of studying oceans, coastal areas, and the Great Lakes, delivered its final report to the political types in Congress and the White House yesterday, where it will be waved around for a day or two and then quickly forgotten. We kid! Actually, this may be a rare case where lawmak ...
Topics: oceans, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Big Trouble in Big China News flash: China's environment is bad and getting worse		20 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Big Trouble in Big China News flash: China's environment is bad and getting worse A Washington Post exploration of China's environmental problems confirms all the sorry tales you've been hearing. The country contains at least six of the world's 10 most polluted cities, experts say, leading to respiratory problems for millions of citizens. Deforestation in north and central China means deserts ...
Topics: China, deforestation, desertification, pollution and waste (all these topics)

I Like Mike New York City mayor signs long-term recycling contract		15 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
I Like Mike New York City mayor signs long-term recycling contract The debate over whether recycling is economically "worth it" continues, but one famously tight-fisted municipal leader has made up his mind. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) announced that the city will sign a 20-year contract with one of the nation's largest recycling companies, Hugo Neu Corp., which will build a ...
Topics: green living, New York, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Kim Jong Illin' North Korea's Environment Is in Sorry Shape		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Kim Jong Illin' North Korea's Environment Is in Sorry Shape Its rivers and streams are filled with industrial waste, its air is polluted, and its landscape is increasingly devoid of trees. Can't tell what country we're talking about? It's North Korea. The first large-scale environmental assessment of the country, conducted by dozens of government and academic researchers under the auspice ...
Topics: deforestation, North Korea, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Don't Ask, Don't Shell Nigeria Hits Shell With $1.5 Billion Pollution Claim		26 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Don't Ask, Don't Shell Nigeria Hits Shell With $1.5 Billion Pollution Claim The Nigerian parliament has hit Shell with a $1.5 billion claim after the Ijaw tribe of the Niger Delta demanded compensation for health and economic hardship caused by the company's polluting operations. The oil giant admits to 262 oil spill incidents in Nigeria in 2002, and that same year it identified 548 sites in the country that nee ...
Topics: energy, Nigeria, oil, pollution and waste (all these topics)

DMBM Dave Matthews Band Tour Bus Dumps Doo-Doo on Boat Passengers		26 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
DMBM Dave Matthews Band Tour Bus Dumps Doo-Doo on Boat Passengers An alleged environmental infraction by a Dave Matthews Band tour bus left passengers on a Chicago River sightseeing tour boat with a bad taste in their mouths -- literally. While on a bridge over the river, the driver apparently emptied the bus's waste tank with the intent of sending its contents -- up to 800 pounds of raw human waste -- into the ...
Topics: green living, Illinois, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Glass Is Half Full -- Just Don't Drink From It Most U.S. Lakes and Waterways Contaminated with Mercury, EPA Says		25 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
The Glass Is Half Full -- Just Don't Drink From It Most U.S. Lakes and Waterways Contaminated with Mercury, EPA Says U.S. EPA head honcho Mike Leavitt struggled yesterday to put a positive spin on the agency's annual report on fish advisories, despite the grim news that virtually every body of freshwater in the country may be contaminated with mercury, which poses health risks to fetuses and children. Every state except Alaska a ...
Topics: lakes, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Good-Bye, Cool World Scientist Warns That Decreasing Air Pollution Means Increased Warming		24 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Good-Bye, Cool World Scientist Warns That Decreasing Air Pollution Means Increased Warming Jeez, we really can't catch a break, can we? A German scientist now warns that air pollution is masking the true extent of global warming -- and as air pollution is reduced, warming may accelerate. Addressing the 13th World Clean Air and Environmental Protection Congress in London this week, Meinrat Andreae said that aerosols in the atm ...
Topics: climate, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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