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Fed Up Northeast Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Thwarted by Feds		15 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Fed Up Northeast Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Thwarted by Feds Efforts by U.S. states in the northeast to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are falling short, in part due to unsympathetic federal policies. While they see plenty of room for more aggressive efforts, even the region's most vocal environmental critics acknowledge that northeastern states have taken unprecedented steps to reduce emissio ...
Topics: air pollution, Northeast, ozone, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Mine, All Mine Agencies Fight Over Trust Fund to Protect Groundwater from Nevada Mine		10 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, Nevada, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Not OK Computer U.N. Study Highlights Computers' Environmental Hazards		08 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Not OK Computer U.N. Study Highlights Computers' Environmental Hazards A U.N. study released today highlights the environmental hazards posed by the worldwide popularity of personal computers. Manufacturing the average PC requires 10 times the product's weight in fossil fuels, says the study -- compared to twice the product's weight for cars and refrigerators. Computer manufacturing also entails heavy use of toxic chemi ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

We Will Rocket You EPA and DOD Square Off Over Rocket-Fuel Pollution		02 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
We Will Rocket You EPA and DOD Square Off Over Rocket-Fuel Pollution The U.S. EPA is squaring off against the Department of Defense and NASA over ammonium perchlorate, a chemical long used by DOD and NASA for munitions and rocket fuel, and typically disposed of by being diluted in water and dumped on the ground. Based on studies of rodents and children, the EPA contends that perchlorate ...
Topics: Department of Defense, pollution and waste, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Getting the Vapors Concerns About Hanford Worker Safety Grow		26 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Getting the Vapors Concerns About Hanford Worker Safety Grow Concerns over the safety of workers cleaning up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southwestern Washington state -- site of the largest nuclear waste dump in the Western Hemisphere -- continue to escalate. Yesterday, the Department of Energy announced a formal investigation of the private contractor that monitors worker health, respo ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

A More Perfect Union Sierra Club and Auto Workers Unite Against Bush Fuel-Economy Plan		20 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
A More Perfect Union Sierra Club and Auto Workers Unite Against Bush Fuel-Economy Plan Bush's new fuel-economy plan is even ticking off the United Auto Workers union. The UAW has often been at odds with enviros over auto efficiency standards, but now it's teaming up with the Sierra Club to fight the administration's proposal. In a ...
Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, Sierra Club (all these topics)

How to Succeed Without Really Trying North Dakota 'Reduces' Pollution by Measuring It Differently		19 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: air pollution, energy, mining and drilling, national parks, North Dakota, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

To Leach His Own Nalgene Water Bottles May Be Hazardous to Your Health		18 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
To Leach His Own Nalgene Water Bottles May Be Hazardous to Your Health Here's some bummer news for the outdoorsy set: Recent studies have shown that polycarbonate plastics, including the kind used in popular Nalgene water bottles, may leach one of their constituent chemicals into water. The chemical in question, bisphenol-A, has been shown to cause chromosomal disorders and endocrine disruption and to have adve ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Coal and Calculating Bush Admin. Decision Could Boost Pollution in National Parks		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Coal and Calculating Bush Admin. Decision Could Boost Pollution in National Parks In a move that could lead to more pollution in national parks, the Bush administration on Friday said it will permit North Dakota to change the way it estimates air pollution in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Seems like a small thing, but the new estimation formula is likely ...
Topics: energy, national parks, North Dakota, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah, wilderness (all these topics)

What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
What Blows Around Comes Around Cross-Border Pollution an Increasing Problem Pollution from Asia can taint the air along the West Coast of the U.S., said scientists on Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jet streams can drive dirty air across the Pacific Ocean in ...
Topics: Africa, air pollution, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, climate, European Union, Florida, North America, oceans, Pacific Ocean, pollution and waste, West (all these topics)

Make a Run for the Border New InterActivist Tackles Enviro Challenges Along U.S.-Mexico Border		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, environmental non-government organizations, Mexico, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Wheeze and No Thank You Pollution a Likely Contributor to Rising Asthma Rates		17 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Wheeze and No Thank You Pollution a Likely Contributor to Rising Asthma Rates Asthma rates are climbing around the world, and though scientists can't say precisely what's causing the increase, pollution is thought to be a serious contributor. The respiratory disease has become a particular problem in Asia, where terrible air quality, rapid u ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, China, health, placemaking, pollution and waste, Scotland, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Google Gaga Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Google Gaga Google Bans Ads from Environmental Group The popular search engine Google is facing accusations of censorship after it refused to carry ads from an environmental group that is protesting a major cruise line's sewage-treatment methods. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Oceana paid Google to run an ad that read &qu ...
Topics: business, Florida, green living, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Washington DC (all these topics)

Daring Doo Going Diaper-Free Is the Latest Trend in Eco-Friendly Parenting		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Snoop Doggy Doggs Robotic Dogs Sniff Out Environmental Toxins		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Snoop Doggy Doggs Robotic Dogs Sniff Out Environmental Toxins Engineers at Yale have developed robotic dogs that can sniff out environmental toxins at contaminated sites. The mechanical critters were originally designed and marketed as toys by Sony and other companies, but an intrepid crew at Yale modified the robo-puppies with sensors that de ...
Topics: Australia, Belarus, East Coast, environmental restoration, Idaho, nuclear power, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Ash Holes Enviro Groups Ask EPA to Halt Ash Dumping		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Ash Holes Enviro Groups Ask EPA to Halt Ash Dumping A coalition of 125 environmental groups has filed a petition with the U.S. EPA, asking it to immediately halt the dumping of waste ash from coal-fired power plants. They claim the ash contains a variety of toxins and pollutes ground, surface, and drinking wat ...
Topics: energy, environmental non-government organizations, health, National Academy of Sciences, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Meat-Up Low-Carb Diets Have High Impact on Environment		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: food and agriculture, health, pollution and waste, ranching, wilderness (all these topics)

Keep the Forest Fires Burning Critics Charge Forest Service With Overzealous Fire Fighting		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Keep the Forest Fires Burning Critics Charge Forest Service With Overzealous Fire Fighting A growing cadre of critics charge the U.S. Forest Service with fighting too many fires, saying that the cost -- in money, lives, and ecological damage -- is too high. As logging in national forests has declined by 80 percent over the last decade, fighting fires has become the agency's pr ...
Topics: logging, national forests, pollution and waste, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

One Meeellion Dollars! Iraq's Environment Ministry Faces Big Problems and a Small Budget		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
One Meeellion Dollars! Iraq's Environment Ministry Faces Big Problems and a Small Budget Iraq's first environment ministry, facing a host of daunting ecological problems and a list of 35 priority projects that would cost more than $200 million, has been allotted a 2004 budget of ... $1 ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, health, Iraq, Middle East, nuclear power, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Not By the Air of My Chinny-chin-chin States Expect Clean Air Act Changes Will Increase Pollution		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Not By the Air of My Chinny-chin-chin States Expect Clean Air Act Changes Will Increase Pollution Most state environmental officials expect that changes to Clean Air Act rules proposed by the Bush administration would lead to higher air pollution, according to a survey conducted by the General Accounting Office upon the request of Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.). The survey gathe ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury		06 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Linkin' Mercury New Study Reveals More Babies at Risk From Mercury Roughly 630,000 of the 4 million children born annually in the U.S. are at risk of impaired motor function, learning capacity, memory, and vision due to high levels of mercury in their bloodstreams, revealed a U.S. EPA analysis released yesterday, which doubles the previously estimated numb ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, health, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Nano, Nano		05 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Nano, Nano A new paint set to go on sale in Europe in March promises to absorb the most noxious gases from automobile exhaust. Invented by British company Millennium Chemicals, Ecopaint contains spherical nanoparticles of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate, suspended in a base of polysiloxane (a silicon-based polymer). Hey, wake up, the good part ...
Topics: air pollution, England, European Union, green living, placemaking, pollution and waste, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Morose Code		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Morose Code In a move that should mean cleaner air for Washington, D.C., a federal appeals court yesterday rejected the U.S. EPA's decision to accept a D.C.-area proposal to delay enforcement of Clean Air Act-mandated pollution levels for several years past the act's 1999 deadline. The area was classified as being in "severe" violation of federal ozone ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA, Washington DC (all these topics)

Going South		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Going South The search for Antarctic organisms that can be used for pharmaceutical and other commercial purposes -- called "extremophiles" for their ability to thrive in harshly cold, dry, and salty conditions -- is pushing international patent law to the breaking point and threatening the fragile Antarctic environment, concludes a United Nations study released on Sunday. The Antarctic T ...
Topics: Antarctica, pollution and waste, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

And Now for Something Completely Different		03 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
And Now for Something Completely Different In sharp contrast to the recently released Bush administration budget, Canada's Liberal Party government on Monday promised to double spending on contaminated-site cleanups, promote green technologies to increase energy efficiency, and go beyond the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol in curtailing emissions. Over 10 years, $4 billion ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, climate, politics, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

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