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Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Hail to the Reef Australia to Protect One-Third of Great Barrier Reef In a major boon to Down Under ecology, fully one-third of the Great Barrier Reef will receive protection, the Australian government announced this week. The move will increase the protected areas of the reef by 40,000 square miles, thereby establishing the lar ...
Topics: Australia, climate, energy, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics)

This Little Piggy Went to a Market-based System U.S. EPA Proposes New Market-Based Air Quality Regulations		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
This Little Piggy Went to a Market-based System U.S. EPA Proposes New Market-Based Air Quality Regulations Having failed thus far to push his "Clear Skies" initiative through Congress, President Bush is now trying to institute his air-pollution plan through regulatory channels. Yesterday, the Bush administration proposed new rules that would establish industry-wide emissions limits for sulfur ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Jumping for Joy Famed Frog Rediscovered After Years of Presumed Local Extinction		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Jumping for Joy Famed Frog Rediscovered After Years of Presumed Local Extinction Speaking of Mark Twain, the amphibian he made famous in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" has been discovered in the eponymous California region, 34 years after it was thought to have disappeared. A few of the threatened frogs were found by the 6- and 10-year-old children of a local ...
Topics: California, climate, ozone, pollution and waste, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

The Icky 500 New EPA Chief Calls for Cleaner Air in 500 Days		03 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
The Icky 500 New EPA Chief Calls for Cleaner Air in 500 Days Newly minted U.S. EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt gave his first major speech yesterday, promising to embark on the "most productive period of air-quality improvement in American history." The former Utah governor spoke of a 500-day plan for cleaner air but offered no details on it. (Instead, a leaked document detailed plans to relax reg ...
Topics: air pollution, pollution and waste, US EPA, Utah (all these topics)

The Few, the Proud, the Exempt Defense Bill Will Exempt Military from Species-Protection Laws		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
The Few, the Proud, the Exempt Defense Bill Will Exempt Military from Species-Protection Laws The U.S. military may be having trouble achieving its goals in Iraq, but at least it's getting what it wants on Capitol Hill: exemptions from key environmental laws. President Bush today is scheduled to sign a $401 billion defense authori ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Defense, marine life, oceans, politics, pollution and waste, US Military, US Navy, wildlife (all these topics)

Jock Itch Environmental Problems Alarm Athletes		14 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Jock Itch Environmental Problems Alarm Athletes Here's a new green group you may want to join: Jocks for the Environment. Actually, that group doesn't exist, but people who might identify with the description are gathering today in Tokyo for the Global Forum for Sport and the Environment. Participants (including Greg LeMond, three-time Tour de France winner ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental non-government organizations, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Chromium and Punishment New Jersey Wins $17 Million Settlement in Chromium Case		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Chromium and Punishment New Jersey Wins $17 Million Settlement in Chromium Case A 20-year battle over chromium pollution in northern New Jersey came to an end yesterday when three companies agreed to pony up $17 million to clean hundreds of sites contaminated by the deadly chemical. From the 1890s to the ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, land degradation, New Jersey, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, wetlands (all these topics)

Lawn Order Senate Says No to California Plan to Cut Small-Engine Pollution		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Lawn Order Senate Says No to California Plan to Cut Small-Engine Pollution California's cutting-edge environmental policies were dealt a blow yesterday when the U.S. Senate voted to prevent the state from regulating air pollution from small engines such as those found in gas-powered lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and weed whackers. Although lawn equipment is small, its environmental impact is huge -- a ...
Topics: air pollution, California, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Gold Substandard Unlawful Gold Mining Threatens Brazilian Amazon		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Gold Substandard Unlawful Gold Mining Threatens Brazilian Amazon Illegal gold mining in the rivers of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is on the upswing and could mean bad news for the environment. Thousands of poor small-scale miners, called garimpeiros, risk their lives to get at traces of gold at the bottom of rivers, sometimes employing equipment as basic as a garden hose for underwater ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, rainforests (all these topics)

CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer Smuggling of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals is on the rise, interfering with efforts to repair the Earth's protective ozone layer, the London-based Environment Investigation Agency said in a report released yesterday. As deadlines approach for phasing out CFCs, which are used in ...
Topics: air pollution, Cambodia, China, climate, Nepal, pollution and waste, Russia, toxics, United States, Vietnam (all these topics)

L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
L'enfant, Terrible! Truck Pollution at U.S.-Mexico Border Is Killing Kids, Study Says Hundreds of kids have died and tens of thousands have been hospitalized in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just south of the U.S. border, because of respiratory illnesses seemingly caused by air pollution, according to a five-year study released yesterday by th ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, globalization, health, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Heartbreaker Air Pollution Boosts Heart Attacks, Says New Study		10 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Heartbreaker Air Pollution Boosts Heart Attacks, Says New Study Evidence keeps coming in to show that air pollution kills. New research released on Sunday found that during the 18 highest air-pollution days in Dijon, France, the rate of heart attacks increased by 161 percent among the general population, and by 250 percent among smokers. Fine particulate pollution was the culprit, even when levels did not exceed governm ...
Topics: France, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Big Mess on Campus Widespread Environmental Violations Found at Colleges		07 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Big Mess on Campus Widespread Environmental Violations Found at Colleges Colleges and universities are normally thought of as hotbeds of environmental activism -- but now, it turns out that some of them are hot with hazardous waste. Twelve colleges in New York and New Jersey have been hit with a total of $2 million in fines for violating environmental regulations; an earlier sweep of New England coll ...
Topics: New England, New Jersey, New York, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Hanford and Sums Feds, Washington State Reach Agreement on Hanford Cleanup		27 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Hanford and Sums Feds, Washington State Reach Agreement on Hanford Cleanup After years of bitter wrangling, the federal government and Washington state on Friday reached an agreement on a timeline for cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southern Washington. Under the deal, the U.S. Energy Department will treat the equivalent of several hundred thousand b ...
Topics: nuclear power, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Arctic Circle of Friends Rebel Foam Manufacturer Faces Difficulties in Greening His Industry		22 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Arctic Circle of Friends Rebel Foam Manufacturer Faces Difficulties in Greening His Industry A new international project to clean up the Russian Arctic was unveiled in London today, and enviros say it's about time. Although the entire Arctic suffers from contamination by poisonous heavy metals, radioactive leaks, and industrial chemicals, the Russian portion of the region is worse off than any other. The $30 mi ...
Topics: Arctic, pollution and waste, Russia, toxics (all these topics)

Rage, Rage Against the Spraying of the Flight Pesticide use on airplanes could harm your health	Ellen Rosenbush, Naomi Kirsten, The Green Guide	21 Oct 2003	Earthly Possessions
By Ellen Rosenbush, Naomi Kirsten and The Green Guide 21 Oct 2003 Vacations are supposed to leave you feeling relaxed, happy, and healthy -- but if you travel by air, you might feel worse by the time you get home than you did when you left. Fear of flying? For good reason. Flying should not generally be the transportation option of choice for the environmentally minded, given its intensive use of res ...
Topics: placemaking, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Sludge Not Lest Ye Be Sludged Bush Administration Won't Regulate Farm Dioxins Nothing will get in the way of farmers using dioxin-tainted sewage sludge as fertilizer on their crops, thanks to a Bush administration decision announced on Friday. The U.S. EPA declared that it sees no need to regulate dioxins in sewage sludge that is applied to land in the U.S., say ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Rumble in the Jungle ChevronTexaco Faces Oil Pollution Trial in Ecuador		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Rumble in the Jungle ChevronTexaco Faces Oil Pollution Trial in Ecuador One of the biggest oil pollution trials in history will get underway tomorrow in Ecuador, pitting oil giant ChevronTexaco against 30,000 residents of the Amazon rainforest who charge that a Texaco subsidiary dumped huge amounts of oily waste in their homeland from 1971 to 1992. The Ecuadorians say th ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Ecuador, energy, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Pollutant-Chomping Bacterium Cleans Up Contaminated Sites		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: pollution and waste Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Pollutant-Chomping Bacterium Cleans Up Contaminated Sites A pollutant-munching bacterium is earning plaudits in Fairfield, N.J., where the U.S. EPA has been using it to clean up a Superfund site contaminated with poison-laced sewage. The mysterious little bacterium, with the unwieldy name of Dehalococcoides ethenogenes, was discovered in 1997 by scientists at Cornell University who determined that it likes to gobble up dangerous ...
Topics: pollution and waste (all these topics)

Law-mowers Republicans in Congress Try to Undermine California's Environmental Laws		20 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Law-mowers Republicans in Congress Try to Undermine California's Environmental Laws Many Republicans argue that the federal government should leave more decisions to the states, but these days they're abandoning their states' rights talk when it comes to California -- and the state's environment could suffer as a result. The GOP-controlled Congress is trying to undermine a number of new California laws and regulat ...
Topics: California, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Air Bawl States Tighten Air Rules in the Wake of Federal Loosening		17 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Air Bawl States Tighten Air Rules in the Wake of Federal Loosening A number of states and cities are thumbing their noses at the Bush administration's moves to weaken air-pollution rules by imposing their own stricter regulations. Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and other states, as well as a few cities, announced yesterday that they are making or ...
Topics: air pollution, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, politics, pollution and waste, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Holmstead Act EPA Official Gave Misleading Testimony on Clean Air, Say Whistleblowers		10 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Holmstead Act EPA Official Gave Misleading Testimony on Clean Air, Say Whistleblowers Meanwhile, all isn't well inside the U.S. EPA, either. Last year, Assistant Administrator for Air Policy Jeffrey Holmstead testified before Congress that Bush administration efforts to ease clean air enforcement rules wouldn't interfere with pending lawsuits against dirty power plants -- but two former agency official ...
Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Get on the Clean Bus, Gus Washington State Cleans Up Its School Buses		07 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Get on the Clean Bus, Gus Washington State Cleans Up Its School Buses Washington state has launched an ambitious program to retrofit its diesel school buses with devices that curb pollution. Throughout the country, public health advocates and parents alike have grown concerned about school buses' dirty emissions, which can contribute to a range of health problems, particularly in children, whose lungs ...
Topics: health, placemaking, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

Detroit Yuck City Illegal Dumping Pushes Up Toxic Contamination in Great Lakes		06 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Detroit Yuck City Illegal Dumping Pushes Up Toxic Contamination in Great Lakes Toxic pollution in Great Lakes waterways has jumped 25 percent over the past six years, thanks at least in part to rampant illegal discharges from large industrial facilities and sewer plants. Meanwhile, government enforcement efforts on both the national and state levels are stagnating, meaning that most of t ...
Topics: energy, Great Lakes, Michigan, pollution and waste, state politics (all these topics)

Drowned and Out Three Gorges Dam Causing Unexpected Pollution Problems		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Drowned and Out Three Gorges Dam Causing Unexpected Pollution Problems Unexpected environmental problems are already cropping up at China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower and construction project. After the dam went into operation in June, the reservoir behind it reached 443 feet and was supposed to stay at that level until 2006, but the Chinese government recently announced that the ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, hydropower, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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