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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The Bucket Stops Here		23 Jul 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

Passing the Bucket How the five-gallon plastic bucket came to the aid of grassroots environmentalists	Michelle Nijhuis	23 Jul 2003	Main Dish
The plastic five-gallon bucket is the most humdrum of containers, yet it's proved to be almost as versatile as duct tape. Creative sorts have turned buckets into toolboxes and ottomans, planters and panniers. And in recent years, some environmental activists have begun using the humble bucket for an even higher purpose: These days, five-gallon buckets may literall ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Unable Was I Ere I Smelled Elbe		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Unable Was I Ere I Smelled Elbe For residents of the town of Libis in the Czech Republic, last year's terrible floods are more than a bad memory: They are an on-going nightmare. Libis is located not far from the Spolana chemical plant in central Bohemia, which leaked more than 1,100 pounds of toxics into the Elbe River when floodwaters inundated the plant's facilities. Now, the state vete ...
Topics: Czech Republic, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics)

Spirited Away		02 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Spirited Away Teshima Island -- one of many islands in Japan's Inland Sea, where the nation's first national park was established -- has for decades served as a dumping ground for trash and toxic waste. The practice was illegal, but advantageous for the nation's powerful industries (and, according to rumor, its powerful mob). Now, after a 25-year battle ...
Topics: Asia, Japan, national parks, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, Teshima Island (all these topics)

Down, but Not Out		01 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Down, but Not Out Here's a spot of good news: Releases of toxic chemicals by U.S. industries declined 15 percent between 2000 and 2001 (the most recent year for which data are available) and dropped by more than 50 percent since 1988. That's the latest word from the U.S. EPA's Toxics Release Inventory. Of course, that means there are still 6.2 billion pounds of toxic chemicals being ...
Topics: mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Feminine Mistake		30 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
The Feminine Mistake Water contaminated with residue from birth-control pills can bend the gender of male fish, according to Canadian researchers who presented scientific findings last week to the American Chemistry Council. In the most controlled experiment to date to examine the effects of estrogen on ecosystems, Canadian scientists deposited birth-control pills in a remote lake in Ontario for three years. As a result ...
Topics: pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Clear Skies Looking Dirty		30 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Clear Skies Looking Dirty One of President Bush's most ambitious environmental proposals is in jeopardy -- the goal of cutting mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants 46 percent by 2010. Many in the utility industry are complaining that such a requirement, which is part of Bush's "Clear Skies" legislation, would cost far more than expected and could force some coal- ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Tainted Sludge, Whoa-oh		26 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tainted Sludge, Whoa-oh When the cows at Boyceland Dairy outside Augusta, Ga., began dying by the hundreds, the Boyce family thought they knew what was to blame: the fertilizer used on the farm's hayfields. That fertilizer was made from reclaimed sewage sludge; the Boyce family sued the city, claiming the sludge was tainted by industrial waste from Augusta factories. This week, a jury awarded them $550,000 in damages. That verdi ...
Topics: pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mine		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Ghana, health, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

White House Whitewash		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
White House Whitewash In a first-of-its-kind environmental survey released today, the U.S. EPA said that the nation's air, water, and land are cleaner and better protected than they were 30 years ago, though sprawl and air quality, among other problems, continue to pose challenges for the nation. But the survey's credibility was compromised by reports last week that the White House heavily edi ...
Topics: health, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mine Illegal gold mining in Ghana shafts locals' health and the environment	Josh Harkinson	24 Jun 2003	Main Dish
At I Trust My Legs, an illegal mining camp along a gray stream in the West African nation of Ghana, trespassers have bored vertical shafts deep into the ground. On a recent morning, Maxwell Adzoka strapped a lamp to his head, pressed his bare back and shoeless feet against the slick clay walls of one of these shafts, and climbed down, his yellow bulb disappearing i ...
Topics: Ghana, health, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

More Than a Year of Living Dangerously		24 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
More Than a Year of Living Dangerously Indonesian citizens, particularly children, are suffering from a rise in industrial pollution that has accompanied the nation's rapid economic growth, according to a World Bank report released today. More than 6 million vehicles were added to Indonesia's streets between 1995 and 2000, and many of them use leaded gasol ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Indonesia, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Beauty and the Beasts		23 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Beauty and the Beasts India's tigers may be threatened by, of all things, rising demand for cosmetics. The growing market for talcum powder -- widely used in lipsticks, eye shadows, deodorants, and other such products -- is leading to the destruction of tiger habitat by illegal mining operations that sell talc to international cosmetics companies, including Revlon, Johnson & Joh ...
Topics: deforestation, India, logging, mining and drilling, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Air Heads		20 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Air Heads California's San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control Board unanimously approved a plan yesterday intended to improve some of the worst air quality in the nation -- but critics say the plan makes too many concessions to industry to be effective. Enviros, doctors, and residents who have suffered from respiratory ailments allege that efforts to reduce dust and diesel smoke will be fa ...
Topics: air pollution, California, health, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Not By the Air of Our Chinny-chin-chin		20 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Not By the Air of Our Chinny-chin-chin Meanwhile, things aren't looking so hot for air-pollution regulation on the federal level, either. Republicans in the Senate are drawing up a transportation bill that enviros say could water down the efficacy of the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Provisions in a draft legislation would allow states to postpone or avoid complying ...
Topics: air pollution, placemaking, pollution and waste, United States (all these topics)

American Idle Who needs Superfund when we've got reality TV?	Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	19 Jun 2003	Soapbox
By the end of the year, only $28 million will be left in the U.S. EPA's Superfund account. Superfund pays for the reclamation of abandoned toxic-waste sites, and $28 million barely affords a study just to figure out how to clean up one of the 1,200 deserted dumps wasting away in American communities. Money's tight to fund cleanups of Superfund sites like this one in Pennsylvania. Photo ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Give a Hoot, Eh?		19 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot, Eh? The amount of dangerous industrial contaminants seeping into Canada's environment has risen 20 percent since 1995, according to a report by three environmental organizations that compiled data from industrial polluters. The biggest increase came in discharges into lakes and rivers, which rose 37 percent, while air and land pollution each rose 9 percent. The increase in hazardous pollutan ...
Topics: air pollution, Canada, health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Country House, City House		18 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Country House, City House Once upon a time, the Russian dacha, or country house, was the domain of the wealthy few, those who could afford to escape the grime and grit of Moscow and St. Petersburg for wooded lawns and rural vistas. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's mushrooming business class has poured millions into building lavish second ...
Topics: placemaking, pollution and waste, Russia, solid waste treatment and disposal, wilderness (all these topics)

A Fly in the Ointment		18 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

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

National Vacations Lampooned		12 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Alaska, business, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

You Cruise, You Lose A review of Cruise Ship Blues	Hal Clifford	12 Jun 2003	Arts and Minds
Quick -- what's the third-largest city in Alaska? For all intents and purposes, during the summer, it is the 45,000 people found on the dozens of cruise ships that ply that state's southeastern coastal waters. And the effects of that "city" on the natural environment are indeed urban, in the worst imaginable ways. Cruise Ship Blues By Ross A. Klein New Society, 200 pages, 2002 The average cruise passen ...
Topics: oceans, pollution and waste (all these topics)

When Irish Eyes Are Smiting		11 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
When Irish Eyes Are Smiting Meanwhile, in nuclear news from elsewhere on the globe, Ireland has gone to international court in The Hague to try to shut down Britain's Sellafield nuclear power plant. The Irish, who have been fighting the plant for decades, claim that it violates the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea by polluting the Irish Sea with radioactive waste. The Sellaf ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, pollution and waste, United Kingdom, United Nations (all these topics)

Our Gorge Is Rising		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Our Gorge Is Rising China yesterday blocked the flow of the Yangtze River by closing gates at the massive Three Gorges Dam and began to fill up what will be the world's largest reservoir. It's a joyous occasion for government engineers and Communist Party faithful who have long touted the coming benefits of hydroelectric power and flood control, an ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, water pollution, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Mobil-ized		28 May 2003	Daily Grist
Mobil-ized Gas and oil giant ExxonMobil has increased its donations to organizations that oppose government regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions and question the notion that humans cause global climate change. Although the company has pledged $10 million a year for 10 years to climate research at Stanford University, it is also giving generously to the likes o ...
Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Bottleneck		28 May 2003	Daily Grist
Bottleneck Evian, Perrier, Poland Spring -- bottled water has become ubiquitous in the U.S., and the resultant plastic containers are posing an increasingly serious problem by clogging landfills and contributing to air pollution. In California, where bottled water is particularly popular, the state Department of Conservation is unveiling a campaign this week to convince consumers to recycle rather ...
Topics: California, green living, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

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