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Refuge-nix		03 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Refuge-nix Six GOP senators are throwing a wrench in the Bush administration's plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling. The six -- Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, John McCain of Arizona, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois, and Mike DeWine of Ohio -- announced last week that they will oppose plan ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, rivers and watersheds, wetlands (all these topics)

Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Where Raindrops Fall Like Lemon Drops Lakes and streams in New England have been slow to recover from the ill effects of acid rain, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The regional reduction in acid rain lagged 10 percent behind the national rate of 40 percent in the 1990s; more worrisome, the number of "acidic systems" in ...
Topics: lakes, land degradation, Midwest, New England, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US EPA (all these topics)

Wet 'n' Not-so-wild		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wet 'n' Not-so-wild New guidelines unveiled by the Bush administration on Friday could spell trouble for 20 million acres of wetlands across the United States. The guidelines were prompted by a 2001 Supreme Court decision that found that isolated, non-navigable ponds and wetlands in Illinois did not merit protec ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental justice, Illinois, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Yurok Me Like a Hurricane		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Yurok Me Like a Hurricane The Bush administration is to blame for last fall's die-off of 33,000 salmon along the Klamath River in Northern California, biologists from the state's Department of Fish and Game have determined. They say the fish kill -- the largest ever recorded in the West -- was the result of the administration's ...
Topics: California, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West (all these topics)

Up the River		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Up the River New Year's Day marked a historic moment in the history of Western water wars -- the first time the federal government exercised its right to decline California's request for more than its allotted shared of water from the Colorado River. Thanks to the U.S. Interior Department, cities and agricultural areas ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, green living, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Dam Straight!		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Dam Straight! In what environmentalists hope is the beginning of a major trend, 60 dams across the U.S. are slated for demolition this year and hundreds more are targeted for removal. Last week, for example, Portland General Electric signed a deal to remove the Marmot Dam on the Sandy River in Oregon and a smaller dam on the Little Sandy. Typically, dams being dismantled are no lon ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, hydropower, Oregon, rivers and watersheds, West (all these topics)

I Double Dairy You		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I Double Dairy You Got pollution controls? Five dairy farms in California soon will -- and environmentalists hope the new rules will eventually apply to dairies nationwide. To avoid legal action by environmental groups, the five farms in the Inland Empire region of the state have agreed to modernize their operations by developing greener plans for manure lagoon ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Up a Creek		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Up a Creek The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is quietly considering a proposal that would greatly increase the amount of cancer-causing effluent that could be dumped into streams. Randy Sovic, of the DEP's Division of Water Resources, said the proposal would give his agency more "flexibility" in writing water-pollution permits. Currently, pollu ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, state politics, toxics, water pollution, West Virginia (all these topics)

Sand Witches		01 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sand Witches Growing demand for concrete and asphalt in southern California in the last three years is scarring Baja California's once-sandy riverbeds. As much as 2 million tons of sand are being excavated, both legally and illegally, each year from Baja and then sent north to help with construction projects in the U.S. Eroding riverbanks, flooding, and the destruction of important wildlife habitat are le ...
Topics: Mexico, mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Whistle While You Work		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Whistle While You Work In a new twist to the Klamath River controversy, Michael Kelly, a biologist with the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, is blowing the whistle on the Bush administration for drafting and approving a water plan that he says provides inadequate protections for endangered salmon. The accusations come after the U.S. Bureau of Rec ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Wet Behind the Ears		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Wet Behind the Ears In what it is calling a remedy to the excesses of the Clinton years, the Bush administration is paving the way for Western states to gain control over huge volumes of water previously claimed by the federal government. One prominent example of this new policy involves the Black Canyon National Park in Colorado; in 1978, a court ruled that the feds had the right to ...
Topics: national parks, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Klam Bake		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Klam Bake In the latest turn of events in the Water Crisis That Won't Die, state officials in California are considering releasing water into the Klamath River to rescue thousands of salmon dying from unusually high water temperatures in the river. Scientists have counted more than 9,500 dead Chinook salmon near the river's mouth since Friday, and thousands more have proba ...
Topics: California, fishing, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Acting Up		20 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Acting Up The Bush administration announced yesterday that it plans to consider new rules for enforcing the Clean Water Act. Some conservative lawmakers have been pressuring the administration to revise the enforcement rules since January 2001, when the Supreme Court imposed new limits on the scope of the act. Some interpreted that court ruling to suggest that the feder ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

The Minnow Would Be Lost		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
The Minnow Would Be Lost The fate of the silvery minnow remains up in the air after a federal judge postponed a decision yesterday in a controversial water-rights case, saying he wanted to review information about the endangered species' habitat. For those of you who haven't been following the story, a coalition of environmental groups has asked the judge to order the city of Albuquerque to allow water t ...
Topics: marine life, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Sign of the Thames		09 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Sign of the Thames New water-quality targets being established by the European Union could radically change the face of farming in Europe, forcing farmers to scale back or even abandon their practices in some traditionally agricultural areas. The Water Framework Directive will require all rivers, lakes, and canals to be restored to "good ecological quality" within 15 y ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Czech It Out		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Czech It Out A "mini-Chernobyl" -- that's how a Czech investigating commission has described the potential threat posed by a chemical plant just north of Prague that was damaged in last week's flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. The commission warned that the highly toxic chlorine released by the Spolana plant during the floods and again late last week could threaten &qu ...
Topics: Czech Republic, European Union, health, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics)

Euphrates Cats		26 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Euphrates Cats The waters of the Euphrates River gave birth to civilization and are just as valuable today -- but they are also in short supply, as people in Syria, Turkey, and Iraq battle for a share of the river. Similar struggles are taking place all over the world, from Texas to China, as water resources grow scarce and competition for them mushrooms. Less than 1 percent of the world's water supply is suitable for ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Unable Was I, Ere I Saw Elbe		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Unable Was I, Ere I Saw Elbe As if being battered by severe storms wasn't enough, Central and Eastern Europe now face another threat: pollution unleashed by heavy flooding. In addition to concerns about contamination and disease from animal carcasses swept along by the floods, fears are now growing that toxic chemicals could be seeping from an inundated Czech chemical plant and washing th ...
Topics: European Union, health, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Curse D' Alene		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Curse D' Alene In a precedent-setting move, U.S. federal officials signed an agreement yesterday ceding control of the cleanup of Idaho's highly polluted Coeur d'Alene Basin to state, local, and tribal officials. For more than a century, mining waste from the Silver Valley washed down the Coeur d'Alene River into Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane River, and from there into Lake ...
Topics: Idaho, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

More Than Meats the Eye		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
More Than Meats the Eye In the last two decades, there's been a national growth spurt in super-sized animal feedlots and slaughterhouses. That spurt has outpaced the ability of regulators to keep such places operating safely and cleanly -- and that has led to polluted water bodies, food safety scares, and on-the-job injuries, according to a ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Summer Buggin'		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Summer Buggin' Think of it as good news in bad packaging: The swarms of mayflies that are coating Midwestern towns this summer are a sign that the region's waterways -- most notably the Mississippi River -- are healthier than they've been in decades. The flies don't bite or sting; they just mate and die, all in the course of one day, and they do so in such large vol ...
Topics: education, Midwest, Mississippi River, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Put a Tiber in Your Tank		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Put a Tiber in Your Tank In the last two weeks, tons of dead fish have floated to the surface of the Tiber, the famed Italian river that was once one of the lifelines of the Roman Empire. According to environmentalists, two-thirds of the fauna in a three-mile stretch of the river have been wiped out since July 15; even eels, the hardiest residents of the Tiber, have leapt onto th ...
Topics: European Union, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Flow-rida		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Flow-rida The Bush administration yesterday revised its proposed rules for the $7.8 billion renovation of the Florida Everglades, with environmentalists greeting the changes as imperfect but undeniably better than the last draft. Under the new rules, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District would ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, Florida, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Right Tern		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Right Tern Barge traffic could grind to a halt on a 250-mile stretch of the Missouri River, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled last week that two endangered species of shorebirds cannot be moved to accommodate the release of water from two dams in South Dakota. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned to release water from the ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, dams, energy, Missouri River, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, South Dakota, wildlife (all these topics)

Napa Time		31 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: business, California, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

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