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Star Wars		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Star Wars The stars are twinkling over Nevada's Yucca Mountain -- movie stars and pop stars, that is. In the battle over the Bush administration's proposal to bury high-level radioactive waste below the mountain, the glitterati are siding against the president. Barbra Streisand, Bonnie Raitt, Martin Sheen, Melissa Gilbert, Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin, Morgan Freeman - ...
Topics: Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Mayor May Not		17 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Mayor May Not Weighing in on the debate over storing nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, mayors from across the country stated over the weekend that they do not want high-level radioactive waste shipped through cities until the safety of communities along the transport routes can be assured. The resolution was drafted by the energy committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayor ...
Topics: Nevada, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Boy, You're Gonna Carry That Weight		10 Jun 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

A Quest Called Tribe		07 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
A Quest Called Tribe U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman acknowledged this week that it was "all too apparent that EPA needs to do more" to help tackle environmental problems on tribal lands. Whitman's announcement came during the Sixth National Tribal Conference on Environmental Management, held this week in Sparks, Nev. The conference focuses on mining, water and air ...
Topics: air pollution, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

Boxer Rebellion		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Boxer Rebellion President Bush scored a victory yesterday when the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved his plan to store highly radioactive nuclear waste beneath Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but he was challenged by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle on other environmental ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, Jay Inslee, logging, Nevada, nuclear power, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Is This the Place?		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
Is This the Place? Tooele County, Utah, is already the hazardous heartland of the United States -- the place where the Army tests anthrax and other chemical, nerve, and biological agents, and incinerates half of the nation's chemical weapons; where the Air Force has its largest bombing and cruise missile ranges; where a private company buries low-level nuclear waste; and where some of ...
Topics: pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, Utah (all these topics)

Yuck A-Mounting		17 May 2002	Daily Grist
Yuck A-Mounting In more nuclear news, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham acknowledged yesterday that a proposed nuclear waste depository in Yucca Mountain, Nev., could only handle a portion of the waste that will be generated by commercial power plants and the government in the coming decade. The acknowledgement undercut President Bush's pro-Yucca argument that radioactive waste shou ...
Topics: Nevada, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Carolina in Their Minds		13 May 2002	Daily Grist
Carolina in Their Minds The Bush administration is unhappy about a new ad campaign attacking its plan to move some 30 tons of plutonium from Colorado to South Carolina for temporary storage. The campaign was launched last week by South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D), who opposes the plan, fearing that his state could become the permanent resting grounds for the rad ...
Topics: Colorado, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands?		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Metals in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hands? The American Environmental Safety Institute (first we've heard of it) sued Nestle, Hershey, Mars, and other chocolate manufacturers yesterday for not disclosing that their products contain toxic metals such as lead and cadmium, as required under California law. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the group sa ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Toxics: Australian for Fertilizer		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Toxics: Australian for Fertilizer Businesses across Australia are legally disposing of their industrial waste by selling it as fertilizers for farms and home gardens, according to an investigative report by the Sydney Morning Herald. The fertilizers often contain such toxic metals as arsenic, mercury, chromium, and lead. In western Australia, radioactive mat ...
Topics: Australia, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics (all these topics)

Privates Exposed		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Privates Exposed The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is coming under fire from environmentalists after the London Guardian published information from apparently secret E.C. documents describing efforts to liberalize trade by privatizing state-run services in ...
Topics: European Union, Friends of the Earth, globalization, international government agencies, solid waste treatment and disposal, water conflicts, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Mind the Gap		20 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Mind the Gap Environmentalists and public-health advocates in California are upset over a new state regulation that allows low-level radioactive waste to be dumped in municipal landfills instead of federally regulated nuclear waste storage facilities. Citing the possibility of increased cancer risks, the Sierra Club and a nuclear policy group, the Committee to Bridge the Gap, are ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA (all these topics)

Doo Process	Suzy Becker	11 Mar 2002	Ha.

Topics: green living, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Talkin' Trash		01 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Talkin' Trash What do you do with 11,000 tons of garbage per day? That's the problem -- well, one of the problems -- plaguing New York City, whose trash disposal system is becoming a political, logistical, and financial headache for the beleaguered metropolis. A $6 billion long-term garbage-management plan devised by the Giuliani administration is stalled and may fail entirely, and a s ...
Topics: green living, New York, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Tijuana Ass		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Tijuana Ass For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana has flowed into the Tijuana River, north through the United States, and into the Pacific Ocean, violating U.S. clean water standards. Efforts to clean up the waste have bogged down in the double-bureaucracy that plagues cross-border negotiations, with fully one dozen Mexican and U.S. mun ...
Topics: health, Mexico, outdoor recreation, Pacific Ocean, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

'Tis the Treason		02 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
'Tis the Treason It was a grim holiday season for Grigory Pasko, a Russian journalist who was sentenced on Dec. 25 to four years in prison on charges of high treason. A military reporter with an interest in environmental issues, Pasko documented the Russian Navy's practice of dumping old weapons and nuclear waste into the ocean. The treason charges stem from allegat ...
Topics: politics, pollution and waste, Russia, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States (all these topics)

National Historic Landfill		28 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
National Historic Landfill In what must be a flub, U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton yesterday named a toxic dump in Fresno, Calif., as a national historic landmark. Officials weren't sure how the landfill was nominated for the prestigious designation. The 145-acre Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill is also listed as a Superfund site, with cleanup costs estimated at $38 million. City c ...
Topics: Department of Interior, politics, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Landfill, Ho!		17 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Landfill, Ho! Babies born to mothers living near landfills are more likely to suffer minor birth defects, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal. The 11-year study shows that pregnant women living near landfills in the U.K. had a 1 percent higher chance of having a baby with a congenital defect. That risk jumped to 7 percent if the landfill contained hazardous waste. Pat Tro ...
Topics: health, solid waste treatment and disposal, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Hodge Podge		14 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Hodge Podge South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D) said last week that he would do "whatever it takes" to keep plutonium shipments from coming to the Savannah River Site, a nuclear-processing complex run by the U.S. Energy Department near Aiken, S.C. Hodges says the Bush administration has gone back on a plan he worked out with the Clinto ...
Topics: nuclear power, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, South Carolina (all these topics)

Getting the Munchies		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Getting the Munchies Over the next few months, a Mobile Muncher bus will visit every large town in Spain to help the country reach its goal of recycling 100 tons of mobile phones within a year. The country developed the Mobile Muncher mascot as a way to increase public support for the campaign and inform people of the danger of throwing out their old phones; ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, Spain, toxics (all these topics)

Gulp of Mexico		27 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Gulp of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, where nutrient pollution from farms in the Midwest has chocked off fish life, is bigger this year than ever before, according to university researchers. Stretching from the Mississippi River delta to Texas waters, the 8,000-square-mile, low-oxygen area is forcing crabs and other bottom feeders to the surface. Enviro ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

The Brown Lagoon		26 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Brown Lagoon Lagoons of animal waste from large factory farms are threatening drinking water and recreational waters across the country, according to a report released Tuesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Network. The groups want new lagoons to be banned and existing ones to be phased out within the next five years. The U.S. EPA this month is weighing whether t ...
Topics: solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Fright Train		23 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Fright Train Sometime this summer, the feds are planning to transport nuclear waste from power plants via train from New York to a U.S. Energy Department reservation in southeastern Idaho. Dubbing the shipment a "mobile Chernobyl," anti-nuke advocates plan to raise a ruckus when the freight train comes through. Although the shipment a ...
Topics: energy, Idaho, New York, nuclear power, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Free-Range at Last, Free-Range at Last Is cheap meat worth the karmic cost of industrial animal production?	Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.	20 Nov 2000	Soapbox
With Thanksgiving nigh, the question arises: What is the meaning of sustainable cuisine? Which came first? Kennedy with both a chicken and an egg. The word sustainable expresses the obligation that each generation has to the next to preserve the value of the natural world. It does not mean we can't use nature. Humankind, a predatory animal, is part of ...
Topics: food and agriculture, green living, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Notes on the Underground	Donella H. Meadows	28 Feb 2000	Global Citizen
The February issue of Scientific American tells of a new technology that makes me both rejoice and worry. It looks so great, so likely to relieve a massive environmental problem that there's no way I could oppose it. But on second, third, and fourth thought, I have some doubts. The technology is called carbon sequestration. It takes carbon dioxide as it is spewed out by a human enterprise (such as a coal-fired power plant) and buries ...
Topics: climate, energy, Norway, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

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