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Reid It and Weep		28 Sep 2000	Daily Grist
Reid It and Weep The annual rider battle is in full swing, with a number of lawmakers in Washington., D.C, trying to attach pieces of anti-environmental legislation to large, must-pass government funding bills. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has tacked a rider onto an Interior Department spending bill that would block federal agencies from adopting tough new rules governing hard-rock mining. Another measure attached to a spending bi ...
Topics: Harry Reid, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Agent Organochlorine One class of chemicals is causing a cacophony of environmental problems	Shalini Ramanathan	24 Aug 2000	Arts and Minds
Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy By Joe Thornton MIT Press, 2000, 611 pages To the average observer, environmental crises may seem to pop up as randomly as Starbucks franchises. Every so often, worries about a substance such as DDT or dioxin surface and, after a public outcry and tireless campaigning by environmental groups, some act ...
Topics: green living, toxics (all these topics)

No Trash Can Do Pesticide labels contradict local waste laws	Scott Cassel	11 Aug 2000	Soapbox
As another summer eases into autumn, many of us are now enjoying the rewards of a season of gardening. We proudly face the August dilemma of figuring out what to do with all those tomatoes and zucchinis that are the result of our digging, planting, and weeding earlier in the season. More than a few of us also applied pesticides in our gardens and yards to keep the grubs down and insects away. When the sea ...
Topics: gardening, green living, toxics, waste (all these topics)

The Duck Stops Here Polluting Wisconsin paper companies choose an odd mascot	Erik Ness	02 Aug 2000	Main Dish
No doubt you're annoyed by the calendar-quality images of nature being used to pedal everything from SUVs to shampoo to batteries. Now a coalition of paper companies in the Fox River Valley, near Green Bay, Wis., has taken this advertising tactic to a new low, bringing a little dark comedy to a community engaged in a decades-long dispute over cleaning up the heavily polluted waters of the Lower ...
Topics: business, toxics, water pollution, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Third Time's the Charm?	Donella H. Meadows	12 Jun 2000	Global Citizen
Three stories have hit the news lately concerning three corporations that have done -- or may have done -- serious environmental harm. They are coping with the situation in very different ways. Taken together, the stories suggest an odd combination of hope and cynicism. There are signs of honesty, good will, real learning. But the damage is great, and the learning is slow. Story No. 1 is the latest development in a decades-long saga in ...
Topics: business, health, Hudson River, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Wet's the Matter?	Adam I. Lowe	03 May 2000	Counter Culture
1.1 billion -- the number of people worldwide who lack an adequate and safe supply of water for their daily needs, approximately one in five 5 million --- the number of people, mostly children, who die each year from illnesses caused by poor-quality water supplies 5 -- the minimum number of gallons of water needed to meet a person's daily needs, according to the World Health Organization 4.5 -- the average number of gallons of water consumed daily pe ...
Topics: health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

The Green House Effect How to make your home an eco-friendly haven	Jenny Sorensen	07 Apr 2000	Arts and Minds
Last spring, I met with a real-estate agent and listened while she told me about the kind of house I should buy. A new house, she advised, with all new appliances and the latest innovations in wiring, plumbing, and heating -- maybe even a condo. My horrified expression stopped her mid-sentence. Actually, I explained dreamily, I'm looking for an older home with charm and quirky character. I want big w ...
Topics: books, consumerism, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

Order in the Court The nitty-gritty on the ruling that lets citizens sue their way to a clean environment	Michael Grynberg	28 Mar 2000	Main Dish
Once upon a time, a South Carolina wastewater treatment plant repeatedly violated the Clean Water Act by dumping illegal amounts of mercury into a river. Unsurprisingly, several environmental organizations responded by suing. They could do so because the Clean Water Act contains "citizen suit" provisions that allow private citizens to sue for the law ...
Topics: litigation, mercury, toxics, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Mercury Falling	Adam I. Lowe	16 Feb 2000	Counter Culture
1,931 advisories have been issued by state and local governments telling the public to limit consumption of fish caught in local water bodies due to mercury contamination 1 mercury-containing home fever thermometer can contaminate a 20-acre lake with enough mercury to provoke a fish consumption warning $3 - $5 is the extra cost of purchasing a mercury-free digital fever thermometer instead of a mercury-containing one 4,581 metric tons of mercury are st ...
Topics: toxics (all these topics)

A Kick in the Grass	Josh Sevin	26 Jan 2000	Counter Culture
20 million acres of U.S. land are covered by lawn 1 hour spent mowing a lawn with a gas-powered mower produces as many emissions as 50 hours spent driving an average car 5 percent of U.S. air pollution in summer months is emitted by gas-powered lawn equipment 27,000 gallons of water are needed each week to maintain an acre of lawn 35 percent of all household water is used to tend yards 32 million pounds of pesticides were used on U.S. lawns in 1994 S ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Bhopal -- or RuPaul	Ben White	02 Dec 1999	Muckraker
Friday marks the 15th anniversary of a very unhappy occasion. On Dec. 3, 1984, a Union Carbide industrial plant in Bhopal, India, released a deadly cloud of the gas methyl isocyanate into the air, killing at least 6,500 people (and some say more) and injuring tens of thousands. Ever since, Union Carbide and Bhopal have been inextricably linked. But those who may not know a great deal about what happened in India won't find any enlightenment at Uni ...
Topics: air pollution, business, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, Muckraker, politics, toxics (all these topics)

The Dirt on Pesticides	Josh Sevin	03 Nov 1999	Counter Culture
4.1 billion pounds of pesticides are used throughout the world each year 30 times more pesticides are used today than were used in 1945 30 percent of insecticides are believed to be carcinogenic 60 percent of herbicides are believed to be carcinogenic 90 percent of fungicides are believed to be carcinogenic 23 of the 28 most commonly used pesticides are believed to be carcinogenic an estimated 20,000 cancer deaths each year in the U.S. are caused ...
Topics: health, toxics, United States (all these topics)

An Offer You Can't Refuse Lisa Hymas reviews God's Last Offer by Ed Ayres	Lisa Hymas	05 Oct 1999	Arts and Minds
God's Last Offer: Negotiating for a Sustainable Future by Ed Ayres Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999, 357 pages In 1998, S. Sailam, a farmer living with his pregnant wife and two children in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, found that the pesticide he was spraying on his cotton crop had ceased to do its job. In desperation, he killed himself by squirting the pesticide down his throat. M ...
Topics: food and agriculture, toxics (all these topics)

Atomic Bombshell		21 Sep 1999	Daily Grist
Atomic Bombshell Managers of a government uranium plant in Paducah, Ky., knew for decades that workers were being exposed to radiation hazards but concealed the information because of fears of a public outcry, according to documents to be released by a congressional panel this week. Memos and other documents showing what plant management knew and concealed have been turned over to a House Commerce Committee panel, which i ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Kentucky, toxics (all these topics)

A Monarch's Ransom Don't let a chance to save the butterfly flutter by	Gary Paul Nabhan, Writers on the Range	10 Sep 1999	Main Dish
A couple of weeks ago, while the federal government was removing peregrine falcons from the list of endangered species, I was out watching the first monarch butterflies migrate through the desert on their way to Mexico. I saw both the migratory monarchs and their homebody cousins, the butterflies known as Queens, hovering around the lovely flowers of a milkweed native to W ...
Topics: agriculture, endangered species, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

Plutonium Bombshell		09 Aug 1999	Daily Grist
Plutonium Bombshell Energy Secretary Bill Richardson yesterday ordered an immediate investigation into reports that thousands of unsuspecting employees at a government uranium plant in Kentucky were exposed on the job to cancer-causing plutonium and other radioactive materials. His announcement followed the publication yesterday of a Washington Post article on the issue. The Natural Resources Defense Council and workers f ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Kentucky, toxics (all these topics)

Absolut Advertising	Ben White	28 Jul 1999	Muckraker
If you are like us (and we bet you are) you were sipping your coffee and peacefully perusing your New York Times Tuesday morning when POW! you were smacked upside the head by a clever full-page ad from the Environmental Working Group previewing its release of a study on the effects of the herbicide atrazine. The ad, mimicking the long-running Absolut Vodka campaign, pictures a baby bottle with an atrazine-warning label. The caption reads, "Absolu ...
Topics: agriculture, Environmental Working Group, health, Muckraker, national forests, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Congress Is Playing the Ugly Rider Game Again	Donella H. Meadows	26 Jul 1999	Global Citizen
"ACTION ALERT. This week the Senate is expected to vote on an Interior Appropriations bill that has a dirty baker's dozen of anti-environmental riders. Now is the time to step up our opposition to these undemocratic attacks on the environment." I get so darn sick of these emails. I get sick of the whole cynical rider game. They play it, down there in the Great White Governing City, whenever they ap ...
Topics: Harry Reid, mining, oil, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics)

See Everett Oops	Ben White	30 Jun 1999	Muckraker
Junk science. Two of the sharpest words in the arsenal of the public policy wars. Is your adversary touting a study that shows a product is safe (or harmful)? Vilify the study as bogus, cooked-up junk paid for and concocted by this industry or that special interest group. Sometimes the charge fits; other times it doesn't. Koopy looking spooky The charges of junk peddling are flying fast and furious in the case of chemicals used in plastic baby bottles an ...
Topics: consumerism, elections, Muckraker, politics, toxics (all these topics)

The Great North American Carbon Sink -- Maybe	Donella H. Meadows	03 May 1999	Global Citizen
"Aha! We knew it!" a number of conservative columnists have been crowing lately. "Greenhouse, schmeenhouse, go right on driving those sports utility vehicles." The cause of their excitement is an article published in Science magazine, one of the most prestigious places a scientific article can be published, claiming that the North American continent is a huge carbon sink. The authors found, es ...
Topics: climate, ozone, toxics (all these topics)

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