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Notable quotable	David Roberts	08 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: coal, energy, quotables, air pollution, water pollution (all these topics)

MTBE Cool Big Oil will shell out for groundwater cleanup		08 May 2008	News
Posted at 8:07 AM on 08 May 2008 Some of the nation's largest oil companies will over the next 30 years have to pay to clean up groundwater befouled with gasoline additive MTBE. In settling a suit brought by 153 public water providers in 17 states, a dozen companies -- including BP, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Chevron -- will also have to pay a total $423 million cash. If approved, the settlement will be "a step in the direction of ma ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, litigation, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Rocket Bottle EPA not super-interested in keeping rocket fuel out of drinking water		06 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:53 PM on 06 May 2008 There is a "distinct possibility" that the U.S. EPA will pass on restricting perchlorate in the nation's water supplies, an agency official said Tuesday. Perchlorate, a rocket fuel ingredient that has been found at some 400 places in 35 states, can muck up normal thyroid function. But Benjamin Grumbles, the EPA assistant administrator for water, told the Senate Environm ...
Topics: food, news, politics, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

More on Gade ouster Bush supporter apparently fired for doing her job	Kate Sheppard	02 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: politics, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Mary, Mary, Too Contrary Bush admin ousts top EPA official over Dow Chemical pollution case		01 May 2008	News
Posted at 8:41 PM on 01 May 2008 The Bush administration forced out the U.S. EPA's top Midwest regulator on Thursday, after months of contention over a pollution case involving Dow Chemical, the Chicago Tribune reports. Mary Gade, who was appointed by President Bush in 2006, had been tussling with Dow over plans to get the company to clean up extensive dioxin pollution that it dumped into Michigan waterw ...
Topics: news, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Cries on the Prize Chevron throws hissy fit that anti-Chevron activists received award		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:48 AM on 15 Apr 2008 Chevron is throwing a hissy fit over the Goldman Environmental Prize awarded to two Ecuadorian activists who want the oil company to clean up pollution in the Amazon rain forest. Texaco, which was acquired by Chevron in 2001, dumped 18.5 billion gallons of petrochemical waste in the Amazon between 1972 and 1992. Lawyer Pablo Fajardo and community organizer Luis Yanza won the G ...
Topics: Amazon, Big Oil, Ecuador, energy, grassroots activism, heroes, litigation, news, oil, rainforests, water pollution (all these topics)

That '70s show Thirty years ago, high crop prices caused environmental destruction, too	Tom Philpott	14 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, books, economy, food, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Ready, aim, gyre VBS.tv sails out to witness the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean	David Roberts	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: water pollution, waste, oceans (all these topics)

A Problem of Scale Chilean salmon-farming industry in a sad state		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:18 PM on 27 Mar 2008 A virus called infectious salmon anemia is sweeping through Chile's fisheries, bringing attention to the condition of the country's third-largest export industry. On expansive salmon farms, fish are bred in crowded underwater pens. Fish poop and food pellets contaminate the water. As many as 1 million nonnative salmon escape each year, gobbling native species and traveling as far as Argentina. The ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, Chile, fishing, food, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Water problem? What water problem?	David Roberts	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: funnies, health, innovation, water crisis, water pollution (all these topics)

Nay, Cap'n Ship pilot charged in San Francisco oil spill		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:58 PM on 17 Mar 2008 The pilot of the ship that spilled more than 50,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay in November has been charged with criminal negligence, harming federally protected birds, and violating the Clean Water Act. If found guilty, Capt. John Cota could face up to 18 months in jail and more than $100,000 in fines. source:� Associated Press see also, in Grist:� Group urges Congress to ban bunker fuel in ...
Topics: endangered species, energy, litigation, news, oil, politics, San Francisco, water pollution (all these topics)

Biodiesel: coming soon to a stream near you? Another black eye for the 'green fuel'	Tom Philpott	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: animal welfare, biofuels, energy, water pollution (all these topics)

I Sink, Therefore I Am On tap water	Umbra Fisk	12 Mar 2008	Ask Umbra
Umbra, I was wondering where the H2O from the tap comes from, and where it goes to. Beth Swarthmore, Pa. Dearest Beth, It comes from and goes back to the water cycle, which I've been reading a lot about in Richard Scarry's classic work What Do People Do All Day? The book answers the "where it comes from" question, but Scarry doesn't have so much to say about sewage. Lowly Worm does not get to travel through the toilet. Let ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Se7en Times Two Pollution is on Vatican's updated list of mortal sins		10 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:50 PM on 10 Mar 2008 The Vatican has put a modern twist on the seven deadly sins, announcing a list of "social sins" -- including pollution and genetic manipulation. (And just when we had successfully rid ourselves of lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy, and pride.) The nature of sin itself has changed, says Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Vatican body in charge of matters of conscience ...
Topics: air pollution, GMOs, news, religion and spirituality, Vatican City, water pollution (all these topics)

That's Crazy Talk! Fixing environmental problems necessary and doable, says OECD		05 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:20 PM on 05 Mar 2008 It is not only highly necessary but entirely affordable to tackle climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, water scarcity, and other environmental problems, according to a report released Wednesday by some wacko environmentalists the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Summed up OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria: Solutions "are available, they are achi ...
Topics: air pollution, biodiversity, climate, climate change mitigation, news, water crisis, water pollution (all these topics)

A sea of stats Even more numbers to illuminate the vast ocean	Andrew Sharpless	01 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: fishing, climate, water pollution, habitat loss, oceans (all these topics)

John McCain and Exxon Valdez Mr. Straight Talk voted against requiring double-hulled tankers after the biggest oil spill	David Roberts	28 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, business, energy, litigation, oil, water pollution (all these topics)

Smell That Fresh Err National parks chock full o' chemicals, says study		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 5:08 PM on 27 Feb 2008 Our prized natural places are hardly pristine, according to a six-year federal study. Researchers looked at the air, water, soil, lichen, conifer needles, and fish in 20 national parks and monuments. They found a total of some 70 contaminants, from near as well as far, local pesticide residue mingling with mercury wafted in from overseas. At eight parks, fish were too full of chemicals to be ...
Topics: air pollution, national parks, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Hit 'Em Where It Hurts Chinese bosses could see salary cuts for water pollution		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:47 PM on 27 Feb 2008 China is considering a law that would cut a head honcho's income by up to half if his or her company was found to be "directly responsible for causing severe water pollution incidents." From the Archives Good Luck, Little Buddy. Renewable-energy bill passes House, likely to be short-lived. Time Is Money. Daylight-saving time leads to higher energy ...
Topics: business, China, greening biz operations, legislation, news, water pollution (all these topics)

The Damages Done Exxon will try to convince Supreme Court it's paid enough for oil spill		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 9:58 AM on 26 Feb 2008 On Wednesday, Exxon Mobil Corp. will try to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that it should not have to pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages to Alaskan folk affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Exxon, which earlier this month posted an annual profit of $40.6 billion, will argue that the $3.4 billion or so that it's paid in cleanup costs and other fines should totally ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, news, oil, water pollution (all these topics)

Threatened to the Gills World fisheries still in danger of imminent collapse, says U.N.		25 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:07 AM on 25 Feb 2008 When last we checked in on the world's commercial fish stocks, they were in danger of collapsing within decades. And, sorry to say, they still are, according to a United Nations Environment Program report ominously titled "In Dead Water." Factor in climate change, overfishing, and pollution "and you see you're potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of w ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

Cyanide Cynthia's flack attack Mining behemoth responds to Gristmill	Glenn Hurowitz	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Alaska, fishing, mining, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Massey watch W. Va. Supreme Court to get out of bed with Blankenship, reconsider his case	David Roberts	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill

Topics: business, coal, energy, litigation, shenanigans, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Wan Lake China unveils plan to fix polluted lakes		23 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 3:35 PM on 23 Jan 2008 China has unveiled a plan to limit pollution in its lakes by 2010 and return lakes to their original, unpolluted state by 2030. Officials have specific plans to attain their goal: strictly regulate release of wastewater, close factories that heavily contribute to water pollution, improve sewage treatment, remove or limit fish farms, and ban highly toxic pesticides and phosphorus-containing detergents near large l ...
Topics: China, news, progress, water pollution (all these topics)

Massey Business Coal company penalized for Clean Water Act violations		17 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:16 PM on 17 Jan 2008 Massey Energy Co., the nation's fourth-largest coal producer, has agreed to a $30 million settlement with the U.S. EPA over allegations of Clean Water Act violations. Massey was accused of polluting streams and waterways in West Virginia and Kentucky with the detritus of mountaintop-removal mining on at least 4,500 occasions between 2000 and 2006. The company must pay $20 million in civil pena ...
Topics: coal, energy, litigation, mining, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

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