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Cheap Tricks II New Solar Panels Would Be Inefficient -- and Inexpensive		03 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Cheap Tricks II New Solar Panels Would Be Inefficient -- and Inexpensive Usually, inefficient energy sources are an environmentalist's worse nightmare -- but the opposite might be the case for a new type of solar cell. True, the new cells would only capture about 10 percent of the sun's energy (roughly half of what conventional solar cells capture), but they would be able to do so at a fract ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, water pollution (all these topics)

The Kids Are Alright Michigan Creates Volunteer Corps to Monitor Waterways		03 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
The Kids Are Alright Michigan Creates Volunteer Corps to Monitor Waterways What do you do if you're a budget-strapped state with no money to pay for water-quality monitoring? Sign up the seventh graders, of course. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) signed an executive order this week to create the Clean Water Corps, which will enlist volunteers ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Michigan, rivers and watersheds, state politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Strip-tease Republicans Drop Renewable Requirement from Energy Bill		30 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Strip-tease Republicans Drop Renewable Requirement from Energy Bill A measure that would require large utilities to produce 10 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2019 has been stripped out of a big energy bill by Republican congressional negotiators. Yesterday, 53 senators, including eight Republicans, called for the provision to be reinstated, but to no avail. In ano ...
Topics: politics, renewable energy, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

MTBE Promises Energy Bill Likely to Include Liability Protections for MTBE Makers		26 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
MTBE Promises Energy Bill Likely to Include Liability Protections for MTBE Makers The makers of a gasoline additive that can contaminate groundwater will almost certainly be protected from liability issues under the terms of the nation's energy bill, negotiators of the legislation announced yesterday. Methyl tertiary butyl ether, or MTBE, has been added to gasoline since the 1990s to reduce e ...
Topics: business, political groups, politics, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Go, Wes, Young Man Wesley Clark has some good things to say about the environment -- and some things to learn	Amanda Griscom	24 Sep 2003	Muckraker
The man of the hour. Photo: Clark for President. Days after entering the presidential race, Wesley Clark is dominating the public opinion polls -- surpassing not only fellow Democratic candidates but also President Bush in approval ratings. Forty-nine percent of registered voters in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday said they'd vote for Clark, co ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, elections, Muckraker, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Moon Lighting Moon-Driven Tidal Power Delivers Electricity to Norwegian Homes		22 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Moon Lighting Moon-Driven Tidal Power Delivers Electricity to Norwegian Homes Turns out the sun isn't the only celestial body that can provide eco-friendly power; the moon is now getting into the game. This weekend, a number of homes in the far north of Norway started getting energy from a sub-sea power station driven by the rise and fall of the tides, which are determined by the gravitational pull of the moon. The power sy ...
Topics: Norway, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

I Love Trash New Fuel Cell Uses Bacteria to Generate Power		09 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
I Love Trash New Fuel Cell Uses Bacteria to Generate Power Maybe it's not just a Back to the Future fantasy: If scientists at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst keep making progress in developing a "microbial fuel cell," one day trash might be able to power any number of devices (though probably not a time-traveling DeLorean). In an article in the journal Nature Biotechnology, researchers describe a new, high ...
Topics: green living, water pollution (all these topics)

License to Drill GOP Energy Bill Would Do a Big Favor for Halliburton		08 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
License to Drill GOP Energy Bill Would Do a Big Favor for Halliburton A measure in a big Republican-backed energy bill would exempt from federal regulation a natural-gas-drilling procedure refined by Halliburton Co., the oil and gas services company previously headed by Vice President Dick Cheney. The process, called hydraulic fracturing, is used widely in Western states and invo ...
Topics: business, mining and drilling, political groups, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Muddy Water EPA Analysis Finds Clean Water Act Changes Would Cause Major Setback		05 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Muddy Water EPA Analysis Finds Clean Water Act Changes Would Cause Major Setback An internal analysis conducted by the U.S. EPA has found that a Bush administration plan to alter clean water rules could result in more than half of the mid-Atlantic's streams and one-third of its wetlands losing protection under the federal Clean Water Act. That, in turn, would leave more than 3 million pe ...
Topics: politics, rivers and watersheds, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities		02 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Trickle-down Economics Saving Forests Can Mean Clean Water for Cities Cities around the world could save billions of dollars on water-treatment plants if they dedicated resources to protecting nearby forests, which naturally filter and purify drinking water, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund and the World Bank. Researchers came to this conclusion after s ...
Topics: New York, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wilderness, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Tanks for Nothing Court Rejects $4 Billion Damage Award for Exxon Valdez Spill		25 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Tanks for Nothing Court Rejects $4 Billion Damage Award for Exxon Valdez Spill A federal appeals court has once again rejected a multibillion-dollar punitive damage award against the company responsible for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil-tanker spill in Alaska. Now thousands of Alaskan fishers, Natives, and others whose lives and livelihoods were disrupted by the ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, environmental justice, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Quantum Leak Prestige Disaster Likely Worse Than Exxon Valdez Spill, Report Says		18 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Quantum Leak Prestige Disaster Likely Worse Than Exxon Valdez Spill, Report Says The leak from the oil tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain last year probably caused more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, according to a new report by a private Spanish economic institute. Some 78,000 metric tons of fuel have been cleansed from beaches since the November sinking, and the Prestige continues ...
Topics: business, oceans, Spain, water pollution (all these topics)

Turtle Goop Oil Spill off Pakistan's Coast Threatens Marine Life		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Turtle Goop Oil Spill off Pakistan's Coast Threatens Marine Life Hundreds of dead turtles and fish are washing ashore near Pakistan's port city of Karachi -- victims of an oil spill emanating from a Greek tanker that ran aground nearby late last month. A massive oil slick from the ship has hit the shore, despite workers' efforts to contain the spill. The tanker, which was carrying more than 67,000 tons of crude oil, ...
Topics: marine life, Pakistan, water pollution (all these topics)

Oh, Fudge EPA May Have Exaggerated Numbers on Safe Drinking Water		06 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Oh, Fudge EPA May Have Exaggerated Numbers on Safe Drinking Water The U.S. EPA may have fudged the numbers when it announced in a June report that "94 percent of the population served by community water systems were served by systems that met all health-based standards." Internal EPA documents suggest that the true number may be markedly lower -- 79 to 84 percent in 2002. The EPA's inspector genera ...
Topics: health, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Land of the Rising Sun		29 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Land of the Rising Sun Japan, weary of being dependent on imported fuel, has taken a shine to solar power. The nation now produces half of the world's solar energy and has surpassed the U.S. as the world's leading producer of solar panels. The Japanese government has thrown its weight behind what it sees as a potentially strong export industry, providing subsidies worth $25 million a year to companies working to develop more efficien ...
Topics: Japan, water pollution (all these topics)

There's No Base Like Home		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: health, North Carolina, toxics, water pollution (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)

Money Doesn't Grow on Trees -- but It Might on Wind Turbines		30 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: business, green living, water pollution (all these topics)

Donkey Kick		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Donkey Kick The Bush administration received a serious dressing-down in absentia last night over its misbegotten environmental policies, as five of the nine Democratic hopefuls aired their own green views during a League of Conservation Voters forum held in Los Angeles. Rather than detailing the differences in their own positions, most of the candidates who were p ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, environmental justice, politics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Back to the Yellowstone Age		26 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Back to the Yellowstone Age The Bush administration has asked the United Nations to remove Yellowstone National Park from a list of endangered World Heritage sites. "Yellowstone is no longer in danger," wrote the Interior Department's Paul Hoffman in a letter to the World Heritage Committee. There's just one snag: The park staff disagree with Hoffman, saying Yello ...
Topics: Idaho, Montana, national parks, politics, water pollution, wilderness, Wyoming (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)

Tapped Out		12 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tapped Out Drinking bottled water isn't necessarily a good thing for your health or for the environment, since the plastic bottles take up space in landfills and their contents are not subject to strict regulations. But how safe is the tap water you drink? Getting better, but still not as good as it should be, according to a review of the drinking-water systems of 19 cities around ...
Topics: solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, water pollution (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)

Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back The Yakama Nation has filed notice of its intent to sue the U.S. Department of Energy over its alleged failure to protect the Columbia River from contamination by the Hanford nuclear reservation. Thanks to four decades of plutonium production, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the country; ...
Topics: Columbia River, Department of Energy, litigation, news, toxics, Washington, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

A Fine Kettle of Fish		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
A Fine Kettle of Fish The federal Clean Water Act might be a great thing in theory, but how's it doing in practice? Not so well, it turns out, due to the failure of the U.S. EPA to adequately enforce it. At any given moment, roughly 25 percent of all large industrial plants and water-treatment facilities are in violation of federal pollution standards -- but the EPA generally fails to ...
Topics: health, marine life, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

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