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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)

The Village Person		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Africa, Nigeria, water pollution (all these topics)

Jagged Little Pill		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Jagged Little Pill Birth control pills aren't just having an effect on human reproduction: They're dramatically reducing the fertility of male rainbow trout as well, according to a study by scientists in Washington state. In the study, adult captive trout were exposed to synthetic estrogen for two months, then spawned with a healthy female. Synthetic es ...
Topics: solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, Washington, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Chop Shop		04 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Chop Shop The environmental policies of the Bush administration are endangering our nation's woodlands, according to a coalition of environmental groups that yesterday released a list of the 10 most at-risk forests. The coalition, which included Greenpeace and the National Forest Protection Alliance, assessed the risks po ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, Greenpeace, logging, politics, United States, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Our Gorge Is Rising		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Our Gorge Is Rising China yesterday blocked the flow of the Yangtze River by closing gates at the massive Three Gorges Dam and began to fill up what will be the world's largest reservoir. It's a joyous occasion for government engineers and Communist Party faithful who have long touted the coming benefits of hydroelectric power and flood control, an ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, water pollution, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Another Roadside Detraction		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Another Roadside Detraction The Washington State Department of Transportation has come under attack by citizens who say its practice of spraying the sides of roads to control weeds puts people and the environment at risk. Last year, a decade after promising to reduce its herbicide use, the department instead hit an eight-year high, applying more than 120,000 pounds of weed-killer alongside state roads. C ...
Topics: health, news, toxics, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

Data Dumping		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Data Dumping Think the U.S. EPA is keeping tabs on water pollution around the country? Think again. The agency's computer system for tracking and controlling water pollution is outmoded, riddled with bad data, and lacks information on thousands of sources of serious pollution, according to a report released last week by the EPA's inspector general. Efforts to fix the computer system have been slow, underfu ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

They Can't Strongarm Armstrong		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
They Can't Strongarm Armstrong A federal judge has issued an excoriating dismissal of a lawsuit filed by 22 Southern California inland cities that challenged rules requiring them to help prevent trash from reaching the ocean. The ruling, from U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong, is significant because it dismisses the first of 13 legal challenges to new state and feder ...
Topics: California, pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Whittled Away Read U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman's letter of resignation		21 May 2003	Muckraker
Christine Todd Whitman sent the following communication to all U.S. EPA employees on May 21, 2003, the day after she resigned her post as EPA administrator. The communication includes her letter of resignation to President Bush, dated May 20, 2003. To All EPA Employees: Yesterday afternoon, I met with President Bush at the White House and tendered to him my resignation as Administrator of the EPA, ...
Topics: air pollution, Muckraker, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Pay Dirt		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
Pay Dirt The "polluter pays" principle may be languishing in the U.S. under the business-friendly Bush administration, but it's alive and well in Europe, where the European parliament voted this week to strengthen rules to make companies pay for the environmental problems they cause. Spurred on by the recent Prestige disaster, in which a tanker spilled ten ...
Topics: business, European Union, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary Two businessmen want to build a massive cow town in the Mojave Desert in Southern California, providing a home for 90,000 cattle and 600 dairy farmers and their families. Sounds like a recipe for environmental disaster, right? Maybe not: In this case, the plan is to make the development a model of eco-friendly large-scale farming. Meth ...
Topics: California, health, ranching, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

DNA-Ok		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: water pollution DNA-Ok J. Craig Venter, leader of a team that successfully decoded the human genome, now has his sights set on reading the DNA of an entire ecosystem -- the Sargasso Sea, a warm swath of water in the Atlantic around the Bermuda Triangle. Working with teams he's assembled at private biotech institutes in Maryland, Venter believes his "shotgun" technique of DNA deciphering can be adapted to quickly read the genetic code of hundreds of thousands of microbe ...
Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

Tidal Wave of the Future		09 May 2003	Daily Grist
Tidal Wave of the Future The San Francisco Bay could soon become more than just a beautiful backdrop to Fog Town: It could become the engine that powers the city itself. This week, San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to investigate commercial tidal power, when it signed on to a $2 million pilot project to generate electricity using the tides in the bay. Every day, almost 400 billion gallons of water rush ...
Topics: California, hydropower, water pollution (all these topics)

Snake Oil		05 May 2003	Daily Grist
Snake Oil Federal dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Northwest have been spilling oil directly into the waterways on which they sit, in amounts ranging from a trickle to, in one case, 1,000 gallons. Oregon and Washington state authorities have been trying to get a handle on the problem, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is stonewalling. Arguing that it's a matter of nation ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Columbia River, Snake River, water pollution (all these topics)

Dry Idea Rolls on		02 May 2003	Daily Grist
Dry Idea Rolls on The U.S. Interior Department has identified areas around the county that are likely to face conflicts over water shortages in the next 25 years, including the usual suspects (Los Angeles, Calif., Denver, Colo., and Phoenix, Ariz.) as well as some new hotspots: the Gulf Coast of Texas, North Dakota's Red River Valley, and Western cities from Bend, Ore. to Albuquerque, N ...
Topics: Department of Interior, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, West (all these topics)

Urine Luck! On peeing al fresco	Umbra Fisk	30 Apr 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, If I am going to pee outside, is it more environmentally sound to squat in the back yard where the pee salinates the soil, or next to the road where the liquid runoff can enter sewers, or in the woods where there are no ornamental plantings to disturb, but there might be snakes? Cop-a-squattingly yours, Sarah M. Howeville, Vt. Dearest Sarah, I strongly suspect that this question may be some type of prank, but our motto her ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, water pollution (all these topics)

Compostmodern On composting toilets	Umbra Fisk	30 Apr 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I grew up in a house built in 1812. Until 1962, we still used an outhouse that was built with the house. My mother said that when she was a girl (in the 1920s), a man used to come around and clean it out each year, but it was never done in my memory. The seats were built about 10 feet over the debris and it never seemed to fill up. We did put lime (the kind you buy for your garden) in it. Some people now use outhouses wher ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

High and Dry Colorado's proposed water projects could sink the environment	Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	29 Apr 2003	Main Dish
This March, the Denver Broncos football team agreed to spend $40 million on a seven-year contract with its new quarterback, Jake Plummer. Since winning two Super Bowls at the end of the 1990s, the Broncos have struggled just to make the playoffs. At his introductory press conference, Plummer predicted, "Winning a Super Bowl is what I believe we are going to do here.& ...
Topics: business, Colorado, Colorado River, food and agriculture, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Well Done		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Well Done With many makeshift wells in New Delhi, India, running dry, and many more in danger of following suit, citizens are turning to an old-fashioned solution: rainwater harvesting. Five pilot projects in the city have successfully tested out an inexpensive system for collecting monsoon rainwater and directing it underground to replenish over-tapped aquifers. New Delhi officials have become enthusiastic ch ...
Topics: India, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Lettuce Study This More		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Lettuce Study This More A toxic chemical used in rocket fuel was found in four of 22 winter lettuce samples purchased at Northern California grocery stores, according to a report by the Environmental Working Group. The lettuce contaminated with perchlorate, a hormone disrupter, was traced to farms in Southern California and Arizona tha ...
Topics: Arizona, Barbara Boxer, California, Colorado River, Environmental Working Group, Harry Reid, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

No-motor Home		25 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: water pollution No-motor Home Two chemistry professors at the University of La Verne in California say they have created a propane-powered fuel cell that will change the face of the recreational-vehicle industry forever. The fuel cell converts propane to hydrogen and generates enough energy to power everything in an RV but the motor: electricity, heat, and water systems. The scientists say their invention is 2.5 times more efficient than an internal-combustion generator, emits f ...
Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

War in the Time of Cholera		24 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
War in the Time of Cholera Iraq's water, sewage, and waste systems need immediate attention to prevent drastic environmental and human health problems in the wake of war, the United Nation's Environment Programme announced today. Earlier this week, doctors in Baghdad reported the first suspected incidents of cholera and typhoid, two potentially fatal diseases spread by poor water sanitation. Hundreds of more ...
Topics: health, Iraq, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Spilling Over		23 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Spilling Over The city of Los Angeles accepted legal responsibility yesterday for a decade's worth of sewage spills, numbering 3,668 in all. The spills polluted streets and water bodies, in violation of both state and federal clean-water laws. After a four-year legal battle with government officials, environmental organizations, and community members, the city has finally owned up to all the overflows in an effort, it says, to p ...
Topics: California, water pollution (all these topics)

Gutter Talk		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gutter Talk The Bush administration has been discreetly gutting environmental protections by encouraging industry groups to sue over rules and then settling those lawsuits on terms favorable to industry, enviros argue. Using such tactics, the administration has allowed more logging in Northwest forests, curtailed protections for roadless lands and ...
Topics: Earthjustice, fishing, logging, national parks, Northwest, politics, water pollution, West, wilderness (all these topics)

Hit the Bottle		09 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Hit the Bottle Ever the leader on environmental issues, California is moving ahead with a bill that would give it the nation's most stringent bottled-water quality standards. Under the terms of the bill, bottled-water companies would have to include greater detail about contaminants on bottle labels, issue water-quality reports much like those produced by public water agencies, and, like those agencies, be subject to inspections ...
Topics: California, water pollution (all these topics)

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