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Brazilian Whacks		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Brazilian Whacks In what may be the worst industrial accident in Brazil's history, a massive chemical spill into two rivers has cut off the supply of clean water to some 600,000 people in three states near Rio de Janeiro. A reservoir at a pulp and paper factory leaked 320 million gallons of caustic soda and chlorine into the Paraiba do Sul River last weekend before being contained on Mon ...
Topics: Brazil, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Ceci N'est Pas Une Small Fine		03 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Ceci N'est Pas Une Small Fine The U.S. EPA has levied a $34 million fine against the Colonial Pipeline Company, the largest civil penalty the agency has doled out in its 32-year history. The company owns a 5,500-mile underground pipeline that snakes through 14 states on its way from Texas to New York; the fine is for violating the federal Clean Water Act with seven spills along that pipeline, involving a total of 1.45 million gallon ...
Topics: US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Dyna-shore		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Dyna-shore In a triumph for Golden State environmentalists, the Bush administration decided yesterday against asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn two lower court decisions upholding California's right to review proposed offshore drilling projects along its coast. Gov. Gray Davis (D) hailed the decision, noting, "The future of California beaches is now where it should be -- in ...
Topics: California, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

They Brought Bad Things to Life		02 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
They Brought Bad Things to Life Meanwhile, in another legal victory on the other side of the country, a federal court yesterday rejected General Electric's constitutional challenge to the U.S. EPA's power to force the company to clean up the Hudson River. From the 1940s to the 1970s, GE dumped 1.3 million pounds of PCBs into the upper Hudson, where 500,000 to 700,00 ...
Topics: business, Hudson River, New York, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Giving the Devil His DU		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Giving the Devil His DU As many people wonder about the long-term environmental effects of the war in Iraq, the U.N. has issued a report documenting the ongoing pollution problems posed by depleted uranium (DU) ammunition used by NATO forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the mid-1990s. The report, published by the U.N. Environment Programme, found DU contamination in groundwater and drinking water; in some locations, the air was also con ...
Topics: toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Deep Thoughts		24 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Deep Thoughts Japanese ingenuity may soon bring both potable water and clean energy to a number of periodically parched Pacific island nations, thanks to a new desalination technology that exploits the temperature difference between the ocean's surface and its depths. The Republic of Palau in the western Pacific has teamed up with Japan's Saga University to build a plant off the nation's coast that will produce enough drinkin ...
Topics: Pacific Ocean, water pollution (all these topics)

Off Balance		18 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Off Balance Earning kudos from environmentalists, the Michigan Department of Agriculture has banned the use of Balance Pro on the state's 2.2 million acres of corn fields. Balance Pro is a powerful herbicide and a possible carcinogen that has contaminated surface and groundwater in other states, in some cases lingering in waterways 10 months after a single application. The Michigan decision marks another blow by the Great ...
Topics: Michigan, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

We Shall Call Them Mini-cells		17 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: water pollution We Shall Call Them Mini-cells President Bush predicts that his grandkids will be part of the first generation that will learn to drive in fuel-cell vehicles, but society may not have to wait for First Twins Jenna and Barbara to settle down to family life before we'll see some benefits from fuel cells. By the end of this decade, miniature fuel cells, or "minicells," could be commonly used as an efficient and potentially eco-friendly power source for lapt ...
Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

Doo Process		11 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Doo Process Calling for more stringent regulations to control manure runoff from large-scale farms, three environmental organizations filed suit against the U.S. EPA on Friday. The current rules, which were approved last month and will be phased in by 2006, require concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, to obtain water-pollution permits ever ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Taken to the Cleaners		11 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Taken to the Cleaners Under pressure from environmental organizations, the Florida legislature yesterday modified a bill designed to protect dry cleaners from being sued for toxic contamination. The original bill would have prevented people who owned land adjacent to dry cleaners from suing over groundwater contamination; the modified version would retain that provision but grant exceptions to those who sell, transfer, or ...
Topics: Florida, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Storm Troopers		10 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Storm Troopers The Bush administration announced on Friday that oil and gas companies will not be bound by new regulations that require storm water runoff plans to be developed for small construction sites, a means of keeping dangerous chemicals and metals from contaminating waterways. Saying it needs more time to study the situation, the U.S. EPA has granted oil and gas companies a ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Kids 'n' Play		04 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: water pollution Kids 'n' Play Generating power for developing nations could be child's play -- literally -- according to an engineering professor at the University of Michigan. Raj Pandian has proposed harnessing the energy from playground equipment (such as teeter-totters, merry-go-rounds, and swing sets) in Third World villages, then using it to power light bulbs, radios, sewing machines, telephones, and other useful electronics. The energy generated by the repetitive motion o ...
Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

First in Fright		27 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
First in Fright A bankrupt paper mill in North Carolina is refusing to take responsibility for millions of gallons of wastewater, polluted landfills, and toxic chemicals it produced, leaving state environmental regulators stymied and alarmed. "We've just never dealt with anybody who said, 'We're going to walk out the door and leave it,'" said Forrest Westall, the regional water-quality supervi ...
Topics: North Carolina, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Af-gone		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Af-gone Afghanistan's most significant wetland area is now almost as dry as a bone, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Satellite imagery shows that 99 percent of the Sistan wetlands, which stretch into Iran, have dried out since 1998. The main source of water to the wetlands, the Helmand River, has been flowing at far below normal levels. Ahmad Yusuf ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Iran, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

When You Dish Upon a Star		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
When You Dish Upon a Star Minnesota would become the first state in the U.S. to effectively ban phosphorus in automatic-dishwashing detergent if a bill working its way through the state legislature gets the eventual thumbs-up. Phosphorus, which helps to remove those oh-so-unsightly spots from glasses and dishware, ultimately g ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, lakes, Minnesota, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

'Til Cruise Do Us Part On cruises	Umbra Fisk	06 Feb 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My husband, though a very warmhearted man, does not follow the environmental tides quite as much as I do. He would desperately like to take a cruise for our second honeymoon. I know cruise ships dump waste in the oceans and are not good for the ecosystem in general, but could you tell me which cruise lines are the most environmentally conscious? In the spirit of compromise, I have agreed to go, but would like to make the ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, oceans, travel, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

No Credence to Clearwater Revival		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
No Credence to Clearwater Revival Stormwater runoff flowing into restored Seattle-area creeks and rivers appears to be killing salmon, according to a groundbreaking study by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. Eighty-eight percent of coho salmon studied last fall died within hours of swimming into a stream that was being inundated by runoff. Rainwater pours ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, toxics, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

Sweet Home, Alabama		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Sweet Home, Alabama A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama is failing to adequately enforce water-pollution laws, thereby paving the way for citizens of the state to sue under the national Clean Water Act. Under the terms of that act, citizens may go to court to enforce the law only if the state has failed to prosecute polluters and only after filing 60-day notice of ...
Topics: Alabama, environmental justice, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Drinking Problems		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Drinking Problems As concerns grow about possible global water shortages, the United Nations Environment Programme has published a new report on the quantity, quality, and availability of worldwide water supplies. But unlike many scientific studies that are all-but-incomprehensible to the general public, this report uses simple visual images to convey its message. The graphs and photo ...
Topics: climate, health, pollution and waste, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Lead Us Not		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Lead Us Not Ninety percent of the global gasoline supply is unleaded -- but the majority of the remaining 10 percent is consumed in developing nations. That's bad news for citizens of those countries because leaded fuel is associated with neurological damage, particularly in children. Now, though, there's some good news from the United Nations Environment Programme: Most of the Africa ...
Topics: Africa, health, placemaking, toxics, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

The Coast Is Murky		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Coast Is Murky The California Coastal Commission has been declared unconstitutional by an appellate court, a decision that could result in a significant power shake-up at the entity in charge of managing one of the world's most popular and politically charged coastlines. At issue is the balance of power on the commission: A maj ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, mining and drilling, oceans, Pacific Ocean, politics, state politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Black Labs		22 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Black Labs Private laboratories have been caught faking environmental test results, according to officials in the U.S. EPA and the Justice Department. Companies often use private laboratories to test air, water, soil, petroleum, underground tanks, and other products and indicators; a clean tests yields a certificate of compliance with environmental regulation ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Justice, environmental justice, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Put It on Credit		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Put It on Credit Industrial polluters will be allowed to buy credits from cleaner competitors to help comply with the Clean Water Act, under a plan released yesterday by the Bush administration. The National Water Quality Trading Policy would allow industrial, agricultural, and wastewater-treatment operations that cannot meet clean water regulations to purchase credits from cleaner facilities in th ...
Topics: business, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Wet 'n' Not-so-wild		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Wet 'n' Not-so-wild New guidelines unveiled by the Bush administration on Friday could spell trouble for 20 million acres of wetlands across the United States. The guidelines were prompted by a 2001 Supreme Court decision that found that isolated, non-navigable ponds and wetlands in Illinois did not merit protec ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, environmental justice, Illinois, politics, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Pombo and (Unfortunate) Circumstance		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Pombo and (Unfortunate) Circumstance U.S. Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) was chosen this week to lead the House Resources Committee, much to the dismay of environmentalists. As head of the committee, Pombo, who earned only a 9 percent approval rating from the League of Conservation Voters in the last session of Congress, will have significant say in shaping fe ...
Topics: environmental justice, League of Conservation Voters, national parks, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

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