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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)

Angelo the Ripper		17 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: water pollution Angelo the Ripper Environmentalists scored a victory yesterday -- albeit a fragile one -- when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that the Clean Water Act applied to attempts by developers to fill wetlands using an increasingly common method known as deep ripping. The case concerned a California developer, Angelo Tsakopoulus, who used deep ripping to turn wetlands into parcels for sale as vineyards and orchards. In doing so, Tsakopoulus did not ...
Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

Turning Japanese		16 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Turning Japanese An Eco-Products exhibition held recently in Tokyo, Japan, attracted more than 100,000 visitors and no shortage of unusual inventions. The big-ticket item was, of course, Toyota's fuel-cell car, which has just been leased to the Japanese government, but there were plenty of other forms of green ingenuity on display as well. These ranged from the mundane (energy-saving domestic appliances and ...
Topics: green living, Japan, recycling, water pollution (all these topics)

Quid Pro Snow On snowy sidewalks	Umbra Fisk	10 Dec 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Being a new homeowner, I've realized the responsibility of keeping the sidewalk slip-proof during the winter months. Of course, shoveling will be the first line of defense, but that never seems to do the trick, often leaving that thin layer of slippery snow. And then there is the ice. I know that salt and sand can be fairly nasty to local rivers and streams (not to mention the white stains on my floors). So what are the best ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, water pollution (all these topics)

Drain, Drain, Go Away		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drain, Drain, Go Away Now, back to typically depressing fare: California's Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board said yesterday that it would extend exemptions on pollution limits for farmers, meaning that pesticides, salts, and other pollutants will continue to drain from agricultural fields into the region's watershed. The exemptions were set to expire on Dec. ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

The Science of the Lambs		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Science of the Lambs It ain't easy being a scientist in farm country: Researchers studying the health effects of agricultural pollution say they are being silenced by fearful superiors and harassed by individual farmers, farm groups, and even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which funds and controls much of the research ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, health, Iowa, Midwest, North Carolina, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Wine, Wine, Wine		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Wine, Wine, Wine Napa Valley, Calif., is known as the heart of U.S. wine country, not exactly as a toxic cesspool. But local environmentalists say soaring wine production in the valley has lead to unhealthy farming practices that pollute the land, place heavy pressures on natural resources, and harm wildlife. The county has passed legislation designed to limit soil erosion ...
Topics: erosion, food and agriculture, placemaking, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Mao-ie Zow-ie		26 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: water pollution Mao-ie Zow-ie China is moving forward with a massive project to redirect water from the nation's longest rivers (including the Yangtze and Yellow) to the arid north, helping to quench the thirst of Beijing and other major northern cities. The water will travel via a canal network built over 50 years; costs could eventually exceed $24 billion. The project, initially envisioned by Mao Zedong a half a century ago, will eventually supply the north with 48 billion ton ...
Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

I Double Dairy You		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I Double Dairy You Got pollution controls? Five dairy farms in California soon will -- and environmentalists hope the new rules will eventually apply to dairies nationwide. To avoid legal action by environmental groups, the five farms in the Inland Empire region of the state have agreed to modernize their operations by developing greener plans for manure lagoon ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Corn at the Right Time		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Corn at the Right Time The activist-friendly town of Takoma Park, Md., unveiled an inspiring (albeit funny-looking) monument to the clean energy movement yesterday: A silo that holds 21 tons of organic corn. The corn will be used as an alternative fuel to heat a dozen homes in the town's Save Our Sky Home-Heating Cooperative, keeping more than 100,000 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere each year. ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Maryland, water pollution (all these topics)

The Roof Is on Fire		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Roof Is on Fire By passing regulations to encourage developers to install green roofs, Portland, Ore., has become a pioneer in the growing worldwide ecoroof movement (what, you aren't a part of it yet?). Rooftops planted with vegetation such as ferns and wildflowers can reduce runoff after rainstorms by up to 90 percent and diminish a building's energy costs by 10 percent. The runoff reduction helps pre ...
Topics: green living, Oregon, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Are They Rocky Mountain High?		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Are They Rocky Mountain High? Another one from the Believe-It-Or-Not Department: Colorado officials want to increase clear-cutting to help solve the state's drought problem. Removing trees would allow more snow to fall to the ground, where it would run off into streams in the spring, providing enough new water to supply as many as a million families, says Kent Holsinger, the top water official at ...
Topics: Colorado, logging, politics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Up a Creek		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Up a Creek The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is quietly considering a proposal that would greatly increase the amount of cancer-causing effluent that could be dumped into streams. Randy Sovic, of the DEP's Division of Water Resources, said the proposal would give his agency more "flexibility" in writing water-pollution permits. Currently, pollu ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, state politics, toxics, water pollution, West Virginia (all these topics)

This Solar House Students compete to build the house of the future	Amanda Griscom	30 Oct 2002	Powers That Be
At midnight one late-September evening, a convoy of 18-wheeler flatbed trucks carting 14 houses (some whole, some in parts) and thousands of square feet of solar panels rolled past the Washington Monument, drove along the National Mall, and headed up to the front lawn of the Capitol building. Upon arriving, the first truck in line barreled through a yellow ribbon held by members of a hooting and holl ...
Topics: Department of Energy, education, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Taps		30 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Taps Contaminants found in the tap water in California's largest cities could pose risks to children, pregnant women, and people with compromised immune systems, according to a new study from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The findings in the report, "What's on Tap," were the result of a review of tap-water data from 19 cities in the U.S., but so far only the California results have been relea ...
Topics: California, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Hitting the Bottle Michigan residents fight for control of the state's water	Keith Schneider	23 Oct 2002	Main Dish
Until two years ago, the 40,550 generally well-behaved Midwesterners of Mecosta County, Mich., regularly attended church, sent their children off to school on yellow buses, and never for a moment worried that their clean, freshwater supply would ever run dry. Mecosta County, after all, sits near the center of Michigan's lower peninsula, which itself sits at the center of the largest supply ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling, politics, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Give a Hoot		18 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Give a Hoot Today is the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act -- and although the United States has made some strides in improving water quality, it has still got a long way to go. A whopping 81 percent of major wastewater treatment plants and chemical and industrial facilities in the U.S. contaminated waterways beyond what their permits allowed between 1999 a ...
Topics: energy, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Would You Like an Excise Tax With That?		15 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Would You Like an Excise Tax With That? British biodiesel users, beware of bobbies! Police in Great Britain have cracked down on users of the alternative fuel, most recently staging a bust that bagged more than a dozen motorists in the Welsh seaside town of Burry Port. Biodiesel is essentially refined vegetable oil that burns more cleanly than conventional diesel; as the folks in Burry Port know, it can be home-brewed withou ...
Topics: United Kingdom, water pollution (all these topics)

Carrot Juice		11 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Read more about: water pollution Carrot Juice Compost isn't just for your garden anymore: Scientists at the University of the West of England have created a microbial fuel-cell battery powered by organic waste. The miniature battery converts biochemical energy from food into electricity, using E. coli bacteria that release hydrogen atoms as they break down carbohydrates. The fuel cell runs on sugar cubes, and the scientists are currently using it to run a light-sensitive robot. But eventually a ...
Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

Jeb and Flow		11 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Jeb and Flow Environmentalists and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) are duking it out over the regulatory language of the colossal $7.8 billion Everglades restoration project -- a battle that will work against Bush in the upcoming gubernatorial election. Critics say Bush is less interested in restoring the Everglades than in securing a water supply for South Florida businesses and developers. The U.S ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Florida, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Clubbed Med		10 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Clubbed Med Ah, the Mediterranean: brilliant sun, snow-white sand, a smattering of paradisiacal islands in a glittering sea. That's the reputation that makes the region the most popular tourist destination in the world -- but sadly, the flood of tourists is rapidly unmaking the reputation. Every year, the region hosts 200 million visitors -- nearly one-third of the world's tourist flo ...
Topics: business, Mediterranean, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Just Deserts		09 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Just Deserts A controversial plan to transform a tract of the Mojave Desert into a giant water-storage facility was killed yesterday by California's Metropolitan Water District. First presented in 1997 by Keith Brackpool, an advisor and leading financial backer to Gov. Gray Davis (D), the $150 million project would have entailed the construction of a 35-mile pipeline between the MWD's Colorado River aqueduct and the ...
Topics: California, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Greece Spot		07 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Greece Spot Air and water quality in Athens, Greece -- home of the upcoming 2004 Summer Olympics -- is considerably worse today than it was in 1896, the last time the city hosted the games. In an effort headlined by Jean-Michael Cousteau (son of the famed oceanographer Jacques), environmentalists are trying to clean up the city by planting trees, persuading manufacturing companies to reduce emissions, and instituting ...
Topics: air pollution, Greece, water pollution (all these topics)

Gulf War Syndrome		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Gulf War Syndrome Environmental damage in Kuwait stemming from Gulf War activities was far more severe than originally thought, according to a U.N.-financed study whose preliminary results were released yesterday. The study found that pollution from torched oil wells not only filled into the sky, but also seeped into the ground; further, the salt from seawater used to douse the fir ...
Topics: air pollution, Kuwait, land degradation, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

This New House		27 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
This New House No, it doesn't involve skeet shooting while cross-country skiing; in the Solar Decathlon sponsored by the Department of Energy, university students are competing to design the best solar-powered home. The houses are being built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where together they will form a temporary solar village. The competing teams hail from 14 schools, each of which received a $5,000 start-up grant ...
Topics: green living, water pollution (all these topics)

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