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Pigs' Stymie		28 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Pigs' Stymie The U.S., Saudi Arabia, and other rich nations are deliberately stymieing international efforts to encourage increased clean energy use, according to sources at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, being held this week and next in Johannesburg, South Africa. The WSSD action plan, which will be approved by heads of state at the end of the summit, currently includes a proposal that clean energy account for 15 ...
Topics: marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

Euphrates Cats		26 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Euphrates Cats The waters of the Euphrates River gave birth to civilization and are just as valuable today -- but they are also in short supply, as people in Syria, Turkey, and Iraq battle for a share of the river. Similar struggles are taking place all over the world, from Texas to China, as water resources grow scarce and competition for them mushrooms. Less than 1 percent of the world's water supply is suitable for ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Grease Lightning		22 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
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Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

Sh*tting By the Dock of the Bay		19 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Shtting By the Dock of the Bay Ten years ago, delegates attending the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro wrinkled their noses upon encountering the putrid smells emanating from the heavily polluted Guanabara Bay. The summit cast a spotlight on the plight of Rio's bay and led to the creation of an internationally funded cleanup project. Now, with the follow-up Earth Summit ...*
Topics: Brazil, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Sun Worshippers		19 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Sun Worshippers Clean energy is next to godliness -- or at least that's the position of the soon-to-open Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, which has installed a $600,000 solar array that will meet 10 to 15 percent of the cathedral's energy needs. The solar array is one of the largest to be installed as part of the Department of Water and Power's Green L.A. program, and the first of 1 ...
Topics: California, religion and spirituality, water pollution (all these topics)

Curse D' Alene		14 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Curse D' Alene In a precedent-setting move, U.S. federal officials signed an agreement yesterday ceding control of the cleanup of Idaho's highly polluted Coeur d'Alene Basin to state, local, and tribal officials. For more than a century, mining waste from the Silver Valley washed down the Coeur d'Alene River into Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane River, and from there into Lake ...
Topics: Idaho, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

More Than Meats the Eye		13 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
More Than Meats the Eye In the last two decades, there's been a national growth spurt in super-sized animal feedlots and slaughterhouses. That spurt has outpaced the ability of regulators to keep such places operating safely and cleanly -- and that has led to polluted water bodies, food safety scares, and on-the-job injuries, according to a ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

That's the Way the Cookie Grumbles		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
That's the Way the Cookie Grumbles As anticipated, the U.S. EPA announced yesterday that it would seek to alter a key Clean Water Act anti-pollution program in order to give states more flexibility in restoring their waterways. Under the revised program, states would develop and implement plans to clean up more than 20,000 dirty rivers, lakes, and estuaries. While the federal government would provide guidelines, over ...
Topics: United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Watered Down		07 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Watered Down Nearly a third of all major industrial facilities and state-operated sewage-treatment plants in the U.S. have significantly violated clean water regulations in the last two years, and one out of four operated on an expired pollution permit last year, according to a recent report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Moreover, relatively few of the noncompliant facilities have fa ...
Topics: politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Shelling Out		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Shelling Out The first lawsuit in the U.S. over contamination stemming from the gasoline additive MTBE was settled in California yesterday, when Shell Oil agreed to pay the South Tahoe Public Utility District $28 million to help fund the cleanup of tainted drinking water wells. The district filed the lawsuit in 1998, after MTBE contamination forced the closure of one-third of South Lake Tahoe' ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Summer Buggin'		05 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Summer Buggin' Think of it as good news in bad packaging: The swarms of mayflies that are coating Midwestern towns this summer are a sign that the region's waterways -- most notably the Mississippi River -- are healthier than they've been in decades. The flies don't bite or sting; they just mate and die, all in the course of one day, and they do so in such large vol ...
Topics: education, Midwest, Mississippi River, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Put a Tiber in Your Tank		26 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Put a Tiber in Your Tank In the last two weeks, tons of dead fish have floated to the surface of the Tiber, the famed Italian river that was once one of the lifelines of the Roman Empire. According to environmentalists, two-thirds of the fauna in a three-mile stretch of the river have been wiped out since July 15; even eels, the hardiest residents of the Tiber, have leapt onto th ...
Topics: European Union, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Honda Prelude		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Honda Prelude Honda predicted yesterday that one of its hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars could hit the road in California by the end of the year. The forecast came after the auto manufacturer's FCX became the first fuel-cell car to be certified by the U.S. EPA and the California Air Resources Board as a low-emissions vehicle. Honda hopes to have 30 of the four-seaters operating in Ca ...
Topics: Asia, California, placemaking, state politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Beached Wails		25 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Beached Wails You might want to think twice before you head out with your sunscreen and towel this weekend. The number of sewage-tainted beaches is on the rise, jumping 19 percent between 2000 to 2001, according to a report released yesterday by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The group said that 13,410 beach closings and water advisories were issued by government agencies in 2001, ...
Topics: NRDC, oceans, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Flow-rida		24 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Flow-rida The Bush administration yesterday revised its proposed rules for the $7.8 billion renovation of the Florida Everglades, with environmentalists greeting the changes as imperfect but undeniably better than the last draft. Under the new rules, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District would ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Interior, Florida, politics, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Bangladeath		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bangladeath Arsenic has a long and glorious history in the annals of crime fiction, but for the people of Bangladesh, poisoning by arsenic is all too real. With 35 million people drinking arsenic-tainted water, the country is in the midst of what the World Health Organization is calling the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history." Ironically, the problem has its ...
Topics: Bangladesh, health, toxics, water pollution, World Health Organization (all these topics)

The Daily Load		15 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
The Daily Load The Bush administration could slash a key program of the Clean Water Act requiring federal oversight of states' efforts to restore polluted bodies of water. About 300,000 miles of rivers and shorelines and 5 million acres of lakes in the U.S. are categorized as "impaired water bodies" in need of remediation, but for decades, some states neglected their cleanup. That began to shift ...
Topics: politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Unbridled LUST		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Unbridled LUST Leaking underground storage tanks (LUST) of gasoline have contaminated at least 25,000 sites around Florida, giving rise to concerns that the state's drinking water supplies could be tainted, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Scientists say the contamination is a result of Florida's love affair with gas; the state ranks ...
Topics: energy, Florida, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal, water pollution (all these topics)

Bad Medicine On flushing medications	Umbra Fisk	21 Jun 2002	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I work with a number of older women who try to be environmentally conscientious. When it comes to discarding outdated medications though, there seems to be conflicting advice. Medical doctors tell me that all such medicines should be flushed down the toilet. Water resource people say, don't flush, because all those discarded medicines are seeping into groundwater. Sigh. What are we to do? Jonell Cadman Dearest Jonell, The ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, health, solid waste treatment and disposal, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

High-tailing it out of there		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
High-tailing it out of there The Colorado River -- the water source for 25 million Americans -- is almost certainly on a collision course with a massive pile of uranium slag, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Energy's National Research Council. The 12 million tons of tailings, located near Moab, Utah, are left over from a uranium mill that provide ...
Topics: Colorado, Colorado River, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, water pollution (all these topics)

New Power Generation		11 Jun 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Iguana Be Alone!		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Iguana Be Alone! Eighteen months ago, a grounded tanker spilled 150,000 gallons of diesel and bunker fuel into the waters around the famed Galapagos Islands. Luckily, shifting winds sent most of the fuel out to sea rather than into shore, so sea lion and bird deaths numbered in the dozens rather than the hundreds. At the time, biologists and conservationists breathed a sigh of relief, believin ...
Topics: Galapagos Islands, health, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Dentist the Menace		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dentist the Menace Here's one more reason to dread your dentist: Many dental offices flush old fillings down the drain, washing the mercury inside them into the nation's waterways. That makes dentists the single largest discharger of the toxic metal, according to a national study entitled "Dentist the Menace?" and published by a collection of health and environmental groups. All told, dentist ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Dry Upheaval		03 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Dry Upheaval As if Colombia needs any more bad news: The war-torn nation's water supply could be reduced by as much as 40 percent over the next 50 years due to deforestation and other degradation of fragile high mountain ecosystems, according to Carlos Castano, director of the country's Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology, and Environmental Studies. The pa ...
Topics: Colombia, deforestation, food and agriculture, green living, toxics, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

Dreading Water		30 May 2002	Daily Grist
Dreading Water Industrial pollution in U.S. and Canadian lakes, rivers, and streams rose 26 percent from 1995 to 1999, according to a report released yesterday by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the environmental watchdog agency of the North American Free Trade Association. The report, entitled "Taking Stock," ...
Topics: Canada, globalization, pollution and waste, United States, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

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