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They'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Gold		29 May 2002	Daily Grist
They'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Gold What if the environmental movement could do to gold what the animal-rights movement did to fur -- convince the public that far from being a badge of success, it is a symbol of cruelty and vanity? Some environmentalists would like to do just that, and they've got the facts to back them up: Gold mining leads to cyanide contamination in water sources, w ...
Topics: green living, mining and drilling, Nevada, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Graceless Slick		24 May 2002	Daily Grist
Graceless Slick Massive ships spilling sheets of oil across the sea might make for dramatic photo ops -- yet the vast majority of oil pollution in North America comes not from leaking oil rigs or troubled tankers, but rather from thousands of small, diverse sources, most of them on the land, according to a new report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. These non-point pollution sourc ...
Topics: pollution and waste, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics)

The Early Bird Gets the River A review of Water Wars	Michelle Nijhuis	23 May 2002	Arts and Minds
I can see the source of the world's water problems from my office window. It's called the Fire Mountain Canal, and it winds its way past peach and apple orchards, through green horse pastures, and around the edge of the dry, juniper-covered mesa where I live. This fat, smooth snake of water seems like a generous thing; after all, it supports the work of local Colorado farmers, who stuff us with cherries, chilies ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Dutch Treat The Netherlands tackles nitrogen pollution with a game	Erik Ness	10 May 2002	Main Dish
Confess: You've played more than one hand of solitaire on company time. Tetris anyone? Maybe you've even been a MYSTic or a QUAKEr. If you happen to work for the Dutch Ministry of the Environment, playing computer games is now part of your job description. Or at least playing a computer game -- the world's only computer game designed to solve the problem of nitrogen pollution. The Netherlands is home to i ...
Topics: air pollution, Netherlands, video games, water pollution (all these topics)

Mountain Mama's Day		09 May 2002	Daily Grist
Mountain Mama's Day A federal judge ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers yesterday to stop allowing coal companies to deposit tons of dirt and rock from their mountaintop-removal mining operations into streams and valleys. U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II in Charleston, W.Va., also said a move by the Bush administration last Friday to make the "valley fills" lega ...
Topics: energy, Kentucky, mining and drilling, politics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Cells Sell		02 May 2002	Daily Grist
Cells Sell The internal combustion engine took one small step toward obsolescence yesterday, when General Motors announced the addition of an 80,000-square-foot research facility in upstate New York that will be wholly dedicated to the commercialization of fuel cells. Fuel cells generate electricity by mixing hydrogen and oxygen; the only byproduct of the process is water. The Bush administration has expressed great enthusiasm for ...
Topics: business, water pollution (all these topics)

Holy Sinkhole!		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Holy Sinkhole! Central Florida's main source of drinking water is being contaminated by a toxic leak from one of the nation's oldest Superfund sites, according to federal authorities. Ten years ago, the U.S. EPA ended the cleanup of a Tower Chemical plant that manufactured pesticides for the citrus industry; now, an unidentified pesticide-related chemical has seeped from a sinkhole below the plant's ...
Topics: Florida, rivers and watersheds, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

No Farm, No Foul On farmed fish	Umbra Fisk	23 Apr 2002	Ask Umbra
I have a friend who is a homeopathic. She told me that I should stop eating pen-raised salmon because they are fed a lot of antibiotics. I was very disappointed because I thought I was eating a safe product. I don't know how to get more info about this, but if you guys know anything about it, I'm sure a lot of us would appreciate it. Claudia Dearest Claudia, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that your question is ...
Topics: advice, aquaculture, Ask Umbra, fishing, food, food and agriculture, water pollution (all these topics)

Hopping Mad		16 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Hopping Mad Atrazine, the most popular herbicide in the U.S., appears to cause a wide range of sexual abnormalities in frogs, according to a study by biologist Tyrone Hayes published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Seventy-five million pounds of atrazine are used in the U.S. every year, and it is the most common contaminant in the nation's waterways. Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Norwa ...
Topics: toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Sea Ya!		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sea Ya! Central Asia's Aral Sea, which used to be the world's fourth-largest lake, has shrunk so dramatically that it has split into two separate bodies of water. The two rivers that feed it were diverted in the 1960s to water cotton fields; now just a trickle reaches the sea, and much of that is contaminated by pesticides and fertilizers. As the sea has receded, villages and small cities ...
Topics: Aral Sea, desertification, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

On the Water Front		22 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
On the Water Front More than 2.7 billion people will experience severe water shortages by 2025 if the world continues to consume water at the current rate, according to a U.N. report released today, which happens to be World Water Day. The report goes on to say that another 2.5 billion may be living in areas where it will be difficult or near impossible to meet their water needs. (Yep, two out of three peopl ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

I Sing the Garbage Electric		21 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
I Sing the Garbage Electric Maybe President Bush can learn a thing or two about environmental policy during his visit today to Monterrey, Mexico's third-largest city and home to an innovative program to turn rotting garbage into electricity. The city government is working with a local energy company to construct an electricity plant at the Salinas Victoria Landfill; the plant will turn methane produced by decomposing ...
Topics: green living, Mexico, water pollution (all these topics)

Don't Drink the Water	Suzy Becker	18 Mar 2002	Ha.

Topics: health, water pollution (all these topics)

Blood and Water, Part One Israel and Palestine struggle over water in an arid land	Jessica McCallin	26 Feb 2002	Main Dish
Oil, namely the vast reserves in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, is the cause of many of the broad geopolitical battles plaguing the Middle East. But it is access to water, a more fundamental resource, that is at the root of much of the bitter conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Case in point: The Palestinians say they rejected a recent peace proposal from Israel be ...
Topics: Israel, water pollution (all these topics)

Silicon Death Valley		25 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Silicon Death Valley Nineteenth century labor conditions and 21st century technology are clashing in impoverished areas of Asia, where millions of tons of obsolete high-tech gear are shipped from the U.S. to be stripped of valuable parts. The practice, which is highly dangerous for both workers and the environment, is documented in a ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Asia, energy, globalization, Haiti, health, pollution and waste, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Bay Watch		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bay Watch If three environmental groups have their way, California's mammoth agriculture industry will be subject to state water-pollution laws for the first time in history. The three groups (San Francisco BayKeeper, DeltaKeeper, and the California Public Interest Research Group) filed suit yesterday against the Central Valley Regional Water Cont ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Chesa-piqued		11 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Chesa-piqued Saying that chemical contamination in the city's water supply led to miscarriages and infant deaths, 25 women have sued Chesapeake, Va., and almost 170 more plan to do so. According to a growing number of studies, the chlorine commonly used to purify drinking water can cause birth defects and miscarriages when it mixes with organic matter, su ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Virginia, water pollution (all these topics)

Cano Worms		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Cano Worms The Bush administration has asked for $98 million to help protect Colombia's Cano Limon oil pipeline from attacks by leftist guerrillas. The pipeline, which is owned by Occidental Petroleum, supplies crude oil to the U.S. and has the capacity to pump 240,000 barrels a day. But con ...
Topics: Colombia, commercial and industry organizations, energy, globalization, health, politics, pollution and waste, ranching, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

When Methanol's Said and Done		06 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
When Methanol's Said and Done In the first-ever legal challenge to a U.S. environmental measure mounted under the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Canadian company is contesting California's ban on the gasoline additive MTBE. The state began phasing out the chemical compound because of its apparent threat to water quality and human health, b ...
Topics: California, Canada, commercial and industry organizations, globalization, health, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

H-2-Oh-boy!		05 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
H-2-Oh-boy! Utility companies can be sued for violating safe drinking water standards, the California Supreme Court unanimously decided on Monday. The decision is significant because it allows thousands of victims of polluted water to seek financial compensation from the private and public utilities that pipe tap water into homes; in the past, victims mos ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Shanty Shanty Shanty		28 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Shanty Shanty Shanty Despite its terrible environmental rap, Mexico City remains one of the greenest cities in the world, with more than half the city's acreage designated as open space and fully 25 percent blanketed with forest. Unfortunately, all that is being threatened by the city's uncontrolled urban sprawl, most of it in the form o ...
Topics: deforestation, land degradation, Mexico, placemaking, pollution and waste, population, water pollution, wilderness (all these topics)

A Developer's Wet Dream		15 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
A Developer's Wet Dream The Bush administration weakened protection for wetlands, streams, and swamps across the U.S. yesterday by making changes to the Clean Water Act, despite the objections of the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The changes, which were proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers and approved by the White House, make it eas ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, politics, US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Hi Ho Sterling, Away!		14 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Hi Ho Sterling, Away! If the Sterling Mining Company has its way, one of the continent's largest underground mines could soon be dug beneath the Cabinet Mountains of northwestern Montana, marking the first time that large-scale mining would take place beneath a federal wilderness area. Last month, federal and state officials granted the company a permit to ope ...
Topics: mining and drilling, Montana, US Forest Service, water pollution, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Taps		09 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Taps Drinking chlorinated tap water puts pregnant women at a higher risk for miscarrying or bearing children with birth defects, according to a new study by two environmental organizations. The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group and U.S. Public Interest Research Group studied water quality data from thousands of water utilities before publishing their findings yesterday. Chlorine is use ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Taking Liberties?		07 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Taking Liberties? The U.S. Supreme Court will begin today to consider a lawsuit over private property development in Lake Tahoe that has had lot owners and land-use planners squared off for more than two decades. At issue is a 1981 moratorium on the development of certain lots where runoff from rain and snowmelt would ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, lakes, Nevada, placemaking, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

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