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Tijuana Ass		03 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Tijuana Ass For decades, raw sewage from Tijuana has flowed into the Tijuana River, north through the United States, and into the Pacific Ocean, violating U.S. clean water standards. Efforts to clean up the waste have bogged down in the double-bureaucracy that plagues cross-border negotiations, with fully one dozen Mexican and U.S. mun ...
Topics: health, Mexico, outdoor recreation, Pacific Ocean, solid waste treatment and disposal, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Business As Usual		02 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Business As Usual The U.S. government will no longer consider a business's environmental track record when awarding federal contracts, following the Bush administration's decision to rescind 11th-hour Clinton-era "blacklisting" regulations. The regulations required a business to have a satisfactory record on ethical, environmental, tax, labor, antitrust, and consumer protection laws t ...
Topics: business, Iceland, politics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Water, at Your Surface		13 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Water, at Your Surface A water shortage in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, has grown so severe that authorities have called in the army to distribute drinking water to the city's residents. The shortage is fueled by 6 percent annual population growth, mushrooming housing complexes, and severe pollution of the nearby Buriganga River. Riverside industries dump hundreds of tons of waste and toxic chemicals directly into the ...
Topics: Bangladesh, water pollution (all these topics)

The Dredge Great-Scott Decision		05 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
The Dredge Great-Scott Decision U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said yesterday that her agency would order General Electric to spend almost $500 million to dredge PCBs from the upper Hudson River. In doing so, Whitman disregarded a multi-million-dollar P.R. campaign by the giant company claiming that dredging would not improve the river's health. Enviros, who had feare ...
Topics: environmental restoration, Hudson River, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Sunny Dispositions		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Sunny Dispositions San Francisco may be making headlines with its innovative plan to radically expand solar power generation, but other places deserve kudos as well, according to a study released last week by Greenpeace. The study, produced before the San Francisco plan was approved by voters last week, compared both planned and installed solar energy systems in ...
Topics: Arizona, California, Greenpeace, Nevada, New York, San Francisco, Texas, water pollution (all these topics)

They've Got Our Vote		07 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
They've Got Our Vote Environmentalists scored significant victories in yesterday's gubernatorial elections, with Democrats James McGreevey and Mark Warner taking office in New Jersey and Virginia, respectively. McGreevey defeated Republican candidate Bret Schundler in a race where environmental issues, especially open spaces and clean air and wat ...
Topics: air pollution, California, New Jersey, placemaking, politics, renewable energy, Virginia, water pollution (all these topics)

Fuel for the City		25 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Fuel for the City Seeking to control sky-high summertime fuel prices, the U.S. EPA proposed new regulations for anti-smog gasoline yesterday. The EPA has been gradually phasing in a plan to combat summer smog in densely populated areas by mandating the use of cleaner-burning reformulated gasoline (RFG). The oil industry blames that plan for high prices at the pumps -- close to $3 per gallon in some ...
Topics: business, energy, placemaking, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Fairer Faucet		10 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Fairer Faucet For the first time, construction of new housing developments in California will be contingent on water availability, under a bill signed yesterday by Gov. Gray Davis (D). The new law prohibits cities and counties from approving housing projects of 500 or more units unless water agencies verify that there is sufficient water to serve the developments for at least 20 years, even in times of dr ...
Topics: California, politics, population, water pollution (all these topics)

Green Camouflage		04 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Green Camouflage The Pentagon spends about $5 billion a year on its "environmental security program," trying to reduce the environmental impact of the armed services. But many greenies think that's not enough, and up until the terrorist attacks, the military was facing growing pressure to take the environment more seriously. A proposal in Congress would require the mi ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, politics, US Military, water pollution (all these topics)

Golly G.E.		01 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Golly G.E. Environmental groups and officials in New York state are concerned that General Electric may be making headway in its campaign to scuttle a federal plan forcing it to dredge the Hudson River for pollution. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced in August that she would proceed with a $500 million, Clinton-era plan to order G.E. to remove ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Hudson River, New York, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Zinc About What You're Trying to Do to Me		26 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Zinc About What You're Trying to Do to Me A proposed zinc and copper mine in northern Wisconsin may have run into trouble last Friday when the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Sokaogon Chippewa have the right to regulate water quality on their reservation downstream from the mine site. The court rejected arguments by Wisconsin that it alone had the authority to establish water quality standar ...
Topics: mining and drilling, water pollution, Wisconsin (all these topics)

First Contami-Nations		25 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
First Contami-Nations Navajo activists plan to rally today and tomorrow against an energy bill before the U.S. Senate that would give $30 million to fund uranium mining on Navajo Nation lands in New Mexico. They say the mining would contaminate the drinking water of more than 15,000 people. Lori Goodman, spokesperson for Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, described the plan a ...
Topics: health, mining and drilling, New Mexico, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Solar Helps Bridge Digital Divide in Developed World		13 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
Read more about: water pollution Solar Helps Bridge Digital Divide in Developed World Solar energy has become the energy of choice in some of the world's rural markets, helping to bridge the digital divide in developing countries. Daniel Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley said 2 billion people across the world don't have access to electricity and 1 billion of them could afford to pay for power. "There's a lot of money to be made in converting those people to solar," sai ...
Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

No Safe Harbor		10 Sep 2001	Daily Grist
No Safe Harbor Even though water clarity in Boston Harbor has improved twofold and concentrations of contaminants have dropped 80 percent this past year, the area's major beaches aren't much cleaner than they were in the 1990s. Officials attribute the successes to a $4.1 billion, 16-year cleanup effort that ended in 2000. Sewage and stormwater discharges, however, have kept the beaches shut about 20 percent of the ti ...
Topics: Massachusetts, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

In the Drink		27 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
In the Drink The gasoline additive MTBE, a known carcinogen, has already leaked into 48 public wells that provide water to hundreds of thousands of Californians, according to a San Francisco Chronicle analysis of state data. The additive is leaking from 1,189 underground storage tanks within 1,000 feet of public wells or drinking water aquifers, threatening the water supplies of millions in the state. That's not the ful ...
Topics: California, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

The Kratzer-Jammin' Kid		23 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
The Kratzer-Jammin' Kid Two new U.S. government reports raise big concerns about a Bush administration plan to cut federal environmental enforcement staff by 8 percent and shift resources to the states. A report by the U.S. EPA's inspector general found that states are doing a poor job of monitoring and punishing water polluters. A report by the General Accou ...
Topics: Government Accountability Office, politics, pollution and waste, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

At Whit's End		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
At Whit's End U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman now thinks her decision to revoke a Clinton administration rule to reduce arsenic in drinking water was a bone-headed move. She told USA Today that her decision wasn't bad policy, but bad politics: "Politically, if I'd been smart, I would've never changed it. ... I would've let the courts decide. We were going to be sued anyway by the West ...
Topics: politics, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Rider Back Atcha		30 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Rider Back Atcha In a slap in the face to the Bush administration, the U.S. House voted 218 to 189 on Friday to require the White House to stick with the tough standard for arsenic in drinking water set by former President Clinton. Nineteen Republicans supported the measure, which was a direct response to a decision by Bush in March not to move forward with the standard. In a way, Democrats are following in the footsteps of Republic ...
Topics: US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Hey Good Lookin', What Ya Got Cookin'?		27 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Hey Good Lookin', What Ya Got Cookin'? Nearly all residents in Villaseca, Chile, cook with solar power --pretty nifty in a country where firewood is a big source of energy, contributing to a steep loss in old-growth forests each year. Villaseca in sunny northern Chile has only 300 residents, but proponents of the solar technology hope the gizmos will spread across the region. Pedro Serrano, an environ ...
Topics: green living, logging, South America, water pollution (all these topics)

Backstroke to the Future		26 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Backstroke to the Future Christopher Swain of Eugene, Ore., plans to swim all 1,243 miles of the Columbia River to call attention to what he describes as "a contaminated beauty." The feds are now investigating the river for sources of mercury and other nasties. Swain, who works for Columbia Riverkeeper, will embark on the 160-day swim next summer ...
Topics: Columbia River, education, Northwest, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

The Brown Lagoon		26 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
The Brown Lagoon Lagoons of animal waste from large factory farms are threatening drinking water and recreational waters across the country, according to a report released Tuesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Network. The groups want new lagoons to be banned and existing ones to be phased out within the next five years. The U.S. EPA this month is weighing whether t ...
Topics: solid waste treatment and disposal, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Boxer Comes Out Swinging		28 Jun 2001	Daily Grist
Boxer Comes Out Swinging The Natural Resources Defense Council said it would file a lawsuit today against the U.S. EPA for ignoring a congressional deadline to have a plan in place by last Friday to reduce arsenic levels in drinking water. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said she and several other senators would file papers in support of the NRDC lawsuit. In March, the Bush administration suspended ...
Topics: Barbara Boxer, NRDC, politics, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

The More You Drive, the More You Toot?	Suzy Becker	26 Jun 2001	Ha.

Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

Chicken Soup for the Soulless Benefit from Dick Cheney's motivational speeches!	Chris Colin	29 May 2001	Soapbox
Foreign leaders, whom the Bushies have occasionally punctured in the hopes of finding oil, continue to complain about the White House's recently released energy plan like little babies. Vice President Cheney has bravely turned their nagging on its ear, pointing out that foreigners often marry dogs and then eat them. Welcome to Cheney's America. "Conservation may be a sign of personal v ...
Topics: politics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Spin the Bottle Perrier didn't reckon on an angry citizenry when it looked to expand into the Midwest	Erik Ness	21 May 2001	Main Dish
Escape to Wisconsin. Play in our lakes, fish our rivers, and cavort in the famously kitschy water parks of Wisconsin Dells. Just don't try to take a drop of it home with you. Ninety-nine bottles of water on the wall. This, at least, is the stern message being sent by thousands of Wisconsin citizens to Perrier, the world's largest bottler of designer water. For the last f ...
Topics: business, water pollution, Wisconsin (all these topics)

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