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Galapagos report: CEOs, scientists, and a very cool trip An expedition to see critters and talk freshwater	Grist	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Mary Pearl is the president of Wildlife Trust, cofounder of its Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and an adjunct research scientist at Columbia University. Over the next week, she'll be traveling in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with a boat full of scientists, conservationists, and business leaders to forge partnerships and develop solutions to the global freshwater crisis. This is the first of her dispatches from the journey. Claudio Padua and I hatched a crazy idea ...
Topics: business, environmental movement, Galapagos Islands, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Well ... A for Effort? Reports say Chesapeake Bay is still hurting		20 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Well ... A for Effort? Reports say Chesapeake Bay is still hurting Two new reports show that, despite 22 years of clean-up efforts, the Chesapeake Bay is still in miserable shape. Pollution and population growth are on the rise, sullying the bay and its tributaries. A report issued by the Chesapeake Bay Program -- a partnership between the U.S. EPA and watershed states -- found degraded water and damage to grasses, crabs, c ...
Topics: Maryland, news, water pollution (all these topics)

The most polluted city on earth	David Roberts	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Linfen, China. Yuck.
Topics: air pollution, China, water pollution (all these topics)

Wave of Futilation U.S. House, at odds with White House, passes $1.7 billion wastewater bill		08 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Wave of Futilation U.S. House, at odds with White House, passes $1.7 billion wastewater bill The U.S. House made waves yesterday by passing the first of three water-quality bills it will consider this week. Faced with White House disapproval, feisty U.S. reps voted 367-58 to spend $1.7 billion over five years to modernize wastewater systems and stem sewage overflows across the country. ...
Topics: Congress, news, politics, regulation, water pollution, White House (all these topics)

Priorities How do you choose yours?	Jason D Scorse	25 Feb 2007	Gristmill
I had nightmares after reading Nicolas Kristof's gruesome description of the Guinea worm -- a two-foot worm that eats through people and pops out of their bodies in the most unpleasant places -- in his editorial on Jimmy Carter's work to eradicate the disease. Beside the sleepless night, the article helped to solidify two things for me.First, in this world we are but one among millions of creatures competing for resources. There are many out to kill us, but also many ...
Topics: environmental movement, health, water pollution (all these topics)

Putting a price tag on nature Environmentalism's confusing accounting	Adam Stein	19 Feb 2007	Gristmill
The L.A. Times published an interesting if somewhat odd piece in last week's magazine about efforts to coax the business community into loving the environment by assigning a dollar value to our natural resources, or 'ecosystem services.' So, for example, we learn that dung beetles provide $380 million of waste management services to the U.S. cattle industry. One mile of coastal wetland provides $2.4 million of storm protection. A nice fern is worth $4, or you can get ...
Topics: air pollution, business, environmental movement, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

It Takes a Vilsack to Raise Our Hopes Presidential candidate Tom Vilsack outlines bold energy and climate plan		15 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
It Takes a Vilsack to Raise Our Hopes Presidential candidate Tom Vilsack outlines bold energy and climate plan If Democratic presidential long-shot Tom Vilsack had his way, the U.S. would embrace a mandatory cap-and-trade system to slash greenhouse-gas emissions 75 percent by 2050, break its oil addiction, and create hundreds of thousands of clean-energy jobs. This week, the former Iowa governor became the first presidentia ...
Topics: news, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

You Go, Hugo Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mouths off about conservation		06 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
You Go, Hugo Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mouths off about conservation The campaign to fight climate change and reduce global oil use seems to have an unlikely new champion: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. In a country where car salesfolk do a healthy business and gasoline is subsidized to 12 cents a gallon -- that's about $3 to fill an SUV -- Chavez's environmental hype has been knocked as rhetoric. But at the very ...
Topics: news, Venezuela, water pollution (all these topics)

They Put the Heat in Heath Australian leaders suggest water recycling to address ongoing drought		30 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
They Put the Heat in Heath Australian leaders suggest water recycling to address ongoing drought As evidenced by Heath Ledger, Australians are hot -- so hot, in fact, that they've used up much of their water. As the state of Queensland suffers an ongoing drought, Premier Peter Beattie has warned that residents may soon be drinking recycled sewage water. Premiers of other Aussie states pooh-pooh effluent recycling, but Envi ...
Topics: Australia, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Thermal Under Where? Report encourages investment in safe, clean geothermal energy		24 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Thermal Under Where? Report encourages investment in safe, clean geothermal energy If the U.S. is going to insist on looking for energy underground, there's a better option than drilling for oil, researchers say: generating steamy geothermal electricity by circulating water down into hot rocks below the earth's surface and back up into power plants. An MIT study commissioned by the U.S. Energy Department says geothermal energy can be ...
Topics: news, water pollution (all these topics)

That Doesn't Even Make Fence Border fence construction may bypass environmental laws		17 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
That Doesn't Even Make Fence Border fence construction may bypass environmental laws It's hard to think of a worse idea than building a 700-mile border fence between the U.S. and Mexico, but here's a shot: building a border fence without abiding by the Endangered Species Act, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, or National Environmental Policy Act. Yet on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael ...
Topics: Mexico, news, United States, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Not in Sound health Washington guv defangs oversight panel	Kate Sheppard	23 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire may have announced a major program to clean up the Puget Sound just last week, but this week the tides have, er, turned.This week, she's planning to limit the power of an independent citizen oversight panel intending to keep an eye on the oil industry -- probably the biggest threat to Sound health. From the Seattle P-I:Gregoire told the chairman of the Oil Spill Advisory Council, which is less than 1 1/2 years old, that she ...
Topics: oil, politics, Washington, water pollution (all these topics)

Gems Fightin' Words Federal agency predictions that mines would not pollute water were wrong, study says		12 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Gems Fightin' Words Federal agency predictions that mines would not pollute water were wrong, study says Before giving a precious-metal mine the go-ahead, federal agencies must find that the operation will not taint surrounding waterways with chemicals like arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lead, and cyanide. But for the past 25 years, agencies' pollution predictions "did not generally agree with reality,& ...
Topics: Alaska, mining and drilling, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Cut and Run Easy efficiency steps could slash global power demand, report says		30 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Cut and Run Easy efficiency steps could slash global power demand, report says Thoreau said the preservation of the world was in wildness, but it might be in light bulbs. A new report says efficiency improvements could cut global energy-consumption increases by more than half over the next 15 years. From replacing bulbs and improving insulation to rejiggering government regulations, "the opportunities are huge, and yet they are b ...
Topics: news, water pollution (all these topics)

In Toilets Is the Preservation of the World U.N. study illuminates deadly global water and sanitation situation		10 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
In Toilets Is the Preservation of the World U.N. study illuminates deadly global water and sanitation situation Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice -- but it's more likely to be lack of access to clean water that does us in. A U.N. report says dirty water is the second-leading cause of death among children around the world, causing 1.8 million wee ones under 5 to perish each year, and says that 2.6 bi ...
Topics: news, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Bio Partisan President Bush promotes energy independence, snuggles up to Democrats		10 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Bio Partisan President Bush promotes energy independence, snuggles up to Democrats Word is President Bush will unveil an "energy independence" initiative to support ethanol and other biofuels -- and to show the world that he's, you know, down with the progressive agenda. (Which would be a lot more convincing if major ethanol investors didn't include oil giants like BP and Royal Dutch Shell. But we digress.) Alan H ...
Topics: news, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Pace: the Final Frontier Engineers hope to harvest human energy		26 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Pace: the Final Frontier Engineers hope to harvest human energy Scientists and engineers are looking to make use of human-powered energy. Don't worry, they don't want to hook you up to electrodes; the means of capturing the energy may be as unobtrusive as a matrix of pressure pads under sidewalks and floors. "When we walk along a pavement, eight watts of energy is wasted -- absorbed by the ground -- with each heel. Yet it's possi ...
Topics: news, water pollution (all these topics)

Power Shift E.U. launches action plan for reducing energy use		19 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Power Shift E.U. launches action plan for reducing energy use The European Union has adopted an action plan for reducing energy use 20 percent by 2020, saying increased efficiency could save it $125 billion by that year. Under the plan, the 25-nation bloc will expand building energy-efficiency rules to apply to smaller structures, and develop binding minimum efficiency requirements for electric, heating, and cooling s ...
Topics: European Union, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Sure It's Not the Politics? Wildlife waste blamed for pollution in D.C.-area waterways		29 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Sure It's Not the Politics? Wildlife waste blamed for pollution in D.C.-area waterways Tired of being left out, nature has decided to join in the fun and pollute itself. A significant amount of harmful bacteria in Virginia and Maryland waterways has been pinned on, well, wildlife poop. The Potomac and Anacostia rivers and an additional two dozen or so streams have been declared federally &quo ...
Topics: news, Potomac River, Washington DC, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

A Ploy Named Sue With feds asleep at the wheel, states sue to protect air and water		28 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
A Ploy Named Sue With feds asleep at the wheel, states sue to protect air and water Frustrated by federal inaction, states and localities are increasingly suing companies and even each other in attempts to curb air and water pollution. Oklahoma, for instance, has filed suit against eight companies that operate chicken farms in neighboring Arkansas, cha ...
Topics: air pollution, Arkansas, environmental justice, Kentucky, news, Oklahoma, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Being exploited? Exploit them back.	Corey McKrill	21 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Tomorrow, Alaska's primary election will include an important ballot measure that imposes new regulations and taxes on the cruise ship industry. For environmental protection, it includes beefed-up regulations that will hold cruise corporations more accountable to Alaska's strict pollution controls, as well as allowing civil action suits against violators. For economic growth, it proposes a head tax on all cruise passengers coming into the state, the revenue of which w ...
Topics: Alaska, legislation, politics, travel, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

In Clemente Conditions Radioactive, cancer-causing tritium leaks into California groundwater		18 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
In Clemente Conditions Radioactive, cancer-causing tritium leaks into California groundwater Tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen that can cause cancer, miscarriages, and birth defects, has leaked from a nuclear power plant near San Clemente, Calif. Groundwater tested at up to 330,000 picocuries of tritium per liter; we don't know what a picocurie is, but California's public- ...
Topics: California, news, nuclear power, Pacific Ocean, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

From Bad to Thirst Water crisis doesn't care if countries are rich or poor		16 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
From Bad to Thirst Water crisis doesn't care if countries are rich or poor Water crisis: not just for poor countries anymore. Industrialized nations must make drastic policy changes if they wish to maintain water supplies, warns the World Wildlife Fund today. In cities from Seville to Sydney to Sacramento, water has become a hot political issue as supply declines thanks to everything from global ...
Topics: news, water conflicts, water pollution, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

This Sand Is Your Sand Jim Moriarty, president of Surfrider Foundation, answers readers' questions		04 Aug 2006	InterActivist
Jim Moriarty, Surfrider Foundation. What has been the greatest obstacle in keeping the beaches clean and accessible?�� -- Jerry Broadbent, Bucoda, Wash. The greatest obstacle for clean beaches is awareness of how beaches get dirty to begin with. Smokers need to understand that their cigarette butts end up down storm drains and on beaches. Golf-course managers and farmers need to unders ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, oceans, outdoor recreation, water pollution (all these topics)

Green Crush Jim Moriarty, president of Surfrider Foundation, answers Grist's questions		31 Jul 2006	InterActivist
Jim Moriarty. What work do you do? I work at an environmental, action-sports-oriented nonprofit called Surfrider Foundation. What does your organization do? We exist for the protection and enjoyment of oceans, waves, and beaches. Two examples: we fight for clean water and beach access. How do you get to work? Mini Cooper S or telecommute. I'm a firm believer in the virtual organization, having live ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, oceans, outdoor recreation, water pollution (all these topics)

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