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Some Like It Hauter Wenonah Hauter, director of Food and Water Watch, answers Grist's questions		30 Jan 2006	InterActivist
Wenonah Hauter. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am the executive director of Food and Water Watch, a brand-new consumer advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. What does your organization do? We're focused on protecting two critical essentials: food and water. Our mission is to challenge the economic and political forces that are promoting industrialized food p ...
Topics: food and agriculture, InterActivist, interview, water pollution (all these topics)

Kernel Ganders Ethanol decent on efficiency but not on greenhouse gases, study finds		27 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Kernel Ganders Ethanol decent on efficiency but not on greenhouse gases, study finds The heated debate over biofuels took another sharp turn this week: New research in the journal Science claims that replacing fossil fuels with corn-based ethanol is energy-efficient (contrary to some previous studies), but doesn't do much to cut greenhouse-gas pollution. Researchers from UC-Berkeley determined that ethanol resul ...
Topics: food and agriculture, news, water pollution (all these topics)

The Fries Have It Boston diner gets its heat from used veggie oil		24 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
The Fries Have It Boston diner gets its heat from used veggie oil Restaurant owner Don Levy geared up for this year's chilly Boston winter by getting rid of his furnace. Wait, it's not as batty as it sounds: Levy replaced his old heating system with a boiler that runs on 100 percent vegetable oil -- a readily available resource, so long as Bostonians keep eating fries. Not only is Levy avoiding high natural-gas heating ...
Topics: Massachusetts, news, water pollution (all these topics)

F'd Troops Whistle-blower says Halliburton supplied foul water to troops in Iraq		24 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
F'd Troops Whistle-blower says Halliburton supplied foul water to troops in Iraq Former employees of a subsidiary of Halliburton, the big military-services contractor once helmed by Vice President Dick Cheney, say the company exposed thousands of American troops and Iraqi civilians to sewage-laced water. Testifying yesterday before Senate Democrats, whistle-blower and water-quality expert ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Iraq, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Now That's Intelligent Design Schools curbing energy costs by building green		04 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Now That's Intelligent Design Schools curbing energy costs by building green School officials in Oregon are learning a thing or two from a prototype uber-green classroom near Salem, which uses a large skylight and other technologies to enhance and regulate the natural light coming into the space. With energy bills eating up millions of dollars from school budgets, the project demonstrates that clas ...
Topics: education, environmental planning, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Buenos Bios How South American biofuels are gaining steam, and why that freaks the U.S. out	Kelly Hearn	15 Dec 2005	Main Dish
In his drab office in the fashion-obsessed chaos of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, Edmundo Defferrari cuts a farmhand's figure in a corporate man's world. Soy is growing up down south. Photo: USDA/Keith Weller. The 28-year-old industrial engineer, in cap, jeans, and scruffy beard, taps through a PowerPoint presentation choked with graphs, statistics, and cartoon renderings of ...
Topics: Argentina, Brazil, South America, water pollution (all these topics)

The Big Grapple New York, New York, it's a wonderful, energy-efficient town		12 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
The Big Grapple New York, New York, it's a wonderful, energy-efficient town With demand for electricity steadily increasing but no room for new power plants, New York City is making pioneering strides in energy efficiency; even famously eco-conscious burgs like Seattle and Portland are taking notice. New York has switched over more than 11,000 traffic lights and walk signals to light-emitting diodes that use 90 percent less ...
Topics: New York, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Dismember the Maine Rural Maine residents divided as spring-water bottler moves in		09 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Dismember the Maine Rural Maine residents divided as spring-water bottler moves in An international corporation descending on a rural town, bent on extracting natural resources. Africa? South America? Nope: New England. Nestl� Waters North America Inc., purveyors of Poland Spring water, is prospecting for new sources of "blue gold" in the western Maine wilderness. ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Maine, New England, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Consciousness of Streams Sprawl is dirtying streams and posing threat to U.S. drinking water		28 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Consciousness of Streams Sprawl is dirtying streams and posing threat to U.S. drinking water Storm-water runoff threatens nearly every urban and suburban stream in the U.S., with serious implications for the country's drinking water. Used to be rain fell largely onto meadows, forests, and fields, where it was absorbed by plants or filtered into the underground water table, eventually percolating up to replenish ...
Topics: news, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Torch Songhua China chemical-spill crisis eases, but water's still not safe to drink		28 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Torch Songhua China chemical-spill crisis eases, but water's still not safe to drink As Americans gorged on turkey and pumpkin pie, a 50-mile-long toxic chemical spill was flowing along the Songhua River through northern China -- the worst environmental disaster in the nation's recent history. The crisis began on Nov. 13, when two explosions at a state-owned petrochemical plant in Jilin killed five workers, injured 70 ...
Topics: China, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

The Turin of the Screw Italy Winter Olympics to be carbon-neutral, but enviros aren't mollified		15 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
The Turin of the Screw Italy Winter Olympics to be carbon-neutral, but enviros aren't mollified All right, who's ready for a "winning the green medal" joke? Us too! Organizers say the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, will have no net impact on global climate disruption, thanks to energy efficiency, clean-energy tech, and tree planting to offset carbon dioxide emissions. Italian enviros, thoug ...
Topics: green living, Italy, news, water pollution (all these topics)

On the Rocks Water proves good fodder for two new books, fact and fiction	Elizabeth Grossman	09 Nov 2005	Arts and Minds
My rubber boots are ankle deep in mud. An overhang of moss supported by a wedge of ice taller than I am -- ice that has likely never before been exposed -- is dripping water onto my hat. It is August 2004, and I am standing on the North Slope of Alaska, at a spot where warming temperatures and water flow have caused the permafrost to buckle. Gleaning the cube. I went there to see the chang ...
Topics: water pollution (all these topics)

Will Waters Never Cease? Aussie firms extract both clean energy and drinking water from ocean		09 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Will Waters Never Cease? Aussie firms extract both clean energy and drinking water from ocean Among our many environmental problems, two of the most vexing are dwindling freshwater supplies and a dearth of clean energy. Now two Australian firms think they've hit on a way to tackle both at once: a desalination plant that could convert saltwater to freshwater, using only the power supplied by the ocean's waves, and ...
Topics: Australia, news, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

Shanghai Hopes China plans even bigger expansion of its clean-energy capacity		08 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Shanghai Hopes China plans even bigger expansion of its clean-energy capacity China yesterday announced plans to more than double its clean-energy capacity -- from 7 percent of electricity production today to about 15 percent by 2020, up from a previous goal of 10 percent. While this could make the country a leading global player in the hydropower, solar, and wind industries, it still wouldn't offset the country's climate-dama ...
Topics: China, news, water pollution (all these topics)

All Features Great, and Small Teensy fuel cells offer greener power sources for small gadgets		20 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
All Features Great, and Small Teensy fuel cells offer greener power sources for small gadgets Yes, yes, your new iPod nano is very cool. But wouldn't it be just that much cooler if you could recharge it with a small bottle of clear liquid? It might happen: Toshiba and other Japanese electronics firms are developing itty-bitty fuel cells to juice up portable gadgets. Unlike batteries, fuel cells contain few hazar ...
Topics: green living, Japan, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Hapless Wetlands Supreme Court will hear two Clean Water Act cases		13 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Hapless Wetlands Supreme Court will hear two Clean Water Act cases The first U.S. Supreme Court session under Chief Justice John Roberts will feature two cases pitting government regulatory power against private property rights -- precisely the area where greens most fear Roberts' jurisprudence. Both cases originated in Michigan, and ask whether the federal government has jurisdiction under the Clean W ...
Topics: Michigan, news, politics, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Hung Out to Dry Post-Katrina floodwaters are dirty, but so are other U.S. waterways	Osha Gray Davidson	11 Oct 2005	Main Dish
Last month, "toxic gumbo" entered the American lexicon with the speed and force of the floodwaters it describes. A LexisNexis search of major U.S. publications doesn't return a single hit for the phrase in the year before Hurricane Katrina. But in the 30 days after the storm's landfall, 66 articles contained the phrase. Measure twice, cup once. "I want to be very c ...
Topics: Iowa, Louisiana, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

Taking It All Offset House GOPers want to cut enviro and other programs to pay for rebuilding		27 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Taking It All Offset House GOPers want to cut enviro and other programs to pay for rebuilding Rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is expected to run the feds around $200 billion. A group of House Republicans called the Republican Study Committee has unveiled an "Operation Offset" plan with proposed budget cuts to pay for the massive expenditure. While this nostalgic exerci ...
Topics: health, news, oceans, politics, water pollution (all these topics)

Flood Is Thicker Than Water Assessing toxic hazards in New Orleans challenges the EPA		15 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Flood Is Thicker Than Water Assessing toxic hazards in New Orleans challenges the EPA The post-Katrina mess of pollution along the Gulf Coast is "the largest national disaster that we at EPA or, we believe, that the nation has faced," U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said yesterday. Serious health problems threaten the region, he said, including floodwaters tainted with sewage-related bact ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

The Sweet Swim of Success Lower Hudson River clean enough for dipping		01 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
The Sweet Swim of Success Lower Hudson River clean enough for dipping A dozen-plus locations along the lower Hudson River in New York state are once again fit for taking a dip, thanks to decades of cleanup efforts. Accounts of swimming in the Hudson date back to colonial times, but by the mid-20th century the river was an unholy stew of industrial waste and raw sewage. Cleanup started in the 1960s, and roughl ...
Topics: Hudson River, New York, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Let Down Your Giardia Filtering water may not be the answer to most backcountry illnesses		27 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Let Down Your Giardia Filtering water may not be the answer to most backcountry illnesses Went to the backwoods and ended up with a case of the runs? You probably blamed the water. But according to some medical and wilderness professionals, it is poor personal hygiene, not unsafe water, that usually bedevils the bowels of wilderness backpackers. Medical researcher and avid outdoorsnik Bob Derlet has tested water a ...
Topics: news, outdoor recreation, water pollution (all these topics)

They Don't Say Test Until I Say They Say Test Pentagon has refused to test for toxic rocket-fuel chemical		23 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
They Don't Say Test Until I Say They Say Test Pentagon has refused to test for toxic rocket-fuel chemical Department of Defense operations are a primary perpetrator of perchlorate contamination nationwide, but the department has regularly turned down state and federal requests to test for the toxic chemical, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Perchlorate -- which is commonly found ...
Topics: Department of Defense, news, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

East Meets Quest China, in quest to be more efficient, could take a lesson from Japan		07 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
East Meets Quest China, in quest to be more efficient, could take a lesson from Japan China just kicked off a new $80 million venture to boost energy efficiency and slash pollution; it aims to quadruple its gross domestic product by 2020 while merely (!) doubling its energy consumption. For inspiration, China might look to its neighbor and sometime rival to the east: In Japan, energy use in industry has been flat since ...
Topics: China, Japan, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Mr. Hanky Bush touts biofuels and his energy bill		17 May 2005	Daily Grist
Mr. Hanky Bush touts biofuels and his energy bill With his approval ratings plunging due in part to high gas prices, President Bush is fighting back by ... sniffing a hanky. Let us explain. Yesterday, Bush visited a biodiesel refinery in West Point, Va., to tout the alternative-fuel subsidies in his energy bill, which the Senate will begin considering this week. He praised biodiesel as a clean-burning fuel, even ...
Topics: news, politics, Virginia, water pollution (all these topics)

Rivers Phoenix Many small waterways rising from ashes, but U.S. rivers still ailing		13 May 2005	Daily Grist
Rivers Phoenix Many small waterways rising from ashes, but U.S. rivers still ailing With press attention focused on major river cleanups -- when it's focused on rivers at all -- some 37,000 small river and stream restoration projects in the U.S. have gone largely unnoticed, despite their environmental importance. The local, state, and federal restorations, costing an estimated $14 billion or more since 1990, ra ...
Topics: news, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

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