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Energy Policy Act birthday, not so much happy
Good/funny/depressing post on ThinkProgress about the first birthday of the Energy Policy Act, the execrable piece of swill that passes for Bush administration energy policy.
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Wal-Mart’s green makeover
I have an op-ed on TomPaine.com today about Wal-Mart's recent green initiatives. Give it a read. I'm sure the accusations of corporate whoredom will come rolling in at any moment.
I worry that, even given the copious pixels expended, my overall point was not entirely clear. So below the fold, I shall try to express it in more compact form.
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Federal court case allows mining “fill” dumped in freshwater
A recent federal court decision (PDF) confirms and seems to expand the validity of the Bush EPA's redefinition of mine waste as "fill," allowing a gold mine to dump millions of tons of the crap into a freshwater lake north of Juneau, Alaska. This could set a truly disturbing precedent. More at Brudaimonia.
(And PS: "Brudaimonia"? That's some quality philoso-blogospheric geekery.)
Update [2006-8-8 13:7:28 by David Roberts]: Ah, I see our very own Corey blogged about the case a year or so ago. Good background.
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Print it, email it, digg it, bookmark it, reddit … technologic
All you eagle-eyed Gristmillers might have noticed a small change recently: a toolbar!
Each post now includes the following features:
- A printer-friendly version, which allows you to hide and display comments;
- email a friend, where you can recommend a post to up to 10 people at a time and include a custom message;
- add to digg, which nows has an environment category;
- bookmark to del.icio.us; and
- add to reddit.
Links are the top of each post. Enjoy!
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Ire
War igniting forest fires in northern Israel Like America’s, Israel’s forests and grasslands are suffering an unusual number of fires this season. But the problem isn’t so much a heat wave as, um, rocket attacks. Since the mid-July start of the Israel-Lebanon conflict, an average of around 50 fires a day have ignited in the […]
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Surprise-Side Economics
While cutting back on mercury at home, the U.S. exports it abroad Like Mickey said, it’s a small world after all, and pollution that gets exported can end up coming back home. Case in point: mercury, a neurotoxin especially dangerous to children and women of childbearing age. The U.S. is cutting down on the use […]
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Tune In to Morro
Enviros buy out trawlers in California bay Attempting to conserve rapidly vanishing bottom-dwelling fish stocks off the central California coast, Environmental Defense and The Nature Conservancy have teamed with bottom-trawling fishers to create three “no-trawl zones” covering a total of nearly 6,000 square miles. In exchange for their endorsement, the fishers in California’s Morro Bay […]
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Diamond’s Err Forever
Dioxin-laced Passaic River remains uncleaned by corporations that fouled it For today’s tale of corporate skullduggery and government negligence, we take you to the lovely state of New Jersey. For almost 20 years beginning in the early ’50s, the Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Co. — manufacturer of pesticides like DDT and Agent Orange — dumped its […]
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Rag report
It's de rigeur for Mother Earth News and Plenty to feature sustainable living on their covers, but the past few months have seen major glossies such as Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and Forbes doing the green thing.
Now in a September issue devoted to low impact living, Dwell (for those of you unfamiliar, it's a popular home & design magazine) is joining in. And they've done VF one better, actually printing the issue on post-consumer content recycled (PCR) paper -- a practice they pledge to continue in the future. Very few magazines have yet adopted PCR, even though -- as the Dwell issue demonstrates -- the result is stylish and indistinguishable from a virgin pulp product.
