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Erin Simmons, an advocate for healthy oceans, answers questions
If Everybody Had an Ocean With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I am West Coast organizer for Oceana. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would […]
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News Happens
Interesting Stuff That Transpired During Our Publishing Break We’re back, rested, and raring to go! While we were gone: The public comment period on the U.S. EPA’s proposed new mercury […]
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Tigris, Tigris, Burning Blight
Iraq’s Once-Mighty Tigris River in Sad Shape Iraq’s Tigris River is horrendously polluted and may be poisoning Iraqis, but no one is sure just how bad the problem is — […]
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Guns and Butterflies
Mexican Butterfly Forest Site of Battle Over Deforestation Mexico’s most famous national park, the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, is home to a 10,000-year-old evergreen forest where huge clouds of orange […]
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Readers sound off on eco-jobs, old growth, and more
Kicking Peterson’s Tongass Re: Shake Dat Tongass Dear Editor: U.S. Representative John Peterson (R-Penn.), who commented that old-growth forests don’t support the kind of wildlife he and his fellow […]
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Public Disservice Announcement
New EPA Ad Mocks Car Energy Efficiency Automobile fuel efficiency is for losers! This message brought to you by, believe it or not, the U.S. EPA. A new series of […]
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Japan-Ease
Japan Weathers High Oil Prices With Energy Efficiency The high price of oil has many countries — including the U.S. — casting about for ways to lower the cost, increase […]
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Dispensing With the Peasantries
Electricity Comes to Rural China China’s economy is exploding, with consequences that may only be understood decades from now. In addition to massive hydropower ventures — like the $25 billion […]
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Don’t Hiatus Because We’re Beautiful
Grist on a Two-Week Publishing Hiatus Astute readers will have noticed our abject failure to say anything even remotely funny in today’s Daily Grist and wondered, “What’s up?” What’s up […]
