Uncategorized

Driven to Drink

The average fuel efficiency of new vehicles has hit a two-decade low of 20.4 miles per gallon, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. EPA. The report attributed […]

Rock On!

Canadian Minister of Health Allan Rock said yesterday that labels on genetically modified food should be mandatory in the country. In August, a national task force recommended a voluntary labeling […]

Just Say Noah

In a project known as Operation Ark — because, as one environmental official put it, “The only person that has come close to doing something like this is Mr. Noah” […]

Safety Pinned

Despite increased safety concerns following the terrorist attacks, Great Britain has approved the opening of a radioactive fuel reprocessing plant by the state-owned British Nuclear Fuels. Although British officials said […]

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Former President Bill Clinton paid a visit to Hollywood yesterday to speak at a fundraising dinner for the American Oceans Campaign. Leonardo DiCaprio, Barbra Streisand, Dennis Quaid, Rhea Perlman, and […]

Flying Fish

A proposal to create marine parks off the coast of California has led to shouting matches between environmentalists and scientists on the one side and the fishing industry and recreational […]

Benzene Wring

A five-year study by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission found that two chemical companies, Marathon Ashland Petroleum and BP Chemical, have been releasing unacceptable amounts of benzene into the […]

Hot Food

A sting operation by Cambodian wildlife officials uncovered 137 restaurants dishing up endangered species in the country’s capital city of Phnom Penh. The officials rescued more than 1,300 critters, including […]

Twenty-first Century Fox

More than 30 tons of toxic PCBs will be dredged from 19 miles of Wisconsin’s Fox River if a cleanup plan announced yesterday wins public support. To atone for decades […]

Cyanide, Sealed, and Delivered

Residents of Montana won’t have to vote again on a 1998 ban on the use of cyanide in open-pit gold mines. The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday chose not to consider […]