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It's About Time

Perhaps there’s hope for the planet after all? In reaction to President Bush’s decision to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on climate change, Time magazine produced a special issue this […]

Solar Raise

BP Amoco launched the world’s largest solar energy project on Friday, promising to bring electricity to 150 remote villages in the Philippines. Financed in part by the Spanish government, the […]

Riddit, Riddit

The American bullfrog is threatening to drive some French amphibians to extinction, a French environmental group warned yesterday. The group, Cistude, asked for the French government’s help in eradicating the […]

Oh, Bilge!

Three environmental groups sued the U.S. EPA yesterday to force the agency to control the dumping of ballast water into bays, rivers, and lakes. More than 21 billion gallons of […]

Cat's Got Your Tongass

In a decision made public yesterday, a federal judge has halted all logging on roadless areas in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. The ruling came in response to a […]

What Would Dubya Do?

Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association

Ronnie Cummins is national director of the Organic Consumers Association and the author of the recent book, Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers. Monday, 2 Apr 2001 SANTA […]

Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark

A 550,000-gallon oil spill caused by the collision of a tanker and a freighter in the Baltic Sea reached the shores of Denmark yesterday. Strong winds broke the spill into […]

Taking a Charge in the Paint

In an effort to force Rhode Island to abandon its lawsuit against the country’s biggest lead paint manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has requested that state and Providence city […]

Surly, With Infringe on Top

A federal judge in Canada ruled yesterday that a Canadian farmer had infringed on Monsanto’s patent rights because plants from the company’s genetically engineered canola seed had been found on […]