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Get on the Bus

Enviros and other critics of the World Trade Organization are launching a $40,000 outdoor advertising blitz in Seattle to get people thinking about the negative consequences of trade liberalization, as […]

If At First You Don't Succeed, Buy Ad Time

Worried about mounting resistance to genetically modified (GM) foods, the giants of biotechnology are channeling tens of millions of dollars into massive lobbying and marketing campaigns to counter their critics. […]

Climate Change Driving Us Buggy

Public health experts warn that as climate change becomes more serious, humans are likely to be hit by an increasing number of health problems, ranging from heat strokes to infectious […]

Young and the Restless

Two longtime Congressional enemies — Reps. Don Young (R-Alaska) and George Miller (D-Calif.) — teamed up yesterday to successfully push a bill through the House Resources Committee that would earmark […]

Nothing Could Be Finer Than to Clean Up a Refiner

Oil refineries across the U.S. spew an estimated 80 million pounds of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the air unreported each year, the equivalent of pollutants from 5 million new […]

Single Brown Industry ISO Senator, Morals A-

Lobbyists for polluting electric utilities in the Midwest and South are working hard to find an ally in Congress who could help them get legislative relief from potentially large fines […]

Club Medfly

The pesticide malathion may have sickened 123 people last year when it was sprayed over two Florida communities to kill crop-eating Mediterranean fruit flies, the federal Centers for Disease Control […]

Chinese Dragon Their Heels on Cleanup

In the wake of devastating Yangtze River floods last year, China’s leaders seem to be recognizing that many of their efforts to boost economic growth have been unsustainable and they […]

Hot Job Opportunities

A concerted push in Florida to forestall global warming could benefit the state’s economy by creating 27,000 new jobs in environmentally friendly industries, according to a study conducted by the […]

What Kind of Research Are They Doing — Taste Tests?

Five Japanese ships set sail yesterday with the intent of killing 440 minke whales, under the aegis of a program that allows whaling for scientific research. The whales killed will […]