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Grassley: Will We Help Everybody in the Food Supply?

When asked in a recent interview about a provision in the Senate's emergency spending bill that would give some, not all, farmers extra money to compensate for high energy costs, Senate Finance...

Photo of the Day

This shot was submitted by Susan A. from Dallas who would like to remind us that: "While consumers are paying record-breaking high prices for gasoline, former Exxon CEO Lee Raymond got a $400,000,000...

From the Onion

Fake environmental news article about the EPA.

The 'Dead Zone': You're Paying for It in More Ways Than One

From The Huffington Post: "No, not the Stephen King novel. It's no work of fiction, but a growing horror just the same. Every spring, polluted waters from the Mississippi watershed drain into the Gulf...

"Pombo-ize:" To Defeat/Be Defeated?

In a story in the Contra Costa Times, two people separately coin the term "Pombo-ize" to refer to that California Republican congressman's unsuccessful effort last fall to auction off our public lands...

Mass. Sets Strong Standard for Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water

Massachusetts has proposed the nation's most protective limits and clean-up standards for the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate in drinking water.

The Green House

Earlier this week it was eco-furniture -- now here's a green house to put it in. And like the furniture, the new green building is going beyond energy conservation and land use to focus mainly on...

N.C. Pesticide Laws Lack Teeth

Tomato giant Ag-Mart couldn't be in bigger trouble in North Carolina for alleged pesticide violations that may have caused birth defects in three field workers' children, but the state ag department...

Farm Fraud?

AP reports that some Washington state farmers may have faked results in tests of a federal conservation program designed to reduce pesticide and fertilizer use. The farmers received tens of thousands...

CDC Tests Show Rocket Fuel Levels May Be High in Food

A study of CDC employees designed to test new methods of looking for the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate in humans stumbled upon unusually high levels of perchlorate in its subjects. Since Atlanta's...

Bush Backpedals On Vow to Break Oil Addiction

It depends on what your definition of "import" is. Turns out the president was simply, well, exploiting American anxiety when he vowed during his State of the Union speech to break our addiction to...

Newspaper Tests Fish for Mercury

The Chicago Tribune is running a powerful series this week on mercury in seafood, including test results for eight different kinds of fish purchased in Chicago-area fish markets and supermarkets.

Clear Lies Initiative

The independent Congressional Research Service has put out a report stating that the EPA skewed its research on air pollution to favor the Bush administration's Clear Skies Initiative, exaggerating...

Project Censored Exposes Hushed News

Every year, for last 30 years, Project Censored at Sonoma State University has been collecting and reporting on news that corporate media doesn't cover. The issues that don't make it to the corporate...

FDA is faulted for drug-safety process

The nation's system for approving and monitoring the safety of medicines is inadequate and needs far-reaching reforms, and the Food and Drug Administration is plagued with poor management and...

John Kerry: "this administration couldn't care less"about minority and low-income neighborhoods

The [EPA] is not conducting required reviews to ensure that low-income and minority neighborhoods get the same environmental protection as other communities.

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McDonald's allowing comments after 5 days of criticism

After more than 5 days--and critical posts on TreeHugger, AdWeek, Fast Company, Emergence Marketing, Church of the Customer blog, AutoBlogGreen, TriplePundit, CityHippy, BlogHer and Viral Garden-...

Scientific integrity cartoon contest

Union of Concerned Scientists is in the final round of its Scientific Integrity Cartoon Contest, recognizing the best cartoons dealing with the intersection of politics and science. Only 12 finalists...

Hybrid happy meals: a wiser choice for McDonald's

Now that McDonald's Hummer happy meal promo is officially over and the marketing experts who conceived it are out looking for new jobs, their successors should be hard at work searching for a toy that...

McDonald's responds to Hummer protest

On McDonald's CSR blog, Vice President Bob Langert has defended the company's Hummer Happy Meal promotion by dismissing the effect that advertising has on children: "… I polled my staff who have or...

Bush slashes eco-whistleblower protection laws

From a press release issued on Labor Day by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER): "WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bush administration has declared itself immune from whistleblower...

In the news: Septempber 1, 2006

Drug Firms Use Financial Clout To Push Industry Agenda at FDA: The Food and Drug Administration is bargaining with the pharmaceutical industry for an increase in fees, giving the industry a greater...

"Drinking tea is better for you than drinking water."

A study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that drinking three to four cups of tea per day can reduce one’s chances of having a heart attack, and possibly help protect against some...