06 April 2007
USDA and agribusiness conspire to mislead consumers
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Mark Kastel
"Raw" Almonds Must Soon be Steam-Heated or Treated with Toxic Chemical

CORNUCOPIA, WI: Small-scale farmers, retailers, and consumers are outraged over a new federal regulation that will require all almonds grown in...
27 March 2007
Will Al Gore get us to Solartopia?
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Harvey Wasserman
Al Gore has leapt to center stage with well-founded concerns about global warming. He has been gratefully successful in publicizing the fact that there is a virtual library of irrefutable evidence that carbon dioxide levels are rapidly...
15 March 2007
Federal judge orders first-ever moratorium on sale of genetically-altered seed
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Mark Kastel
USDA approval of genetically engineered alfalfa is vacated, seed sales halted

San Francisco, CA, March 12, 2007 - A Federal judge ruled today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) 2005 approval of genetically...
15 March 2007
Good, clean, green way to generate electricity is approved by city in San Diego County
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Julie Reeder
It has the feel of the final scene in the movie “Back to the Future” where Doc Brown is feeding banana peels and other garbage into the Mr. Fusion appliance on top of the DeLorean to fuel it.

But what is happening in Vista,...
03 March 2007
Nuclear reprocessing: dangerous, dirty, and expensive
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Dr. Ed Lyman
Why extracting plutonium from spent nuclear reactor fuel is a bad idea

Background:

The Bush administration is requesting a FY2008 budget of $405 million for its major new nuclear energy initiative, the Global...
03 March 2007
U.S. nuclear fuel reprocessing initiative
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Dr. Ed Lyman
Department of Energy Research Shows Technology Does Not Reduce Risks of Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism

Background

The Bush administration requested $250 million in its fiscal 2007 budget as a first...

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