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MPG estimates get more realistic in 2008
EPA's new system for measuring fuel efficiency should bring cars' advertised MPG closer to their actual gas mileage. At present, fuel efficiency testing is not done under real world driving conditions...
Senior ex-official speaks on FDA's failure to get benzene out of soft drinks
In 1991 the FDA let the beverage industry decide what to do about benzene in its soft drinks, without offering any guidelines for eliminating the carcinogen. Fifteen years later, benzene was still...
International body to punish polluters?
In Venice, the International Environmental Sciences Academy will meet to consider a court to penalize nations for pollution. Nobel Peace Prize Adolfo Perez Esquivel, president of the Academy, has...
American Dental Association concedes: Excessive fluoride a risk to children
After years of downplaying the risks of excessive fluoride intake, the American Dental Association (ADA) has just released new guidelines that dramatically reduce the recommended fluoride exposure for...
Study calls for protection of children from industrial pollution
A report in the Lancet, considered the world's most prestigious medical journal, warns of ''a silent pandemic” of impaired brain development due to exposure to unregulated industrial toxins, both in...
Industry challenges ban on phthalates in kid's toys
Industry and trade groups are suing to overturn San Francisco's newest ordinance aimed at protecting the city's toddlers from a suite of chemicals shown to cause cancer and hormone disruption in...
Fools on the hill
Check out Radar Online's caustic and amusing rankings of America's Dumbest Congressmen.
Beverage container recycling scorecard
Today As You Sow and the Container Recycling Institute released a report card on the performance of major U.S. beverage companies on recycling and recycled content in their containers. They found that...
Study links mercury to premature births
A new study of over 1,000 pregnant Michigan women has found that those with hair samples containing high levels of mercury are three times more likely to give birth prematurely. While this is the...
Enviroblog gets a makeover
Isn't this MUCH better? Thanks to EWG designer extraordinaire, Carrie Gouldin, we no longer look like a spam blog. In fact, I'd have to say (in my completely impartial opinion, of course) that we've...
UNICEF report: 2.6 billion people without sanitation
2.6 billion people who lack basic access to sanitation are located mainly in Africa and Asia, estimates UNICEF's report. An estimated 425 million children don't have access to purified water, while...
New 'Earthpark' to be built in Iowa
Iowa has been chosen as the location for Earthpark, the largest educational center in the United States on environmental and conservation issues. Earthpark Iowa is hoping to have the same success that...
Chlorine in water may imperil pregnancies
Los Angeles Daily News, Lisa Mascaro Published January 9, 2002 Drinking tap water could put pregnant women at higher risk for miscarriage and birth defects in some parts of Southern California, says a...
Tap water chemical risky for the pregnant
Reuters Published January 9, 2002 High levels of chlorination byproducts (CPBs) in drinking water put pregnant women at a higher risk for miscarriages or having children with birth defects, according...
Farmers charged up by electric study
Capital Press, Bob Krauter Published May 29, 2007 Central Valley farmers are amped up by a study that says they are getting cut-rate electricity from the federal government.
Who gets all that farm aid?
Pioneer Press Published June 11, 2007 Downtown Minneapolis is a little low on farmland. But it turns out to be full of farmers.
Pay Dirt
Dan Rather Reports Aired on November 20, 2007 Episode Title: Pay Dirt: Subsidies and the American Farmer Description: Some farmers are worried that huge subsides are a waste. A visit to the backwaters...
Bioavailability
Just because you're eating a food doesn't necessarily mean you're taking full advantage of its nutritional properties.
The Dead Zone
Aberdeen American, Larry Gabriel Published August 24, 2006 If you have not heard of it, you will. The mass media is blaming "agriculture" for a predicted increase in the size of the so-called "dead...
Disaster Aid Fund for Farmers to Get Push
Farm state senators, confronting an increasing struggle to win special disaster assistance for farmers, today will push for creation of a permanent disaster aid trust fund. The Senate Finance...
Revamp policy: Stress sustainability
Des Moines Register, Craig Cox Published November 3, 2008 Two recent reports in the Register make it clear that we need to overhaul our biofuels policy.
The California Water Wars: Water Flowing to Farms, Not Fish
After 50 years of legal infighting, a victor has emerged in California's water wars -- agriculture. A decade after environmentalists prevailed in getting more fresh water down the north state's rivers...
The Most Politically Powerful Welfare Recipients in the World
He was immortalized in Grant Wood's 1930 painting "American Gothic": a grim, hardscrabble stoic in overalls, grasping a pitchfork. Guess what? It wasn't really a farmer. It was Wood's dentist posing...