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Label Me Badd
Three-fourths of Americans want to know if their food contains genetically engineered ingredients, according to a poll released yesterday by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology. Fifty-eight percent of the respondents did not want such ingredients in the food supply, period. However, when they were told that the ingredients were already in many food […]
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Axe-a-dunce
Yesterday brought news of another rollback on environmental protections by the Bush administration. The U.S. EPA announced that it would rescind a proposal by the Clinton administration to increase public access to information about the potential consequences of chemical plant accidents. Environmental groups say that communities could better plan for disasters if they had access […]
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Walled Whitman
A week before President Bush broke his campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman wrote a confidential memo urging him to stand by the promise or risk damaging the U.S.’s standing among international allies. Since Whitman lost the battle, both conservatives and environmentalists say that her […]
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Burma Shaved
Hundreds of square miles of Burma’s ancient tropical forests have been stripped bare in recent years to fuel the increasing demand for wood products in China. China’s growing economy and a logging ban to protect the remaining forests in 18 Chinese provinces have led the country to look to neighboring countries to meet its need […]
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Dreaded Wheat
Some farmers in the U.S. are joining environmental and consumer groups in opposing genetically engineered crops, adding strength to campaigns to have the crops regulated more tightly. More than 40 state bills have been introduced this year to regulate the crops or the labeling of foods made from them. In North Dakota, a bill to […]
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All Your Acid Are Belong to Us
Forests and lakes in the Northeast are still being hurt by acid rain despite cuts in power plant emissions mandated by Congress in 1990, according to a study appearing today in the journal BioScience. In fact, the study’s authors recommend an additional 80 percent drop in emissions to help the ecosystems bounce back. (We’ll see […]
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Waste Watchers
More than 10,000 demonstrators protested in the German town of Lueneburg on Saturday in anticipation of shipments of reprocessed nuclear waste from France to Germany that begin today. Transport of the waste, which originated from German nuclear reactors and was sent to a French reprocessing center in the 1990s, was suspended in 1998 when officials […]
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Vinyl Jeopardy
A PBS documentary tonight by Bill Moyers focuses on the dangers of exposure to vinyl chloride, asserting that the chemical industry has gone to great lengths to cover up the risks of the chemical, which is used for making plastic products. For example, a 1984 industry document outlines how the industry created the illusion of […]
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Noelle Barger, San Diego Oceans Foundation
Noelle Barger is operations manager for the San Diego Oceans Foundation (SDOF), a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting ocean stewardship through community-supported projects. Monday, 26 Mar 2001 SAN DIEGO, Calif. Imagine this: You are standing in front of a crowd of 100 people, your body is moist from what I call “the nervous sweat,” your […]
