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  Re: Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association Dear Editor: After reading through your website, I’ve decided to give up my favorite ice cream, Starbucks Coffee Almond Fudge. I cannot, in good conscience, eat it and continue to nurse my baby, knowing that the list of ingredients is withholding information from me — doesn’t let me […]

Ranch Undressing

This isn’t a joke. The White House is touting President Bush’s just-completed home on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, as an eco-friendly haven. The house has geothermal heating and cooling. Rainwater and household wastewater are reused for irrigation, and First Lady Laura Bush says she is restoring native wildflowers and grasses on the ranch property. […]

Twenty-first-century Fox

Mexico’s national water commissioner, Cristobal Jaime Jaquez, says 73 percent of the country’s water, whether underground or on the surface, is a danger to public health and Mexican President Vicente Fox describes the problem as a "national security issue." Mexico has less drinking water per capita than Egypt, and 93 percent of the country’s rivers […]

Grand: Funked Railroad

In a surprising defeat of a government-owned rail company, environmental officials in the heavily polluted destination spot known as Hong Kong refused a permit request last fall to build a passenger line across Hong Kong’s largest freshwater wetland. The Kowloon-Canton Railway Corp. has mounted an unprecedented appeal and spent loads of money to come up […]