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Getting Left Behind
Ralph Nader is working with the Green Party to run as many as 80 candidates for Congress in 2002, twice the number that ran in 2000. He said the Green candidacies will help to move the Democratic Party to the left, though he acknowledges the tactic could prevent the Dems from winning control of the […]
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G-8 Is Enough
All eyes are on the U.S. as environmental ministers from the Group of Eight, the major industrialized countries plus Russia, begin a weekend meeting today in Trieste, Italy, to discuss global warming. U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman indicated today that the Bush administration was rethinking the country’s stance on the issue and did not […]
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A Starlink Is Corn
U.S. Agriculture Department officials ordered seed dealers yesterday to determine how much of the U.S. corn seed supply contains Starlink, the genetically engineered corn variety that led to huge recalls of food and corn crops last year. Starlink, which is produced by Aventis for animal feed, has not been approved for human consumption. The agriculture […]
