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Does the food safety bill give the FDA too much power — or not enough?
Debate begins later today in the Senate on the Food Safety Modernization Act. We conclude our Food Fight over the bill with a discussion about whether the government can be trusted to inspect, regulate, and penalize big and small facilities adequately -- and fairly.
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Why deficit hysteria isn’t good for food-system reform
The Beltway has been overcome by a wave of deficit hysteria. That may spell doom for farm subsidies -- but it can only hurt the effort to reform the food system.
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More revelations of FDA bad behavior around GE salmon
A second consumer advocacy group has obtained even more documentation that the FDA is ignoring serious concerns from government scientists over the safety of GE salmon. Perhaps it's time to rethink our fish priorities: some smoked Arctic char on that bagel, anyone?
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Upton takes right-wing beatdown for incandescent bulb ban
When Republican choose the head of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, the decision may come down to light bulbs. That's right, light bulbs.
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Will the Food Safety Modernization Act harm small farms or producers?
Voting on S. 510 could happen Wednesday. If this food-safety bill passes, it will greatly expand the FDA's authority and lessen food-borne illnesses. But in doing so, will it knee-cap America's nascent local-food system? Grist's panel of experts take their gloves off for an epic debate.
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So what's EPA up to with its CO2 regulations?
This week we've gotten a glimpse at EPA's plans for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from "stationary sources" (power plants, factories, etc.).
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What the FDA doesn’t want you to know about GE salmon
The Center for Food Safety has found evidence the FDA is excluding the government's own marine scientists from the GE salmon approval process.
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How the Wall Street Journal twisted the facts on transmission
The Wall Street Journal recently published an editorial, "The Great Transmission Heist," that took a swing at renewable energy. That's not surprising. What is surprising is that the piece wholly abandoned not only the facts, but fundamental market principles related to the energy sector.
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Will the Food Safety Modernization Act better protect us from contaminated food?
Our invited panel of experts -- and two scrappy Grist readers -- debate whether the bill now before the Senate will decrease large-scale food-borne illness outbreaks of the type we've recently seen in eggs and peanut butter.
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The Climate Post: Climate scientists: It’s war
700 climate scientists agreed to speak out as experts about global warming. Plus, coal enjoys November and the Copenhagen failure costs $1 trillion.
