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Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering

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By CHARLES DUHIGG - NY Times - Se. 12, 2009 Toxic Waters Jennifer Hall-Massey's youngest son has scabs on his arms, legs and chest...

Alberta's Tarsands Emissions Higher Than Some Countries

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Mary Jo Laforest - Canadian Press. Se. 13 '09 Photo courtesy Nat'l. Geographic Alberta's oilsands produce more greenhouse gas emissions than some European...

Obama Finally Clamping Down on a Despicable Mining Practice? l.p.

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Sep 11, 2009 - By Timothy Gardner. U.S. cracks down on mountaintop coal-mine permits . Photo courtesy Vivian Stockman - Flyover courtesy SouthWings.org NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. environmental regulators said on Friday they will scrutinize 79 applications for mountaintop coal-mine permits...

Oil Majors Propping up Myanmar Regime: Rights Group

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Published on Thursday, Se. 10, 2009 by Agence France Presse BANGKOK - Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars in Singaporean banks, a rights group said Thursday.

Monsanto Slithers Back Into the Upper Echelons of U.S. Power

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By Linn Cohen-Cole - OpEdNews - March 8, 2009 Monsanto's Michael Taylor is BAACC..KK ..this time to control "Food Safety" from the White House.. Court esy of Combat Monsanto ======= Ed's. Note: Barak, what were you thinking? Outrageous! l.p.

No Trans Fat in Manitoba Schools: Minister

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Winnipeg Free Press - By: Staff Writer - 9/09/2009 Students returning to classes across Manitoba today should not be able to buy any packaged foods or other food products containing artificial trans fat...

Elimination of Food Waste Could Lift 1 Billion Out of Hunger, say Campaigners

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Adam Vaughan - guardian.co.uk Se 8 '09 Excessive consumption in rich countries 'takes food out of mouths of poor' by inflating food prices on global market... sustainablog.org/

Climate Change Worsens Global Poverty and Inequity

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by Dr. Atiq Rahman, Exec.-Dir. of BCAS, Dhaka and Winner of the UN's "Champion of the Earth" award - 2008 An Indonesian farmer ploughs through hardened soil on a rain-dependent rice field. Courtesy of flickr Global climate change has emerged as the greatest threat facing humankind today...

Monsanto in Iraq and Afghanistan

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By Alexis Baden-Mayer, Esq. Organic Consumers Association, Se'09 From the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, OCA has been tracking the opportunities for Monsanto, a well-known war profiteer...

H1N1 Arrives in Manitoba Hogs

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Manitoba Co-Operator - Staff - 9/3/2009 Sarah Kearney - Wpeg. F.P. The pandemic flu strain H1N1 has crossed over to hogs in various areas of Manitoba... Please also read - "Green Party of Manitoba Believes Now is the Time to Put an End to CAFOs" and "The CAFO Syndrome."

Rot-Gut Liquor

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Posted on 7 Apr 2009 - by Tom Philpott - Grist Greg Southam, Canwest News Service Amid a sea of troubles, ethanol now has an antibiotics problem...