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Respected environmental advocate forced out of job by Attorney General...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 12:29pm PDT
From the 10th to 16th of April, 2005, the Biovision/Biosquare forum will take place in the city of Lyon, France. This summit can be compared with the Davos WEF, but is solely concerned with biotech issues...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 3:57am PDT
The origin and consequences of the Agreement concluded between the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the IAEA are discussed. This Agreement may explain why the WHO remained absent during the first five after the Chernobyl accident on health studies and in particular studies on the genome The WHO-IAEA Agreement has led to risks for scientists intending to study and publish on the real consequences of such accidents or even the show damages due to chronic, low-dose radiation in the organism d...
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 2:48pm PDT
"It has been very hard for Americans to make sense of the gathering forces that will fundamental-ly alter the terms of every life in our technological society. Even after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, America is still sleepwalking into the future."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 7:41am PDT
Water Professionals from Across U.S. to Bring Critical Water Issues to Congress; Key Issues Include MTBE, Infrastructure, and DoD Environmental Laws Exemptions...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 9:14pm PDT
Something in our environment is killing us....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 2:48pm PDT
Has anyone else noticed the dearth of local coverage in mainstream media of the Canadian seal "hunt" now underway in Newfoundland?...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 12:00pm PDT
State Water Quality Board overturns decision to allow Pacific Lumber to continue logging in Freshwater and Elk River....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 11:11am PDT
I came across this GE shopping list which is quite helpful....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 10:47am PDT
Last night's City Council meeting voted unanimously
for doing an Environmental Impact Report to determine
the safety of the proposed herbicide use in the
Oakland Hills for fire prevention....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 12:53am PDT
Water Board stops logging in Freshwater and Elk....
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 10:55pm PDT
The simple facts are that chemical companies developed chemical and biological weapons for our country. Back in World War One and Two, they made things like nerve gas. At some point, the watered down the nerve gas and started calling them "pesticides". This report (157) documents that the chemical companies and the pharmaceutical companies are really controlled by the same people.
Now that is a business plan, called "Poison for Profit" (157). Even more disturbing is wh...
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 1:07pm PDT
Green sturgeon reach more than 7 feet long and weigh up to 350 pounds....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 6:37pm PDT
Jury selection starts April 12, 2005....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 4:18pm PDT
Please come out to Oakland City Hall, tomorrow, Tuesday, April 5, 2005, at
6pm (public forum) 7pm (voting), when the proposed ordinance to use
herbicide as a method of wildfire prevention is going before the full City
Council....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 11:21pm PDT
obtained by Aljazeera.net
Report: '...the problem of the peaking of world conventional oil production is unlike any yet faced by modern industrial society.'
It has long been denied that the US government bases any policy around the idea that global oil production may be in terminal decline.
But a new US government-sponsored report, obtained by Aljazeera.net, does exactly that.
Authored by Robert Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling and titled The Peaking of World Oil produ...
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 7:58pm PST
On March 16th, the Humboldt Watershed Council and EPIC appeared before
the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in Santa Rosa to
present their case against enrolling new timber harvest plans for
Pacific Lumber in the severely damaged watersheds of Freshwater Creek
and Elk River...
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 5:53pm PST
Roadless logging in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area of Southwestern
Oregon is becoming even more imminent. The Siskiyou National Forest
may auction the Mike's Gulch timber sale, located within the South
Kalmiopsis Roadless Area, within weeks....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 3:18pm PST
Assemblyman Leland Yee is holding a press conference this Friday in
Pacifica
to garner support for his proposed legislation to ensure that
California's
coastal waters are safe from off shore oil drilling....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 2:38pm PST