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Rewarding Polluters: Energy Stimulus Prevents NEPA Oversight

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The administration has awarded more than 179,000 “categorical exclusions” to stimulus projects funded by federal agencies, freeing those projects from review under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. Coal-burning utilities like Westar Energy and Duke Energy, chemical manufacturer DuPont, and ethanol maker Didion Milling are among the firms with histories of serious environmental violations that have won blanket NEPA exemptions.

Industry Funds EPA's Recent Safety Study for Pesticides in Drinking Water: Peer Review vs. Lobbyists

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Agency Says Company’s Evidence ‘Scientifically More Robust’ than Independent Research By Danielle Ivory Huffington Post Investigative Fund Companies with a financial interest in a weed-killer sometimes found in drinking water paid for thousands of studies federal regulators are [...]

Transgenics in the Food Market | Editorial

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This editorial is the second, in a series published to address genetically engineered foods. Simple Transgenic Timeline for a Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Market Initiative. 1940′s – Beginning of chemical agriculture production. 1970′s – Intro to genetic patenting [...]

Cleveland International Film Festival: Bananas!*

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CLEVELAND, OH – “Bananas!*”, a documentary from the Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten, was shown at the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival (March 18-28) in a record breaking attendance, and featured the ‘David and Goliath’ story of Nicaraguan banana [...]