BACKGROUND
On August 15th a public comment period began on Bayer's (formerly Aventis) petition to the EPA for final tolerances of their herbicide Glufosinate (aka Liberty) for use on rice and cotton. This is the final step in the...
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29 August 2003
Icelandic whalers have begun the take of 38 minke whales announced by the Government of Iceland on 6 August as the start of a so called 'scientific' whaling program. The program will expand to take 250 whales, including sei and fin whales...
27 August 2003
"One has to be careful," said U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan
earlier this month, "not to confuse the U.N. with the U.S." If the Secretary
General had taken his own advice, then maybe his Brazilian subordinate,
Vieira de Mello, might not...
27 August 2003
AUSTIN -- This poignant Labor Day, when the numbers are bad, the
policies are worse and the jobs are disappearing, it's not so much the
economy that riles me as the disrespect and the gratuitous contempt with
which this administration...
23 August 2003
Tell the Bush Administration you oppose their plans to exempt the Tongass and Chugach National Forests in Alaska from the Roadless Rule!
Public comment period extended to September 2nd!
This extension appears to...
Public comment period extended to September 2nd!
This extension appears to...
23 August 2003
On August 19th, Attorney General John Ashcroft will begin traveling to over
a dozen U.S. cities to “set the record straight” about
“mischaracterizations” of powers granted to the Justice Department under
the USA Patriot Act. Ashcroft may...
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