Environment

Texas Feeds Caterpillar And Deere

A state program gives money to businesses that upgrade to cleaner-burning equipment. Times are tough at Texana Machinery, a private distributor of earth-moving equipment. The economic decline has meant sales at Texana are off...

U.S. polluters to pay record $11.8 billion in 2008: EPA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement actions during the 2008 budget year resulted in a record $11.8 billion in pollution controls and projects to clean up the environment, the agency said on...

Diner’s Journal: Pitch to Obama by Foodies

The fact that a Secretary of Agriculture has yet to be named has some chefs, farmers and animal welfare advocates wondering whether food and farming have been shoved to the Obama D team. To help move the process along, nearly...

Ghana's 'miracle': Logging underwater forests for exotic timber (AFP)

ACCRA (AFP) - Ghana, which is running short of forests to chop down, is about to turn to the dead trees underneath its Lake Volta as a new source of exotic timber, one of its top export earners. Lake Volta, one of the world's...

Recycling Red State Ideology ?

Posted Thursday, December 4, 2008 ; 05:57 PM Updated Thursday, December 4, 2008 ; 06:00 PM Mike Huckabee stops by Decision Makers On this week’s Decision Makers, host Bray Cary talks with former Arkansas Governor and...

Lawyer questions recycled water liability (ABC)

A Gold Coast lawyer says it is unclear who will take responsibility if people become sick after drinking recycled water. The Queensland Government intends to supplement south-east Queensland dams with treated recycled water if...

Big apple goes green for a cause

TALES OF TWO CITIES:NEW YORK BY FOO YEE PING MOST came by car, stopping just for a few seconds to hand over their unwanted possessions. New Yorkers are working towards transforming their city into a Big Green Apple. Green...

Prion infectivity found in white and brown fat tissues of mice

EUREKALERT Contact: Mary Kohut Press@plos.org Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Scripps Research Institute have found novel prion infectivity in white and brown fat tissues of mice. The study appears...

Officials to focus on livestock emissions

STERKSEL, Netherlands – The cows and pigs dotting these flat green plains in the southern Netherlands create a bucolic landscape. But looked at through the lens of greenhouse-gas accounting, they are living smokestacks, spewing...

USDA report allegedly shows abuse

Posted on: Thursday, 4 December 2008, 16:20 CST An animal rights group says a recently released U.S. Department of Agriculture report reveals primate experimentation has reached a record 69,990 animals. The Stop Animal...