So explains The Economist: Over the past few days, America has moved towards a federal system for regulating its carbon emissions in three ways. First, several big companies have broken with trade associations that oppose the cap-and-trade bill now in the Senate. Second, the bill has moved a stage further towards becoming law. Third, andContinue reading “Obama Won’t Be “Naked” in Copenhagen”
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DDT: The Chemical Disaster That Won’t Go Away
Not all herbicides and pesticides concentrate in the ecosystem, but some do, and among the prime offenders is DDT, which (contrary to right-wing propaganda) is still a problem in the United States today, decades after the corporation that made it in Southern California stopped manufacturing it. In a first-rate story from a week ago inContinue reading “DDT: The Chemical Disaster That Won’t Go Away”
Kit Stolz 