(Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday banned the planting of genetically modified sugar beets engineered by Monsanto Co in a ruling that marks a major setback for the biotech giant. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ruled in 2009 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had approved Monsanto's genetically modified sugar beets without adequate environmental [...]
Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., center, joined by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, and Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., left, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 8, 2010, to talk about efforts to block the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing climate regulations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP) — In a boost [...]
(Reuters) – Actor and environmentalist Robert Redford has weighed in on the U.S. oil spill crisis, condemning efforts by major energy companies to promote their environmental credentials and use their money to influence "their parrots in Congress." In a five-minute YouTube video, produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Redford says the worst oil [...]
A platform is surrounded by the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead at the mouth of the Mississippi river May 5, 2010.Credit: Reuters/Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace/Handout (Reuters) – U.S. regulators exempted BP Plc from a detailed environmental review of the exploration project that ultimately resulted in the deadly Gulf of Mexico explosion and subsequent oil spill, [...]
If Congress and the president fail to tackle global warming, can courts step in? Can federal judges allow people struggling with the losses of global warming to sue polluters directly? The idea may at first seem crazy. In a legal world obsessed with claims of judicial activism, the image of a judge taking on a [...]
DOHA (AFP) – The UN wildlife trade body has shot down a proposal to regulate global commerce in the oceanic whitetip shark — a species highly prized by gourmets for its fins. A hammer shark (Scalloped Hammerhead) photographed near Isla del Coco off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The UN body overseeing global trade [...]
ScienceDaily (Mar. 23, 2010) — A proposed EU ban on throwing unwanted fish overboard from commercial boats could put one of the North Sea's most successful sea birds at risk, say researchers at the University of Leeds. New research led by Dr Keith Hamer will assess the extent to which gannets rely on unwanted fish [...]
Documents from talks on a secret global copyright deal have leaked online, various sources are reporting. The documents discussed are said to confirm that internet service providers could be compelled to constantly sift through their customers' data looking for copyright transgressions. The European Union's data protection chief has said that such requirements could curtail individuals' [...]
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has unveiled detailed proposals on how whaling could be regulated in a way that countries still engaged in the hunt and those opposed to it could both live with. The essential dilemma is what it has been for decades: some societies view the whale as just another wild animal to [...]
Parents in the US have accused a school of spying on children by remotely activating webcams on laptops. The school district says the laptops had a "security device". A couple from Pennsylvania have filed a lawsuit against a school district which gave laptops to its high school pupils. They say their son was told off [...]
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