WASHINGTON - House Democrats failed Tuesday to resurrect a bill to punish price gouging at the gas pump, while maneuvering to block Republican attempts to expand offshore drilling,
A biofuels backlash has erupted in major ethanol producer the United States, as lawmakers and experts debate the merits of converting food to fuel to support America's age-old love affair with the automobile.
BOISE, Idaho -- Representatives from eight Western states met privately Thursday to discuss a lawsuit filed by a company that wants to bury a portion of 20,000 tons of Italian radioactive waste in Utah.
The mayor of San Francisco wants to make the recycling of cans, bottles, paper, yard waste and food scraps mandatory instead of voluntary, on the pain of having garbage pickups suspended.
After more than 30 years of civil war, ending in 1998, the Cambodian government has collected and destroyed more than 160,000 weapons across the country.
a cap-and-trade law would cost 3.7 million American jobs, reduce gross national product by 2.6%, increase fuel costs even more and punish the average American household some $1,760 each year.
The Department of Energy has just pledged $5.4 million in funding and technical assistance for solar power in 12 major cities including Denver, Philadephia, Seattle, and Houston.
The UK are making moves towards a 5p charge (10 cents) should the customer want a plastic bag. At such a low cost, I suggest that's further profit for the hypermarket and not conducive to behavioural change.
Ms. O'Brien encourages people to do what she did: throw out as much nonorganic processed food as you can afford to. Avoid anything genetically modified, artificially created or raised with hormones. Don't eat food with ingredients you can't pronounce.
Torture is what the executive says it is and even admitted torture can be used when the executive wants, meaning that executive power supersedes and can ignore any common understanding of decency ...
I think the clearest way to understand the problem with cloning is to consider a broader question: Who benefits from it? The nation's large meatpacking companies. Genetic diversity is an essential bulwark against disease. Consumers will suffer, genes die.
Montana issues at report with 54 recommendations that would reduce Montana's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, including renewable energy incentives and reforestation.
