“The United States rejects the European Union’s all-encompassing target on reduction of carbon emissions, President Bush’s environmental adviser said Tuesday. James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said the United States is not against setting goals but prefers to focus them on specific sectors, such as reducing dependence on gasoline and […]
“Read Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and you will feel palpably that your ancestors brutally murdered Indians so you could live on that happy little plot of land where you sit reading. Don’t expect it to feel good. In fact, it feels so bad that Americans have repressed, suppressed, and finessed the […]
“Martha Stewart’s attempt to trademark ‘Katonah’ — a move that has already riled some of her village neighbors — has now upset some American Indians because the name originally belonged to a 17th-century chief. Autumn Scott and Steven Burton, two members of the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation — which claims Chief Katonah as its own […]
“The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms […]
“Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, the key U.N. demand in a nuclear row with Tehran, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said the day before talks with the EU’s Javier Solana. ‘Suspension is not a solution to Iran’s nuclear issue … Iran cannot accept suspension,’ Larijani told reporters at a Tehran airport before his […]
“World oil prices jumped briefly on Wednesday after a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma — the No. 62 U.S. media market — posted an erroneous story about a refinery fire on its Web site. At 10:14 EDT (1414 GMT), CBS affiliate KOTV reported that a lightning strike had caused a fire at an Oklahoma refinery […]
“Secret plans to encourage the nation to give up eating meat are being examined by the Government. A leaked e-mail expresses sympathy for the environmental benefits of a mass switch to a vegan diet — a strict form of vegetarianism which bans milk, dairy products and fish. The change would need to be done ‘gently’ […]
“You may remember the story in the media from the end of 2004. A study was done which used French records of grape harvests in Burgundy to reconstruct the temperatures from 1370 to 2003. And they announced that ‘the summer of 2003 appears to have been extraordinary, with temperatures that were probably higher than in […]
“The congressional initiative to take coal and transform it into a liquid that serves to replace various fuels is going to have a hard time. Coalescing as fighting camps are (l) a public that says we have to devise a means of producing energy without dependence on the Persian Gulf, and (2) a public that […]
“Across the country, multinational corporations are targeting hundreds of rural communities to gain control of their most precious resource. By strong-arming small towns with limited economic means, these corporations are part of a growing trend to privatize public water supplies for economic gain in the ballooning bottled water industry. With sales of over $35 billion […]
