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November 11, 2007

You're Not the Regulator of Me

China gets the blame for this year's wave of recalls, including the most recent Aqua Dots which turn into a 'date rape' drug when ingested. But it's the American industry that's been working for years to gut government safety standards. Marla Felcher, Mother Jones

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Spill Hurts Calif. Beaches, Birds
Gooey, black, blobs of tar are covering birds in San Francisco after a tanker rammed the Bay Bridge. San Francisco Chronicle

Is Ethanol the Answer?
Why corn-based fuel is no miracule cure for our oil dependency. Cameron Scott, Mother Jones

iPods, iPhones Toxic, Says Group
Greenpeace is suing Apple because they have evidence iPods and iPhones contain illegal toxins. San Jose Mercury News

iWaste
With an 18 month life-span and hard to replace batteries, the iPod is a big iWaste of resources. Giles Slade, Mother Jones

More Coal Use in Near Future
An international energy watchdog group says we can expect to see more coal burned, and more pollution, in 2008.  Yahoo News


Dubai's Energy-Friendly Tower
A new energy tower designed by German architect Eckhard Gerber is the tallest zero-emissions skyscraper in the world. Rose Miller, Mother Jones


Green Cities
Road to Riches: Pipeline Through Paradise
Practical Values: Is Going Solar Such a Bright Idea?
Behind the Hydrogen Hype, a Hybrid Highway
Public Money in the Pipeline

Acidic Oceans Increasing
New research indicates the ocean has become about one third of a pH unit more acidic over the past fifty years. Julia Whitty, Mother Jones


Julia Whitty On the Fate of the Ocean
Pombo and Other Enemies of the Ocean
Toxic Fish and Low Income Communities
How Pesticide Regulation Fails to Protect Our Rivers and Oceans
Where Are Sport Fishermen on Marine Conservation Issues?

Republican Candidates Address Warming
Nearly all Republican candidates for president have some sort of plan to address global warming.  Julia Whitty, Mother Jones


How ExxonMobil Funds the Anti Global Warming Forces
The New Math Of Global Warming
A Hundred Katrinas: Climate Change and the Threat to the U.S. Coast
Hot Air On Hot Air: Can Technology Fix Global Warming?

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Hold The Antibiotics: Infections Critical For Healthy Life

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Shipping Fuels Heart and Lung Disease

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Wolf Controversy Resurfaces

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How To Stop Fishermen From Killing Captured Dolphins

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Expect Less PVC at Target

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Hard to Break
More studies show chemicals from plastics are dangerous, but they're everywhere—even in our breast milk. Elizabeth Grossman, Mother Jones


Mail-Order Abortions
The Exorcists: Born-Again Abortion Clinics
Reproductive Justice
Does Everyone Have the Right to a Baby? And Who Pays When Nature Won't Work?
Souls On Ice: America's Embryo Glut and the Wasted Promise of Stem Cell Research

Seeing Red
When my family tried to eat local for a year, we learned as much about politics as we did about produce. Barbara Kingsolver, Mother Jones


Eat American: Food Aid Made in the U.S.A.
The Doggie Bag Dilemma
Chew the Right Thing: Interview with Philosopher Peter Singer
High Priestess of Slow
How to eat fish without fear.

Can Sicko Really Help?
If Moore can persuade Americans to improve our healthcare system, he will succeed where others have failed. Cameron Scott, Mother Jones


Talk to Me Like My Father: Military Doctors Are in Short Supply
Disorders Made to Order
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
Side Effects of Truth: FDA Shuts Down a Good Researcher
Health Care and the Horse Race

Family Care in Iraq
Malnourishment, low birth weight, and little access to clean water are just a few of the health woes of the average Iraqi family. Mother Jones, Mother Jones


In 2006, Virginia's Voters Raised an Issue Congress Has Ignored: Health Care
Talk to Me Like My Father: Military Doctors Are in Short Supply
The Street Samaritans: Post-Katrina Volunteer Medics on Bicycles
Health Care and the Horse Race

Toxic Tipping Point
Are the CDC, the FDA, and other health agencies covering up evidence that a preservative in vaccines caused a rise in autism? Andrea Rock, Mother Jones


Not in Their Back Yard: Asbestos and the EPA in the Suburbs
Whitman: EPA Knew 9/11 Contamination Put Workers, Residents at Risk
Disorders Made to Order
Is it Prozac? Or Placebo?

Back From Iraq
A photo essay documents the injuries as well as the goals and life plans of young soldiers returning from Iraq. Nina Berman and Verlyn Klinkenborg, Mother Jones


Drugs Winning War on Drugs
The New Math Of Global Warming
An Unreasonable Man: IFC Films, 122 minutes.
In 2006, Virginia's Voters Raised an Issue Congress Has Ignored: Health Care


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