Environment

Gagging Sir David

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

Ivan Rogers, the principal private secretary to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, "tried to muzzle the Government's top scientific adviser after he warned that global warming was a more serious threat than international terrorism," report Steve Connor and Andrew Grice. In a leaked memo, Rogers ordered Sir David King - a scientist at Cambridge University - to decline any interview requests from British and American newspapers and BBC Radio.

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Main Source: 
Independent (UK), March 8, 2004
Topics: 
Climate Change
International
Secrecy

USDA on Mad Cow: 'Don't Look, Don't Find'

Submitted by John Stauber on

The United States' 'don't look, don't find' policy on mad cow disease is beginning to crumble under the weight of the international boycott of US beef. AP, UPI and here the New York Times are all reporting that "a beef producer in Kansas has proposed testing all its
cattle for mad cow disease so it can resume exports to
Japan, but it is encountering resistance from the
Agriculture Department and other beef producers. American beef exports have plummeted since Dec. 23 when a

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Main Source: 
New York Times, February 27, 2004
Topics: 
Mad Cow Disease

Global Warming: Hoax or National Security Threat?

Submitted by Laura Miller on

A secret Pentagon report on global warming strongly contradicts White House claims about climate change. The report obtained by the Observer of London "warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020.

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Main Source: 
Observer, February 22, 2004
Topics: 
Climate Change

Mad Cow Spreading in USA for a Decade

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Mad cow disease probably has been established in North
America for more than a decade, and Americans should be prepared for the
discovery of more domestic cases as it spreads through herds. A panel of international experts released these findings Wednesday to U.S.
Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, also urging the Department of Agriculture
to toughen protections put into place following the Dec. 23 discovery of an

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Main Source: 
Oregonian, February 5, 2004
Topics: 
Mad Cow Disease

It's Greener on the Swing Side

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

GOP pollster Frank Luntz warned in a memo to party leaders: "The environment is probably the single issue on which Republicans in general - and President Bush in particular - are most vulnerable." The administration's recent funding boosts for its Healthy Forests Restoration Act, Pacific salmon recovery programs, the Klamath River Basin (previously targeted by the anti-environmental

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Main Source: 
Grist Magazine, January 30, 2004
Topics: 
Right Wing
Environment
Rhetoric

Bush Administration Protects Chemical Industy

Submitted by Laura Miller on

"Last year the Bush Administration encouraged American chemical companies to lobby against European efforts to strengthen the regulation of thousands of chemicals contained in household, industrial and personal products," BushGreenWash.org writes. "When the chemical industry was slow to respond, Administration officials took it upon themselves to launch 'an unusually aggressive campaign' to pressure the European Union into watering down its comprehensive reform efforts. Documents uncovered by the Environmental Health Fund, using the Freedom of Information Act, showed the U.S.

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Main Source: 
BushGreenWash.org, January 26, 2004
Topics: 
Corporations
Environment
U.S. Government

B-M's Biotech Front Group Exposed in the UK

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Few could question the sentiment behind the campaign: a fight against cervical cancer. A clutch of famous women, including Liz Hurley, Caprice and Carol Vorderman, signed up to support a crusade to introduce a new NHS screening test that could save the lives of thousands of women. The campaign is due to reach the House of Commons on Wednesday, when MPs will be lobbied on the issue.

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Main Source: 
The Observer, January 25, 2004
Topics: 
Genetic Engineering
Front Groups
International

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