Climate-Controlled Media
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The recent U.S.
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Science
New Participatory Project: What's That Stuff Doing in Cigarettes?
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What is "acetoin," and what is it doing in cigarettes? Tobacco companies inform the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (but not the public) about the 599 potential additives they can put in cigarettes. We've got that list, but we don't have any explanations about what these chemicals are. Acetoin is on the list, but we don't know what it is, or why they put it in cigarettes.
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Global Warming Skeptic Can't Stand the Heat
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The Oil Industry Road Show Comes to New Jersey
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"Energy giants ConocoPhillips and BP have brought their 'green' environmental campaigns to central New Jersey," reports Ryan Tracy, "funding research ...
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Indonesia, Will You Be Mine?
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
David Case reports on Rick Ness, an employee of the Colorado-based Newmont Mining Corporation who the Indonesian government has accused of dumping dangerous waste into a shallow bay in Sulawesi.
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The ExxonMobil Protection Agency
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The U.S.
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More Nuclear Spin, in the U.S. and UK
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Featured Participatory Project: Eli Lilly's Contributions to Patient and Other Groups
Submitted by Bob Burton on
In May of this year, the drug company Eli Lilly announced that it would post details of "all educational grant funding and other monetary contributions provided to U.S.-based organizations" into an online database. Tucked away amongst the numerous grants made in the first six months of 2007 are details of funds provided to patient groups, various research centres and a sprinkling of political groups.
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Bush's Surgeon General of Industry-Friendly Spin
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"White House officials viewed former surgeon general Richard H. Carmona as a public relations tool, pushing him to make political appearances and promote the Bush administration's agenda while he was in office, according to a series of executive branch e-mails released yesterday by Sen.
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Criminal Silence on Climate Change
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
According to a recent ruling by federal judge Saundra Brown Armstrong, the Bush administration broke the law by failing to present the latest scientific research about global warming to Congress and the public.
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