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New Report: GMOs Causing Massive Pesticide Pollution

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Gentically Engindeered Foods, Pesticides, The Organic Center, Bayer, Dupont, Monsanto, Gmos, Union of Concerned Scientists, Syngenta, Food Safety, Crop Yields, Herbicides, Biotech, Center for Food Safety, Dow, Climate Change, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There's good reason for this.

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Nation's Top Polluters: We're Green Too!

Tom McNichol | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Corporate Responsibility, Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, Greenwashing, Greenwashing Companies, Dupont, Dow Chemical, Eastman Kodak, Air Pollution, Bayer Group, Archer Daniels Midland, Green News
Tom McNichol

Don't expect any of these companies to admit they have a poor environmental record. In fact, to hear the top polluters tell it, they're as green as Al Gore.

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Vilsack Mistakenly Pitched "GMOs-Feed-The-World" to an Audience of Experts--Oops

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Hans Herren, Ge, Secretary Vilsack, Iaastd, Bill Gates, Small Farmers, The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, GM Food, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Global Population, Usda, Dupont, Monsanto, Biotechnology, Hunger, World Food Prize, Union of Concerned Scientists, GE Food, Local Food Systems, GM Crops, Science and Technology for Development, GE Crops, Feed the World, Syngenta, Agribusiness, Community Food Security Coalition, Gmos, Vilsack, Genetically Modified Foods, Green News
Jeffrey Smith

It is clear to the experts that the current generation of GMOs do not live up to the hype continuously broadcast by biotech companies and their promotional East Coast wing--the federal government.

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Global Harvest Initiative Seeks Not to Feed People, But to Bolster Big Agriculture's Profits

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Dupont, Hunger, Monsanto, Global Harvest Initiative, Dan Glickman, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Richard Lugar, Adm, Norman Borlaug, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Hunger looks on the surface to be the most bipartisan policy issue on our collective plates. We can all agree to the fact that hunger today is a global tragedy. But from there the discussion diverges.

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Chemical Insecurity

Philip Radford | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Joe Biden Vp, Corporate Greed, Chemicals, National Security, Janet Napolitano, President Obama, Chemical-Plants, Chemical-Products, Greenpeace, Dupont, Green News
Philip Radford

Simple, inexpensive, and common sense changes, like substituting or reducing the amount of lethal gases stored on-site, would protect millions of people from harm.

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DuPont, BP Receive Go Ahead On Biofuel Venture

The News Journal | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Dupont, Bp, Biofuels, Evolving Energy Tech, Biofuel, Greenhouse Gases, Environment, Renewable Energy, Green, Renewables, British Petroleum, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green Energy, Green Technology, Sustainability, Green News

DuPont and BP said Thursday that European Union officials have approved a joint venture to develop and produce what they termed a new generation of bi...

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West Virginia Chemical Plant Shut Down, Fined $2M Over Emissions

AP | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, West Virginia, Pollution, Environment, Dupont, Lucite, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State and federal authorities announced Monday that DuPont and Lucite International have agreed to pay $2 million to settle ...

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His Keyboard Versus the Climate

Peter Schwartz | Posted 12.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Honeywell, Dupont, General Motors, Greenhouse Gases, Ford, Epa, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Green News
Peter Schwartz

Emptying one canister of a little air blaster from Office Depot can release greenhouse gas equivalent to driving a smallish car across the country and halfway back again.

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Is It Fair To Measure Carbon Effects Of Biofuels?

Wall Street Journal | STEPHEN POWER | Posted 12.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dupont, Gm, Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Food Crisis, Biofuels Carbon Footprint, Ethanol, Archer Daniels Midland, Green News

For example, if farmers in Brazil burn and clear more rainforest to grow food because farmers in the U.S. are using their land to grow grain for fuel,...

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Bronfman: Incompetent Or Misunderstood?

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Warner Music, Seagrams, Dupont, Emi, Edgar Bronfman, MCA, Warner Music Group, Business News

For a brief, shining moment, Edgar Bronfman Jr. had redeemed himself. It was 2006, and Mr. Bronfman, the bearded scion of the Seagrams, seemed to hav...

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Dogs Of The Dow

24/7 Wall Street | John C. Ogg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: General Electric, Citigroup, JP Morgan, AT&T, Ge, General Motors, Gm, Verizon, Unit Investment Trusts, Dogs of the Dow, Altria, Home Depot, Pfizer, Dupont, Business News

The Dogs of the Dow aren't necessarily the worst performers of the prior year, but they pay the highest the dividend yields. We wanted to review the ...

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