Environment

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The Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on a Republican proposal to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from implementing new rules that would reduce the amount of dangerous …

Whatu2019s surreal is listening to Mexicou2019s Agriculture Minister, Francisco Mayorga, speaking last Wednesday to an international conference on u201cNew Paradigms for Agriculture,u201d describe without a hint of irony or …

Diana Reeves started a group called GMO Free USA which plans to pressure food manufacturers into revealing which of their products contain GMOs. The ultimate goal is to organize …

The protesters marched through downtown Columbus and temporarily occupied the front hall of the Ohio Statehouse.

The book effectively tells a story of greed and corruption in one small town that actually had also swept like a hurricane through hundreds of other communities in the …

Republicans in the House of Representatives quietly passed 13 provisions last week that would choke off Energy Department financing for existing clean energy and efficiency programs. The House adopted …

Plant's problems mobilize local anti-nuclear activists, residents and officials for the first time since the early '80s.

The proposal to decriminalize the public possession of small amounts of marijuana risks ending a number of objections to the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices, without properly addressing the racist skew …