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WASHINGTON (June 29, 2010) — The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today against the Food and Drug Administration for its failure to act on a petition to ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging, food containers, and other materials likely to come into contact with food. BPA, a hormone-disrupting chemical linked [...]
Via the Dot Earth blog comes this particular exercise in car-crash PR. Maybe you’ve managed to miss the section of the BP website which contains the work of the ‘BP Reporters’ – corporate lackeys who are paid to produce puff pieces about Louisiana and how the company is responding to the oil spill.
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How the Deepwater Horizon rig fire and sinking led to a major oil spill.
Toward the end of the last ice age, a major reorganization took place in the current system of the North Pacific with far-reaching implications for climate. About that time, the North Pacific branch of the conveyor belt changed drastically.
Dame Jane Goodall, the eminent conservationist, has called for “dramatic changes” to how we think about the natural world to prevent chimpanzees becoming extinct in 30 years.