Environment

Bush Says Labor, Environmental Concerns Should Not Hamper Trade Deals

THE WHITE HOUSE | Office of the Press Secretary | For Immediate Release June 20, 2001 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE The East Room

Farm Groups Announce Stance On Fast Track

Farm groups announce stance on fast track authority

Bush Asks Farmers For Help With Fast Track

By Reuters

OECD Adopts New Key Environmental Indicators

PARIS--Environment ministers from the world's industrialized countries May 16 adopted a series of "key environmental indicators" to allow for more consistent international comparison of the main environmental problems facing the planet.

Bush Sends Congress Outline for Trade Legislation

By Doug Palmer May 10, 2001 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Thursday sketched out its ideas for ending a seven-year stalemate in Congress over new trade negotiating authority, but failed to win over labor and environmental groups.

U.S., EU Seen Drifting Apart in Approach To Environmental Matters in WTO Talks

By Gary G. Yerkey International Environment Reporter Volume 24 Number 10 May 9, 2001 Page 358

Shift Payments from Grain to ""Green""

This article by Dennis Keeney appeared in The Des Moines Register / April 8, 2001, Sunday 

Agricultural Product Liability and GMOS

EU farmers liable for GM damage

French Rebel Bove Convicted of GM Food Assault

by Nicolas Fichot REUTERS NEWS SERVICE March 16, 2001 MONTPELLIER, France - A French court handed rebel farm leader Jose Bove a 10-month suspended jail sentence on Thursday for destroying genetically modified rice plants during an assault on a research centre.

WTO Upholds France""s Ban on Asbestos

REUTERS | March 13, 2001 GENEVA - The World Trade Organization (WTO) appellate body ruled yesterday that France was justified in banning imports of goods containing white asbestos, rejecting a Canadian bid to have an earlier finding overturned.