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The comment period for theOil Shale/Tar Sands PEIS Comment Period Open Until 3/20/08, according to the Oil Shale and Tar Sands Programmatic EIS Information Center.
The House cleared a 30-day extension of the nation's farm law last week, buying House and Senate negotiators more time to complete a deal on a long-term agriculture policy overhaul.
The chamber cleared the short-term bill (S 2745) by voice vote March 12. The Senate had passed the measure earlier in the day, also by voice vote.
NO issue divides economists and mere Muggles more than the debate over globalization and international trade. Where the high priests of the dismal science see opportunity through the magic of the market's invisible hand, Joe Sixpack sees a threat to his livelihood. This gap in perspective grows especially wide whenever the economy experiences short-run difficulties, as it is now.
Jim Robinson has a meeting coming up that he knows could be a little risky. He is going to introduce a group of Mexican steelworkers to United Steelworkers members in downstate Granite City. Both groups work for the same company, ASF-Keystone Inc.
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In announcing a joint label for farm pesticides and herbicides last year, regulators in the United States and Canada called it a milestone in the reduction of trade barriers. A year later, only four chemicals have a NAFTA label.
What goes up need not always come down, but the speed of ascent surely decelerates, and it is just that which isworrying Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)-based business economists. Their conviction about the locomotive role of Bric economies has, in fact, been shaken for sometime now.
Excl: Cherrapunjee runs out of water
Imagine Cherrapunjee, the wettest place on the earth, facing a water crisis and the state government roping in a foreign firm to quench its thirst!
Yes, that's exactly what is happening with Cherrapunjee (now called Sohra), which ironically has been a record holder for the highest amount of rainfall in the world.
CHICAGO -- In her neverending effort to maintain her health and appearance, Jill Walker credits bottled water with improving her digestion, maintaining her skin's elasticity and keeping her away from sugary soda.
The Chicago resident drinks a bottle in the morning after her workout. She tosses another into her bag to take to the office and finishes two more with dinner.
It has been said many times, the heart of the Northwoods is the forest itself.
It was the forest that birthed the lumber and paper industries which remain a bedrock of the Rhinelander area.
Recent downpours have turned Orange County foothills charred by October's ferocious Santiago fire a vivid emerald green. From a distance, the explosion of life offers a powerful testament to nature's resilience. Up close, it also provides a worrisome omen for the months ahead.
The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades.
So few salmon are living in the ocean and rivers along the Pacific Coast that salmon fishing in California and Oregon will have to be shut down completely this year unless an emergency exception is granted, Pacific Fishery Management Council representatives said Tuesday.
Farmers wouldn't have to report emissions from animal waste under an Environmental Protection Agency proposal.
The public has until March 27 to comment about the proposal.
A Burnaby MP has joined an international campaign to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
An antibiotic-resistant bacteria called Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase is killing people and swine in Denmark.
AgBioView & News.com A genetics company and a biodiesel refiner have formed a joint venture to see if they can cut the cost of biodiesel.
Van Wert Fire Chief Matt Whistler worries about the trucks carrying a flammable liquid that roll by his town at all times of the day and night.
The firefighters in Van Wert, located next to Interstate Highway 35 in southern Iowa, have not had training in battling ethanol fires, and the department doesn't have the special foam to fight such blazes anyway.