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(AP) -- A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
BEIJING, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- The number of Chinese officially suffering drinking water shortages has more than doubled in less than a week after the government revised its statistics.
South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will replace gasoline and diesel oil with bio-ethanol fuel at all petrol stations starting in April, a top regional official said here during the parliamentary session.
from BUSINESS LINE, March 10, 2008 Late last week in London, the Union Commerce Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, said thatthere were about 150 "points of conflict" in the farm sector, which should be brought down to at least 50before Ministers of the WTO member-countries could meet and try to get the Doha Round going once again.
Shirley Franklin bills herself as Atlanta's sewer mayor.
She's staked her legacy on a nearly $4 billion plan to overhaul Atlanta's decrepit sewers and aging water pipes called Clean Water Atlanta. But many city residents are filing lawsuits over crumbling sewers, stopped-up storm drains and otherwise faulty pipes.
Courier Corporation (Nasdaq: CRRC), one of America's leading book manufacturers and specialty publishers, today announced that it has achieved Forest Stewardship Council(TM: 104.64, -0.96, -0.90%) (FSC) Chain-of-Custody certification in recognition of its commitment to responsible forestry practices and adherence to "green" manufacturing standards.
Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee who are also farm bill conferees have agreed on a $12 billion package of farm bill offsets to offer the House and the Bush administration, a key Senate source said Wednesday.
This year must be devoted to helping the "bottom billion" of the world's poorest to tap into global economic growth, Secretary General Ban
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Ki-moon told the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) today.
Rice is in increasingly short supply and foreign governments aretaking steps to insure the diet staple remains available to theirpopulations.
Rice is in increasingly short supply and foreign governments aretaking steps to insure the diet staple remains available to theirpopulations.
House Agriculture Chairman Peterson said even though Congress would find many of the administration's proposed offsets and policy demands unacceptable, he said its letter from Saturday and his meetings with Senate leaders over the weekend represented progress. He said he believes a farm bill deal can be struck before Congress leaves March 14 for its two-week spring recess.
A good deal of public indifference exists regarding the reauthorization of the federal farm bill. This is unfortunate because, in one way or another, the farm bill legislation affects all U.S. citizens - from the clothes we wear, food we eat and water we drink to the air we breathe, and the energy that powers our homes, workplaces and vehicles.
Hunters groups across the country are worried that a federal program that encourages farmers to conserve wildlife habitat and protect water quality could lose ground under the new farm bill being negotiated.
WYE MILL -- With the 2002 farm bill set to expire March 15, some people are wondering if the $286 billion 2007 bill will ever win approval.
HOPES that Royal Dutch Shell
would be allowed to include oil reserves from a huge project in Canada in time for a major strategy announcement later this month have been dashed.
A drama series about the border between Canada and the United States would once have induced a yawn inthe television audience.
Residents of both countries could pass through what was dubbed the world's longest undefended border, stretching for 8,900 kilometres, with just a word or a wave of the hand.