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It's got millions of rightwing citizens calling Congress, sponsoring
legislation, and writing manifestos in defense of U.S. sovereignty. It
comes up in presidential candidates' public appearances, has made it
into primetime debates, and one presidential candidate-Ron Paul-used it
as a central theme of his (short-lived) campaign.
Not bad for a plan that doesn't exist.
As Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama slug out the Ohio round of
their Democratic primary fight, the issue of NAFTA has returned to the
center of debate, revealing deep, unresolved tension in the Democratic
Party 15 years after the passage of the landmark trade agreement.
As Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama slug out the Ohio round of
their Democratic primary fight, the issue of NAFTA has returned to the
center of debate, revealing deep, unresolved tension in the Democratic
Party 15 years after the passage of the landmark trade agreement.
Two Democratic contenders for the U.S. presidency suggest they'd like to
renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and it's as if the
sky were falling in Canada.
Several articles in today's Globe and Mail assume that the US Democratic
Party's desire to renegotiate NAFTA threatens Canada. On the contrary,
Canadians should welcome this initiative.
El Alto, Bolivia - An abandoned alpine lodge is all that remains of Bolivia's renowned Chacaltaya ski resort, the world's highest at 17,388 feet above sea level. Today, the expansive 150-foot thick glacier, which once attracted thousands of tourists, has been reduced to a lone patch of ice about 9-feet deep, visited only by gawkers and concerned scientists.
With global grain stocks at record lows and soaring prices for agricultural products, new attention is being paid to which farming methods are best poised to meet global food needs.
In 1997, after British Petroleum publicly acknowledged the harmful effects of global warming, it quickly became known as the oil company with environmental virtue.
Mother Earth was feeling a little crabby on Saturday's Earth Day activities in Whiting.
Rain pounded the area all day, but subsided long enough for the group of area residents and environmentalists to hold an outdoors rally at Whiting's Whihala County Park.
HIGHLIGHT: Major oil producer Saudi Aramco has stated that international crude oil prices are increasing primarily due to speculation and depreciation of the US dollar and not due to increased demand from China, reported Reuters, quoting the Saudi Arabian company's executive.
Senator Tom Harkin (D
-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and the Senate-House conference committee on the farm bill, today issued the following statement after the White House called for a one year extension of current farm law.
Powerful members of the Senate Finance and Agriculture committees are fighting to keep hundreds of millions of dollars of biofuels tax breaks in the farm bill.
Tuesday's farm bill conference had to be particularlyunpleasant for Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin. During last Thursday's(April 17) conference, the Senate Agriculture Committee chairmanthreatened he'd begin calling votes at the next meeting. TheHouse made sure that didn't happen.
Typically food crises have been local affairs, famines due to drought or crop failures. But we are now in the midst of a food crisis that, though uneven, is widespread; it is fair to call it global in scope.
Americans are in sticker-shock over grocery prices, while people in developing countries are rioting over food shortages. And across the heartland, American farmers are enjoying record incomes, but losing sleep over rising expenses and turbulence in the commodity futures markets.
Here on Capitol Hill, though, it is pretty much farm politics as usual.
British Columbia's pine-beetle devastated forest is belching out enough carbon to equal Canada's average annual forest fire emissions, says a new report from scientists at the Ministry of Natural Resources Canada.
Spring burning and thinning pine stands can often breed harmful insect infestations, according to Bitterroot National Forest officials.
Agency foresters are warning private landowners that thinning pine stands or burning spring slash may inadvertently provide breeding grounds for insects, specifically, the pine engraver bark beetle.
The 2,000-year-old giant sequoias east of Fresno, Calif., have survived warm spells lasting centuries, but in just 100 years, global warming could snuff them out -- along with many Sierra Nevada species.