New Straits Times (Malaysia) | March 7, 2004
NUMEROUS companies world-wide have jumped onto the corporate environmental reporting (CER) bandwagon. Although the growing numbers of reporters are encouraging, the overall standard of reporting leaves plenty to be desired.
The Miami Herald | By SETH BORENSTEIN | February 24, 2004
U.S.: Climate change could cause global woe; A new report ordered by the Pentagon warns that a sudden change in climate could become a violent global battle for control of scarce resources.;
Agence France Presse | February 17, 2004
Britain fired a shot across the bows of the United States over genetically-modified (GM) food as environment ministers from around 70 countries prepared to meet here Wednesday on preserving the diversity of life on earth.
National Post's Financial Post | By Ian Jack | January 15, 2004
OTTAWA - The Federal Court has thrown out a government appeal of a multi-million-dollar judgment under NAFTA's controversial Chapter 11.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fish safety testing does not include, except for limited samples through their Total Diet Study, PCBs and dioxins - pollutants which were found to be widespread in farmed salmon in a study published last week.
The Army Corps of Engineers continues to use questionable economic methodology to evaluate whether a massive multibillion dollar lock expansion project is necessary on the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterways (UMR-IW), according to a new report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel released today.
AFX European Focus | December 8, 2003
An EU panel of experts has rejected an application to import Syngenta AG's 'Bt-11' genetically modified (GM) sweetcorn, effectively postponing a decision on whether to lift a ban on biotech crops, the European Commission said.
By implementing small-scale, low cost measures, the efficiency of barge traffic on the Mississippi River could be significantly improved, according to a new report by the University of Missouri-St. Louis' Center for Transportation Studies.
Chicago Tribune | By James P. Miller | November 21, 2003
Top trade officials from 34 nations reached agreement Thursday on a framework for the planned Free Trade Area of the Americas, though the accord falls far short of the concrete plan that the meeting had originally been expected to yield.
