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Sticky or Non-Stick?
By: Thomas Tanton
6.14.2008
The California state Senate has passed a bill to ban the use of food packaging containing perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and sent it to the Assembly. Senate Bill 1313, authored by Sn. Ellen Corbett, would require that starting January 1st 2010 no person or company shall manufacture, sell or distribute any food contact substance that contains PFOS, PFOA, higher homologues, or precursors to these chemicals, in any concentration exceeding 10 parts per billion. Sounds like great legislation with the interest of consumers in mind.
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Hardship of high gasoline prices previews the impact of emission controls
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 7.15.2008 5:30:00 PM
In 2006, at the end of his movie An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore offered a number of things that the average person could do to decrease their impact on global climate change. They could ride a bike or take mass transit, the former vice-president advised. They could drive a fuel-efficient car, and they could drive less. Two years later, people are evidently making those choices in large numbers. But it’s not because of Mr. Gore, or Sheryl Crow, or Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s because of rising gas prices.
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What Congress, and Everybody Else, Should Know About Genetically Modified Crops
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 6.17.2008
With concerns mounting over global food supply and prices, and the potential impacts of climate change on the frequency of droughts or disease outbreaks, now’s the time for using technology to our advantage in food production. With this in mind, the Bush administration included a directive in its proposed $770 million global food aid package that the U.S. Agency for International Development spend $150 million on development farming, including the use of genetically modified (GM) crops, in food-deprived countries. The package awaits congressional approval.
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