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"Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned"

Heavy lobbying by companies eager to get a slice of the $23 billion-a-year organic food business is watering down USDA "organic" standards to the point where consumers "are not always getting what they expect: foods without pesticides and other chemicals, produced in a way that is gentle to the environment."

Source: Wash Post, 07/03/2009

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"Dollars And Streams"

"When you hear about dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes, they’re largely caused by pollution draining from the farm belt. It can take a long time and a lot of money to reduce pollution at factories. So they’re starting to pay farmers to cut pollution instead."

Source: Environment Report, 07/02/2009

"Carbon Trading on the Cheap"

If the United States wants to build a market-based approach to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, it should learn from Europe's failures.

Source: IEEE Spectrum, 07/02/2009

FL Breakwater Could Hurt Sea Turtles

"Two of Florida's top politicians are pushing state and federal regulators to approve a taxpayer-funded breakwater that would slow down, but not stop, erosion threatening expensive Palm Beach County condos. But biologists fear the breakwater will block sea turtles from one of the most important nesting beaches in the state."

Source: St. Petersburg Times, 07/02/2009

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"Purity of Federal 'Organic' Label Is Questioned"

SEJ-BEAT, the EJToday daily digest

"Dollars And Streams"

"Carbon Trading on the Cheap"

FL Breakwater Could Hurt Sea Turtles

"Researcher Show Farmers How To Save Songbirds"

"EPA Ready To Settle Bay Area Pesticide Suit"

"Germany's Green-Energy Gap"

"American Chestnut's Revival May Combat Climate Change"

"Gray Wolves Get Federal Protection Again"

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