Reimagination - Reimagining, exploring and celebrating the changes in infrastructure, politics and culture that will help us live in harmony with each other and the earth now and in the future.
Democracy at Risk: California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's report Top To Bottom Review finds that electronic voting machines supplied by several vendors are subject to hacking and inaccuracies.
Climate Shift - The effects of climate shift on the future of planet earth and its inhabitants.
Rumsfeld's Toxic Legacy - How Donald Rumsfeld pushed aspartame (nutrasweet) through the FDA onto our tables and into our bodies with no regard for the truth or our health.
End of Right-To-Know? Terrorism, Patriotism, and Environmental Law - "Congress should remember that the toxic cloud slaying the innocent people of Bhopal, India, was not the result of a terrorist act but the consequence of business as usual."
White House fails to protect public health "When the government comes across this kind of information and doesn't tell people about it, I just think it's wrong, unconscionable, not to do that," he said. "Your first obligation is to tell the people ... of the possible danger" -- Former EPA administrator William Ruckelshaus
UNEP -- The State Of The Planet Is Getting Worse But For Many It's Still "business As Usual."
The State of the Air 2002 Report says, "Three-quarters of the nation’s population who reside in areas with ozone monitors—a total of 142,668,846 Americans—are breathing in unhealthy amounts of ozone pollution." That's half the population!
EPA Coverup? September 11th Environmental Hypocrisy.
Web sites told to delete data: The White House yesterday ordered all federal agencies to scrub their Web sites of sensitive information on weapons of mass destruction and other data that might be useful to terrorists...
Doomsday Clock Moves Forward: On February 27, 2002, the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the minute hand of the “Doomsday Clock,” the symbol of nuclear danger, from nine to seven minutes to midnight, the same setting at which the clock debuted 55 years ago. Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, this is the third time the hand has moved forward.
Eric V. Schaeffer, EPA Director, Office of Regulatory Enforcement resigns. Click here to read his February 27, 2002 letter of resignation.
Human & Ecological Costs of High-Tech Scrap: It's been over 10 years since Bill Moyers and the Center For Investigative Reporting wrote their ground-breaking, Global Dumping Ground: The International Traffic in Hazardous Waste. Read this long awaited update to this story.
New Report Available: Smokestack Rollback:
How the Bush administration's Clean Air Act proposals will increase toxic refinery pollution and jeopardize public health - Study Exposes Bush Administration's Roll Back of Clean Air Protections as National Disaster for Public Health.
Corporate Terrorism? FBI Investigates Possible Financial Motive in Anthrax Attacks - The FBI is pursuing the possibility that financial gain was the motive behind the mailing of letters containing deadly anthrax bacteria and has conducted extensive interviews of personnel at two laboratories and possibly more, according to government officials.
Enron and the Green Seal - The fall of Enron sounds the death knell for one of the great rackets of the past decade: green seals of approval, whereby some outfit like the Natural Resources Defense Council or the Environmental Defense Fund would issue testimonials to the enviro-conscience and selfless devotion to the public weal of corporations like Enron.
RMP Report - Accident Epidemiology and the U.S. Chemical Industry: Preliminary Results from RMP*Info. The study using Risk Management Plan (RMP) data says, "In two cases, it was discovered that a facility had changed its [RMP] report ... In one case, 9 public deaths had been reported and in the other case 5 deaths ... in both cases, these reports were resubmitted and changed to 0 deaths." ... More
Secret EPA Analysis Shows Current Clean Air Act Better than Proposed "Cap and Trade" Scheme. "Once again the Bush Administration is meeting in secret with industry cooking up plans that will worsen air quality and threaten public health."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to war, peace, love, military defense, retaliation, brotherhood, revolution. Reflect on this when reading the article and report below.
Urgent Action Alert from the Sierra Club: Stop the Anti-Environmental Fast-Track Bill! The Sierra Club says, "House Ways and Means Committee Chair Bill Thomas (R-CA) is trying to use the crisis created by terrorist attacks on our country to ram through Congress a divisive, environmentally-destructive fast-track trade bill." Click here for full text of H.R. 3005, the "Bipartisan Trade Promotion
Authority Act of 2001," quotes and contact information.
"Trade Secrets" - Time to revisit PBS's "Trade Secrets" website and Environmental Working Group's "Chemical Industry Archives."
Private Justice: Millions (in the U.S.) are Losing Their Legal Rights.
France Blast Possible Terror Attack - France's environment minister said Thursday that a chemical plant blast last month that killed 29 people may have been a terrorist attack.
