Friday, June 8, 2012

State Legislators Accuse Flame Retardant Industry Of 'Lies' About Lobbying Efforts

Friday, June 8, 2012
The television advertisement opened with a blazing fire and the words "Dangerous" and "Deadly" across the screen in bold letters. A narrator soon adds a more detailed warning: "In a matter of minutes, fire can destroy a home, a business, a family."
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Anti-Nuclear Activists Fight To Be Heard
North Dakota's Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity
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Jay Walljasper: Biking Pedals Into the 21st Century
You can glimpse the future right now in forward-looking American cities -- a few blocks here, a mile there where people riding bicycles are protected from rushing cars and trucks.
Neil Wagner: Eco Epiphany: Big City Sports Becoming Earth Friendly
The Chicago Park District's Soldier Field, home of the Bears, has just received LEED Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council -- the first NFL stadium so honored, which means the team of black and blue has gone green.
Marlowe Brown: Films for Your Soul: Plugging in to Limitless Power (WATCH)
Press "Play" in this week's "Films for Your Soul" excerpt below and experience the limitless power of glaciers so deep you can fit a skyscraper into their caverns, and mountains so high you would be the size of a pinhead next to them.
Tamar Haspel: Raising Pigs for Meat: Love Them, Kill Them, Eat Them
Our pigs arrived two days ago, and never did anything cuter grace a cloven hoof. They're about 25 pounds each now, and we're going to get them to about 240. Then we are going to kill them and eat them.
Michele Simon: Your Burger Just Got a Little Safer, Thanks to Uncle Sam
Testing is not true prevention, and we still have a long way to go toward cleaning up the industrialized meat system. It also doesn't make ground beef completely safe or, for that matter, healthy. But it's a start.
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