Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
General Electric Co plans to invest $100 million in a factory to build high-tech batteries for heavy equipment, which it believes could be a $1 billion business over the next decade. The largest US conglomerate plans to seek federal stimulus money to fund construction of the factory, near Albany, New …
Democrats in the US House of Representatives are expected to announce a compromise move on Wednesday that would give the go-ahead to a bill to tackle global warming. Success would beat expectations in a political climate increasingly hostile to cap-and-trade. The bill, which will disappoint some environmental groups, is likely …
The British High Commission yesterday said that the rising global climate crisis is due to the lack of responsibility on the part of the so- called developed world, and that excessive amounts of carbon in the air is owing to the careless actions of the developed nations and that they …
The Environmental Protection Agency will oversee the cleanup of a huge coal ash spill that brought national attention to the environmental risks of storing the power plant byproduct. The agency
The first case of swine flu in China was confirmed Monday as the epidemic continued moving around the world, with the World Health Organization reporting about 4,700 laboratory-confirmed cases in 30 countries. Communication with a Chinese man, being treated for the new H1N1 strain of flu, was broadcast at a …
President Obama engineered a political coup on Monday by bringing leaders of the health care industry to the White House to build momentum for his ambitious health care agenda. Mr. Obama pronounced it
Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars. Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss …
Schott Solar, seeking to capture a big chunk of the US solar market, will unveil a new US facility on Monday that will produce both solar thermal and photovoltaic solar components. The unit of privately held German glassmaker Schott AG said its Albuquerque, New Mexico facility employs 300 workers and …
China's frenetic construction of coal-fired power plants has raised worries around the world about the effect on climate change. China uses more coal than the United States, Europe and Japan combined, making it the world's largest emitter of gases that are warming the planet. But largely missing in the hand-wringing …
Doctors, hospitals, drug makers and insurance companies will join President Obama on Monday in announcing their commitment to a sharp reduction in the growth of national health spending, White House officials said Sunday. The officials said the plan could save $2,500 a year for a family of four in the …
The number of swine flu-related deaths outside Mexico has inched up to five, with the United States reporting its third fatality and Costa Rica its first, both involving men who also had underlying illnesses. The number of confirmed cases of the infection in the United States has risen to 2,532 …
Every few weeks, it seems, deadly germs turn up in the food supply. Heather Why brew, a college student in Washington State, became gravely ill after eating a salad in her school cafeteria. Carl Ours, of Ohio, was temporarily paralyzed after eating chili dogs and drinking beer. Mari Tardiff, of …
The Obama administration said on Friday it will keep a Bush-era rule that weakens protection for polar bears' icy habitat and plays down links between the threatened status of the species and climate change. "Seeing the polar bear's habitat melting and an iconic species threatened is an environmental tragedy of …
US climate change legislation is unlikely to pass this year due to concerns about the recession and contention over the implementation of the program, according to energy and carbon market experts. The current cap-and-trade proposal, introduced by US Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, would cap carbon emissions and require …
US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said on Friday he will travel to China this year to promote sales of US clean energy goods as part of the Obama administration's effort to fight global warming. "This would be a win-win for jobs in the United States, as well as addressing a …
President Barack Obama's $3.55 trillion budget, released on Thursday, retains his plan to cut climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions by auctioning off 100 percent of emission permits to industries. That is at odds with some in Congress, including members of Obama's own Democratic Party, who are pushing for 50 percent or …
Andrew C. Revkin An Obama admin- istration decision means that two consecutive US Presidents have deemed the En- dangered Species Act an inappropriate means of curb- ing greenhouse gas emissions THE OBAMA administration said on Friday that it would retain a wildlife rule issued in the last days of the …
