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Pres. Bush lies about pollution study

  By General Corruption, Health & Environment

Natural Resources Defense Council health threats posed by a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives January 10, 2005: The Bush White House, the Defense Department and industry collaborated in a backroom campaign to manipulate a National Academy of Sciences report on health threats posed by a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives, according to documents obtained by NRDC. The NAS report, ordered by the Bush administration,. . . CONTINUE

Coal fires are ‘Global Catastrophe’

  By Global Warming, Health & Environment

BBC News Wednesday, 3 November, 2004 130-year-old Chinese fire put out A fire that broke out more than 100 years ago at a Chinese coalfield has finally been extinguished, reports say. In the last four years, firefighters have spent $12m in efforts to put out the flames at Liuhuanggou colliery, near Urumqi in Xinjiang province. While ablaze, the fire burned up an estimated 1.8m tons of coal every year, according. . . CONTINUE