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Latest Press Releases02/09/12 02/07/12
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From Our BlogTwo 16-year-old Girl Scouts Win First Ever UN Forest Heroes Award, Brenda Ekwurzel Clean Energy Prices (Not the Sky) Falling in California, Laura Wisland Dear Climate Deniers, Meet California Scientists and Engineers with the Facts and Solutions to the Pollution, David Friedman Monsanto’s (Still) Failing Grade, Karen Stillerman
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UCS in the NewsElliott Negin posted a blog on the Huffington Post titled “It’s Climate Change, Stupid.” His piece points out that the biggest long-term threat to the U.S. economy is not government over-regulation, high taxes, or even the deficit. It's climate change. Edwin Lyman contributed an insightful book review of “Keeper of Nuclear Conscience” by Andrew Brown on New Scientist. Elliott Negin recently posted a blog on the Huffington Post titled “Monsanto's Great Expectations (and Not-So-Great Results).” Given the failure of Monsanto's products to perform as advertised and the damage they cause to the environment, how is the company "improving agriculture and improving lives"? Answer: It's not. Sports columnist Dennis Anderson wrote in The StarTribune lists the “Eight Ways Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture”.
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Latest Press Releases
02/09/12
Girl Scouts Fighting for Deforestation-Free Cookies Win United Nations Award
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02/07/12
Union of Concerned Scientists Gives Monsanto an ‘F’ in Sustainable Agriculture
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Fact Checker
01/30/12
Contrarians Misrepresent U.K. Weather Service Research to Push Cooling Claims
Fact Checker
05/26/11
Rep. Rohrabacher Distorts Facts about Causes of Climate Change
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New and Noteworthy
Worn Pipes Shut California Reactors
California Car Deal Criticized as Hurting Green Sales
Monsanto Fails UCS Test for Sustainable Agriculture
Girl Scout cookie campaigners up for UN forest laurel
UCS in the News
Elliott Negin posted a blog on the Huffington Post titled “It’s Climate Change, Stupid.” His piece points out that the biggest long-term threat to the U.S. economy is not government over-regulation, high taxes, or even the deficit. It's climate change.
Edwin Lyman contributed an insightful book review of “Keeper of Nuclear Conscience” by Andrew Brown on New Scientist.
Elliott Negin recently posted a blog on the Huffington Post titled “Monsanto's Great Expectations (and Not-So-Great Results).” Given the failure of Monsanto's products to perform as advertised and the damage they cause to the environment, how is the company "improving agriculture and improving lives"? Answer: It's not.
Sports columnist Dennis Anderson wrote in The StarTribune lists the “Eight Ways Monsanto Fails at Sustainable Agriculture”.
