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SCOTUS ruling: Is Clean Water Act only valid for navigable waters?
The interim goal of the Clean Water Act (CWA) was swimmable and fishable waters by 1983 and the final goal was the elimination of all
States will usher in health care reform
Forget Congressional action on meaningful health care reform. It’s clear that whatever national health care legislation is passed, its main intent will be the preservation ...
Be alert to the rise in medical identity fraud
We’ve all heard of identity theft, but until this headline, “Avoiding medical identity theft to be discussed” in the Pasadena Star News caught my eye, ...
Will Bill Gates solve the world’s energy crisis?
As we all know, a quick look at the history of the world demonstrates that someone always has the happy knack of turning up with ...
The Great Climate Debate commits suicide
I suppose that many of you are just as mystified as I am as to how the (albeit minimal) hopes of finally seeing some concrete ...
California is first state to legislate deep cuts in wait times to see HMO doctors
Waiting too long for a medical appointment? California will cut wait time to between 10 and 15 days. Unfortunately, it could take nearly a year ...Would health care reform help you?
Many obstacles and stumbling blocks remain in the way of health care reform. The House and Senate bills will have to be merged, and then ...Scott Roeder trial: Anti-abortion extremist couldn’t kill the law
Sometimes it feels like normal, law-abiding people have to work to exhaustion just to stay in place. Today was one of those days. A Kansas jury ...
Flesh & Stone coverage of the H1N1 pandemic
By and large, U.S. media has shown a lack of curiosity about the economic and political aspects of the H1N1 drama. The view from out ...
Inequalities: When the Summers of our discontent said XX<XY in math and science
Robert Kuttner is the latest in a series of people calling for the head of Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, for example ...
H1N1 vaccines available at rock bottom prices in Europe
In a scenario that would have been unimaginable just two months ago, European countries are now scrambling to sell off hundreds of millions of H1N1 ...A common sense approach to evaluating alternative energy
by Peter Maier, PhD, PE Nobody denies that making fires was necessary for mankind to survive, but isn’t it time we start using our acquired knowledge ...
Lead loaded candy recalled in California
What a way to start the new year. One of the lead stories in the Los Angeles Daily News for Jan. 1, 2010, is the ...
EPA not using all technology available to implement the Clean Water Act
by Peter Maier, PhD, PEWhen Congress passed the Clean Water Act (CWA) in 1972 with its goal to eliminate all water pollution by 1985, and ...Health care reform impossible before campaign finance and lobbyist reform
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) knew that his amendment to the Senate leadership's health bill didn’t have a chance. Amendment 2837, introduced Wednesday, was to delete ...
Health Care Reform DOA: Triumph of the Money Party
by Michael Collins Dr. Howard Dean, MD, just said pull the plug on the current health care reform effort. The cure is worse than the disease, ...
The climate change and pollution debate is a dull and crippling bore
Which is the odd man out among pedophile priests, racism, World War ll, an oil-polluted seabird, AIDS and Michael Jackson’s death? The answer is that if ...
The emails and the ‘Danish Leak’ may kill Copenhagen and that is good news
"The debate on climate change does not belong to the political left or right, it is not a playground for scientists and their ideas, and ...
H1N1 France: From vaccine refusal to riot police in just 7 days
The extreme cynicism with which the French considered H1N1 vaccination just one week ago has been replaced by panic and exasperation at not being able ...
HHS panel’s mammogram recommendations slammed
"The (task force) recommends against routine screening mammography in women aged 40 to 49 years." U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, Nov. 17, 2009 "My message to ...
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