Epic fail: just 1 percent of Obamacare requests successfully processed
Millions of Americans visited newly launched websites last week to learn more about the benefits offered through the president’s health insurance mandate, but Obamacare is...
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Monsanto buys big data weather company to boost yields and profit
Agriculture giant Monsanto has announced acquisition of the Climate Corporation, a climate data research company, expecting that its info will help farmers maximize crop yields...
Pentagon spent $5.5bn only hours before govt shutdown
As clocks at the Pentagon approached midnight late Monday evening and inched America towards a government shutdown, the United States Department of Defense spent $5.5...
‘Alarming’ presence of radioactivity found by Pennsylvania fracking wastewater study
Researchers have found high levels of radioactivity, salts, and metals in water and sediment located downstream from a treatment facility which processes fracking wastewater from...
GMO Labeling Law Proposed in New York
New York joins the vanguard group of nearly two dozen states trying to pass a law requiring labeling of food or food products containing genetically...
USDA program to speed up processing fails to catch contaminated meat
A meat inspection program which the US Department of Agriculture hopes to approve for all domestic pork plants has frequently allowed the production of contaminated...
13 Lies GMO Labeling Opponents are Recycling in Washington State
It’s déjà vu all over again. Last year a coalition of out-of-state, multinational biotech, pesticide and junk food corporations spent nearly $46 million to narrowly...
Air pollution cause of 200,000 premature US deaths – study
Smoke is released into the sky at the ConocoPhillips oil refinery in San Pedro, California (Reuters/Bret Hartman) Air pollution in major US cities is the...