The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has just begun to take oral evidence from a very select group of witnesses, writes Paul Mobbs in this open letter. Sadly its choices betray a systematic bias to industry and establishment figures - while community groups are entirely excluded.
… which the Royal Society and other subsequent reviews, due to prematurity or through taking … carried out such a study. In my view, what reviews of Government policy have taken place …
A leading member of the climate change-skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation has resigned from his post in the wake of a Greenpeace investigation that exposed its phoney 'peer review' process. But he insists: 'nothing going on here!'
… about the council's claims to conduct peer reviews of its publications. McKitrick said: …
The health of Europe's citizens is on trial as the EU's food safety regulator challenges the World Health Organisation over glyphosate and cancer, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. On the WHO side, published, peer reviewed science, real world epidemiology and open processes. While the EFSA conclusion is based on secret industry studies and opaque procedures. Will science or realpolitik win the day?
… of all, EFSA officials explained that the two reviews used different sets of data. As … their evaluation because public, final peer reviews of the data by the US government and …
A scientific study that identified serious health impacts on rats fed on 'Roundup ready' GMO maize has been republished following its controversial retraction under strong commercial pressure. Now regulators must respond and review GMO and agro-chemical licenses, and licensing procedures.
… republication of the study after three expert reviews is a testament to its rigour, as well …
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding. Lawrence Carter & Maeve McClenaghan spill the beans ...
Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding Lawrence Carter Maeve McClenaghan Greenpeace Energydesk | 9th December 2015 News Fossil Fuels Climate Change Science UK US ted-cruz-cut.jpg …
Medact, the organization of health professionals for a safer, fairer and better world, has called for a five year moratorium on fracking due to its serious hazards to public health, writes Paul Mobbs. Their new report is a powerful challenge to government policy that cannot be ignored.
… review considers a number of existing reviews of the evidence of 'fracking' on … actually reviewed the evidence The report reviews a number of existing studies from … and public health than the Government's reviews have been willing (or politically …
Britain now stands half way between the triggering of Article 50 and leaving the EU. Yet, we still cannot be clear what will happen to environmental regulations. We shouldn’t be demonising regulations that are there to protect our future as “red tape”. Part two of a three part series by BRENDAN MONTAGUE
… one of this series for the history of recent reviews). Again, the doors to the house …
Campaigners react with fury over decision not to review Heathrow policy.
Fury over Heathrow review decision David Hughes | 8th September 2021 | News Aeroplanes Heathrow Airport Jet Zero heathrow_expansion.jpg Campaigners react with fury over decision not to review …
Confidential document details complaints over EU rules on imports such as rice and paneer ahead of prospective post-Brexit trade talks. ZAC BOREN reports for Unearthed
UK-India trade review calls for flexibility on food standards and chemical rules Zac Boran | 17th July 2018 News Unearthed Theresa May Brexit India Food Standards Agency modi_narendra.jpg …
President Trump's recent executive order could open an area of America's most precious landscapes bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe Sandler Clarke. The 27 monuments 'under review' harbour huge volumes of oil, gas and coal: just what's needed to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, wildlife, historic sites and indigenous cultures.
Trump's National Monument order could open 2.7 million acres to oil, gas, coal Lawrence Carter Joe Sandler Clarke Greenpeace Energydesk | 12th May 2017 News USA Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate …
Elizabeth DeSombre and J. Samuel Barkin’s readable prose makes unpicking the complex politics and economics behind the fishing industry look as easy as shooting fish in a barrel
… review: Fish Ben Hudson | 15th December 2011 Reviews Fish Fishing Politics Hugh Fearnley … Whittingstall Project Ocean Conservation Reviews Books fish.jpg Elizabeth DeSombre and …
Fakenomics: Climate deniers manufactured a backlash to the influential Stern Review - which called climate change the greatest market failure ever seen.
Climate deniers rallied against Stern Review Brendan Montague | 31st October 2018 News Fakenomics Lord Nicholas Stern Stern Review Climate Change Economics Lord Lawson x Fakenomics: Climate deniers …
Newspaper apologises for article that disputed 'peer-reviewed scientific evidence' that up to 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest is at risk from climate change
Amazon rainforest claims not bogus admits The Sunday Times The Ecologist | 21st June 2010 News Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Climate Change rainforests.jpg Claims about climate change risks to the …
The European Food Safety Authority is about to decide on a re-authorisation of glyphosate, a 'probable carcinogen', based on unpublished industry studies. In this Open Letter to the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, campaigners call on him to ensure an open, scientifically robust process - and to immediately restrict the herbicide.
Glyphosate - EFSA must make a full and open scientific assessment Jorgo Riss K. Jensen F. Veillerette | 6th November 2015 Comment EU Toxics Health Regulation Farming Food glyposate-spray-cut.jpg The …
Lorna Howarth thought she knew plenty about activism, until she read The Activist’s Handbook which changed her way of thinking about how (and why) we can all make a difference
… Susan Clark about how much I enjoy the Book Reviews section in Resurgence & Ecologist …
Claims that nuclear power is a 'low carbon' energy source fall apart under scrutiny, writes Keith Barnham. Far from coming in at six grams of CO2 per unit of electricity for Hinkley C, as the Climate Change Committee believes, the true figure is probably well above 50 grams - breaching the CCC's recommended limit for new sources of power generation beyond 2030.
… estimates were below 13 gCO 2 /kWh. These two reviews of the published literature, often … concern with the Sovacool and Warner-Heath reviews is that among their selected LCAs there are, in both reviews, some analyses that do not include all …
Coal leases on public lands operated by the US Bureau of Land Management are responsible for 40% of US coal production and 14% of total US CO2 emissions, writes Mike Gaworecki - yet their environmental impacts have not been reviewed in 35 years.
BLM sued - no environmental review of coal leasing since 1979 Mike Gaworecki | 8th December 2014 News Climate Change Law USA Coal Fossil Fuels powder-river-trains-cut.jpg Coal leases on public lands …
With industry spinning that glyphosate is harmful to health, if at all, only with co-formulants like tallowamine, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency IARC has just released a Q&A document (below) stating that 'pure' glyphosate poses similar cancer and genotoxicity risks as its formulations. Banning particular co-formulants, as proposed by some EU countries, does not solve the problem.
WHO / IARC: glyphosate itself is the cancer and genotoxicity problem IARC | 11th March 2016 Comment Health Un Pesticides Toxics Regulation EU glyphosate-3d-vdw-cut-2.png With industry spinning that …
Lord Lawson, the chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, was invited on to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, where he mislead listeners about the science of climate change. Should the journalists on the programme have received better training on climate science? Mat Hope reports.
No BBC science reporting course since 2012, documents reveal Mat Hope | 6th November 2017 News Lord Lawson Global Warming Policy Foundation Radio 4 BBC Climate Science. 405663.jpg Lord Lawson, the …
Sir Nicholas Stern was asked to find out what way of averting climate change was economically feasible. A loaded question that has allowed him to find a perverse solution to a fatal problem.
The Stern Review: Editors Comment Jon Hughes | 1st December 2006 News Climate Change Stern Nicholas Stern Stern Report Global Warming US China Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Comments And Analysis …
The pesticide industry and regulators have repeatedly misled the public with claims that glyphosate is safe, says Claire Robinson. As a result, Monsanto's Roundup is used by gardeners and local authorities, in school grounds, and in farmers’ fields
The inside story on Monsanto and the glyphosate birth defect data Claire Robinson | 13th June 2011 Comment Monsanto Glyphosate Pesticides Herbicides Health Comment malformaciones1.jpg The pesticide …