Amid the growing call for those guilty of causing Flint, Michigan's water crisis to be prosecuted, Jane F. Barrett finds little prospect of criminal charges under the Safe Drinking Water Act. But federal, state and common laws offer prosecutors a range of potential charges, from malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance to involuntary manslaughter.
Flint water crisis - will anyone be prosecuted? Jane F. Barrett University of Maryland | 18th February 2016 Comment Water Pollution Health Regulation Law USA flint-law-cut.jpg Amid the growing call …
Sue Lloyd Roberts, the brilliant investigative journalist who died yesterday, was a unique phenomenon in the BBC, writes Oliver Tickell - fearless, rooting out the dirtiest of secrets, fighting the cause of the oppressed, abused, exploited and downtrodden. Now the BBC must keep her mission alive with a new, independent unit dedicated to human rights worldwide.
… dollops of hard fought-over budget for her investigations, and to get her reports, no …
9,000 new homes in the 'fast track' housing development zones created by the UK government are in areas of flood risk, making them potentially uninhabitable and uninsurable, according to a Greenpeace investigation - and that's before accounting for the increased flood risk from by climate change. Meanwhile future levels of funding for flood control are looking highly uncertain.
Government planning thousands of new homes for flood zones Maeve McClenaghan Greenpeace Energydesk | 8th January 2015 News Water Development UK Floods Politics medway-floods-2014-cut.jpg 9,000 new …
The pro-GM lobby has sought to take the 'scientific high-ground' by positioning itself as the voice of reason and progress, while painting its opponents as unsophisticated 'anti-science' luddites. In a scathing response Peter Melchett turns the tables
The GM lobby and its 'seven sins against science' Peter Melchett | 31st December 2012 News Gm Food And Farming News Science gmo.jpg The pro-GM lobby has sought to take the 'scientific high-ground' by …
Like carbon trading, REDD and food speculation before it, the buying and selling of water is just the latest example of market principles being applied to natural resources. But just how ethical is it? Debika Ray reports
… September 2011 News Science And Technology Investigations Carbon Trading Water Natural …
A pilot study of American mothers' milk has found levels of the herbicide glyphosate around 1,000 times higher than allowed in European drinking water. Campaigners are demanding a ban on the use of glyphosate on food crops.
Glyphosate found in breast milk The Ecologist | 28th April 2014 News Food Farming Water Regulation USA EU mothers-milk-cut.jpg A pilot study of American mothers' milk has found levels of the …
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.
… Inquiry by Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations. it appears that once again the …
Despite promising the world in 2009, biotech corporations have increasingly raised the hackles of scientists and citizens worldwide
Was 2009 the year the world turned against GM? Claire Robinson Jonathan Matthews | 11th January 2010 Comment Food And Farming Science And Technology Gm Genetic Modification squarefruit.jpg Despite …
Gas extraction plans underway in Lancashire would pose a serious risk of contaminating ground and surface waters, says Tyndall Centre report
UK urged to ban controversial 'fracking' gas-extraction Tom Levitt | 17th January 2011 News Gas Fracking Hydraulic Fracturing Energy Climate Change Water what-the-frack.jpg Gas extraction plans …
When Michael Buckley took a white water rafting trip in Tibet in 2005, he had no idea of the adventure he was embarking on - a ten-year investigation of China ruthless exploitation of Tibet's mineral and hydroelectric resources, and its systematic attack on indigenous Tibetans, their culture and their survival on the land.
Damming Tibet: China's destruction of Tibet's rivers, environment and people Michael Buckley | 13th April 2015 News China Tibet Water Renewables Energy Mining Land Grabs Indigenous Peoples …
Disregarding revelations of systemic political corruption in Brazil's hydropower sector, President Dilma Rousseff is ploughing ahead with a cascade of giant dams on the mighty Tapajos river. Among the companies touting to win huge construction contracts are France's EDF and Engie, and Germany's Voith and Siemens - in a consortium led by Brazil's Electrobras, which stands accused of high-level corruption over four other dam projects.
European companies line up to bid for Amazon megadam Zachary Boren Greenpeace Energydesk | 13th April 2016 News Corporations Brazil Forests Politics Finance Water Energy Hydropower Indigenous Peoples …
This week 20 Amazon Indians walked to the Belo Monte dam site to demand the company keep its promises to compensate indigenous communities. Police shot them with 'rubber bullets' and stun grenades, wounding four. Tensions are rising ...
Brazil: Amazon Indians shot at Belo Monte dam site Xingu Vivo The Ecologist | 30th May 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Brazil Amazon Water Energy Corporations belo-monte-blockade-cut.jpg This week 20 …
As the people of Argentina are driven by economic collapse to the point of starvation, a new solution is being imposed upon them. Ben Backwell reports on a country being force fed genetically modified soya designed not for humans, but for cattle
Soya Republic Ben Backwell | 1st February 2003 News Gm Soya Argentina Genetically Modified Biotech Agribusiness Biotechnology Agribusiness Soya Biotechnology Gm Products Soya Farming Organics …
Supermarkets have been accused of misleading consumers by not labelling food produced from genetically modified crops.
Supermarkets caught up in GM label row 19th November 2007 News Gm Soil Association Food Organics Agribusiness Gm Products Food And Farming Science And Technology News web pic 2_18.jpg Supermarkets …
The man on the phone said he was from the BBC. They were interested in interviewing me about my alleged involvement in crimes against humanity.
The great GM miracle? Jonathan Matthews | 23rd January 2008 News Gm BBC Costing The Earth Gm Products Biotechnology Food And Farming Science And Technology investigates.jpg The man on the phone said …
Andres Carrasco's research linking a controversial herbicide with birth defects highlighted the potential health dangers posed by GM crop-spraying in Argentina – and led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study
Revealed: the glyphosate research the GM soy lobby doesn't want you to read Claire Robinson | 24th November 2010 Comment Gm Comment Food And Farming Soy Crops Glyphosate Gm Watch Agribusiness Animal …
Much of our meat and dairy produce is made from animals raised on GM feeds. Alarming new claims suggest that the GM diet is affecting animal health - prompting fears over human safety. Andrew Wasley reports ...
… 2013 News Gm Animal Health GMOs Food Farming Investigations News Food Safety Livestock … Sarah Stirk & Louisa Michel Andrew Wasley is investigations editor of The Ecologist and the …
Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat
Joyce D'Silva: 'Meat should carry a health warning' Eifion Rees | 30th September 2010 Comment Interviews Joyce D'Silva Compassion In World Farming CIWF Farming Animals Cows Meat Water Drought …
The Flint water crisis exposes like nothing else the toxic cynicism of America's ruling class, writes Jesse Jackson. In their privileged view, the victims of the lead poisoning are disposable 'unpersons' that matter less than General Motors' auto parts. But now they, and their peers in other poisoned communities, are fighting back.
… time for the federal government to step in. Investigations should lead to indictments. …
The marine campaign group Oceana has put together a fact sheet about ocean acidification
Ocean acidification: the facts The Ecologist | 10th December 2009 News Oceans Water Natural World Fish Coral coralreefs.jpg The effects of ocean acidification on corals are particularly concerning …
In the first of a new series of photo-stories documenting the growing global crisis over water resources, Matilde Gattoni reports from Niger and finds a country struggling to quench its increasing thirst
PHOTO STORY: Drought, food insecurity and desertification blight Niger Matilde Gattoni | 3rd May 2011 News Water Natural Resources Climate Change News 012cweb2.jpg In the first of a new series of …
Four Indian leaders who have opposed illegal logging in their forests have been shot dead in eastern Peru as they traveled by boat to an indigenous meeting in Brazil. The murders followed pleas to Peruvian authorities for protection, and warnings by Brazilian officials that the Indians were in extreme danger.
Assassination in the Amazon Oliver Tickell | 11th September 2014 News Peru Brazil Indigenous Peoples Forests Water ashaninka-boat-cut.jpg Ashaninka traveling by boat from eastern Peru to visit …
It was a bad year for the biotech barons. At a conference in January 1999, the consulting firm Arthur Andersen revealed Monsanto executives’ vision of an ideal future – a world in which natural seeds were virtually all extinct and where commercial seeds were genetically modified (GM) and patented.
The battle to keep GM food off your plate Jeffrey Smith | 1st November 2007 News Gm US UK Arpad Pusztai Gm Products Campaigns Gm Products UK US Food And Farming Politics And Economics …