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GMO technology moves faster than rules to regulate it

2015-01-18 08:26:28| Chemicals - Topix.net

Keith Sebourn checks on canola plants at a greenhouse run by Cibus, which is using genomic "editing" to develop herbicide-resistant canola in San Diego. Cibus CEO Peter Beetham stands outside the company's San Diego facility.

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Groups Demand EPA Regulate Toxic Water Pollution from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

2015-01-08 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: As my colleague Mary Anne Hitt noted in her highlights of 2014 column weve had some significant victories in the fight against the destruction of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia over the past year. But there is still so much to be done to stop this horrible practice from devastating our communities, our health and our wild Appalachian places. Thats why the Sierra Club joined a coalition of groups taking legal action this week to compel the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

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Dairy Food Safety Victoria to regulate new rules for sale of raw milk

2015-01-05 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology

Dairy Food Safety Victoria (DFSV) in Australia has been given responsibility by Victoria's state government to introduce regulations for a bittering agent to be added to any raw, cosmetic milk sold in the state to make it unpalatable.

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Regulators examine options to regulate Uber

2014-12-20 00:22:40| Trucking - Topix.net

Uber is not regulated in Maryland, so there is no mechanism in place to ensure the driver is not a threat to public safety, has a license or even insurance. Those and other concerns raised by competitor Yellow Transportation are before the Maryland Public Service Commission.

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