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Senators Will Unveil Climate Bill on April 26

By | 04.15.10 | 6:06 pm

The tripartisan group of senators crafting climate legislation — John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) — plan to release their much-anticipated bill on April 26. The original idea was to roll it out on April 22, the symbolic 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Why the More…

The Top Five Environmental Whoppers of 2009: An Earth Day Retrospective

By | 04.22.09 | 4:54 pm

Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has catalyzed as much hysteria as it has environmental stewardship. During the holiday’s first half-decade of observance, many Americans, encouraged by a complicit press, fretted over the impending ecological disaster that would result from global cooling. And the very More…

Dow Chemical-Sponsored Walleye Festival to Donate Toxic Fish to Food Banks

By | 04.22.09 | 10:30 am

It’s Earth Day, and over at TWI’s sister site, The Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer reports that dioxin-contaminated fish caught from the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers during an annual Walleye Festival sponsored by Dow Chemical could find its way to the dinner tables of poor people.