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• USDA: No funds to run pesticide survey
Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it plans to do away with publishing its national survey tracking pesticide use, despite opposition from prominent scientists, the nation's largest farming organizations and environmental groups.
• Democrats planning a farm bill redo Thursday
About two-thirds of the bill would pay for nutrition programs such as food stamps, about $40 billion is for farm subsidies and another $30 billion would go to farmers to idle their land and for other environmental programs.
• Greenpeace: Game consoles a toxic brew
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Greenpeace said Tuesday that the world's most popular electronic game consoles contain high levels of toxic chemicals, though they do not pose an immediate danger to gamers. A report by the environmental watchdog group said ...
• Putting their money
Over the past year or so, American consumers have been confronted by a series of alarming issues: mass recalls of Chinese imports, environmental woes, rampant consumerism, the industrialization of food.  The growing awareness of how these issues ...
• Preemies face higher risk of birth defects
The cause of most birth defects remains elusive, although it is likely the most common birth defects stem from a combination of genetic and environmental factors, Honein said.

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» All About Trade and the Environment - Background information on environmental issues associated with NAFTA and the World Trade Organization plus a photo gallery of the WTO protests in Seattle.
» Bjørn Lomborg's official homepage - Author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist." Provides reviews, critiques, and media coverage about the book and its author.
» Cato Institute Natural Resource Studies - The leading Washington think tank and policy institute's special division for environmental protection and conservation.
» The Competitive Enterprise Institute - A pro-market, public policy group committed to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government, including a focus on global warming, the EPA, and other environmental issues.
» The Electronic Drummer - The Drummer presents Thoreau Institute reports, recent articles, excerpts from Different Drummer magazine, and data responding to Henry David Thoreau's (the father of environmentalism, author of Walden Pond) call for preserving the environment without big government.
» Everything's Coming Up Roses: Economists vs. Environmentalists - This economist says that the "you can't have your cake and eat it too" approach of economics, forcing responsibility, is the reason some environmentalists try to discredit them.
» Fiscally Green - One-stop shop for information on ecological fiscal reform (EFR) in Canada and around the world. Provides examples of fiscal policy for environmental objectives in various sectors and recent developments in the field.
» Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment - FREE advances conservation and environmental values by applying modern science and America's founding ideas to policy debates, seminars for federal judges, environment / public environmental policy, park reform.
» The Globalist - The Globalist's Environment and Globalization community explores how the global economy impacts the environment.
» The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment - A non-profit institution dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy. The Center's distinctive role is to foster collaboration between industry, environmental organizations, government and academia.
» Infography about Environmental Protection -- Economic Incentives - Sources recommended by a professor who specializes in the study of economic incentives for environmental protection.
» National Center for Policy Analysis - Environmental Issues - The non-partisan think-tank's award-winning website has this section dedicated to the solutions for our environmental problems.
» The Natural Step/US - A non-profit environmental education organization working to build an ecologically and economically sustainable society.
» The New Economics Foundation - Works to construct a new economy centered on people and the environment - using techniques such as social and environmental auditing.
» New Environmentalism - A program of Reason Public Policy Institute that promotes innovative and forward-looking environmental policy.
» Political Economy Research Center - PERC is a non-profit, environmental think tank in Montana seeking market solutions to environmental problems. Research and policy analysis covers endangered species, forestry, fisheries, mining, parks and park reform, public lands, property rights, Superfund, user fees, water marketing, wildlife and environmental education.
» Social Policy Bonds - Introduces the concept of "social policy bonds," which aims at injecting market incentives into the achievement of social and environmental goals. Includes books, papers and links.
» UPROAR - United Portmarnock Residents Opposing Another Runway. Residents are actively campaigning against the opening of an additional runway at Dublin on the bases of increase pollution and noise.
» US EPA National Center for Environmental Economics - The center conducts and supervises research and development on economic analytic methods; leads production of cross-agency economic reports; provides guidance for performing economic analysis; and promotes consistency in the preparation and presentation of economic information in the Agency.


» Reason: Evolutionary Ecology - An article on the trend of increasing economic influence in a maturing environmental policy. (May, 1996)