Bee Colony Collapse: Lawsuit seeks EPA’s pesticide data

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, August 19, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is refusing to disclose records about a new class of pesticides that could be playing a role in the disappearance of millions of honeybees in the United States, a lawsuit filed Monday charges.
The Natural Resources Defense Council wants to see the studies that the [...]

Like Many Food Suppliers, Whole Foods Beef Company Was a Repeat Offender

Source: Martha Rosenberg - OpEdNews
Scratch the surface of a food offender whether they abuse the environment, workers, animals, the public trust or public funds and you usually find they are repeat offenders.
Nebraska Beef, the Omaha, NE-based supplier Whole Foods says it didn’t know its supplier Coleman Natural Foods was using (right) recalled more than 5 [...]

Six Questions about the anthrax attacks

I ran across this article today “Six Questions About the Anthrax Attacks That the Public Should Demand” The writer poses some pretty good questions. While it is true the US media is losing interest in the resolution of this case I don’t believe this issue will go away anytime soon.
For me number 4 is telling.
4. What [...]

Army Secretary orders review of USAMRIID at Fort Detrick

Anthrax case raises concerns about highly secure programs
Source: Greg Carlstrom - The FederalTimes.com
Bruce Ivins, the biologist suspected of sending anthrax-laced letters to politicians and journalists in 2001, began showing signs of mental illness as far back as 2000 — but he was allowed to access sensitive research facilities until as recently as last year.
And that [...]

Are we Safer?

Source: Brian Finlay-OpEd-The Baltimore Sun
The impending closure of the FBI’s investigation of the anthrax-laced mailings of 2001 has generated new interest in the question: Are we safer today than we were when anthrax was distributed up and down the Eastern seaboard, killing five people and sickening 17 others? Unfortunately, the answer is probably no - [...]

Pandora’s Pandemic Box

Over the past year people concerned about the research to be conducted at the National Bio Agro Defense Facility have been called alarmist, chicken little and NIMBY’s by the proponents of the NBAF for questioning the lab’s true purpose. Think about it common sense says, why would the US government spend three-fourths of a billion dollars on a facility to study [...]

The Killers in the Lab

Source: By Elisa D. Harris, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation National Advisory Board
The government’s charge that Dr. Bruce Ivins, a top Army biodefense scientist, was responsible for the 2001 anthrax mailings has focused renewed attention on the important question of whether we are adequately prepared to protect against a future bioweapons attack. More than [...]

Athens NBAF meeting, some oppose others argue need

Source: Ken Foskett - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A polite crowd of about 200 people filled a University of Georgia auditorium Thursday to register support and opposition to a proposed animal research facility under consideration at UGA and sites in five other states.
The Department of Homeland Security will select the site of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility later [...]

Hair Samples in Anthrax Case Don’t Match

There seems to be ever mounting questions concerning Ivins and the anthrax connection. Today the Washington Post has an interesting look at the evidence. I am just not convinced the whole story is being told.
Federal investigators probing the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks recovered samples of human hair from a mailbox in Princeton, N.J., but the [...]

Conn. Attorney General vows to fight NBAF on Plum Island

Correction: Oops my bad, Blumenthal is Connecticut’s AG not NY.
Source: StamfordPlus.com
Attorney General fights proposed Plum Island lab that would study deadliest animal and human diseases
By Attorney General’s office
Aug 14, 2008
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today announced that his office is preparing formal comments to fight a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal to develop a Level 4 [...]