Thursday, March 22, 2001

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  • Environmental Rollbacks: Arsenic and Old Growth

    Environmentalists charge that the Bush administration is making concessions to industry at the expense of theenvironment. The latest move came this week when the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would withdraw anew drinking water regulation approved by the Clinton administration. The rule, which would have reduced by 80percent the permissible standard for arsenic in drinking water, had been a priority of environmental groups for morethan a decade. But the mining industry and by some municipalities complained that lowering allowable levels of thecarcinogen would be too expensive.

  • Usda, Using Controversial Tests, Sounds Mad Cow Alarm in Vermont

    After years of dismissing suggestions that Mad Cow disease might threaten US livestock, the US Department ofAgriculture is using possibly flawed tests to justify killing two flocks of Vermont sheep. The government claims thesheep may harbor the disease that has killed more than 80 Britons, devastated that country’s beef industry, andspread to other European countries.

  • The Globalization of Health Crises: Foot and Mouth

    AIDS, an emerging disease, was the first human pandemic of the age of globalization. Scientists now fear that footand mouth disease, an ancient scourge, may be the first animal epidemic to sweep the world, spread by the flow ofpeople and goods that crisscross the globe every day.