• Animal rights activists are up in arms over a Halloween contest in New York which offers customers free entry if they eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. The People for the Ethical

Oil lease sale blocked: In a preliminary ruling, a US federal court has recently blocked the US administration's plan to allow oil companies, access to the sensitive wetlands near the vast Teshekpuk

conversation stoppers: Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US have developed a new strategy to fight bacterial infections. They have designed a group of small organic molecules

Located 40 miles east of Yuma, Ariz., is a barren site that may become a landmark for U.S. oil refining - the location of the country's first newly built oil refinery since 1976.

Since its origins as a fuel blendstock in the 1980s, ethanol production in the United States has primarily been a creature of public policy.

Increased demand for ethanol and the financial participation of major lenders has sparked the construction of large production facilities outside the U.S. Midwest Corn Belt. Their new locations - deemed 'destination markets' - are closer to major markets for ethanol and its associated co-products.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to shut down its libraries, end public access to research materials and put into cold storage its collection of materials on the assumption

The Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters is administered by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), a trilateral institution established by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States as part of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). The CEC received 55 submissions from June 1995 to May 2006, although these remain to be substantially discussed in the literature. This study fills in some of the gaps through an analysis of the submission process from an actor and results based perspective.