Is the EPA a Reliable Guardian of the Environment?
A spectacular fail by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) raises serious questions about its reliability as a guardian of the environment.
At issue was the EPA’s decision to allow GMOs …
Do Costs from the TPP Outweigh Gains?
Opinion Article, Dominion Post
By Simon Terry, Executive Director, Sustainability Council
The Trans-Pacific Partnership covers a lot of non-trade matters, so why is there a reluctance to discuss the overall balance …
Right to Sue Under Trade Deal is Pernicious and Unnecessary
Some things should not be traded. When it comes to deals about trade, governments should not give foreign investors the right to sue them in offshore tribunals.
Yet the US …
New GM Foods Designed to Escape Regulation
A new generation of genetically modified (GM) foods is in the pipeline and if developers get their way, they won’t be labelled. In fact, they won’t be regulated at …
GM Trojan Horses
The US plans to get other countries to bring their GM food laws into line with its own and New Zealand needs to make clear its protections are non-negotiable. …
GM Free Food Good Business for NZ Inc
In the sixteen years since GM crops started growing in the US, New Zealand has remained a GM free food producer. Not because of red tape, nor because New Zealanders …
Nanomaterials—are we looking at the next asbestos?
At the annual Fire Department Instructor Conference in Indianapolis this year, a new topic was on the agenda: risks to firefighters from engineered nanomaterials.
The prompt was a sports store …
Is Stratospheric Sulphate Injection Completely Reversible?
The risk rating on stratospheric sulphate injection went up another notch on the basis of material presented at the recent geoengineering symposium in Australia, while the existing climate change …
Show me the Carbon Money
An opening of the nation’s carbon books has finally been forced upon the Treasury – and the results are truly shocking.
There are two shocks to absorb:
How little has been …
