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The Environmental Protection Agency is ready to start testing 67 pesticide ingredients for their possible endocrine disruption effects. But the testing program the agency plans to use is only a pitiful skeleton of what it needs to be. This battery of tests, first recommended in 1998, is outdated, insensitive, crude, and narrowly limited.Each test and assay was designed under the surveillance of corporate lawyers who had bottom lines to protect and assorted toxicologists who were not trained in endocrinology and developmental biology. For over a decade, EPA has ignored the vast wealth of information on endocrine disruption from independent academic researchers funded by the United States and other governments in Europe and Asia. This 21st century research is based on different assumptions than the toxicological assumptions that drove the EPA test designs. And most important, because of the limited scope of its test battery, EPA is not in a position to address the pandemics of endocrine-

A North Carolina panel wants to collect the views of coastal residents about the potential effects of offshore oil and gas exploration.

Trying to be "green" quickly becomes tricky. A simple question like "Paper or plastic?" can lead to a complicated analysis of deforestation and water use versus peak oil and persistent pollution. [More]

As part of the UK government?s drive to save £2.3 billion ($3.4 billion) in the National Health Service (NHS) during 2010?11, £550m ($800m) will be cut from the prices of branded drugs as a result of ...

From fancy cars to foreign holidays, Britons have had to relinquish all sorts of luxuries as the credit crunch takes hold. To this list we can now add pets: 57% more

Abu Dhabi's Mubadala said in a statement its joint venture with US firm Occidental and Bahrain's National Oil and Gas Authority would more than double oil production from Bahrain's Awali oilfield to 75,000 bpd within five years. The statement said that oil production from the field is eventually expected to reach more than 100,000 barrels per day, while gas production capacity would grow to over 2.5 billion cubic feet per day (cfpd), compared to the current level of 1.7 billion cfpd. [AMEInfo.com]

Sunday, April 26, 2009 BEIJING: China's top five oil companies saw profits rise by 13.2 per cent in March from a year earlier, despite falling production and sales revenue, state media reported on Saturday.