http://www.headspringfarm.com Supporting Agriculture and Environment on the Web Copyright 2009, Head Spring Farm, All rights reserved. For personal use only. Wed, 16 Nov 2010 12:25 EDT en-us http://www.headspringfarm.com/pressreleases/HSF11201004.html Across the nation, food producers are seeing enough growth that many are expanding and investing in new equipment. Wed, 16 Nov 2010 12:25 EDT http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-09-28/toxin-from-biotech-corn-detected-in-u-s-streams-study-finds.html Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) - An insecticide produced by genetically modified corn was found in streams in the U.S. Midwest, according to research by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:04 EDT http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/06/21/127988546/gasland-hbo-gas-drilling-film-exposes-drinking-water-worries NPRs Ira Flatow recently talked with Joel Fox, "Gasland's" director who documented his personal investigation of the controversial "fracking" drilling techniques which many homeowners say contaminated their drinking water with dangerous chemicals. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:36 EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6504YW20100601 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Chesapeake Bay Foundation President William C. Baker issued this statement following passage of the Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration Act by the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works with strong bipartisan support. It will now move to consideration by the full Senate. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:03 EDT http://wvhighlands.org/wv_voice/?p=2661 WV Trout Unlimited EPA: Mine discharges killed Dunkard Creek and The gas company is using a local stream called White Day Creek for a water source. As a result, toxic chemicals will be released into the creek, which flows into the Monongahela River. Similar problems due to mining are happening in central WV with the Gauley. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:03 EDT http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2010/06/29/epa-gives-tentative-ok-to-logan-mining-permit/ No doubt the EPA is now in the pockets of the coal industry like the mineral resource agency is in with the oil industry. Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency quietly gave its tentative approval to a significant new mountaintop removal mining permit in Logan County, W.Va. EPA will allow the WV valleys to be filled with mining debris. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:03 EDT http://www.slate.com/id/2225509?obref=obinsite Back in the 1980s, when the Lantern herself was just a little penlight, acid rain was the environmental scourge of the day. Canada's environmental minister proclaimed it an "insidious malaria of the biosphere"; it menaced the Transformers; it turned Kimberly's hair bright green in an episode of Different Strokes. Sat, 09 Nov 2009 15:51 EDT http://www.headspringfarm.com/pressreleases/OFFSHOREDRILLING.pdf Offshore Drilling Talking Points and Myths! Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:53 EDT