- Why did the Sierra Club oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to classify greenhouse gases as pollutants? What prompted WWF to defend IKEA when the furniture company was found to be using illegally logged timber? Johann Hari exposes the corporate funding of the big environment agencies, and the compromises they require, in this article for the Nation.
- The British government still wants and expects £8,000 from everyone in Iceland.
- There are two plant or animal extinctions a year in England.
- Speaking of which, the bluefin tuna is on the brink of extinction, but that didn’t stop the EU paying £31.4 million in subsidies to the tuna fleet between 2000 and 2008.
