EPA Rejects State-Sought Ethanol Waivers
(Jun 3, 2005)
Motorists in California, New York, and Connecticut will have to continue using corn-based ethanol in their gasoline to cut air pollution at an extra cost of up to eight cents a gallon.
Research Finds Clue to How Prions Kill
(Jun 3, 2005)
Government scientists have found an important clue to how rogue proteins -- like those that cause Mad Cow disease -- destroy the brain.
Deere Acquires Wholesale Landscape Dealerships
(Jun 3, 2005)
Equipment maker Deere and Company has acquired United Green Mark Incorporated -- expanding its nationwide network of wholesale dealerships for irrigation, nursery, and landscape materials.
Mysterious Disease Leads to Slaughter of Brazilian Fowl
(Jun 3, 2005)
Brazilian authorities ordered the slaughter of 17,000 poultry after 6,000 chickens died from a mysterious respiratory illness in a central western state, officials said this week.