| Slay That Green Dragon
Here on OpEdNEws, I haven't seen one single article supporting Hillary. It's not because we haven't accepted them. Matter of fact we welcome cogent, well written articles supporting ANY candidate, since we trust our readers to respond and balance out the perspective in the comments section. It appears that the concensus of the readers and writers on this site, most of whom were Kucinich, Edwards or Paul supporters, are, except for the Paul supporters, now leaning towards Obama. .
Test results fuel boom in sales of bisphenol A-free baby bottles
The mounting public concern over bisphenol A, a chemical that mimics estrogen, has reached a boiling point in Canada in the past week after scientific reports and tests have shown the chemical can leach from baby bottles and may be harmful to children. Born Free is receiving about 100 phone orders a day from Canadian consumers, many of whom have been scouring stores only to find the products have already been snapped up, Mr. Vigdor said. "I'm hearing from mothers who say, 'I threw away everything, I need you to overnight me [the] product,' " he said. While the company is filling orders to individuals and retailers as quickly as it can, the demand has been high and many stores don't expect new stock from Born Free or other distributors, such as Green to Grow or ThinkBaby, for several more weeks.
Battle looms for tip sharing Wynn Las Vegas part of lawsuit defending ...
Wynn Las Vegas and a few nonprofit corporations representing businesses that depend on tipped employees are seeking to stop an attempt to roll back the resort's new tip policy. The resort and the nonprofit groups filed a lawsuit Thursday in Carson City District Court to block a petition authored by critics of the resort's new tip-pooling policy. "There is a fear on Wynn's part that if it gets to the voters, it will pass," International Union of Gaming Employees director Al Maurice said. "There are too many tip earners in the state." The petition seeks to create a ballot initiative that would add language to an existing state labor law. The initiative would prohibit employers "from requiring the employee to share tips with certain other employees." It also would, according to its authors, define which employees would be eligible to participate in tip sharing.
Somerset Power gets OK to begin coal gasification
The Department of Environmental Protection on Thursday gave the green light to Somerset Power LLC's plan to begin coal gasification at its Riverside Avenue plant. Outraged environmentalists and community activists called the decision unacceptable and said it significantly undermined the state's global warming policy. Earlier this month, the state's Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs declined to order a Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act review of the plant. The Conservation Law Foundation, which lobbies on environmental issues in New England, asked for the review. "In a final permit issued by DEP, the commonwealth said it would allow the power plant to adopt experimental coal plasma gasification technology and continue releasing carbon dioxide at current levels," said the foundation's spokesman Colin Durrant.
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