Rachel Cernansky
Rachel is a freelance journalist based in Boulder, Colorado. She primarily focuses on green business for TreeHugger, and writes for other outlets about environmental justice and politics, sustainable food and nutrition, and human rights issues. She hates greenwashing and writes about that too. Before Colorado, she lived in New York, Kenya, and Rwanda, and has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She gets around by bike, eats plants, and occasionally tweets at the address below.
Latest Stories from Rachel Cernansky - Page 2
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How Much Do People Everywhere Hate Monsanto? New Report Shows Global Resistance
A new report illustrates the struggles against Monsanto, and the agribusiness model it embodies, being led by small-holder and organic farmers, local communities and social movements around the world.
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EPA Orders Oil Companies to Pay for Contamination of Montana Town's Water Supply
More than 40 million gallons of brine have entered the drinking water aquifer over five decades. Now, the EPA is holding three oil companies at least partly responsible for the contamination.
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Shell Oil President: "There Is No Immediate Fix For the Price of Oil Today"
Shell Oil President talks with Charlie Rose about energy and says there is no immediate fix for soaring gas prices, despite GOP attacks against the president on this issue.
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Organic Family Farmers Appeal District Court's Dismissal of Monsanto Lawsuit
Farmers seek to assert and protect their right to grow organic crops without the threat of contamination by Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds.
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How U.S. Food Aid Can Reach 17.1 Million More People At No Extra Cost to Taxpayers
What if the U.S. spent the same amount of money on food aid, but made it more efficient by doing things like sourcing food locally?
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Map Shows the Country's Dirtiest Air: Are You In a Deadly Zone?
An American Lung Association map shows how power plant pollution spreads, and concentrates, around the country.
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Hi Kids! Biotech Industry Gets Into the Education With "Biotechnology Basics Activity Book"
A book from the Council for Biotechnology Information, "Look Closer at Biotechnology," is meant to be used by agriculture and science teachers.
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Nigerian Villages Take Shell to Court Over Oil Spills in Groundbreaking Case
Lawyers representing 35,000 villagers filed suit in London, alleging that Shell's slow response to a 560,000 barrel oil spill has destroyed their local economy.
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Saguaro National Park Says No to Bottled Water AND Soda Sales
"If parks in some of the hottest, driest areas of the nation can take this step without fear of losing visitors to either disenchantment or dehydration, what’s stopping all the others?"
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Poo-Powered Tuk Tuk Hits the Denver Zoo
The motorized tuk tuk is part of a system that will convert more than 90 percent of the zoo's waste—1.5 million pounds annually—into energy.
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Connecticut Takes First Step Toward GMO Labeling Law
Connecticut legislative committee backs a labeling requirement for genetically modified foods.
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Study Finds Fracking Poses Air Pollution Health Risks, But EPA Still Denying Groundwater Impacts
Air pollutants monitored near natural gas drilling sites were measured at five times federal standards.
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France Restores Ban on GE Corn While U.S. Retailers Could Start Selling More of It
France is reinstating a ban on Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified corn, after a 2008 moratorium was overturned by the country's highest court in November.
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Birth Control For Insects: Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in the Florida Keys?
A British company may hold trials involving genetically modified male mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. Opponents say, “We cannot stress strongly enough how dangerously misguided this application is. "
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Arizona Tribe & Enviro Groups Defend Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban Against Industry Lawsuit
"We intend to defend these lands from this ill-considered attack by the uranium industry.”
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World Water Forum: Fight Against Privatization Continues & UN Says to Value Ecosystems, Not Just Agriculture
"A narrow definition of 'water productivity' considers only the value of agricultural produce, but doesn't put a price on lost drinking water, reduced fish populations, parched pastures, or shrinking groundwater reservoirs."
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USDA Speeds Approval for New Herbicide-Tolerant Crops Despite Superweed Problem
The USDA is not only helping the industry move ahead with new GMO crops, but it's helping companies move ahead faster.
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EPA Announces Delay in Report on Wyoming Groundwater Pollution Caused By Fracking
The EPA said the reason for the delay is to ensure the agency's final report will meet the highest scientific standards.
