Dear EarthTalk: What are the new nutrition standards for school lunches that have some students boycotting their cafeterias and discarding the food?
— Melissa Makowsky, Trenton, NJ
Indeed, some 31 million
For more than three decades City Hall has had a policy whereindevelopersobtain generous construction bonuses including extraheight and density over that allowed by current zoning codes in return for providing
Hopefully this will be my last column on the 2012 election. However, following last week's missive I received a flurry of e-mails. (One through seven is a "
Dear New Shrink,
Everyone is talking about it and I simply do not understand how CIA director Gen. David Petraeus could end up having an affair when he has been
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. — Abraham Lincoln
America has forsaken her first love.
There's a letter currently making the rounds online, including on Gawker.com, which purportedly was written by a new mom to her friends about how they can help
Well we survived another election cycle, minds numbed with political ads and mailboxes stretched to breaking with leaflets that sling mud and "facts" of questionable validity. But the
Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that cutting and burning trees adds more global warming pollution to the atmosphere than all the cars and trucks in the world combined?
— Mitchell Vale,
The problem with a general presidential electionis that tens of thousands ofresidentsvoting on federal or state offices and propositionsdon't careabout local issues or who's running for
A phrase that has found its way into our daily lexicon this year is "fiscal cliff." It refers to a combination of federal government spending cuts and expiring
