If a federal judge has now upheld the new Michigan waste import limitations on the grounds that they are health-related and not simply discriminatory, does that mean Michigan could sustain a ban on export of Great Lakes water if it showed a health-related basis for such a restriction? Think about it, policymakers.
http://www.freep.com/news/mich/date1e_20041101.htm
Minnesota's recent attempt to shun a researcher who has suggestive evidence of a link between the herbicide atrazine and deformities in wildlife raises huge questions. Michigan, like Minnesota, uses tons of the stuff on corn.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/561/5059868.html
I once wrote a column about declining amphibian populations that asked the question, are we next? A conservative newspaper mocked that. But at least frogs don't intentionally shun the truth.
Posted by Dave at November 1, 2004 11:25 AM