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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

In 2004 – more than 20 years later – the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had to sue EPA in order to get them to do anything about it. Three companies refused to comply: Reckitt Benckiser, Liphatech, and Spectrum Group. Four years later, EPA gave poison manufacturers three more years (are you adding this all up?)

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Best Bird of the Year for 2015

10,000 Birds

This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. . – Do the same pairs return, if possible, to the same nests after their long winter migration? And a lifer for me – if I manage to see it!

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

These people were certain that Haiti’s president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been ousted by the CIA in 2004 because he proposed a minimum wage increase, like Zelaya’s. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.” 1) DemocracyNow!

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