OPINION
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
By EDWARD PINTO
All agree that the bursting of the housing bubble caused the financial collapse of 2008. Most agree that the housing bubble started in 1997. Less well understood is that this bubble was the result of government policies that lowered mortgage-lending standards to increase home ownership. One of the key players was [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Politics’
11/14/2009
The Wall Street Journal – Acorn and the Housing Bubble
11/13/2009
LA Sen. David Vitter (R-Formaldehyde)
Andy Kroll
November 12, 2009
Excerpt
“So why is Vitter so sympathetic to the formaldehyde industry? Campaign finance records show that many of Louisiana’s big formaldehyde polluters happen to be—you guessed it—Vitter campaign donors. He’s received $9,000 from Dow Chemical’s PAC, $5,000 from Monsanto’s, $5,000 from ExxonMobil’s, and $2,500 from the American Forest and Paper Association’s. The American [...]
11/13/2009
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) confirms link between formaldehyde and leukemia
Jennifer Sass
Senior Scientist
Washington, D.C.
NRDC
November 4, 2009
I won’t bury the lead: last week the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the most prestigious international body for cancer assessment in the world, determined that sufficient evidence exists to link formaldehyde with leukemia, a cancer of the blood or bone marrow. The link with leukemia means that the [...]
