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A doorknob ban sounds like too silly of a law to be real, but it is. Vancouver, Canada, businesses and residents will soon be forced to install only lever-style door handles on new buildings. It doesn’t stop there. New construction ...

The Food Safety Modernization Act is being viewed by some as a war on small farmers and an attempt to curtail the local food movement – and the Food and Drug Administration (USDA) is getting an earful. The public comment ...

Climate change may not be among the pressing issues on your mind, but perhaps it should be. The task force created when President Obama signed his most recent executive order could eventually have control over where, when and how you ...

President Obama has signed a climate change executive order that critics say amounts to a dramatic executive branch overreach in authority that could impact property rights and states’ rights. The White House says the order will make the process of ...

A former Secret Service agent claims he witnessed a pattern of corruption, arrogance and abuse of power while working as President Obama’s bodyguard. Now retired and running for the House of Representatives in the Sixth District of Maryland as a ...

The farm bill is back, and many feel this version protects biotech giants like Monsanto and harms organic and family farmers Members of the House and Senate met recently to begin the process of reconciling their respective versions of the ...

An initiative that would have made Washington state the first to require the labeling of genetically modified (GMO) food appears headed for defeat, a stunning turnaround for a proposal that led in polls by double digits just a month ago. ...

Agenda 21 allegations have spawned a lawsuit in San Francisco. The Agenda 21 United Nations program is a voluntary, non-binding action plan which is allegedly focused solely on sustainable development. Adopted by 178 countries in 1992, the plan is based ...

A Catholic-owned organic food company being forced by the Obama administration to provide contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs has lost a round in federal court and now will appeal to the US Supreme Court. Organic company Eden Foods had argued that ...

Coal state politicians are pushing back against carbon dioxide limit proposals imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Representative Ed Whitfield of Kentucky are attempting to thwart the EPA’s proposed emissions ...