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Environmental stories for the last couple weeks, relating to business, society, and law.

Plastic bag taxes, angry truckers, EPA blog, toy safety law likely to be passed, and some other stories you might like.

It is said that BMW has plans for making full electric vehicles, as new Californian laws force the cars manufacturers to have a significant electric vehicles offer for the market beginning with 2012.

A man was arrested recently for the "illegal transportation of inedible kitchen grease" and this leads one on an exploration of issues related to using "waste vegetable oil" to make biodiesel.

The Steuben County Supreme Court, by Decision dated January 9, 2008 has made a ruling in the Town of Cohocton wind turbine case.

Sea ice in the Arctic has fallen to a record low -- and the locals now wear shorts and T-shirts in summer. Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier talks about how climate change is threatening her people’s way of life.

In a new scientific technique that could prove a boon to legal cases, samples of DNA from a healthy person can be compared against a claimant’s DNA.

Virginia Lyons, Vermont State Senator, talks about Vermont's efforts to deal with climate change.