As more studies have been completed on the effects of GM crops, the green lobby's case against them has weakened.

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Besides the Georgetown Toyota plant, Kentucky has two Ford plants in Louisville and a GM plant in Bowling Green where the Corvette is made.

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Under a blazing sun, the earth was baked dry, and the GM wheat, a pale green, twitched and fluttered in the breeze.

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In particular, Green candidates will highlight control of GM food and GM crops planted against local will, the failure of energy policy to get to grips with climate change, nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

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Corn-based E85 is promoted as cheaper and cleaner burning, but many motorists wanting to live green and go yellow, as the GM slogan says, have a hard time finding places to fill up.

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So next month, GM will shut down for a week the factory in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where the sports car is made.

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In a humiliating blow to the once proud, gas-guzzling Hummer SUV, engineers at GM have re-imagined the poster child for environmental apathy as a completely green vehicle that not only leaves a small "footprint" in its wake, but actually promises to give something back to nature as well.

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Robin Harper (Green Party Convener, Lothians) asked whether the Executive has approved the commercial growing of GM crops in Scotland.

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