Vegetable fats and oils

France considers big tax hike on key ingredient in Nutella

Health & Medicine

France is wild about Nutella, the hazelnut-flavored chocolate sauce that’s perfect at any meal. But to make it requires palm oil, and French legislators have an eye on palm oil with a new tax. It’s just the latest in the fat tax movement by governments around the world.

Growing hope in New Orleans

French Senator Proposes ‘Nutella Tax’

Global Politics

EPA Red Lights Palm Oil

The World

Emerging Science Note/Double Duty Plastic?

The World

Growing Hope in New Orleans

Environment

Will Bradshaw of Green Coast Enterprises tells Living on Earth about Project Sprout, a test plot of sunflowers in New Orleans. The sunflowers will remove heavy metals from contaminated soils and the sunflower seeds will be pressed to make biofuels.