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It’s Time to Stop Paying for Pesticides With Our Health: Organic for All Must Become the Norm
This research confirms what is intuitive and supports what the President’s Cancer Panel told us nearly a decade ago: reducing exposure to cancer-causing chemicals, including pesticides, reduces you…
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Major palm oil company execs arrested for bribery in Indonesia
Earlier this week Reuters reported on a bribery scandal in Indonesia that has resulted — so far — in the arrests of seven people, including senior executives of palm company Sinar Mas Agro…
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NOAA’s industrial fish farming plan threatens oceans and fishing communities
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will hold another listening session in Raleigh, North Carolina today to continue discussing its five-year strategic plan, which targets an increase…
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink earns recognition as a climate fraud
In recognition for his outstanding contribution to climate change, the activist group Friends of the Earth U.S. today presented BlackRock CEO Larry Fink with a “climate fraud” award.
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The City of Angels Funds Some Hellish Fossil Fuel Projects
When Los Angeles voters go to the polls next week, they will decide whether to approve Charter Amendment B, which amends the city’s charter to enable it to take affirmative steps to establish a publ…
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Zinke Probe Referred to the Justice Department for Investigation
If the DOI Inspector General believes Zinke broke the law, the Secretary must be removed from office as quickly as possible.
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Fraud and Imprudence: Hearing into South Carolina Electric & Gas on Failed Nuclear Reactor Construction set for Nov. 1
In testimony filed in advance of the hearing, Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club contend SCE&G must be held responsible for all costs incurred since construction was approved by the PSC in Febru…
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Digitized DOI visitor logs published by Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth today published a digitized version of the 2017 handwritten visitor logs for the Department of Interior main building in Washington, D.C., which were released under the Freedom of…
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Is S&P Dow Jones greenwashing conflict palm oil?
In its annual listing of sustainable companies released last month, S&P Dow Jones Indices included Golden Agri-Resources, a palm oil company financing operations in Liberia.
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Interior IG: Zinke Abused Travel Privileges, Wasted Tax-Payer Funds
The Department of the Interior’s Inspector General today released a report finding that Secretary Ryan Zinke mishandled upwards of $25,000 of tax-payer funded travel expenses