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Report: Liberian Palm Oil Company GVL Destroyed Dense Rainforests, Violated Land Rights, Endangered Chimpanzee Habitat
A new report revealed today that since 2015, palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia has destroyed at least several hundred hectares of forests that are vital habitat for chimpanzees and other endemi…
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Senate Passes Status Quo Farm Bill
At a time of ecological crisis, this Farm Bill worsens the disastrous impacts of climate change, collapsing biodiversity and severely degrading soil, water and air.
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50 Groups Denounce Roundtable on Sustainable Beef as Greenwash
The coalition is encouraging the USRSB “to go back to the drawing board and develop a new framework and plan of action — including the need for regulatory change — that generates far more enviro…
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100+ groups call on Kroger to eliminate toxic pesticides on food
Today farmworkers, students, public health, beekeeping, environmental, faith-based and consumer groups held a protest at Kroger’s (NYSE: KR) annual shareholder meeting, calling on the company to sig…
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Inspector General to Investigate Zinke over Halliburton Meeting
Zinke’s shady backroom dealings with the chairman of Halliburton is yet another example of a Trump appointee profiting from his office at the expense of our environment.
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Leading NGOs expose greenwashing by U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, demand real sustainability plan
We are especially concerned that companies like Walmart, Costco, McDonald’s, Darden and Wendy’s will make sustainability claims to their customers based on the Roundtable’s meager and misguided me…
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Proposed senate bill would turn oceans into fish feedlots
The Trump Administration is making a huge push to bring destructive and polluting industrial ocean fish farming to U.S. waters.
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Senate bill attacks U.S. fisheries and oceans policy
The legitimization of industrial ocean aquaculture in our waters will wreak havoc on ocean ecosystems.
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Environmental Groups Target Culture of Secrecy at Zinke’s Interior Department with New Lawsuit
Friends of the Earth has filed 63 requests for information on Interior Department meetings with oil companies such as BP and Exxon around their drilling for oil on American public lands and has receiv…
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Kroger releases new policy to limit bee-killing pesticides on garden plants
If Kroger is serious about protecting pollinators, people and the planet, it must phase out the use of toxic pesticides on the food it sells and increase its domestic organic offerings.