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Trump picks Peter Navarro to head new White House Trade Council
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Donald Trump picked eccentric economist, author and filmmaker Peter Navarro to head a new National Trade Council in the White House. Friends of the Earth Senior Trade A…
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Trump taps billionaire regulatory foe Icahn for special role
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump has chosen billionaire investor Carl Icahn as a special advisor on regulatory matters. Friends of the Earth Climate and Energy Director Ben Schreiber issued the follo…
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DOE one step closer to $2B polluter giveaway
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Energy announced a $2 billion conditional loan guarantee to Lake Charles Methanol, a carbon capture and sequestration facility proposed for Louisiana. The facil…
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Obama moves to protect millions of acres of ocean from Trump
Today’s announcement is a major victory for our oceans and climate. Our offshore areas need permanent protection in the face of Donald Trump’s pledge to expand offshore drilling and his cabinet’…
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Dakota Access Pipeline Divestment Action in San Francisco
San Francisco, CA — Idle No More SF Bay, Indigenous Women of the Americas Defending Mother Earth Treaty Signers and Friends of the Earth will hold a peaceful action in downtown San Francisco on Mond…
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Groups demand ExxonMobil be debarred
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday the Waterkeeper Alliance petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency asking it to debar ExxonMobil for its effort to intentionally mislead the American public about c…
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Trump pick of Dow Chemical chief for American Manufacturing Council may pose conflicts of interest
Despite his promise to ‘drain the swamp,’ his actions prove he is more concerned with advancing corporate interests than protecting the American people, workers and farmers.
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Guatemalan land defenders are under threat and need justice
The best way to defend our lands, rivers and forests is to speak out for the defenders—the people at the front lines of these struggles—so they may live on to continue fighting for all of us.
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Environmental and human rights groups appeal to Guatemalan government to protect land defenders
Today we are calling on government officials to take urgent action to address threats against the Commission for the Defense of Life and Nature and other civil society groups that are peacefully deman…
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Coal champion Zinke will use Interior to plunder public lands
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Donald Trump nominated Representative Ryan Zinke (R-Mt.) to lead the Department of the Interior, the agency responsible for managing our public lands and waters. Rep. Zinke’s si…