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House Committee votes to bail out nuclear reactors
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the House Ways and Means Committee voted to eliminate the placed in service date for the production tax credit for nuclear energy. This will ensure that Southern Company…
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Obama administration’s actions undermine strong words on climate change at UN General Assembly
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As President Obama delivered his final address to the United Nations today at the General Assembly in New York City, Friends of the Earth U.S. President, Erich Pica, had the f…
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Oil and gas lease sales move online as public pressure to stop them increases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the first time ever, the Obama administration will hold an online lease sale for nearly 4,300 acres of public land in Kentucky and Mississippi for oil and gas drilling. Privat…
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Over 700,000 people tell government to block seed mergers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meets today to examine consolidation in the agriculture seed and chemical industry, nine groups have submitted petitions signed by 708,000 p…
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New Guide IDs GMOs 2.0 in food and cosmetics
BALTIMORE, MD — Consumer and environmental groups today released the Shopper’s Guide to Synthetic Biology to help consumers avoid the new wave of GMOs in food and cosmetics, and find truly natur…
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New antibiotics scorecard: number of top restaurant chains restricting use in chicken doubled in 2016
Subway and Wendy’s most improved; KFC, Olive Garden and 14 others get Fs NEW YORK, N.Y. – Since last year, twice as many of the nation’s top fast food chains are responding to the public health…
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Groups rally outside U.N. to protest coal development near worlds largest mangrove forest
Photos are available upon request NEW YORK, N.Y. – Today, as President Obama and Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina were inside the U.N. General Assembly meeting, Bangladeshi-American, envi…
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G20 report highlights massive fossil fuel giveaways
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. and China released peer-reviewed reports today assessing the scope of fossil fuel subsidies in their respective countries as part of the G20 process to “rationalize and…
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How are orangutans protected from the peril of palm?
Last month, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature listed the Bornean orangutan as critically endangered — joining its cousin the Sumatran orangutan in that classification…
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Villagers suffer at the hands of Mozambique’s LNG gas development
Everyone gathered underneath the central banyan tree that provided shade from the heat of the day. Not far from the city of Pemba, Mozambique, villagers clamored to tell us their stories of threats an…