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Obama administration urged to do fair share to fight climate crisis
U.S. must transition to clean energy future, provide climate finance to developing nations NEW YORK — Secretary of State John Kerry plans to join world leaders in the celebratory signing of the Par…
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Climate denial advances through Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Senate passed the Energy Policy Modernization Act (S.2012). Prior to the vote, Friends of the Earth joined over 75 environmental and community organizations to opp…
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Groups to Obama: Keep it in the ground, cancel fossil fuel auction in Santa Fe
SANTA FE, NM— Local, regional and national organizations sent a letter to President Obama today calling on him to keep federal fossil fuels in the ground and cancel the Bureau of Land Management’s…
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Over 75 environmental and community groups call on U.S. Senate to reject energy bill over dangerous biomass provisions
The U.S. Senate is poised to vote today on the controversial Energy Policy and Modernization Act (S. 2012) which has environmentalists and local community organizations up in arms because of a sweethe…
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Clean water advocates win major victory to protect aquatic species from toxic wastewater discharge
SEATTLE, WA — Three major Washington state oil refineries and an aluminum smelter will now have to more tightly regulate the cleanliness of their wastewater discharge into Puget Sound waterways. The…
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Business leaders ask IRS employees to give up coffee buzz for bees
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Businesses and advocates are calling on the IRS to go one day without coffee — which benefits from pollination — to create urgency about a future without pollinators…
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Activists project Pac-Man animation onto API headquarters
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday night, environmental activists taking part in the Democracy Spring mass nonviolent actions projected 16-story high images on the office fronts of D.C.’s top pollut…
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Worlds largest coal company declares bankruptcy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private sector coal company and biggest producer of coal in the U.S., today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Peabody’s debt burd…
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Strange bedfellows oppose new polluter subsidy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Scissors, a coalition of free market, taxpayer, and environmental groups, sent a letter to the Senate today opposing an extension and expansion of the tax credits for carbon…
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Lawsuit challenges Obama administrations failure to curb airplane carbon pollution
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental groups today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a nearly decade-long failure to set emission standards that curb greenhouse gas pollution from the na…