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Activists protest Japans controversial coal financing during Prime Minister Abe’s visit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Japanese Prime Minister Shinz? Abe visits the U.S. this week, activists rallied outside the Japanese Embassy earlier this afternoon to highlight the growing concern and interna…
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Lawsuit challenges FDAs approval of genetically engineered salmon
Coalition of fishing, consumer, and environmental groups say first-ever approval of laboratory-created food animal violated laws and ignored risks to wild salmon and fishing communities SAN FRANCISCO…
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Join our Stop Batang Coal week of action: March 31April 5
Take action from your computer, phone or tablet! We may only have days to stop the financing for a dangerous, proposed coal project in Indonesia already plagued by human rights violations. Our Japanes…
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THURSDAY: Environmental groups to protest Japanese and JBIC coal financing and controversial Batang coal-fired power plant
Japanese Prime Minister Abe set to visit Washington, D.C. later this week WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of the April 6 deadline to secure financing for the controversial Batang coal-fired power pla…
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100,000+ urge President to end fossil fuel leasing from public lands and waters
“Keep it in the Ground” petition meets goal, response from White House required WASHINGTON, D.C. – A petition calling for an end to fossil fuel leasing on public lands and waters has ga…
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Scientific American science panel may get lost in translation
Agrichemical companies and their allies are spending tens of millions of dollars a year on tobacco-style PR tactics to flood news outlets and social media platforms with misleading messages.
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Historic petition urges Obama to halt all new offshore fossil fuel leases
More than 45 organizations back historic legal petition that takes aim at ocean-drilling damage to climate, wildlife, communities WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 45 climate, conservation, indigenous a…
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Thousands in Bangladesh march across 155 miles against threatening coal projects
Thousands of Bangladeshis participated in a “Long March” from the capital city of Dhaka to the Sundarbans forest March 10 to March 13 to protest the construction of various coal projects proposed…
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Pacific trade deal = climate disruption
The Obama administration and the fossil fuel industry are pushing Congress to approve a Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement with Japan and 10 other Asia-Pacific countries that would ramp up glob…
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Venter Institute designs new synthetic biology bacterial cell: Synthia 3.0
Biology is not a predictable engineering discipline; living organisms like bacteria are not machines to be rewired.