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When Wilmar finishes, we have no future left: New report on Nigerian palm oil land grabs
The oil palm tree is native to West Africa and palm oil, in its rawest form, is a staple of the West African diet. So, while it is new to Western consumers as an ingredient in roughly half of our pack…
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Worlds largest palm oil trader comes under scrutiny for land grab in Nigeria
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report scrutinizes leading global palm oil trader Wilmar International Ltd. (WLIL.SI) for abuses of human and environmental rights in a large-scale land acquisition in Cross…
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Clinton emails may revive environmental group’s lawsuit
Hundreds of emails reveal that Clinton’s staff was concerned over the agency’s response to FOIA requests. An environmental group whose request for records related to the Keystone Pipeline…
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BP pays largest environmental fine for Gulf oil spill, but offshore drilling continues
WASHINGTON, D.C. – BP has agreed to pay a $18 billion (USD) in fines, to settle its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Spread out over 18 years, the record fine will…
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Shell will be allowed to pester walruses in the Arctic, but not as much as it would like
Nobody’s happy with the Obama administration’s ruling on how Shell is to treat the walruses and polar bears that will be hanging out and watching as the company drills in the Arctic. The U.S. Fish…
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Obama administration moves shell closer to arctic drilling
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service authorized the nonlethal, incidental, and unintentional take of small numbers of polar bears and Pacific walrus that result from Shell’s explo…
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Big Food Is Trying to Dupe You Into Loving Industrial Agriculture
Moms campaigning to raise awareness of pesticide use in industrial agriculture are elitist control freaks; organic farming uses dangerous chemicals too. And those antibiotic-resistant superbugs you�…
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Food and chemical industry spends millions on PR to attack organic, defend GMOs
A new report from Friends of the Earth — Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food — documents unprecedented levels of spending fr…
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The billion-dollar business to sell us crappy food
At the turn of the last century, the father of public relations, Edward Bernays, launched the Celiac Project, whose medical professionals recommended bananas to benefit celiac disease sufferers. Those…
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Shell drilling plans must allow for walrus protection
Shell will have to change its summer oil-exploraton plans in the Chukchi Sea to comply with a letter of authorization released Tuesday by the Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, To…