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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…
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Shell secures new authorization in pursuing Arctic drilling
Royal Dutch Shell has secured another federal authorization as it pursues plans to drill exploration wells in the Arctic waters off the Alaska coast. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday issu…
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Big food and chemical corporations spend millions to attack organic
This onslaught of industry-sponsored spin is aimed at stemming the growing tide of consumers seeking healthier food produced without GMOs, toxic pesticides or routine antibiotics.
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Truth or deception? New report exposes how industry front groups are spending millions to shape the story of food
Organic and non-GMO food sales are skyrocketing as more and more people are choosing healthier, more sustainable food produced without synthetic pesticides, GMOs or the routine use of antibiotics and…
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Without climate protections, the Ex-Im Bank shouldn’t continue
The Export-Import Bank is set to expire on June 30, and concerns for its reauthorization have sparked one of the hottest debates in Congress. In a desperate attempt to reauthorize the agency, some Ex-…
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A former Keystone XL lobbyist just joined Team Hillary
Hillary Clinton’s newest campaign consultant is Jeffrey Berman, the strategistcredited with her 2008 primary defeat and who, in the time since, has worked as a lobbyist for TransCanada, the company…