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Diablo Canyon safety will be focus of 3 upcoming meetings
Safety issues at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant will be the subject of three Nuclear Regulatory Commission meetings over the next month. One meeting will take place in San Luis Obispo and is the ag…
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Paul Ryan Adds Amendment to Trade Bill to Block Climate Deals
If House Republicans get their way, President Obama won’t be able to use any trade pact to strike a deal on climate change. Late Tuesday evening, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Rya…
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Customs bill amendment directs USTR to ignore climate change
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night the House Rules Committee ruled on an amendment by House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Ohio) to the customs bill that would modify the negotiating objectives in…
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House Republicans Would Cut EPA Spending 9 Percent
House Republicans proposed a spending bill Tuesday that cuts the budget at the Environmental Protection Agency by 9 percent and tries to prevent the Obama administration from enacting several regulati…
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Doggett challenges USTR for not enforcing environmental obligations in past trade agreements
New evidence casts doubts on White House claims that TPP will benefit the environment WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the run-up to the controversial vote on Fast Track trade promotion authority, the adminis…
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House prepares frontal assault against EPA, Interior
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee proposed steep cuts to key environmental programs within the Environmental Protection Agency and…
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Aboriginal Australians to Ex-Im Bank: don’t fund our destruction
Representatives ask Ex-Im Bank to refrain from funding controversial coal mine on ancestral land WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s not every day that the U.S. Export-Import Bank is the site of striking…
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Its not only sewage you have to worry about
Pro Publica’s “Cruise Control” reveals crimes, deaths and emerging infectious diseases Friends of the Earth issues an annual report card, grading the environmental aspects of cruise ships incl…
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World Environment Day: Celebrating community management
The below blog post, by Friends of the Earth International Forests and Biodiversity program coordinator Isaac Rojas, was originally posted on foei.org. Friends of the Earth International has celebrate…
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The fight continues against Keystone XL and the tar sands invasion
A dirty fuel is quietly creeping over the Canadian border and invading the Midwest. In the more than six years that we have stopped the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline from being built, numerous other…