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An Earth Day call to end polluter welfare
Here’s an Earth Day calculation: If we ever want to stop burning fossil fuels, we need to stop subsidizing the giant corporations doing the burning. That’s the gist of the End Polluter Wel…
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Sanders and Ellison introduce bill to end over $135 billion in fossil fuel handouts
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In honor of Earth Day, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) reintroduced the End Polluter Welfare Act to stop taxpayer-funded giveaways to oil…
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Emboldened green groups bullish on 2016
A leading green group wants to register 1 million voters who support candidates who back action on climate change, a goal that underscores the environmental movement’s growing campaign clout and…
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Five years later, five lessons from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster
Monday, April 20, 2015, marks five years after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, which spilled 210 million gallons of oil across the Gulf Coast. On the Friends of the Earth Medium page, climate chang…
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The Deepwater Horizon Disaster was five years ago today. Here’s what we still don’t know.
It’s officially been five years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, a well blowout and subsequent oil spill that caused the deaths of 11 men. A lot has happened since — a massive cleanup effo…
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Congratulations Berta Ceres and COPINH, 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner
We are excited to announce that the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for Central and South America has been awarded to Berta Cáceres, the indigenous co-founder of the Council of Popular and Indigenou…
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Earth Day at 45
Erich Pica and Nicolas Loris talked about how Americans view Earth Day 45 years after it was first celebrated, as well as the Obama administration’s approach to environmental challenges. A video c…
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Greens divided over Hillary Clinton and Keystone
Hillary Clinton is maintaining her years of silence on the Keystone XL pipeline — and environmental groups are increasingly divided on how hard they should push her to take a stand. It’s a further…
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Hatch, Wyden introduce same old Fast Track model
Plan would close the hatch on democracy and widen income inequality WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), introduced a plan to grant expedited Executive authority…
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Civil society asks three critical questions of the World Bank at its 2015 spring meetings
OAKLAND, CA – As the World Bank prepares for its annual Spring Meetings, members of Our Land Our Business, a campaign of more than 260 NGOs, farmer groups and trade unions from around the world, ar…