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Reps. Pompeo and Butterfield will introduce industry bill to deny states right to label GMOs
World Health Organization: Pesticide used with GMO crops ‘probable carcinogen’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) will introduce legislati…
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Fast Track attack: Chemical safety and food labels under fire in TPP and TTIP
Fast Track trade promotion legislation is expected to be introduced in Congress the second week of April. Global corporations are calling in all their chits from massive campaign contributions to bo…
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As Shell Looks To Drill In Arctic, Environmentalists Rally To Remember Historic Arctic Oil Spill
Activists and representatives from five environmental organizations held a rally outside of the White House Tuesday on the 26th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, one of the worst environmenta…
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People’s Budget for the People’s Future
This week as the House and Senate vote on their respective federal budget proposals, it’s important to remind ourselves that how our collective wealth is spent is the purest reflection of what w…
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The diet we need for a sustainable planet
Forty-four years ago my mother, Frances Moore Lappé, published “Diet for a Small Planet,” a book that dared to suggest human beings could survive, even thrive, on a plant-centered diet and that d…
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Environmental groups urge feds to consider beefs cost in U.S. diet
Full page ads in the New York Times and Washington Post on Tuesday called on the federal government to advise Americans to cut some meat from their diets. The ads, sponsored by more than 100 health an…
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EPA agrees to regulate novel nanotechnology pesticides after legal challenge
This important decision is part of the transformation our government agencies must continue to pursue in order to protect the public from potentially dangerous products containing nanoscale ingredient…
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Citizen co-sponsors support the People’s Budget
This morning Friends of the Earth and 11 other groups delivered over 150,000 signatures to Congress in support of the People’s Budget, a progressive budget alternative that prioritizes economic and…
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Environment and health groups support Dietary Guidelines sustainability focus at Public Meeting
More than 100 organizations and experts urge Obama administration to embrace Scientific Report’s recommendations for more plants, less meat WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture a…
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National organizations to deliver more than 150,000 petition signatures urging Congress to support the Peoples Budget
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A dozen national organizations representing tens of millions of Americans will deliver a petition with more than 150,000 signatures supporting the Congressional Progressive Cauc…