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Diablo Canyon: PG&E secretly used wrong design data for key safety equipment for 30 years
Utility misled California PUC, seeks to pocket $133.5 million in ratepayer revenues SAN FRANCISCO – Pacific Gas & Electric Co. used incorrect earthquake and accident data when building crucial s…
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Consumer, environmental and labor groups ask Costco to reject GMO salmon
Nearly two million people — including scientists, fishermen, business owners and consumers — have written to the FDA in opposition to the approval of genetically engineered salmon due to the risks G…
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PG&E overlooked key seismic test at Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. replaced $842 million of equipment at the heart of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant without first making sure the new gear could pass a vital seismic safety test required i…
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Solar meltdown? New video shows two, very different, energy futures. Which one do you want?
Yesterday, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS), Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, Public Citizen and Greenpeace released our first major video–one we hope you’ll help us take viral. I…
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Five Things About Hillary Clintons Email System
Hillary Clinton said on Twitter late Wednesday that she had asked the State Department to release emails from the personal account she used to conduct official business as secretary of state. Mrs. Cl…
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McDonalds Is Curbing Use of Antibiotics in Chicken, But Does It Go Far Enough?
In a response to “superbugs” and slumping sales, McDonald’s announced that within two years, it will only buy and sell “chicken raised without antibiotics that are important to human medicin…
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Assault on Organics: Separating myth from fact
Experts discuss industry PR tactics at Expo West ANAHEIM, CA —In response to booming organic markets and growing consumer skepticism about industrial food, the agrochemical industry has spent an est…
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4 million people demand Obama administration to protect bees from toxic insecticides
Today, a coalition of more than 125 conservation, beekeeping, food safety, religious and farming advocacy groups rallied in front of the White House and delivered more than four million petition s…
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Keystone XL veto stands
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With a vote of 62-37, Senate Republican leadership failed to override President Obama’s veto of legislation authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline. The National Interest De…
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McDonalds is changing its McNuggets-and the move could save lives
America’s abiding love for breaded, fried bits of chicken may be a boon to public health. Forget, for a second, the role those McNuggets and chicken sandwiches may play in the obesity. McDonald’s…