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Senate Approval of Mike Pompeo’s Secretary of State Nomination Would Spell Disaster for Planet Earth
It is hard to think of a worse candidate than Mike Pompeo to lead the State Department. Read More
Certified weaknesses: The RSPO’s Liberian fiasco
GVL has destroyed their sacred sites, polluted their drinking water, and curtailed their access to their forests and livelihoods. Read More
Bayer, Monsanto and Big Data: Who will control our food system in the era of digital agriculture and mega-mergers?
Based on a recent poll, 91.7 percent of farmers surveyed are concerned that Bayer-Monsanto will control data about farm practices. Read More
Kroger needs to stop selling food grown with Dow’s toxic nerve gas pesticide
While the Trump administration sides with Dow over our children, workers, rural communities and pollinators, we must act to get this pesticide out of our food system. Read More
10 Reasons to #FirePruitt
Plagued by scandal and facing growing criticism even from members of his own party, the moment is ripe for communities across to country to rise up and demand that Scott Pruitt be fired. Read More
International Maritime Organization (IMO) advances key navigation protections for the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean
As someone with family and ancestral roots in the Arctic region who tries to inform their communities on such proposals, I was glad to be able to testify as a representative from Friends of the Earth. Read More
Food retailers fail to protect bees from toxic pesticides
A new scorecard from Friends of the Earth shows that top food retailers are failing to protect bees and people from toxic pesticides. Read More
The Alaskan Arctic to California Crude Connection
This dynamic is on the verge of changing, as the threat of increased oil tanker traffic in California to feed the refinery sector is raising awareness about the sources of that crude oil. Read More
Another hidden link between your retirement funds and rainforest destruction: Maybank, the world’s largest financier of palm oil
The destruction wrought by the palm oil sector — millions of hectares of forest and peatlands destroyed, entire species driven to the brink, assaults on local communities’ lands — is our responsibility. Read More
Protect the Pacific from Trump
The environmental, climate, health, safety and economic risks from Trump’s extreme energy agenda are numerous, but they are not the only dangers presented by expanded offshore drilling. Read More