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Friends of the Earth commends Whole Foods first step into the fight to save pollinators
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFM) issued a new product rating system today called Responsibly Grown that grades fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers as “good, better or best” based upo…
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Friends of the Earth petitions NRC to include alarming new seismic data in considering Diablo Canyon license renewal
Request follows dramatic findings that nuclear reactors are surrounded by stronger and interconnected earthquake faults WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth has filed a petition to intervene in t…
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Green Climate Fund meeting serves as harbinger of success for 2015 Paris climate summit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Next week, Barbados — a small island, developing state threatened by climate-induced sea level rise — will host a critical board meeting of the United Nations Green C…
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Obama administration labels liquefied natural gas export facility as environmentally insignificant
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission found that Cheniere Energy’s proposed liquefied natural gas export plant in Corpus Christi, Texas would have no significant adverse i…
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Letter to Departments of Interior and Agriculture: Account for the social cost of carbon
A coalition of environmental groups, including Friends of the Earth, sent a letter today to Secretary of the Department of the Interior Sally Jewell and Secretary of the Department of Agriculture Tom…
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Ebay Is the Latest Tech Giant Under Pressure to Cut Ties to Climate Denier
Over the last few weeks, several major tech companies and other corporate giants have cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the controversial conservative group that has co…
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Airlines Fly the Skies on a Sugar High
The red-and-white Boeing 737 looked like any other plane on the tarmac at Orlando International Airport. But on a clear day last July, the plane became the first commercial flight powered by a new jet…
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U.S.-Europe trade document confirms chemical industry attack on health safeguards
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the seventh round of talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership moves toward conclusion today in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Friends of the Earth is calling for a m…
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Arrests and displacement rock villages in palm oil landgrab in Bengkulu, Indonesia
In April of this year, I visited a pair of villages in Bengkulu, Indonesia, where the Indonesian palm oil company PT Sendabi Indah Lestari (PT SIL) — a company that allegedly supplies palm oil…
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How Ebola Impacts Oil Drilling
…AND GREENS PUSH BACK. Despite Obama’s attention to climate change in his speech, some environmental groups took issue with the remarks. Friends of the Earth climate and energy campaigner…