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The Next Climate Policy Fight Could Be All About Airplane Emissions
Environmental groups are pledging to intensify their push on the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft in the wake of a new report showing no improvement i…
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McDonalds, Beef Industry Slammed for Greenwashing
McDonald’s and the rest of the Global Roundtable on Sustainable Beef are “greenwashing” beef production with their principles and criteria for global sustainable beef, according to consumer, wor…
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The environmental movement is not the Tea Party of the left
Perhaps it was inevitable, in the current Tea Party era, that a noisy progressive movement would draw comparisons to the right-wing insurgents who have taken over the Republican Party. And so — with…
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Terrible truth about Keystone, free Wi-Fi for all & record kids without homes
Erich Pica and Ben Schrieber from Friends of the Earth discuss the Senate’s vote on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and what the ramifications of building this pipeline will be for the environment. Ter…
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Would the Keystone Pipeline Speed up Global Warming?
To supporters,the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the United States is a crucial component of the nation’s energy future, one that would help free Americans from dependence upon Middle E…
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New U.S. -China Carbon Targets Fall Short of Reductions Needed to Avert Climate Change Disaster
Interview with Karen Orenstein, senior international policy analyst with the environmental group Friends of the Earth, conducted by Scott Harris. Just one week after the Democratic Party suffered a st…
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Documents reveal AquaBountys irresponsible management prior to fines for environmental violations on GE salmon
Letter to FDA outlines how AquaBounty’s shifting plans for GE salmon production raise risk of accidental escape, contradict FDA’s pending regulatory review WASHINGTON, D.C. – Food & Water Wa…
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Leading NGOs slam greenwashing by meat industry, demand beefier sustainability standards
New Global Roundtable on Sustainable Beef principles are toothless WASHINGTON, D.C. – Key consumer, animal welfare, worker, public health and environmental groups representing millions of constituen…
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Keystone has no redeeming value: Opposing view
We must lay to rest the tired argument that we should invest in dirty energy in order to create jobs. The oil that would be carried by the Keystone XL pipeline is the most environmentally destructive…
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To stop the killings of environmental defenders, we need land reform and binding laws
Two months ago, in early September, four Asháninka indigenous forest defenders were brutally slain in a remote region along the border of Peru and Brazil. One of the activists, Edwin Chota (pictured…