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Groups press EPA to address toxic lead air pollution from aviation gasoline
Evidence linking ill-health, especially in children, to airborne lead emissions mounts as EPA fails to act WASHINGTON, D.C.– Three leading advocacy groups filed a petition today asking the U.S. Envi…
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EPA report shows violation of federal airborne lead standards at two California airports, yet it continues to delay action
Update, April 21, 2014: Friends of the Earth, Physicians for Social Responsibility and Oregon Aviation Watch have filed a petition asking the EPA to address the continued use of leaded aviation gasoli…
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Friends of the Earth statement on Keystone XL delay
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The State Department announced today that it will provide agencies more time to comment on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, in the wake of uncertainty about the pipeline…
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Fire safety & health groups defend improved furniture flammability standard against chemical company challenge
New standard better protects firefighters and consumers SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – A coalition of fire safety and health groups has intervened to support the recently updated California furniture flam…
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Friends of the Earth statement on the IPCC Mitigation Report
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the third installment of its Fifth Assessment Report relating to mitigation strategies for addressing climate change…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger public face of TV campaign to save forests and climate invests in companies causing deforestation and climate change
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the eve of the premiere of James Cameron’s Years of Living Dangerously, a Showtime documentary on the human impacts of climate change and forest loss, investigations by Glob…
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10 environmental injustices from IPCC report on climate impacts
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change launched the second installment of its Fifth Assessment Report detailing the findings of Working Group II, which focuses on the impacts of climate change…
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Harvard: Stop destroying the IberWetlands!
Friends of the Earth Argentina is engaged in a campaign to protect some of that country’s most important wetlands, and their campaign will soon arrive at the doorstep of an unlikely accomplice in th…
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Friends of the Earth statement on the McCutcheon v. FEC decision
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friends of the Earth, along with 34 labor, faith, democracy and other organizations, released the following statement on today’s Supreme Court decision in the matter of McCutche…