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Gardeners beware: “Bee-friendly” plants may be poisoning your garden
You may know that bees are in grave trouble. But did you know that your own garden plants may be poisoning these bees?
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Bee die-offs: New tests find bee-killing pesticides in ‘bee-friendly’ plants from garden centers nationwide
175,000 people demand Lowe’s, Home Depot stop selling “pre-poisoned plants” SAN FRANCISCO – Many “bee friendly” home garden plants sold at Home Depot (NYSE: HD), Lowe’s (NYSE: LOW) and o…
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Federal court ruling means Yucca Mountain project is dead, according to Friends of the Earth
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited ruling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s review of Yucca Mountain as a permanent repository for nuclear…
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Fed-Up with Larry Summers
There are just some public officials who won’t go away. Exhibit A: President Obama’s former director of the National Economic Council and the former secretary of treasury under President C…
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Keystone XL: Businessweek uncovers more lies by State Department contractor about its ties to TransCanada
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today Businessweek revealed new evidence that Environmental Resources Management, the company hired by the State Department to review the environmental impact of the Keystone XL ta…
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MOX nuclear fuel program falls behind yet again
Department of Energy misses yet another deadline for plutonium disposition program As Friends of the Earth has long contended, the Department of Energy doesn’t really have a plan for disposing of su…
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Key DOE environmental review of plan to use weapons plutonium as mixed oxide reactor fuel delayed again, signaling problems as options being assessed
Friends of the Earth: Mixed oxide fuel is ‘massive waste’ of tax dollars and must be terminated WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy has once again failed to meet its schedule on…
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Secretary Kerry, time for a fresh start on Keystone
This article, by Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica, was originally posted here on The Hill’s Congress Blog. During Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, the State Department�…
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Lawsuit challenges federal financing of coal exports from east coast ports
Suit charges taxpayer-backed U.S. Export-Import Bank with failure to assess environmental impacts of its dirty-fuel exports WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental groups today filed the first-ever la…
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Keystone XL: Public interest groups call for Sec. Kerry to throw out tainted environmental study, take disciplinary action against consultants who lied about ties to TransCanada
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline today asked Secretary John Kerry to throw out the State Department’s environmental review of the proposed tar sands pipeline because consul…