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Shell will be allowed to pester walruses in the Arctic, but not as much as it would like
Nobody’s happy with the Obama administration’s ruling on how Shell is to treat the walruses and polar bears that will be hanging out and watching as the company drills in the Arctic. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a letter on Tuesday that it would allow Shell to interfere… Read More
Big Food Is Trying to Dupe You Into Loving Industrial Agriculture
Moms campaigning to raise awareness of pesticide use in industrial agriculture are elitist control freaks; organic farming uses dangerous chemicals too. And those antibiotic-resistant superbugs you’ve been hearing about on factory farms? Don’t worry, the livestock industry has it all under control. Those are just some of the demonstrably outrageous messages… Read More
Food and chemical industry spends millions on PR to attack organic, defend GMOs
A new report from Friends of the Earth — Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food — documents unprecedented levels of spending from front groups, trade associations and anti-GMO labeling campaigns, with vast corporate marketing budgets aimed at defusing public concern about the risks… Read More
The billion-dollar business to sell us crappy food
At the turn of the last century, the father of public relations, Edward Bernays, launched the Celiac Project, whose medical professionals recommended bananas to benefit celiac disease sufferers. Those pitched on the sweet fruit’s miraculous properties didn’t know the project was actually created for the United Fruit Co., the largest… Read More
Shell drilling plans must allow for walrus protection
Shell will have to change its summer oil-exploraton plans in the Chukchi Sea to comply with a letter of authorization released Tuesday by the Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, To protect walruses, the authorization calls for Shell to keep operating drill rigs at least 15 miles apart during… Read More
Shell secures new authorization in pursuing Arctic drilling
Royal Dutch Shell has secured another federal authorization as it pursues plans to drill exploration wells in the Arctic waters off the Alaska coast. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday issued a letter of authorization allowing for the possible harassment of polar bears and Pacific walrus incidental to… Read More
Truth or deception? New report exposes how industry front groups are spending millions to shape the story of food
Organic and non-GMO food sales are skyrocketing as more and more people are choosing healthier, more sustainable food produced without synthetic pesticides, GMOs or the routine use of antibiotics and added hormones. Rather than respond to changing market demands by shifting the way they do business, many large food and… Read More
Without climate protections, the Ex-Im Bank shouldn’t continue
The Export-Import Bank is set to expire on June 30, and concerns for its reauthorization have sparked one of the hottest debates in Congress. In a desperate attempt to reauthorize the agency, some Ex-Im Bank proponents are threatening to change the Bank’s policies in a way that would throw the… Read More
A former Keystone XL lobbyist just joined Team Hillary
Hillary Clinton’s newest campaign consultant is Jeffrey Berman, the strategistcredited with her 2008 primary defeat and who, in the time since, has worked as a lobbyist for TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline. Environmentalists have a right to be concerned. The pipeline, which would transport oil from Alberta’s… Read More
Hillary Clinton Has Hired a Former Keystone Pipeline Lobbyist
Hillary Clinton has hired a former lobbyist for the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, further upsetting environmentalists who have long been wary of her commitment to fighting climate change. BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith reported on Wednesday that the Clinton campaign has hired Jeffrey Berman as a campaign consultant. Berman, who began working… Read More