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Lowe’s to stop selling neonic pesticides linked to bee deaths
Lowe’s plans to stop selling pesticides linked to the massive decline of honeybees around the world. The home improvement chain announced on Thursday that it would phase out products containing neonic pesticides over the next four years. In recent years, billions of bees have died from a condition known as… Read More
Has Obama been a green President?
Environmentalists claim Obama hasn’t done enough to address climate change, citing issues such as fossil fuel exports Has Obama been a green President? Al Jazeera America, 4/7/2015… Read More
With recent deforestation pledges, eyes on next steps
Last week, Yum! Brands, the company that owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, announced a zero deforestation policy for its sourcing of palm oil, to ensure the palm oil the company’s restaurants use to fry foods will no longer be linked to rainforest destruction and human rights abuses. Read More
Environmental impact should be part of dietary guidelines, groups say
More than 100 environmental and health food groups, nutritionists, and educators say they support the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s recommendation to factor the health of the environment when mapping out what Americans should and shouldn’t be eating. Environmental impact should be part of dietary guidelines, groups say -The Hill… Read More
Life After Keystone: The Future of the Climate Movement When the Pipeline Battle Ends
President Obama could reject or approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline any day, week or month now. And as a decision looms, environmentalists face a daunting question: Can they recreate the kind of mass appeal that Keystone inspires when the pipeline battle ends? Life After Keystone: The Future of… Read More
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Urged To Review Procedures
An environmental group is calling on the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reverse a staff decision and review the installation of faulty steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear power plant. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Urged To Review Procedures -KPBS 4/1/2015… Read More
Alaska oil and gas lease draws criticism
A decision from the Department of Interior to review energy exploration plans off the coast of Alaska is “unconscionable,” environmental groups said. The federal government affirmed a 2008 lease sale for exploration in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska. The decision means the Department of Interior will begin formal… Read More
Oil spills near Gulf Coast leave unimaginable ecological, environmental effects
The environmental effects of oil rig disasters, like the PEMEX explosion and the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf Coast in 2010, are still being felt throughout the region. However, critics like Marissa Knodel, a climate change campaigner for the nonprofit Friends of the Earth, say not enough real work… Read More
Shells Arctic Drilling Plans Approved by Department of Interior
It seems like the battle to save the wild and remote Arctic seas from predatory oil and gas companies never ends. Despite court cases finding it had illegally sold oil and gas exploration leases in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska and despite its own environmental impact study depicting the dangers of… Read More
Advocates Urge Dietary Guidelines that are Good for Public Health and the Environment
Last week, I had the pleasure of testifying, on behalf of Friends of the Earth, about theScientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee at a public meeting in Washington, D.C. The meeting, convened by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Department of Health… Read More