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Keep GMO apples out of baby food!
GMO Apples: Coming soon to baby food, school lunches and Happy meals As the fall season rushes in, my kitchen fills up with canned apple sauces, baked apple crisps, and fresh apple slices. And as an aunt, I have fond memories of feeding applesauce to my little niece when she… Read More
Extreme genetic engineering in your ice cream?
With the long Labor Day holiday weekend approaching, I look forward to barbeques with friends and family, and enjoying one of my favorite summertime treats: vanilla ice cream. I generally pick the ice cream that has a label with a picture of a vanilla orchid and vanilla beans, a sign… Read More
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? Read More
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 Clinton, Lawrence H. Summers. This time around, President Obama is considering whether to appoint Larry Summers to head the Federal Reserve,… Read More
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 surplus nuclear weapons plutonium. For over a decade the Department of Energy has been pursuing a plan to blend… Read More
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’s review of whether to permit construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline — which would carry the… Read More
South Carolina does not consent to being the nation’s nuclear waste dump
Finding a new home for old waste Tuesday, Aiken, S.C., became the first community to reject a new nuclear waste dump. Back in 2010 President Obama found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place. Sen. Reid had stopped plans for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev.,… Read More
Chinese banking policy may invalidate Chinese loans made to Australian coal projects
Australian coal projects in the Great Barrier Reef may be in violation of a Chinese banking policy that obligates Chinese banks to assess environmental risks and to also suspend, or even terminate, loans to clients when major hazards are identified. The coal projects receive major financing from eight Chinese… Read More
Update from the Pacific NW on endangered Orcas: Stranded baby whale rescued in 2002 has a calf
Eleven years ago, a rescued orphaned killer whale calf, Springer, was reunited with her family off Vancouver Island’s northern coast. Springer has been seen with her pod every year since, coinciding with the arrival of Chinook salmon returning to the region to spawn. This week, researchers spotted Springer… Read More
A dark venture: Tales from Borneo, the global heart of palm oil — Part 3
When we left off, a local corporate public relations representative, unbeknownst to himself, was being devoured by a bloodthirsty mosquito in the heat of a palm oil plantation in the heart of Indonesian Borneo, all while failing to notice the larger tragedy of a razed forest and a rural community… Read More