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Media Advisory: June 8th World Oceans Day rally to clean up cruising
On Monday, June 8th, activists and environmental organizations around the world will join together online for World Oceans Day to urge the cruise industry to clean up its act.
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Trump Administration to waive rules, clearing the way for more polluting projects
Trump is expected to sign an executive order today waiving long-standing environmental protection mandates, allowing federal agencies to rush through approval for pipelines, mines, and other destructi…
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Friends of the Earth stands in support of Black lives and echoes calls to defund the police
Friends of the Earth U.S. condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery, and the continued state-sanctioned violence against Black people in the United States. T…
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Remembering Arlie Schardt
Arlie W. Schardt, a pioneering voice for the environment and witness to some of the most seminal events in American history as a Time magazine correspondent traveling with Martin Luther King while cov…
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Advantages and savings in store for Memphis if TVA is dropped, latest study finds
A new report affirmed the savings and advantages available to Memphis if it leaves the Tennessee Valley Authority for lower-cost, greener power, according to a presentation by Siemens Inc. to the Memp…
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EPA fails to oversee disastrous Pebble Mine
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed yesterday to invoke its Clean Water Act section 404(q) authority to protect salmon-rich Bristol Bay, Alaska from the dangerous proposed Pebble Min…
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Why $77 billion a year in public finance for oil, gas, and coal is even worse than it sounds
The headline finding is that from 2016 to 2018 G20 countries provided an average of USD $77 billion a year in public finance for fossil fuels.
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API CEO spews double-talk on polluter bailout
If polluters want to deny the existence of the ongoing bailout, Congress should swiftly repeal these blatant corporate tax giveaways and make fossil fuels ineligible for stimulus lending programs.
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Report: G20 Governments Bankrolling the Fossil Fuel Industry by at least $77 Billion a Year
A new report released by Friends of the Earth U.S. and Oil Change International reveals G20 countries have provided at least $77 billion a year in public finance to oil, gas and coal projects since th…
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Remembering S. David Freeman, the ‘green cowboy’
Dave was a giant in the fight against climate change and nuclear power. His lasting legacy will be the green energy “seeds” he planted across the country and the communities that are safer from hi…