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BlackRock’s recent statement on palm oil reveals an unhealthy addiction to climate risk
BlackRock, the $6.5 trillion Wall Street asset manager, has quietly released a statement on the company’s approach to engagement in the palm oil sector — an industry notorious for its role i…
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Carnival Corp. companies all receive failing grades on the 2019 Cruise Ship Report Card
This year, Friends of the Earth is calling on Carnival Corporation and all large cruise companies to invest in real, comprehensive solutions to treat their environmental pollution and truly be environ…
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What North Carolina’s Unfair Political Maps Have To Do With Hurricanes
In the wake of natural disasters, disaster funding is distributed based on the population. The census is also used in drawing redistricting maps for every state. In other words, as we told the Florenc…
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Don’t cruise with the criminal Carnival
Carnival companies — Princess Cruise Lines, Holland America, Carnival Cruise Lines, Cunard, Costa, and 4 others — are key polluters of our oceans and definitely not role models for other c…
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Green New Deal for farming: Address climate crisis and revitalize food system
Our agricultural system is so intertwined with the economic system that is causing the climate crisis that any Green New Deal will need to address how we produce and consume what we eat. That will req…
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Your tax dollars at work: The Trump administration just created a map showing mega-corporations where they should industrialize the ocean next
Our oceans are home to important and endangered marine species, and shouldn’t be treated as mere uncharted areas for mega-corporations to industrialize.
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Nuclear power is not a viable solution for Green New Deal
The Green New Deal resolution is a bold and necessary path forward to tackle the climate crisis. To be successful, it must leave nuclear power behind.
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In the Peatlands of South Sumatra: A Tale of Two Villages
The palm oil industry is responsible for destroying some 24 million hectares of Indonesian rainforest since 1990, much of it through burning. But because huge areas of Indonesia’s vast peat bogs hav…
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Farmworkers fearing toxic pesticide exposure fight for organic agriculture
Far too often, discussions about pesticides in the food system exclude the men, women, and children who plant, tend, and harvest our food.
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Study shows pesticide levels drop dramatically after 1 week of eating organic
Can eating organic really reduce levels of pesticides in our bodies? A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Environmental Research found that switching to an organic diet significantly red…