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COVID-19 and Oil Transport: The Issue With Too Much Oil
The environmental damage – let alone the lives lost – from an oil tanker collision, grounding, or sinking because of a hurricane would be catastrophic.
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Bees and Other Pollinators Are Under Attack
Bayer claims to care about bees, yet they still sell bee-killing pesticides. See how Friends of the Earth is pushing Bayer to do better for pollinators.
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Tragedy in America’s Meatpacking Plants Linked to Decades-Long History of Corporate Consolidation
Despite their significant role in feeding the country during this crisis, food and agriculture workers, and meatpacking workers in particular, have not been adequately protected.
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BlackRock’s Silence on Forest Destruction
Since 2012, BlackRock has had 15 chances to vote in favor of shareholder resolutions to halt deforestation. One hundred percent of the time, it voted against action on deforestation.
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Trump is Exploiting a Crisis to Industrialize Our Oceans
The federal government continues to take full advantage of an unprecedented time for America to push forward controversial and shameful corporate agendas.
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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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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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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…
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Three ways to support a resilient and just food system during the COVID-19 pandemic
As farmers face the new crisis of the pandemic, we must come together to demand that federal stimulus funding and future farm policies support small and mid-scale farmers across the country who are…