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Bayer, Monsanto and Big Data: Who will control our food system in the era of digital agriculture and mega-mergers?
Bayer, Monsanto and Big Data: Who will control our food system in the era of digital agriculture and mega-mergers?

Based on a recent poll, 91.7 percent of farmers surveyed are concerned that Bayer-Monsanto will control data about farm practices.

Kroger needs to stop selling food grown with Dow’s toxic nerve gas pesticide
Kroger needs to stop selling food grown with Dow’s toxic nerve gas pesticide

While the Trump administration sides with Dow over our children, workers, rural communities and pollinators, we must act to get this pesticide out of our food system.

10 Reasons to #FirePruitt
10 Reasons to #FirePruitt

Plagued by scandal and facing growing criticism even from members of his own party, the moment is ripe for communities across to country to rise up and demand that Scott Pruitt be fired.

International Maritime Organization (IMO) advances key navigation protections for the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean
International Maritime Organization (IMO) advances key navigation protections for the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean

As someone with family and ancestral roots in the Arctic region who tries to inform their communities on such proposals, I was glad to be able to testify as a representative from Friends of the Earth.

The Alaskan Arctic to California Crude Connection
The Alaskan Arctic to California Crude Connection

This dynamic is on the verge of changing, as the threat of increased oil tanker traffic in California to feed the refinery sector is raising awareness about the sources of that crude oil.

Another hidden link between your retirement funds and rainforest destruction: Maybank, the world’s largest financier of palm oil
Another hidden link between your retirement funds and rainforest destruction: Maybank, the world’s largest financier of palm oil

The destruction wrought by the palm oil sector — millions of hectares of forest and peatlands destroyed, entire species driven to the brink, assaults on local communities’ lands — is our responsibility.

Protect the Pacific from Trump
Protect the Pacific from Trump

The environmental, climate, health, safety and economic risks from Trump’s extreme energy agenda are numerous, but they are not the only dangers presented by expanded offshore drilling.

Guatemalan Palm Oil Supplier REPSA Caught up in Corruption and Bribery Scandal
Guatemalan Palm Oil Supplier REPSA Caught up in Corruption and Bribery Scandal

A Guatemalan palm oil company called Reforestadora de Palmas AC (REPSA) was charged with corruption last week in a high-profile investigation of systemic tax fraud in Guatemala.

Four things Scott Pruitt is hoping Senators will not ask him today.
Four things Scott Pruitt is hoping Senators will not ask him today.

The most scandal-plagued Administrator in the history of the EPA isn’t a big fan of testifying under oath, which is exactly why Senators need to make the most of his infrequent appearances to demand straight answers and accountability.

After shutdown surrender, why should progressives ever trust Chuck Schumer again?
After shutdown surrender, why should progressives ever trust Chuck Schumer again?

When Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took a stand against Merrick Garland, it lasted 293 days. When Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took a stand for the Dreamers, it lasted less than 72 hours.