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To put out Indonesias forest fires in 2016, follow the moneyand cut it off.
Today, an international coalition of over 70 organizations launched a call on financial regulators in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, China, Europe and the United States to apply emergency sanc…
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Join our Stop Batang Coal week of action: March 31April 5
Take action from your computer, phone or tablet! We may only have days to stop the financing for a dangerous, proposed coal project in Indonesia already plagued by human rights violations. Our Japanes…
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Scientific American science panel may get lost in translation
Agrichemical companies and their allies are spending tens of millions of dollars a year on tobacco-style PR tactics to flood news outlets and social media platforms with misleading messages.
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Thousands in Bangladesh march across 155 miles against threatening coal projects
Thousands of Bangladeshis participated in a “Long March” from the capital city of Dhaka to the Sundarbans forest March 10 to March 13 to protest the construction of various coal projects proposed…
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Pacific trade deal = climate disruption
The Obama administration and the fossil fuel industry are pushing Congress to approve a Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement with Japan and 10 other Asia-Pacific countries that would ramp up glob…
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Rally Tally: Hundreds surround the Superdome to demand no Gulf drilling
Gulf Coast residents and activists from around the country came together yesterday to stand strong against the Fossil Fuel Empires who submitted bids to drill on 43 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico…
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Rally Tally: Demanding justice for Honduran activist Berta Ceres
Berta Cáceres ¡presente! On Friday, March 4, Friends of the Earth joined other supporters in front of the U.S. State Department to remember Honduran civil and environmental rights activist Berta Cá…
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Rally Tally: Dozens of activists condemn the murder of Berta Ceres
Yesterday, Friends of the Earth co-sponsored a rally at the UN in New York City for Berta Cáceres and International Woman’s Day. Berta is a well-known indigenous environmental activist who was…
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Bangladesh coal projects put human health and pivotal ecosystem at risk
Communities in Bangladesh are fighting to stop multiple coal projects, which the U.S. Export-Import Bank may finance, from destroying the air they breathe and the natural resources they depend on. Two…
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5 simple reasons to oppose HSBC and Credit Agricole at the Green Climate Fund
Either Wednesday or Thursday of this week, the Board of the Green Climate Fund will decide whether or not banking giants HSBC and Credit Agricole will become “accredited entities” of the G…