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Incorporating the social cost of carbon: A coal mine stopped in its tracks
Last week, a federal district court in Colorado stopped the expansion of a coal mine in the North Fork Valley of western Colorado due to the federal government’s failure to quantify the costs of bur…
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The Assault on Organics: Ignoring science to make the case for chemical farming
With the proliferation of industry-associated scientists, websites and opinion pieces attacking organic agriculture and spinning their narratives about the safety of chemical-intensive GMO foods, repo…
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By defending against land grabs, we defend forests
Two weeks ago, we asked Friends of the Earth members to sign a petition asking British palm oil company EPO and Malaysian palm oil company KLK to respect the demand of Liberian communities to end th…
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Decreasing Arctic sea ice makes way for shipping and unchecked pollution
May 2014 marked the third lowest May Arctic sea ice extent on satellite record, totaling 4.93 million square miles. The sea ice remains 235,500 square miles below the 1981-2010 average. According to t…
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The Pacific trade deal, Fast Track, and the 2014 elections
Recently, I had the opportunity to appear with Ian Levitt, the host of The Daily Report on Minnesota radio station KTNF. He is conducting a series of interviews with me regarding the environmental thr…
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Corporate capture: Europe trade talks threaten environment
On Friday, May 23, the United States and the European Union concluded weeklong negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (also called the Trans Atlantic Free Trade Agreement)…
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Victory: Deutsche Bank divests from Bumitama after civil society pressure
Our partners at Friends of the Earth Europe announced yesterday that Deutsche Bank has sold its shares in the Indonesian palm oil supplier Bumitama, an important supplier to palm oil giant Wilmar Inte…
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Biotech industry cooks up PR plans to get us to swallow synthetic biology food
Like traditional GMOs, the products of synthetic biology are unlabeled, virtually unregulated and the novel risks to human health and the environment posed by synthetic organisms have not been adequat…
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When our land is free, were all free: Liberian communities (almost) kick out Equatorial Palm Oil
It is all too rare that communities in the global south — or anywhere — win recognition of their rights to say ‘no’ to extractive projects on their lands. So when we received n…
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More spin than science: The latest efforts to take down organics
A recent Oxford University study found that “organic farms support 34 percent more plant, insect, and animal species than conventional farms,” including important pollinators.