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Why is GMO labeling critical for our environment and health? Read the articles below to find out why people across the country care about GMO labeling, and why Washington State's GMO labeling initiative impacts us all!

Labeling GMO foods is one of the first important steps we need to take to protect our right to know what we are buying and eating and move forward towards a healthier, more sustainable food system.  And in a few…

With the release last week of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report  reconfirming the scientific consensus on both the reality and the urgency of the climate crisis (enough to make meteorologists cry), we can expect a redoubling of extractivist efforts to frack our way to energy security, to profit from the crisis through carbon trading, and to “feed the world” industrial monocrops and genetically engineered seeds under the dubious…

New infographic shows State Department Keystone XL review compromised from Day 1

The showdown over Obamacare isn't the only reckless political ploy that threatens to shut down the government.  Republicans in Congress pushing the Keystone XL pipeline say they will not vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling, which would allow the government to pay for what it has already spent, unless the Obama Administration fast-tracks approval of the project. It's a high-stakes gambit that,…

Nigeria, in West Africa, is fertile territory for palm oil cultivation. Undertaken at a reasonable scale, and with proper attention to social, environmental and labor standards, palm oil could provide an important livelihood for significant numbers of people and support local food sovereignty. Unfortunately, as foreign corporations grab land in Nigeria to develop large-scale palm oil plantations, the opposite is happening: the palm oil rush is leading to the destruction of pristine forest, ongoing human…

GMO Apples: Coming soon to baby food, school lunches and Happy meals

As the fall season rushes in, my kitchen fills up with canned apple sauces, baked apple crisps, and fresh apple slices. And as an aunt, I have fond memories of feeding applesauce to my little niece when she was a baby.  Apples are more than an iconic healthy snack--they are one of the most widely consumed foods, and are often one of the…

With the long Labor Day holiday weekend approaching, I look forward to barbeques with friends and family, and enjoying one of my favorite summertime treats: vanilla ice cream. I generally pick the ice cream that has a label with a picture of a vanilla orchid and vanilla beans, a sign to me that I’m eating ice cream made with real natural vanilla.  But that may not be true anymore.

A new ingredient straight out of…

You may know that bees are in grave trouble. But did you know that your own garden plants may be poisoning these bees?

There are just some public officials who won't go away.

Exhibit A: President Obama's former director of the National Economic Council and the former secretary of treasury under President Clinton, Lawrence H. Summers.

This time around, President Obama is considering whether to appoint Larry Summers to head the Federal Reserve, perhaps the country's most preeminent appointment on economic matters. Summers would have a global pedestal to push his brand of failed market fundamentalism. His argument…

Department of Energy misses yet another deadline for plutonium disposition program

As Friends of the Earth has long contended, the Department of Energy doesn’t really have a plan for disposing of surplus nuclear weapons plutonium. For over a decade the Department of Energy has been pursuing a plan to blend the plutonium, left over from Cold War nuclear stockpiles, into commercial nuclear reactor fuel. For over a decade this program, called the Mixed Oxide Plutonium…