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To protect forests and fight the climate crisis: Secure community land rights
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…
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A polluted process: Keystone XL, the State Department and conflicts of interest
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 t…
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Communities in Nigeria Take Wilmar to Court for Landgrabbing
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…
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Keep GMO apples out of baby food!
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 a…
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Extreme genetic engineering in your ice cream?
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…
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Gardeners beware: “Bee-friendly” plants may be poisoning your garden
You may know that bees are in grave trouble. But did you know that your own garden plants may be poisoning these bees?
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Fed-Up with Larry Summers
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 C…
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MOX nuclear fuel program falls behind yet again
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 su…
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Secretary Kerry, time for a fresh start on Keystone
This article, by Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica, was originally posted here on The Hill’s Congress Blog. During Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, the State Department�…
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South Carolina does not consent to being the nation’s nuclear waste dump
Finding a new home for old waste Tuesday, Aiken, S.C., became the first community to reject a new nuclear waste dump. Back in 2010 President Obama found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place…