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The burden of apple eating: or how I learned to stop worrying and love genetically engineered apples
Here is the biggest problem I face every day: I want to eat an apple as a healthy snack to get me through the afternoon, but eating a whole apple is really too much for me given my busy schedule. I…
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Starting off right: Making climate finance publicly accountable at the Green Climate Fund
On the eve of the first board meeting of the UN’s Green Climate Fund, Friends of the Earth U.S. — along with GAIA and the Institute for Policy Studies — has released a report that begins…
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Tar Sands Blockade flies into action as ground breaks on southern leg of Keystone XL
Today, Tar Sands Blockade kicked off a sustained, direct action campaign to stop the construction of the southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline through Oklahoma and Texas. The grassroots organiz…
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Gross reminder that cruise ships need to shape up
A cruise ship room tag from a Holland America vessel was found washed up with a concentrated amount of sewage and various plastic on Pond Beach in Nahant, Massachusetts last Saturday. The washed up wa…
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26 Senators urge EPA to reduce the corn ethanol mandate
Today a bipartisan group of 26 senators urged EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to use her authority to reduce the corn ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard. With record droughts spreading acro…
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A ruse of Olympic proportions: BP’s carbon offsets
My husband is a self-described Olympics junkie, and our television has been on nonstop since the opening ceremonies. As a result, I have been barraged by the full spectrum of TV commercials — al…
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Severe drought shows stupidity of corn ethanol mandate
If you haven’t noticed from the frostbite-inducing air conditioning in your office yet, it’s been hot this summer. Really really hot–and dry. In fact, more than half of the counties…
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Remember Kalamazoo — and fight for a tar sands-free future
Last Tuesday marked the two-year anniversary of the start of the Kalamazoo River disaster where Canadian oil corporation Enbridge spilled over a million gallons of tar sands oil into waters near Marsh…
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Congress and the ethanol lobby square off on the corn ethanol mandate
As the drought continues to wreak havoc on our corn crops, the Renewable Fuel Standard – our federal mandate for corn ethanol and other biofuels – has come under fire. Due to the mandate, we’re…
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Colbert Report thinks corn ethanol is laughable
This past Tuesday, Steven Colbert of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report discussed how the current drought — the worst in 50 years– will raise food prices around the country and dest…