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Health, environment & childrens groups call for national strategy to end lead poisoning and lead exposure
Coalition asks federal agencies to make National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week more than symbolic WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of organizations across the country have sent a call for action to P…
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UNESCO recommends halt to Bangladesh coal plant
The Export-Import Bank of the United States has absolutely no business supporting such a pollution-spewing monstrosity, and must pull out of the project immediately.
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Darden Restaurants CEO undeserving of leadership award, say activist groups
Gene Lee’s record on environmental, health, animal welfare and worker issues at odds with “Golden Chain” accolade WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a letter sent today to Nation’s Restaurant News, a coa…
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Strange bedfellows challenge Congress to end dirty tax extenders
WASHINGTON — Green Scissors — a coalition of free-market, taxpayer and environmental groups — sent a letter today asking Congress to allow a suite of dirty energy tax breaks to expire at…
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Olive Garden, Darden Restaurants under investor pressure to ditch routine antibiotics
ORLANDO, Fla. — Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), the nation’s largest restaurant company and owner of Olive Garden, is facing pressure from investors today at its annual shareholder meeting to elim…
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Friends of the Earth mourns the passing of Joe Browder, environmental champion
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On September 18, 2016, Joe Browder passed away at age 78. Before his long fight with cancer, Joe led the fight to protect the Everglades and Big Cypress in Florida. Browder worked…
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House Committee votes to bail out nuclear reactors
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the House Ways and Means Committee voted to eliminate the placed in service date for the production tax credit for nuclear energy. This will ensure that Southern Company…
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Obama administration’s actions undermine strong words on climate change at UN General Assembly
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As President Obama delivered his final address to the United Nations today at the General Assembly in New York City, Friends of the Earth U.S. President, Erich Pica, had the f…
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Oil and gas lease sales move online as public pressure to stop them increases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the first time ever, the Obama administration will hold an online lease sale for nearly 4,300 acres of public land in Kentucky and Mississippi for oil and gas drilling. Privat…
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Over 700,000 people tell government to block seed mergers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meets today to examine consolidation in the agriculture seed and chemical industry, nine groups have submitted petitions signed by 708,000 p…