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National Keep the Hives Alive Tour brings urgency to global pollinator decline
Beekeepers, farmers, farmworkers and scientists unite for pesticide regulation and sustainable agriculture WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Keep the Hives Alive Tour kicks off today to raise awareness about…
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Can organic feed the world?
Join us to hear from top scientists and thought leaders on the science of sustainable food production and a comprehensive approach to creating a healthy, resilient food system to feed all people, now…
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Disney Cruise Line regains A grade for pollution transparency
Disney Cruise Lines was the sole cruise line this year to earn an “A” for transparency by responding to information requests. Every other line, like the year before, refused to confirm its current…
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Global palm oil traders acknowledge the need to prevent human rights abuses in Guatemala
Cargill’s public position against violence and REPSA’s promise of reform are significant,” said Jeff Conant, Senior International Forests Program Director at Friends of the Earth-US. “But real transfo…
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139-square-mile fracking plan in Wyoming prompts legal protest
Groups call on BLM to cancel massive fossil fuel development that threatens climate, water, Greater Sage Grouse JACKSON, Wyo.— Conservation groups filed a formal administrative protest on Thursday c…
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More than 450 environmental, landowner, Indigenous rights and allied organizations to Congress: pending trade deals threaten efforts to keep fossil fuels in the ground, oppose Trans Pacific Partnership
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, in the largest display of opposition to the environmental impacts of two pending trade deals, more than 450 groups called on members of Congress to commit to vote against…
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Strange bedfellows push Moniz to drop CCS plant ahead of key deadline
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Scissors — a coalition of free-market, taxpayer and environmental groups — today sent a letter to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz calling on the U.S. Department o…
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On heels of Canada’s approval, more retailers say no to GMO salmon
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the heels of Canada’s approval of GMO salmon, Friends of the Earth U.S. and a coalition of more than 30 consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups released upda…
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Legal action to shut down Indian Point
Emergency legal filing to the NRC demands reactor 2 not restart, immediate shut down of reactor 3 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The disappearance and disintegration of more than 1 in 4 critical bolts holdi…
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Health Canadas approval of GMO salmon denounced
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Canadian and U.S. environmental and consumer groups denounced Health Canada’s approval of genetically engineered salmon created by AquaBounty Technologies Inc. (ABTX:LSE), a m…