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Business leaders ask IRS employees to give up coffee buzz for bees
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Businesses and advocates are calling on the IRS to go one day without coffee — which benefits from pollination — to create urgency about a future without pollinators…
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Activists project Pac-Man animation onto API headquarters
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday night, environmental activists taking part in the Democracy Spring mass nonviolent actions projected 16-story high images on the office fronts of D.C.’s top pollut…
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Worlds largest coal company declares bankruptcy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private sector coal company and biggest producer of coal in the U.S., today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Peabody’s debt burd…
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Strange bedfellows oppose new polluter subsidy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Scissors, a coalition of free market, taxpayer, and environmental groups, sent a letter to the Senate today opposing an extension and expansion of the tax credits for carbon…
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Lawsuit challenges Obama administrations failure to curb airplane carbon pollution
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental groups today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a nearly decade-long failure to set emission standards that curb greenhouse gas pollution from the na…
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BP clinches Deepwater Horizon tax break
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in Louisiana finalized a $20 billion civil settlement between BP, the Justice Department, and the five states of the Gulf Coast. Despite protests from both Congres…
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Aviation industrys offset plans distracts from urgent need to reduce emissions, say environmental NGOs
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As member countries of the International Civil Aviation Organisation — ICAO, the United Nations’ specialised aviation agency — gather in Utrecht to discuss ways…
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Travel ban for Gustavo Castro Soto lifted
WASHINGTON D.C.- Today, the First Courthouse of Letters of Intibucá, Honduras, acting on instructions from the judge Victorina Flores Orellana, decided to lift the measure prohibiting Gustavo Castro…
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Activists protest Japans controversial coal financing during Prime Minister Abe’s visit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Japanese Prime Minister Shinz? Abe visits the U.S. this week, activists rallied outside the Japanese Embassy earlier this afternoon to highlight the growing concern and interna…
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Lawsuit challenges FDAs approval of genetically engineered salmon
Coalition of fishing, consumer, and environmental groups say first-ever approval of laboratory-created food animal violated laws and ignored risks to wild salmon and fishing communities SAN FRANCISCO…