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As Subway moves to reduce antibiotics in chicken, groups call for details and timelines
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — Following calls to action from US PIRG, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Keep Antibiotics Working, Food Animals Concern Trus…
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Obamas Alaska visit showcases climate hypocrisy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Obama begins a three-day trip to Alaska today, to view how climate change is already having adverse impacts on the state and discuss ways to address them. In his weekly…
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Consumers to Costco: Dont be the GMO salmon store
Thousands across U.S. deliver letters demanding that Costco say no to genetically engineered salmon WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week more than 18,000 people will deliver letters to Costco Wholesale Corp…
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Court sides with feds and coal firms in lawsuit over federal coal leasing program
Plaintiffs Will Appeal Bureau of Land Management has not comprehensively reviewed the program in over 30 years WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal court in Washington, D.C. dismissed litigation brought ag…
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U.S. undermines Indias solar program at WTO
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The World Trade Organization has upheld the United States’ challenge against India’s solar power program. The WTO ruled that the program violates global trade rules by imposin…
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Beekeepers, environmentalists question EPAs commitment to saving bees
FOIA request probes pesticide industry influence WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friends of the Earth submitted a Freedom of Information Act to the Environmental Protection Agency today requesting meeting minute…
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Climate study: ending new federal fossil fuel leases would keep 450 billion tons of carbon pollution in the ground
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ending new fossil fuel leasing on lands and offshore areas controlled by the U.S. government would keep up to 450 billion tons of greenhouse gases from polluting the atmosphere…
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EPA takes important step on methane, but greater action needed
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to reduce methane from the oil and gas industry. This proposed rule is the latest part of the Obama administration’s st…
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Shells Arctic Ocean drilling reaches new depths
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement approved Shell’s revised drilling permit to allow the company to drill thousands of feet below the Chukchi Sea to where oil an…
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Petition urges Obama administration to ban natural gas exports
Exports climb 1,000 percent during fracking boom that puts climate, environment at risk WASHINGTON. D.C. — Environmental groups filed a groundbreaking legal petition with the U.S. Department of Comm…