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Bloated oil profits and corporate welfare: a trick to taxpayers, a treat to polluters
WASHINGTON, D.C. —This morning, ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) reported its third quarter earnings for 2014 — an eye-popping $8.07 billion. Yet, ExxonMobil paid an effective tax rate of only 10.2 perc…
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Energy East Pipeline: Concerned Citizens in U.S. and Canada Pledge to Block TransCanadas Latest Tar Sands Scheme
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This morning, Canadian oil giant TransCanada filed an official application with the Canadian National Energy Board for permits to build its proposed Energy East tar sands pipelin…
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Gardeners tell Lowes: Dont be a little shop of horrors for bees
More than a million people ask Lowe’s to stop selling bee-killing pesticides WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, more than 30,000 people across the U.S. and Canada will swarm Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) stores to…
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AquaBounty fined for repeated environmental violations on genetically engineered salmon
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Officials in Panama have ruled that AquaBounty Technologies’ has been operating in violation of environmental regulations as it experiments with genetically engineered salmo…
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In federal court filing, PG&E and nuclear regulator said to collude in secret decision to cover up Diablo Canyons vulnerability to earthquakes
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth has petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a secret decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to illegally alter the operating license for the D…
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Trans Pacific trade ministers declaration suggests no breakthrough
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal negotiations, held for three days behind closed doors in Sydney, Australia, have concluded with no indication of a breakthrough. A press state…
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Washington, D.C. gardeners tell Lowes: Dont be a little shop of horrors for bees, stop selling bee-killing pesticides
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This Wednesday, local gardeners and Friends of the Earth, Beyond Pesticides, Center for Food Safety, Organic Consumers Association and GMO Inside will swarm Lowe’s in New Carrol…
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Obama administration delays critical action to protect bees until at least 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, at the 14th annual North American Pollinator Protection Campaign International Conference, the White House announced a several month delay in the release of its pollinato…
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World Trade Organization veils meaty information
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A World Trade Organization tribunal ruled today that the U.S. law requiring country-of-origin labeling for meat violates international trade law, essentially denying Americans the…
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EPA finds neonicotinoids no benefit to U.S. soybean production
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency released an analysis today confirming that neonicotinoid seed treatments offer little or no increase in economic benefit to U.S. soybean produc…