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Bipartisan Senators Critique Clinton on Oil Pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan group of U.S. senators pushed back this week against remarks Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made October 15 at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club indicating t…
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U.S. gov’t blasted for financing massive coal project in India
Green groups blasted the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) for its expected final approval today of hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidized federal financing for the massive 4,000 megaw…
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Confronted at Press Conference by Billionaires
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friends of the Earth showed up at a press conference held by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this morning to protest his newly announced support for extending federal subsi…
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President Obama hits two birds with one stone with new gas tax proposal
Washington, D.C. — This week, the White House and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) proposed a plan to eliminate the nation’s gas tax of $0.184 on…
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EPA Designates 16 Areas in Violation of Airborne Lead Standards
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently identified 16 regions in the United States that fail to meet clean air standards for airborne lead emissions. The finding…
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EPA Decision to Raise Ethanol Blend in Gasoline Condemned From Diverse Quarters
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite opposition from a broad coalition of public interest, consumer and industry groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it will raise the m…
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Experts Warn UN Climate Delegates against use of Carbon Markets
TIANJIN, CHINA — Experts on the dangers posed by carbon markets warned delegates at the UN climate talks here today against including carbon trading and offsets in any global climate agreement…
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Report: Synthetic Biofuels Not a Solution to the Climate Crisis
Washington, D.C.—The environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth released a report today warning policymakers of the dangers of misguided attempts by the biotechnology industry to apply s…
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Pipeline Protesters Greet President Obama at Fundraiser in New York
NEW YORK, N.Y. — As President Obama arrives here for a Democratic campaign fundraiser today, activists with signs and banners are calling on him to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, which would c…
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New Storylines Emerging From Climate Negotiations
United Nations climate negotiations will resume in Tianjin, China, on October 4, 2010. This is the first time formal international climate negations are taking place in China. Several stories are…