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Biden Sides with Big Oil Barons and Wall Street in EU Gas Deal
President Biden’s decision to supply the EU with LNG exports won’t alleviate the crisis in Ukraine and will spell danger for the climate.
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Report: Major Indonesian palm oil supplier linked to illegal deforestation, land rights violations
Indonesia’s second largest palm oil company, Astra Agro Lestari (AAL), is responsible for longstanding land rights abuses and environmental destruction in operations undertaken without proper legal…
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Legislative Champions, Advocates Reintroduce NY Deforestation-Free Procurement Act
Lawmakers renew the push for a bill that will ensure New York state government practices don’t drive deforestation or forest degradation.
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Taxpayer, Environmental Groups Sound Alarm on $6 Billion Nuclear Bailout
Groups call for cleaner, cheaper energy alternatives as the DOE moves to spend $6 billion in taxpayer funds to prop up the nuclear industry.
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Amid Fossil Fuel Industry’s False Rhetoric, Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Nomination to Federal Reserve
By knifing her confirmation, Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin have shown once again that they care more about their fossil fuel benefactors than the climate.
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REPORT: American Oil Company CEOs caught profiting from war in Ukraine
Big Oil CEOs have sold millions of dollars worth of shares, profiting a combined total of almost $99 million, in the weeks since President Biden said that he was “convinced” Russia would invade Uk…
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Genetically Engineered Mosquito Imminent Mass Release Ignores Science, Public Health and Environmental Risks
In defiance of science and public health concerns, today EPA approved the mass release of billions of experimental genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes into the United States’ most populous and ag…
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IPCC wakeup call to investors: Stop profiting from climate crisis and human rights abuses
Friends of the Earth US and Transnational Institute released new research calling for urgent action to rein in the financiers driving the climate emergency and profiting from its most devastating impa…
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Friends of the Earth appeals results in big blow to Turkey Point nuclear power plants
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission today overturned two extensions granted to Florida Power & Light to operate two nuclear reactors in Turkey Point, Florida for 80 years.
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Facebook failing to flag harmful climate misinformation, new research finds
Facebook is falling short of its promises to tackle climate misinformation, according to new analysis.