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Report: Big Oil, Profiting Off of War, Plans to Return $45 Billion to Investors in Share Buybacks While Boosting Dividends
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, a new report highlights how the largest U.S. oil and gas companies are profiting.
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CVS Announces New Policy to Reduce Pesticides in Food Supply Chain
CVS, one of the ten largest U.S. grocery retailers, has released a new pollinator health policy.
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Active Energy sells proposed woody biomass facility
The decision to sell is a win for the climate and a loss for false climate “solutions” that would negatively impact local communities.
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Report: Big Oil’s Public Leasing Shell Game
Friends of the Earth released a policy paper today outlining how President Biden and Congress can counteract the oil and gas sector’s disingenuous efforts to open up more public lands and waters to…
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Friends of the Earth Statement on EPA’s Final Strategic Plan
The EPA’s 2022-2026 strategic plan unfortunately omits a plan to address the environmental impacts of animal agriculture and factory farming.
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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.