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Shareholder resolution passes, urging Bunge to disclose plans to halt deforestation
Shareholders in agribusiness company Bunge Limited voted today for the company to evaluate and disclose its efforts to eliminate deforestation from its operations.
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New Study: Agricultural Pesticides Cause Widespread Harm to Soil Health, Threaten Biodiversity
A new study published today by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms that are critical to h…
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Army Corps Sued for Failure to Protect Waterways, Endangered Wildlife From Pipeline Construction
Green groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a permit that allows oil and gas development through waterways.
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Plugging in container ships at the Port of Charleston could reduce air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions by thousands of tons each year
Switching off vessel auxiliary engines at port and connecting to shoreside electrical power would eliminate toxic air emissions.
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Breaking: Federal Court rules that EPA broke the law on chlorpyrifos
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency must either disallow the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food or find safe levels of exposure that will prot…
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175 Organizations Call on Banks Not to Finance Formosa Plastics’ Louisiana Plant
175 organizations today called on 30 leading banks and financiers not to fund the construction of Formosa Plastics’ $12 billion “Sunshine Project” petrochemical plant in St. James, Louisiana.
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Green groups & investors push for urgent action on deforestation and human rights abuses from Bunge, one of the world’s largest commodity traders
Friends of the Earth US and Global Witness are urging shareholders in one of the world’s largest agri-commodity traders to vote in favour of tackling deforestation at the company’s upcomin…
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GMO Mosquitoes Released in Florida Keys
Despite scientific concerns and public outcry over the human health and environment risks, the field trial’s first phase will release up to 144,000 GE mosquitoes over the course of the next 12 weeks…
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Newsom must prioritize frontline communities in oil and gas actions
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced today a directive to end new fracking permits by 2024 and phase out oil and gas extraction by 2045, making California the first state in the nation to commit…
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Biden administration announces restrictions on overseas fossil fuel financing but remains silent on EXIM and other key agencies
Today, in the lead up to President Biden’s Climate Summit, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced it will be net zero by 2040.