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Activists protest BlackRock’s ‘hot air’ on climate change
In a series of demonstrations after BlackRock’s annual shareholder meeting today, activists in New York City, San Francisco, and London staged socially distanced protests to criticize the financial…
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Golden Veroleum Liberia Lays Off Workers, Endangers Communities, Highlighting Failure of Industrial Plantation Model
Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), a palm oil company operating in Liberia since 2012, announced recently that it is laying off 440 workers – about a tenth of its workforce – due to unsustainable loss…
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Farm and Environmental Organizations Rebuke New USDA Regulatory Review
Today, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released their official rules revising federal regulation of genetically engineered (GE) organisms. Under the new federal rules, USDA has significantly r…
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Big Oil scores $1.5 billion in COVID tax scam
According to a review of over 40 quarterly filings, at least 12 oil and gas companies are expected to claim a total $1.4 billion in tax breaks.
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Steny Hoyer backs Big Oil
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer publicly supported the idea of filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve today — a giveaway to the fossil fuel industry that Trump and the GOP had previously pursued.
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Groups call on Harvard University to stop land grabs as new report exposes harm done to communities in Brazil
Rural communities in Brazil are suffering from food shortages, chemical pollution and violent human rights abuses because of large land deals made by Harvard University in the years following the 2008…
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Trump Exploits COVID-19 to Advance Corporate Agenda
Today, amid the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the White House issued a controversial Executive Order to streamline offshore aquaculture permitting and gut other protective regulatory processes. The move th…
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Public interest groups unite to form Duke Energy watchdog
A coalition of public interest, social justice, watchdog and environmental groups are joining forces to hold Duke Energy, the largest investor-owned U.S. electric utility, accountable for its policies…
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Amid coronavirus crisis, federal approval of genetically engineered mosquito ignores risk
Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the release of millions of genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes in Monroe County, Florida and Harris County, Texas.