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Karen Budd-Falen is the wrong choice to oversee our public lands
As the director of BLM she could have the power to sell off our public lands to fossil fuel interests, embolden militant ranchers, gut critical environmental safeguards, pollute our vulnerable waterwa…
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Shutdown the dismantling of America
The fate of the Dreamers, healthcare access for children, and our most basic environmental protections could be decided in the coming days. With so much at stake, it is time for progressives to recons…
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How Cities Can Meat the Climate Challenge
Cities and counties can address the food sector’s significant impact on climate change by buying less meat and dairy and offering more plant-forward items on menus in large food venues operating on mu…
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The Mission of E. Scott Pruitt
The mission of the EPA is to protect our air and water, but it’s clear that the mission of Scott Pruitt is to end the EPA as we know it.
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Why Trump’s Tax Plan Spells Climate Disaster
There are plenty of reasons for people who value the environment to be horrified by Trump’s tax plan, which is set to pump more carbon in the atmosphere and more profits into the wallets of polluter…
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Chronicle of a Palm Oil Ecocide
In 2015, two massive pollution events in the Pasión River resulted in the death of tens of thousands of fish and affected the economic livelihood of least 12,000 people from 20 indigenous communities…
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NAFTA renegotiation threatens family farmers and the environment
A new NAFTA on the TPP model would lead to less regulation of Big Ag’s environmentally harmful factory farming practices resulting in worse air and water pollution, inhumane treatment of animals, de…
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OECD, It’s Time for Export Credit Agencies to Stop Funding Fossil Fuels
As they gather in the shadow of the UN Climate Conference, ECAs must cease business as usual and finally move in a new and more sustainable direction by ending all support of fossil fuels by 2020 at t…
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Senators, don’t put Ex-Im Bank’s fossil fuel financing back in business
After providing almost $6 billion annually to fossil fuels from 2013 to 2015, the U.S. export credit agency – the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) – has been unable to finance large fossil fuel p…
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G20 countries need to stop using export credit agencies to finance fossil fuel projects
Originally posted on Devex. by Kate DeAngelis, international policy analyst While some world leaders, such as South Korean President Moon Jae-in and French President Emmanuel Macron, ha…