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California bans brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos, helps farmers transition to safer alternatives
By outlawing chlorpyrifos, California joins New York and Hawaii in putting public health and the environment over corporate profits. We call on the state to work as swiftly as possible to cancel the r…
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Vermont passes bill to ban consumer use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides
The Vermont Legislature today passed a bill banning consumer use of neonicotinoid pesticides by July 2019. During the legislative session, thousands of Friends of the Earth members in Vermont called a…
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Nadler opposes Williams pipeline, groups push other members of Congress to follow his lead
At a recent Green New Deal town hall, New York Congressman Jerry Nadler publicly opposed the Williams fracked gas pipeline proposed for the New York Harbor.
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La confirmación por el Senado de los directores del Banco de Exportación e Importación significa miles de millones de dólares más en financiación federal para combustibles fósiles.
The U.S. Senate today voted to confirm three nominees to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The confirmation allows Ex-Im to establish a board quorum, clearing the way for the bank…
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Amigos de la Tierra exige al regulador estatal que corrija el permiso de contaminación del agua de FP&L
En una audiencia celebrada hoy por el Departamento de Protección Ambiental de Florida, Amigos de la Tierra pidió al gobernador Ron DeSantis y a los reguladores estatales que rechacen un permiso revisado de descarga de aguas residuales para Florida…
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United Shareholders, Customers and Concerned Citizens call on Dominion to Embrace Change Now
Dominion Energy is building costly, dangerous fracked gas pipelines like the Atlantic Coast Pipeline that will substantially boost carbon emissions. The coalition warned investors that their assets we…
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Friends of the Earth and Tisch Food Center convene “Greening School Food” experts in northeast regional forum in Albany
Following New York City’s recent announcement to implement Meatless Mondays and slash red meat purchases by 50 percent in its school system, the event is designed to share best practices from across…
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World Faces Ecological Collapse Unless Urgent Action Taken, Says Devastating Global Assessment
The world faces ecological collapse and mass extinctions unless dramatic action is taken to change social and economic systems, according to a global assessment launched today by The Intergovernmental…
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House of Representatives votes to take action on climate change
But it is not enough that the U.S. not withdraw from the global climate stage; our climate commitment under the Paris Agreement is radically out of line with what science, justice and equity demand.
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Broad coalition applauds new bill banning industrial ocean fish farms
Today U.S. Congressman Don Young (R-Alaska) introduced the Keep Fin Fish Free Act, which places a moratorium on commercial permitting of marine finfish aquaculture facilities in federally controlled a…