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Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Trade deal must not undercut Wall Street reforms
Ambassador Michael Froman is the current U.S. Trade Representative and a former Citigroup executive and bundler of Wall Street and other contributions to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. On Decem…
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Environmental Finance, COP Blog: Don’t turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund
Posted 10 December, 2014 on Environmental Finance Last week, the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, kicked off amid controversy with news that Japan had counted loans for coal projects in Indonesia as i…
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Why Supporting ‘Black Lives Matter’ Could Mean A New Chapter For Environmentalism
The Sierra Club has had its share of environmental successes over the years. It preventedthe damming of the Grand Canyon in the 1960s. It ran successful efforts to expand Sequoia National Park in 192…
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For Green Groups, Police-Shooting Protests Are a Path to Diversity
Green groups know they have a diversity problem. Less than a fifth of the staff at the major environmental lobbies are minorities, a figure that critics and insiders admit can skew their priorities. W…
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Rogers’ rider throws climate and communities under the bus
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth expressed outrage at a rider attached by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) to the FY 2015 Omnibus Appropriations bill , a provisio…
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Stop Fast Track: Reject Pacific & Atlantic trade deals
The activists and campaigners of Friends of the Earth are having considerable success this year in beating back Fast Track trade promotion legislation in Congress. The bill would grant President Obama…
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Friends of the Earth gives thanks
Here at Friends of the Earth, we spend a lot of time fighting destructive projects and policies. But sometimes we forget to say thank you for the people we love and the practices we admire. There are…
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Going out, but going green?
Chinese banks are the largest lenders to development projects in the world. As Chinese banks increasingly invest in development projects overseas, will they also invest in environmental and soci…
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To stop the killings of environmental defenders, we need land reform and binding laws
Two months ago, in early September, four Asháninka indigenous forest defenders were brutally slain in a remote region along the border of Peru and Brazil. One of the activists, Edwin Chota (pictured…
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Arrests and displacement rock villages in palm oil landgrab in Bengkulu, Indonesia
In April of this year, I visited a pair of villages in Bengkulu, Indonesia, where the Indonesian palm oil company PT Sendabi Indah Lestari (PT SIL) — a company that allegedly supplies palm oil…