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Join a Netroots conversation on lessons from the Keystone XL fight
Greetings from Providence, Rhode Island! I’m here today with Friends of the Earth communications manager Kelly Trout for Netroots Nation, an annual national conference of progressive bloggers, media…
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Obama administration confused about its own flawed Keystone XL process
Either Press Secretary Jay Carney was confused at yesterday’s daily White House briefing and misspoke, or the Obama administration has abandoned any semblance of adhering to a legal review process f…
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The TPP trade agreement regulatory coherence chapter is an environmental hazard
“Cost-benefit calculation is the highest art form in the realm of persuasion by information — and the most deceitful…In essence, property rights (and profit) are being assigned a higher value th…
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Robin Hood, nurses, Woody Guthrie and Friends of the Earth: Let’s tax Wall Street!
For almost 15 years now, I’ve been doing human rights and environmental advocacy work — most of it in Washington, D.C. Just about anyone who has done that sort of thing for more than a decade…
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Support builds for the End Polluter Welfare Act
The public has reached a strong verdict on the billions of dollars of subsidies that our government hands annually to fossil fuel corporations making historic profits: end them. According to one rec…
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Keep the Dolphin Safe tuna label safe!
One of the best-known and trusted environmental labels is the “dolphin-safe” label that today can be found on much of the tuna sold in the U.S. On May 16, a World Trade Organization appeals panel…
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Enbridge confirms plans to build New England tar sands pipeline, announces massive pipeline expansion
Yesterday evening, Canadian pipeline company Enbridge kicked off one of the most sweeping expansions in its history, a $3.2 billion (Canadian) series of pipeline projects that would carry some of the…
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Activists demand Obama save the Arctic from Shell oil exploration
Activists from a broad coalition of environmental groups including Friends of the Earth, Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity, Ocean Conservancy and Alaska Wilderness League, converged yesterda…
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Enforceable environmental standards must be included in Trans Pacific trade agreement
Dateline Dallas: I arrived Tuesday, May 8, in this north Texas city for ten days of intense activity around a new regional trade pact called the Trans Pacific Partnership. During this week and a half…
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Sanders and Ellison champion elimination of fossil fuel subsidies.
Today Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act, legislation that goes further than any previous bill to unwind the web of gover…