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Financing Reef Destruction?
A new study from an Australia NGO tells how Chinese financing will potentially devastate the Great Barrier Reef. Yes, you read that correctly. The Great Barrier Reef – home to endangered sea turtles…
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California cap-and-trade scheme could endanger rainforest peoples
“REDD looks like a forest protection program,” said Jeff Conant, international forests campaigner with Friends of the Earth U.S., “but it’s not. It’s a carbon offset scheme. It fails to ad…
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New Chinese guidelines are a step in the right direction, but dont go the distance
Earlier this year, China’s ministries of Commerce and Environmental Protection jointly issued new guidelines for the environmental practices of Chinese companies doing business abroad. The new guide…
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Fossil fuel export proposals explode around the world
With the reliance on coal declining in places like the U.S. and Australia, Big Coal has found another way to offload its dirty goods — by shipping it overseas. The global coal trade expanded by over…
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Free trade in frankenfish? Trans Atlantic free trade agreement could be a monster
“Frankenfish is a 2004 monster movie dealing with genetically engineered fish in the bayou.” -Wikipedia “European Union… measures governing the importation and use of GE (genetically en…
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Robin Hood comes to Congress
This morning, I joined Representatives Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) as well as the leaders of Health Gap, National Nurses United, National Peoples Action, Demos and Vocal to an…
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Robin Hood Tax legislation introduced, could generate billions of dollars to fight climate change
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friends of the Earth U.S. joined Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Capitol Hill today to support the introduction of the Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2013, which would est…
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Human genes belong to human beings
Today, I stood with women’s health activists, BRCA-positive women and activists and organizations from across the country in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to express Friends of the Earth’s suppo…
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How to Stretch a Penny (Ask Robin Hood)
Though a number of wealthy countries attending a State Department-convened climate finance ministerial meeting on mobilizing private money have been trying to escape their obligation to use public fun…
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President Obamas budget capitulation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Obama released his fiscal year 2014 Budget. For the first time the President’s Budget is calling for $1.2 trillion in cuts to the government, including bill…