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Trump to send new U.S.-Mexico trade deal to Congress
Donald Trump notified members of Congress today that he will send them the text of a new U.S.-Mexico agreement to approve or disapprove this year, potentially cutting Canada out of a new NAFTA agreeme…
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Press Advisory: Democracy in our Hands Tour to highlight independence in redistricting reform
In a three-stop tour of the state, Democracy North Carolina, Common Cause North Carolina, League of Women Voters of North Carolina and Friends of the Earth will discuss how to integrate values of pol…
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Trump Strikes Trade Deal with Mexico
Donald Trump claimed today that the United States and Mexico have reached a general agreement on the broad outlines of a new NAFTA deal.
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Senate Committee Approval of Trump’s Ex-Im Head Could Revive the Bank’s Destructive Past
The committee’s approval of Reed brings the Ex-Im Bank one step closer to pumping millions of tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere.
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Why the US and EU trade models are both bad for people and the planet
If the U.S. and the EU follow through with their commitments, the new trade relationship would mean more fracking in the U.S. and an attack on European standards for genetically modified organisms, c…
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Trump’s NAFTA renegotiation is a cynical ploy
Trump’s rhetoric and actions since taking office demonstrate that he is using NAFTA renegotiation to amplify his war on the planet and to expose the American people to dangerous pollution, unsafe pr…
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CalPERS Investment Policy a Victory for People and the Planet
Under the new policy, CalPERS will become the first large asset manager in the U.S., public or private, to formally recognize that deforestation and ecosystem degradation pose material investment risk…
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Don’t scrap environmentally responsible overseas investment with reckless Senate BUILD Act
It fails to transfer to the new institution OPIC’s existing environmental, social, climate, transparency, worker rights, human rights, indigenous peoples, gender, anti-corruption and accountability…
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NAFTA 2.0 Negotiations Nosedive Headed into the G-7 Summit
Trump’s bellicose behavior is sending his environmentally disastrous proposal into a nosedive. As is the typically case with a child, Trump lacks the impulse control to negotiate a new trade deal.
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Coalition Responds to Canadian Government Plan to Nationalize the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Project
Despite widespread opposition to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, which would bring in 890,000 barrels of crude oil per day across Canada and out through the international…