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Senators, don’t put Ex-Im Bank’s fossil fuel financing back in business
After providing almost $6 billion annually to fossil fuels from 2013 to 2015, the U.S. export credit agency – the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) – has been unable to finance large fossil fuel p…
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Senate Holds Hearing on Trump’s Ex-Im Bank Nominees
The Export Import Bank needs leaders who will improve transparency and accountability while ending the bank’s financing of harmful projects, including all fossil fuels.
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Smoke and Mirrors: Debunking the Doctored Numbers on Long Phu-1 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Vietnam Electricity (EVN) has proposed a 4,400 MW coal-fired power plant complex in the Long Phu District of Soc Trang province, Vietnam.
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Statement on Zinke’s Extreme Price Hike at our National Parks
Secretary Zinke has given our public lands to oil companies, slashed budgets, and attacked the regulations that ensure taxpayers receive a fair price for their natural resources.
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G20 countries need to stop using export credit agencies to finance fossil fuel projects
Originally posted on Devex. by Kate DeAngelis, international policy analyst While some world leaders, such as South Korean President Moon Jae-in and French President Emmanuel Macron, ha…
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Countries reject plans for the expansion of aviation biofuels
Instead of driving greater demand, Governments must take urgent measures to reduce the climate impact of aviation by stemming and ultimately reversing its growth.
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U.S. export credit agency spends nearly $6 billion to finance fossil fuel projects abroad
While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad.
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Fourth Round of NAFTA Negotiations Threatens Family Farmers and Environment
Donald Trump’s effort to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement will put sustainable family farms at risk if it incorporates agricultural and regulatory provisions of the failed Trans…
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7 ways Trump’s NAFTA threatens our health, family farmers, animal welfare and the environment
Donald Trump’s plan to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement is a threat to efforts to create a sustainable, healthy, equitable and humane food system for all. For decades, global corp…