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Travel ban for Gustavo Castro Soto lifted
WASHINGTON D.C.- Today, the First Courthouse of Letters of Intibucá, Honduras, acting on instructions from the judge Victorina Flores Orellana, decided to lift the measure prohibiting Gustavo Castro…
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Activists protest Japans controversial coal financing during Prime Minister Abe’s visit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Japanese Prime Minister Shinz? Abe visits the U.S. this week, activists rallied outside the Japanese Embassy earlier this afternoon to highlight the growing concern and interna…
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Comments to OPIC on Natural Gas and Methane in the ESPS
Friends of the Earth is greatly concerned about OPIC’s support of natural gas and aims to dispel the myth that it is a clean energy and a bridge fuel. Friends of the Earth recommends that OPIC take…
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Comments to OPIC on a Mine Expansion in Guinea
Friends of the Earth U.S. writes to provide comments on OPIC’s potential support for the proposed expansion of an existing Bauxite mine in Sangaredi, Guinea. We have reviewed the project Environment…
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Lawsuit challenges FDAs approval of genetically engineered salmon
Coalition of fishing, consumer, and environmental groups say first-ever approval of laboratory-created food animal violated laws and ignored risks to wild salmon and fishing communities SAN FRANCISCO…
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Join our Stop Batang Coal week of action: March 31April 5
Take action from your computer, phone or tablet! We may only have days to stop the financing for a dangerous, proposed coal project in Indonesia already plagued by human rights violations. Our Japanes…
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THURSDAY: Environmental groups to protest Japanese and JBIC coal financing and controversial Batang coal-fired power plant
Japanese Prime Minister Abe set to visit Washington, D.C. later this week WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the eve of the April 6 deadline to secure financing for the controversial Batang coal-fired power pla…
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Historic petition urges Obama to halt all new offshore fossil fuel leases
More than 45 organizations back historic legal petition that takes aim at ocean-drilling damage to climate, wildlife, communities WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 45 climate, conservation, indigenous a…
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Thousands in Bangladesh march across 155 miles against threatening coal projects
Thousands of Bangladeshis participated in a “Long March” from the capital city of Dhaka to the Sundarbans forest March 10 to March 13 to protest the construction of various coal projects proposed…
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Pacific trade deal = climate disruption
The Obama administration and the fossil fuel industry are pushing Congress to approve a Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement with Japan and 10 other Asia-Pacific countries that would ramp up glob…