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Getting climate finance right
Successful examples for the Green Climate Fund from around the world UN climate watchers are eager to see what projects and programs the Green Climate Fund finances out of the starting gate. The impli…
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Kayaktivists launch demonstration in front of White House
Citizens nationwide demand rapid end to Arctic Ocean drilling on “SHell NO” Day of Action WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kayaktivism will spread across the country as citizen activists in 13 states gather f…
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Bumblebees Decimated by Climate Change: Study
All bees — all pollinators, actually — are under stress these days, but bumblebees are especially affected by climate change, according to a new study. Other species are mitigating the effects of…
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Court upholds ban on contractor pay-to-play donations
Earlier this week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected a challenge to the 1974 ban on campaign contributions by federal contractors. Ruling on Wagner v. FEC, the 11-member court col…
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Worlds largest palm oil trader comes under scrutiny for land grab in Nigeria
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report scrutinizes leading global palm oil trader Wilmar International Ltd. (WLIL.SI) for abuses of human and environmental rights in a large-scale land acquisition in Cross…
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BP pays largest environmental fine for Gulf oil spill, but offshore drilling continues
WASHINGTON, D.C. – BP has agreed to pay a $18 billion (USD) in fines, to settle its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Spread out over 18 years, the record fine will…
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Getting Climate Finance Right
Successful Examples for the Green Climate Fund from around the World
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Obama administration moves shell closer to arctic drilling
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service authorized the nonlethal, incidental, and unintentional take of small numbers of polar bears and Pacific walrus that result from Shell’s explo…
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Big Food Is Trying to Dupe You Into Loving Industrial Agriculture
Moms campaigning to raise awareness of pesticide use in industrial agriculture are elitist control freaks; organic farming uses dangerous chemicals too. And those antibiotic-resistant superbugs you�…
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Food and chemical industry spends millions on PR to attack organic, defend GMOs
A new report from Friends of the Earth — Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food — documents unprecedented levels of spending fr…