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Will a trade deal lead to more GMOs in your food?
Liberals fighting tooth and nail against White House efforts to finalize a sweeping global trade deal have found another hot-button issue to rally around—genetically modified foods. Rep. Peter DeFaz…
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Groups urge USDA to launch thorough investigation into scientist censorship
USDA scientists’ research about bee-killing pesticides compromised WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmentalists, beekeepers, farmworkers, farmers, fisheries, and food safety advocates sent a letter to the…
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Contributions to Green Climate Fund alarmingly low
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth International today demanded that developed nations provide the Green Climate Fund with the resources they pledged to it in 2014, warning that the contributio…
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US, Japan miss UN climate change fund deadline
A key U.N. climate fund hit a snag Thursday as major donors including the United States and Japan failed to meet a deadline for converting their pledges of climate aid into signed agreements. Green…
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200,000 Americans urge Michelle Obama to save bees from toxic pesticides
Virtual swarm buzzes White House garden tour WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the heels of the 2015 White House garden tour, more than fifty beekeepers, farmer workers and environmental and consumer organi…
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Dirty energy financed by the Green Climate Fund? Should we worry?
Many governments and financial institutions support the deployment of “less dirty” fossil fuels to fight climate change both domestically and internationally, and claim this is a sane, sensible ap…
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An Earth Day call to end polluter welfare
Here’s an Earth Day calculation: If we ever want to stop burning fossil fuels, we need to stop subsidizing the giant corporations doing the burning. That’s the gist of the End Polluter Wel…
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Hatch, Wyden introduce same old Fast Track model
Plan would close the hatch on democracy and widen income inequality WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), introduced a plan to grant expedited Executive authority…
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Civil society asks three critical questions of the World Bank at its 2015 spring meetings
OAKLAND, CA – As the World Bank prepares for its annual Spring Meetings, members of Our Land Our Business, a campaign of more than 260 NGOs, farmer groups and trade unions from around the world, ar…
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Banks cautioned to examine high risks in palm oil finance
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Credit Suisse, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities are acting for Golden Agri-Resources — one of the world’s largest palm oil companies and a…