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New diet guidelines might affect environmental cost
For years, the government has been issuing guidelines about healthy eating choices. Now, a panel that advises the Agriculture Department is ready to recommend that you be told not only what foods are…
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25 Years After Exxon Valdez, U.S. Mandates Double-Hull Oil Tankers
Oil tankers bring about 15 million gallons of oil every day into Washington state. Starting January 1, those ships are required to have double hulls to reduce the risk of an oil spill. The change has…
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Trade deal must not undercut Wall Street reforms
Ambassador Michael Froman is the current U.S. Trade Representative and a former Citigroup executive and bundler of Wall Street and other contributions to the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. On Decem…
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Environmental Finance, COP Blog: Don’t turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund
Posted 10 December, 2014 on Environmental Finance Last week, the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, kicked off amid controversy with news that Japan had counted loans for coal projects in Indonesia as i…
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Changing the climate at the COP
This year’s annual UN climate summit, known as the Conference of Parties or COP, has drawn to a close in Lima, Peru. In a disgraceful outcome predictable enough to be called a pattern, the COP once…
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Responses to Climate Change 2 Hour Special
In the Second Hour – We focus on national, sub-national, state, local communities, individual responses to climate change Jeff Conant – directs Friends of the Earth’s international fores…
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Middle East Peace, Iran Deal on Kerry’s Wish List
This holiday season, Secretary of State John Kerry is probably looking for some things that can’t fit down a chimney or under a tree. Here’s a look at a few items that are likely on his wish lis…
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Palm Oil supplier Bumitama cuts ties with illegal plantation following Friends of the Earth pressure
International finance regulator accepts Friends of the Earth complaint against Dutch financier Rabobank WASHINGTON, D.C – The ongoing campaign for responsible finance in the palm oil sector won anot…
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Why Supporting ‘Black Lives Matter’ Could Mean A New Chapter For Environmentalism
The Sierra Club has had its share of environmental successes over the years. It preventedthe damming of the Grand Canyon in the 1960s. It ran successful efforts to expand Sequoia National Park in 192…
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REDD and the green economy continue to undermine rights
Note: This post was previously published by InterPress Service. Dercy Teles de Carvalho Cunha is a rubber-tapper and union organiser from the state of Acre in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, with…