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#IllRideWithYou, Roots of Gun Massacres & Climate Changes Dual Reality
Abby Martin, discusses the hostage crisis in Sydney, Australia, and how a Twitter campaign fought the Islamophobia that emerged from it. The second anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre and the poten…
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Lima climate talks did nothing to stop the climate disaster: Its time for the people to lead the way
Friends of the Earth International responds to the UN climate talks LIMA, PERU – The UN climate talks are drawing to a close in Lima today with a text driven by the interests of rich developed coun…
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Climate talks: summit chief warns ‘we need to work’ as deadline passes as it happened
Updates and reaction from the UN climate summit in Peru, where nearly 200 countries are trying to agree the draft text for a deal to avoid dangerous global warming. Climate talks: summit chief warns &…
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Hiding in the CRomnibus: A shameful mix of coal, animal manure and dark money
WASHINGTON, D.C—After weeks of wrangling, Congress is struggling to pass an omnibus spending bill filled with numerous provisions that would roll-back crucial environmental safeguards. Such provisio…
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With trade deal, will Obama be Wall Streets errand boy?
Since the Republican takeover of the Senate, the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade treaty has been re-energized as a possible area of cooperation between the GOP and President Obama, who is seeking Fast…
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Cruise Ships Dump Billions Of Litres Of Sewage In The Ocean Every Year
Cruise ships are not the most environmentally friendly holiday destinations on the planet. In fact, according to the latest Cruise Ship Report Card by Friends of the Earth, they might be about the w…
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COP Blog: Don’t turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund
Originally posted 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 internat…
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Join Friends of the Earth on Twitter to #TellArnoldGoHome!
Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be at the United Nations Climate Summit, COP20, in Lima, Peru on December 10 as part of World Climate Limited, a consortium of businesses, financiers, philan…
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Rogers’ rider throws climate and communities under the bus
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth expressed outrage at a rider attached by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) to the FY 2015 Omnibus Appropriations bill , a provisio…
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EPA announces plans to restrict bee-killing pesticides
WASHINGTON, D.C. — During the December 8 meeting of state pesticide regulators in Arlington, VA, Marietta Echeverria, branch chief with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pestic…