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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…
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Cruise ships dump 1 billion gallons of sewage into the ocean every year
Some 20 million people board cruise ships every year. And while they might return to land with fond memories of umbrella drinks and shuffleboard, they leave a lot at sea. About a billion gallons (3…
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Dracula trade deal underway in D.C. this week
TPP will sabotage environmental protections without ever seeing daylight WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the United States is hosting trade negotiations in Washington D.C. on the Trans-Pacific Partner…
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New report on human rights violations linked to REDD in Acre, Brazil
“Given the serious concerns that have been raised in this report, and by indigenous and peasant organizations in Acre, California should abandon its efforts to source international forest offsets,�…
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Anglo American’s negative influence on climate policies exposed
LIMA, PERU – Multinational corporations such as Anglo American undermine crucial climate policies and promote false solutions, which allow them to profit from the climate crisis, according to a new…
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Secret Trans Pacific Partnership trade talks threaten the environment
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Sunday, December 7 in Washington, D.C., the United States and other Pacific Rim countries open a week-long negotiating round for the Trans Pacific Partnership, a sweeping tr…
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Friends of the Earth downgrades cruise industry
Friends of the Earth has downgraded the cruise industry on environmental stewardship for what it says is a lack of transparency. In the group’s annual environmental report card for 2014, Disney…
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Environmental group gives cruise lines failing grade for transparency
Friends of the Earth issued an annual environmental scorecard for the cruise industry, giving all cruise lines an F for transparency for what it says was a refusal to cooperate with data gathering…