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Giving thanks to those born to give
From about as long as I can remember, Thanksgiving in my family has really been about food first and foremost. Of course, immediately followed by family. (If not for family, both real and adopted, who…
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The Next Climate Policy Fight Could Be All About Airplane Emissions
Environmental groups are pledging to intensify their push on the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft in the wake of a new report showing no improvement i…
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McDonalds, Beef Industry Slammed for Greenwashing
McDonald’s and the rest of the Global Roundtable on Sustainable Beef are “greenwashing” beef production with their principles and criteria for global sustainable beef, according to consumer, wor…
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New U.S. -China Carbon Targets Fall Short of Reductions Needed to Avert Climate Change Disaster
Interview with Karen Orenstein, senior international policy analyst with the environmental group Friends of the Earth, conducted by Scott Harris. Just one week after the Democratic Party suffered a st…
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Documents reveal AquaBountys irresponsible management prior to fines for environmental violations on GE salmon
Letter to FDA outlines how AquaBounty’s shifting plans for GE salmon production raise risk of accidental escape, contradict FDA’s pending regulatory review WASHINGTON, D.C. – Food & Water Wa…
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Leading NGOs slam greenwashing by meat industry, demand beefier sustainability standards
New Global Roundtable on Sustainable Beef principles are toothless WASHINGTON, D.C. – Key consumer, animal welfare, worker, public health and environmental groups representing millions of constituen…
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To stop the killings of environmental defenders, we need land reform and binding laws
Two months ago, in early September, four Asháninka indigenous forest defenders were brutally slain in a remote region along the border of Peru and Brazil. One of the activists, Edwin Chota (pictured…
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Obama’s $3bn for climate fund could kickstart action on global warming
Barack Obama’s handshake deal with China and $3bn pledge for climate finance could break down the wall between rich and poor countries that has blocked action on global warming for 20 years, observe…
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Obama, in latest climate move, to pledge $3 billion for global fund
President Barack Obama will announce a $3 billion U.S. contribution to an international fund to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change, an administration official said on Friday…
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US pledges $3bn to climate change fund for poor countries
US pledges $3bn to climate change fund for poor countries -Financial Times 11/14/2014