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AquaBounty fined for repeated environmental violations on genetically engineered salmon
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Officials in Panama have ruled that AquaBounty Technologies’ has been operating in violation of environmental regulations as it experiments with genetically engineered salmo…
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Trans Pacific trade ministers declaration suggests no breakthrough
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal negotiations, held for three days behind closed doors in Sydney, Australia, have concluded with no indication of a breakthrough. A press state…
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Trans Pacific trade ministers declaration suggests no breakthrough
Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal negotiations, held for three days behind closed doors in Sydney, Australia, have concluded with no indication of a breakthrough. A press statement issued today by…
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Washington, D.C. gardeners tell Lowes: Dont be a little shop of horrors for bees, stop selling bee-killing pesticides
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This Wednesday, local gardeners and Friends of the Earth, Beyond Pesticides, Center for Food Safety, Organic Consumers Association and GMO Inside will swarm Lowe’s in New Carrol…
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Global South Brings United Front to Green Climate Fund
The United Nations’ key mechanism for funding climate change-related mitigation and adaptation in developing countries is now ready to receive funds, following a series of agreements between rich an…
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Obama administration delays critical action to protect bees until at least 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, at the 14th annual North American Pollinator Protection Campaign International Conference, the White House announced a several month delay in the release of its pollinato…
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Ex-Im Bank Inspector General Investigating Financing of 4,000 MW Coal Project in India
The Inspector General of the U.S. Export Import Bank is investigating the bank’s financing of a 4,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant that environmentalists say is associated with “catastrophi…
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The nations bee crisis
Tiffany Finck-Haynes of Friends of the Earth talks to Moose about the nations bee crisis. The nation’s bee crisis [@20:40] -CBS Radio, Jordana Green Show with Moose Miller 10/20/14
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The secret to lower emissions and higher revenue is a carbon tax
While the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Air Act 111(d) regulation did not explicitly allow a carbon price, it acknowledges the need to consider a carbon tax before the final rul…
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Are U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Supporting Coal Industry Human Rights Violations Overseas?
Today, a fact finding team of five non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pacific Environment — released a sca…