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Washington State’s Clean Fuel Standard Doubles Down on Factory Farm Pollution
Washington State’s Dept of Ecology issued a rule to implement its CFS that doubles down on policies that reward factory farms.
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Roasting the Planet: Big Meat and Dairy’s Big Emissions
Roasting the Planet, a new report co-authored by Foodrise, Friends of the Earth U.S., Greenpeace Nordic, and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, reveals the colossal, yet often overlooked, cli…
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Emissions from Major Global Meat and Dairy Companies Rival Those of Saudi Arabia
The world’s major meat and dairy companies are generating combined greenhouse gas emissions on par with some of the biggest fossil fuel producers.
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A Pledge to Uphold the Human Right to Food on World Food Day 2025
The forest program at Friends of the Earth U.S. has for years focused on the primary drivers of tropical deforestation – palm oil, soy, cattle, and other agrocommodities.
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Public Development Bank Investigation slams Giant Meat Company for decades of pollution and rights violations in Indigenous communities in Ecuador
We hope that this scathing report is the beginning of the end of public financing of industrial animal agriculture projects that pollute, fuel the climate crisis, and trample on community rights.
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Expanding Healthy, Organic, and Whole-Foods Menu Options in Federal Food Service
Friends of the Earth U.S. can provide no-cost support and technical assistance to a select number of federal food service operations – including to vendors that operate in federal facilities – tha…
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MAHA Commission Report Puts Agrochemical Industry Profits Over Children’s Health
The report released by Trump’s MAHA Commission today is a slap in the face to the millions of Americans, from health-conscious moms to environmental advocates to farmers, who have been calling for m…
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EPA’s Retreat from Slaughterhouse Pollution Rule Exposes “Make America Healthy Again” Hypocrisy
EPA’s decision to walk away from updating slaughterhouse pollution standards is a direct contradiction to Make America Healthy Again.
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Maryland must curb Eastern Shore factory farm pollution
Across the Eastern Shore, large-scale industrial poultry operations collectively raise nearly 300 million chickens a year. Their manure — more than 500 million pounds annually — doesn’t just…
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Friends of the Earth Slams MAHA Commission Report for Putting AgroChemical Profits Over Children’s Health
Trump’s MAHA Commission draft strategy is a gift to the agrochemical industry and a slap in the face to the health of the American people and the MAHA voters that helped elect him.