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Congressional briefing on pesticides toxic to bees, birds, and other wildlife
Advocates will document the devastating impacts of pollinator population decline.
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Food safety and environmental organizations call on EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides
A coalition of food safety and environmental groups will deliver hundreds of thousands of public comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, urging the agency to ban neonicotinoid…
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Trump nominates anti-science climate denier to lead USDA Science, violating 2008 Farm Bill
Trump’s nomination of Clovis violates the 2008 Farm Bill, which states that the nominee “shall be appointed by the P…
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What Kroger Can Do To Protect People, Pollinators and the Planet
Beekeepers, farmworkers, and concerned Cincinnati residents gathered outside of Kroger’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, June 22, to urge Kroger to stop selling food grown with bee-killing p…
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Trump tax agenda threatens the planet
As the House Leadership unveils its FY2018 Budget Resolution, including instructions to push ahead with tax reform and to raise revenue from drilling, a new analysis from Friends of the Earth hig…
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Report Calls for Abandoning Bungled Nuclear Project in South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. – An in-depth economic analysis released today documents that a problem-plagued nuclear reactor construction project in South Carolina must be abandoned. The report concludes that mon…
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Friends of the Earth and Sierra Club Conference Call: Failed Economics of South Carolinas Nuclear Reactor Construction
Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club on Tuesday, July 18 will release an in-depth analysis in advance of a hearing before the South Carolina Public Service Commission on the troubled nuclear react…
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Senators carbon capture tax credits are a false solution to climate crisis
Today’s push for ineffective and expensive carbon capture and sequestration is another taxpayer subsidy for wealthy energy executives. Even worse, this legislation enables the ignorant and dangerous…
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Schools Cut Meat and Cheese, Serve up Big Wins for Kids and Climate
A new groundbreaking study by Friends of the Earth in conjunction with the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), shows that schools can make lunches healthier and more climate-friendly while savin…
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A Shopper’s Guide to Synthetic Biology
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have been in our food for 20 years, but they have recently been changing. Corporations are now tampering with nature in new and riskier ways.