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Study supports Keep It in the Ground call to President Obama
Our public lands and water are “over-leased” according a new study from EcoShift Consulting, for the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth. The study – Over-Leased: How Produc…
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Can Organic Farming Feed the World?
Compared with industrial agriculture, organic farming is less energy intensive, helps pollinators and other beneficial insects flourish and promotes biodiversity.
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Analysis: Leased fossil fuels on public lands, oceans will be producing decades beyond Paris climate targets
Study supports the calls on President Obama to ‘Keep It in the Ground’ WASHINGTON — A new analysis finds that coal, oil and gas already under lease on public lands and oceans in the Unit…
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Activists appeal to Gov. Inslee to seek federal opposition to Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion
Friends of the Earth sent a letter to Governor Jay Inslee today from eight environmental organizations and accompanied by more than 35,000 supporting letters, urging him to inform Canadian officials o…
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Ryan tax plan a coup for corporations, the super-rich
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) unveiled a broad plan for tax reform this morning. The blueprint includes a call for slashing the tax on capital gains, repealing the estate tax, loweri…
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Diablo Canyon nuclear plant to be shut down, power replaced by renewables, efficiency, storage
California, world’s sixth largest economy, going nuclear-free BERKELEY, CALIF. – An historic agreement has been reached between Pacific Gas and Electric, Friends of the Earth, and other enviro…
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Strange bedfellows urge Hatch, Wyden to reject CCS subsidies
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Green Scissors, a coalition of free market, taxpayer, and environmental groups, sent a letter to Finance Committee Chairman Orin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore…
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1.4 million call on the Obama administration to end offshore drilling
Today, representatives from Friends of the Earth, Environment America, Environmental Action, Natural Resources Defense Council, Oceana, Sierra Club, Surfrider and the World Wildlife Fund delivered 1.4…
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Frontline communities to Obama: no new offshore drilling
Over one million comments delivered against offshore drilling over a 90-day period to the Obama Administration WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today marks the closing of the 90-day comment period for the Bureau…