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Victory! Obama administration cancels oil and gas auction near Chaco Canyon
Those fighting to protect New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon from dangerous oil and gas development just won a major victory. Yesterday, the Obama administration announced the cancellation of an oil and gas…
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139-square-mile fracking plan in Wyoming prompts legal protest
Groups call on BLM to cancel massive fossil fuel development that threatens climate, water, Greater Sage Grouse JACKSON, Wyo.— Conservation groups filed a formal administrative protest on Thursday c…
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Dirt, Democracy and Organic Farming: A recipe for feeding the world
Feeding the world is not about increasing how many bushels of grain we can grow, it’s about dirt, democracy, and our diets.
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More than 450 environmental, landowner, Indigenous rights and allied organizations to Congress: pending trade deals threaten efforts to keep fossil fuels in the ground, oppose Trans Pacific Partnership
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, in the largest display of opposition to the environmental impacts of two pending trade deals, more than 450 groups called on members of Congress to commit to vote against…
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Strange bedfellows push Moniz to drop CCS plant ahead of key deadline
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Scissors — a coalition of free-market, taxpayer and environmental groups — today sent a letter to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz calling on the U.S. Department o…
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Legal action to shut down Indian Point
Emergency legal filing to the NRC demands reactor 2 not restart, immediate shut down of reactor 3 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The disappearance and disintegration of more than 1 in 4 critical bolts holdi…
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Potentially hazardous nanoparticles found in powdered baby formula
It’s of real concern that these tiny particles are used in hundreds of consumer products, and now in infant formula, with minimal to no oversight. Companies and regulators must take extra care with…
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Rally Tally: 1,200+ people march in D.C. to break free from fossil fuels
On Sunday, May 15, more than 1,200 people rallied in front of the White House and marched to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to call on the Obama administration to stop offshore drilling. The ral…
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1000+ rally against offshore drilling
Representatives from coastal communities in the Arctic, Atlantic and Gulf gather in Washington to call on President Obama to end offshore drilling WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today more than 1,000 people gat…
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Left-right coalition pushes Moniz on carbon capture giveaway
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Texas Clean Energy Project, a long-troubled carbon capture and sequestration facility planned for Penwell, Texas, faces the expiration of its cooperative agreement with…