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Groups to Obama: Keep it in the ground, cancel fossil fuel auction in Santa Fe
SANTA FE, NM— Local, regional and national organizations sent a letter to President Obama today calling on him to keep federal fossil fuels in the ground and cancel the Bureau of Land Management’s…
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Over 75 environmental and community groups call on U.S. Senate to reject energy bill over dangerous biomass provisions
The U.S. Senate is poised to vote today on the controversial Energy Policy and Modernization Act (S. 2012) which has environmentalists and local community organizations up in arms because of a sweethe…
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Worlds largest coal company declares bankruptcy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private sector coal company and biggest producer of coal in the U.S., today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Peabody’s debt burd…
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Strange bedfellows oppose new polluter subsidy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Scissors, a coalition of free market, taxpayer, and environmental groups, sent a letter to the Senate today opposing an extension and expansion of the tax credits for carbon…
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BP clinches Deepwater Horizon tax break
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in Louisiana finalized a $20 billion civil settlement between BP, the Justice Department, and the five states of the Gulf Coast. Despite protests from both Congres…
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100,000+ urge President to end fossil fuel leasing from public lands and waters
“Keep it in the Ground” petition meets goal, response from White House required WASHINGTON, D.C. – A petition calling for an end to fossil fuel leasing on public lands and waters has ga…
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Scientific American science panel may get lost in translation
Agrichemical companies and their allies are spending tens of millions of dollars a year on tobacco-style PR tactics to flood news outlets and social media platforms with misleading messages.
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Historic petition urges Obama to halt all new offshore fossil fuel leases
More than 45 organizations back historic legal petition that takes aim at ocean-drilling damage to climate, wildlife, communities WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 45 climate, conservation, indigenous a…
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Venter Institute designs new synthetic biology bacterial cell: Synthia 3.0
Biology is not a predictable engineering discipline; living organisms like bacteria are not machines to be rewired.
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Rally Tally: Hundreds surround the Superdome to demand no Gulf drilling
Gulf Coast residents and activists from around the country came together yesterday to stand strong against the Fossil Fuel Empires who submitted bids to drill on 43 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico…