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EPA Study Underlines Need for Ban on Dangerous Fire Retardants

For Immediate Release For more information contact: Nick Berning, 202-222-0748 Russell Long, 415-302-4824 EPA Study Underlines Need for California Legislation to Ban Dangerous Fire Retardants SAN FRANCISCO -- Friends of the Earth restated its commitment to a proposed ban on a group of harmful fire retardants yesterday as scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency released a study confirming the risks they pose. Read More

Finance Committee Vote Signals Rough Sailing for Anti-Environmental CAFTA Statement of Margrete Strand, Senior Representative, Sierra Club and Sara Zdeb, Legislative Director, Friends of the Earth

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OPPONENTS OF ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE UNDERMINE G8 CLIMATE AGREEMENT

Nearly 300 Groups Reject Nuclear Energy as a Global Warming Solution Groups Urge Congress to Choose Clean Energy Path, Not Embrace Dangerous and Dirty Nuclear Power

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Communities Sue Chevron and Exxon to Stop Nigerian Gas Flaring

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Environmental Group Takes Reps. Pombo and Bass to Task for Siding with Tom DeLay on MTBE Pollution

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House Votes Overwhelmingly Against Financing Nuclear Energy in China

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Amtrak Funding Restored from $550 Million to $1.2 Billion US House of Representatives Throws its Weight Behind Passenger Rail, Preserves Freedom of Mobility

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BILL TO BAN SHIP DUMPING AND TRASH BURNING CLOSER TO BECOMING LAW SB 771 Simitian advancing in Assembly

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ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS “EXXPOSE” EXXON Landmark Campaign to Expose ExxonMobils Dangerous Environmental Policies