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  • Regenerative Food Labels: What’s Behind the Claim? 

    To help consumers navigate this crowded landscape, we evaluated how ten labeling programs stack up in terms of phasing out harmful pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, building soil health, verifying…

  • Google’s Eco-failures

    This investigation succeeds Google’s 2025 environment report, which the company has used since 2016 to mislead activists, lawmakers, and the public about its true environmental toll.

  • Generating A(I) Crisis

    The report demonstrates how the world’s largest tech companies, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia, are abandoning their emissions targets in order to expand artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learn…

  • Unsustainable Investment II

    This report examines how IFC-financed industrial livestock projects contribute to biodiversity loss, pollution, and overuse of water and energy resources—despite IFC’s own environmental safeguards…

  • Agroecology and Public Development Banks

    This scoping study explores how public development banks (PDBs) shape global food systems and how they could instead support agroecology and more just, resilient food futures.

  • Put the Public in the Driver’s Seat: US Senate AI Policy Roadmap

    The report that follows organizes the evidence supporting legislative action to regulate AI into eleven categories and provides links to 206 resources which form part of a much larger mountain of evid…

  • Toxic Finance

    Banks and investors continue to fund petrochemicals, plastics, fertilizers, and pesticides without policies to address their impact.

  • Charting the Course to a Quiet Ocean

    Underwater noise levels are rising — yet the shipping sector’s contributions remain under-prioritized by IMO.

  • The AI Climate Hoax: Behind the Curtain of How Big Tech Greenwashes Impacts

    The tech companies driving AI expansion try to downplay AI’s proven climate impacts by claiming that AI will eventually help solve climate change.

  • 2025 Bee-Friendly Retailer Scorecard

    To spur a race to the top, Friends of the Earth created a retailer scorecard to benchmark 25 of the largest U.S. grocery stores on pesticides.