Protestors showed up to the National Petroleum Council’s meeting in Washington, DC on Monday to call out Secs. Rick Perry and Ryan Zinke for their controversial stances on climate change. After an activist expressed, “climate change is killing people,” the Secretary of Energy remarked in the conference room full of oil industry representatives and executives […]
By Stacy Malkan Ever since they classified the world’s most widely used herbicide as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” a team of international scientists at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research group have been under withering attack by the agrichemical industry and its surrogates. In a front-page series, The Monsanto Papers, the French newspaper Le […]
By Andy Rowell For years, environmentalists have warned that due to climate change, there will be billions of barrels of oil that we will never be able to burn. These reserves will become what has increasingly been called “stranded assets.” To give you one example: In a new report, Friends of the Earth argued that […]
By Martha Rosenberg Recently, Organic Consumers Association, along with Friends of the Earth and Center for Food Safety filed suit against chicken giant Sanderson Farms for falsely marketing its products as “100% Natural” even though they contain many unnatural and even prohibited substances. Specifically, Sanderson chicken products tested positive for the antibiotic chloramphenical, banned in […]
Climate action will be a major topic of discussion at the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg, with some world leaders planning to confront President Donald Trump about his withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement. However, a group of environmental organizations proclaim all this “talk is cheap.” That’s because G20 countries are pouring nearly four times […]
By Alex Doukas The best available science shows an urgent need to keep global temperature increases below 1.5°C to avoid severe disruptions to people and ecosystems. Recent analysis shows that burning the reserves in already operating oil and gas fields alone, even if coal mining is completely phased out, would take the world beyond 1.5°C […]
Ireland is set to ban onshore fracking after its Senate passed legislation on Wednesday that outlawed the controversial drilling technique. The Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016 now awaits Irish President Michael D. Higgins’ signature. The president is expected to sign it into law “in the coming days.” The […]
By Andy Rowell There is a growing feeling within European capitals that a quiet, but deeply positive, revolution is happening under Emmanuel Macron in France. Macron’s opinion poll rating is high, especially boosted in how the young French president has reacted to Donald Trump on the international stage. On Friday, there was further evidence of […]
By Kari Hamerschlag Many health conscious consumers are reducing their consumption of red meat in favor of chicken—especially products labeled and promoted as “100% natural”—believing they are a healthier option produced without routine antibiotics, artificial substances or other drugs. Don’t be fooled. A lawsuit filed today by the Organic Consumers Association, Friends of the Earth […]
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