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Carbon Capture SCAM
Supporters of carbon capture for oil extraction claim that oil produced with CO2 injection is going to get produced somewhere else anyway, and therefore would actually be ‘green’ oil because it keeps CO2 from…
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Carting Away the Oceans 2015
Our Carting Away the Oceans report, released annually since 2008, identifies which major grocery chains are leaders in sustainable seafood and which are falling behind. The findings are telling. In…
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Case studies: The impacts of extracting and burning natural gas
Numerous studies have shown that the processes of extracting and burning natural gas, including fracking, have grave environmental impacts. Here are a few of them.
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Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
In the face of the continuing disaster, even Japanese Prime Minister Abe appears to be revising his position of 2013 that the situation at Fukushima is under control. The INES 7…
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Fukushima Impact
The catastrophic nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which began on 11 March 2011, not only crippled four of the reactors at the site, but also vividly…
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Smart Breeding
Genetically engineered crops are very limited in sophistication, being almost completely dominated by herbicide tolerance and insect resistance traits. Could the numerous tools of biotechnology deliver better outcomes? This report tries to answer that question. Genetic engineering has an inability to deal with complex (multi-genetic) traits (often the ones most useful, such as increased yield)…
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Kingpins of Carbon
Their strategy has aimed to (1) shrink, disable and paralyze progressive government and (2) manipulate the remaining levers of government power by (a) eliminating all restrictions on private money in…
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Leasing Coal, Fueling Climate Change
Download the PDF of “Leasing Coal, Fueling Climate Change” This question is especially important in light of a recent federal court ruling, which blocked plans to expand a coal mine…
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Licence to Launder
The oil palm plantation being developed by Herakles Farms in the southwest region of Cameroon – an area of great biodiversity surrounded by five protected areas – illustrates what happens when irresponsible companies are not held accountable to local laws and processes. The companies activities pose a serious threat to forested areas and the communities…
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Carting Away the Oceans 2014
Despite progress made by the retail sector overall, overfishing, destructive fishing, and illegal fishing are still major problems for ocean conservation and the economies of developing countries. Populations of the…