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GMO labeling: Our right to know what’s in our food
GMO labeling: Our right to know what’s in our food

What are GMOs, and how do they affect consumers, farmers and the environment?

Clean Elections, Clean Planet
Clean Elections, Clean Planet

From climate change to clean water, from healthy forests to safer food, progress on our most important environmental priorities is being crippled by the outsized role of money in politics.

“Bee-friendly” plants could be poisoning your garden
“Bee-friendly” plants could be poisoning your garden

From nuts and soybeans, to squash and cucumbers, from apples, oranges, cherries and blueberries, to avocados, peaches and melons, bees play a critical role in producing the food we eat.

Coming to a grocery store near you: The Campaign for GE-Free Seafood
Coming to a grocery store near you: The Campaign for GE-Free Seafood

Friends of the Earth Action is excited to announce our new campaign to prevent genetically engineered fish from hitting our dinner plates: the Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood.

Poll: Americans support a carbon tax 4-to-1
Poll: Americans support a carbon tax 4-to-1

We can refuse to act and let the planet itself continue to levy its own version of the carbon tax – one that costs taxpayers more and more each year and devastates lives and livelihoods in the process.

A greener direction for the State Department?
A greener direction for the State Department?

Senator Kerry has spent many years calling for more ambitious and decisive action to combat climate change, and as secretary of state he will have the chance to turn those words into reality.

President Obama’s re-election carries climate mandate
President Obama’s re-election carries climate mandate

Congratulations to President Obama on his re-election and thanks for his acknowledgement in his acceptance speech of the ‘destructive power of a warming planet.’

The last debate: Will there be an end to climate silence?
The last debate: Will there be an end to climate silence?

How President Obama and Governor Romney respond to these questions will speak volumes to their understanding of the greatest challenges to U.S. domestic and foreign policy-- climate change.

Media outlets hear the climate silence in debates
Media outlets hear the climate silence in debates

After Tuesday night's second round of presidential climate silence, the national media started to take notice. Below is a sample of articles noting and criticizing the essential issue that was left conspicuously missing in the debates.

Second presidential debate marks more backtracking on energy, same silence on climate change
Second presidential debate marks more backtracking on energy, same silence on climate change

A trend of climate silence and fossil fuel devotion has emerged over the past months in both campaigns, despite pushes from environmental groups and the media.