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Revealed: Food Industry Giants Try to Muscle Pro-GMO Federal Law Through Congress
The Grocery Manufacturers Association representing food and beverage leaders like ConAgra, PepsiCo and Kraft is pushing a federal law with non-mandatory labeling standards in an effort to kill GMO labeling initiatives across the country.
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Thousands of New Yorkers Rally Against Fracking at Gov. Cuomo’s State of State Address
Protesters representing more than 100 organizations highlighted the environmental and health dangers fracking would pose to the state, calling for a ban as the only way to protect New York’s water and the health of residents.
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Exposed: Shale Oil in North Dakota Train Explosion Had High Levels of Volatile Chemicals
Oil obtained via fracking in the Bakken Shale may be more chemically explosive than the agency or industry previously admitted publicly.
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London and Chinese Mining Companies Threaten to Tap Arctic's Greenland Minerals
Though there is currently no mining in pristine Greenland, but a new multinational project has received approval and could result in 3,000 construction workers moving into the country of 57,000 to build a port and pipeline for the mine.
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Judge: Exxon Faces Criminal Charges For 50,000 Gallon Frack Waste Spill
A recent ruling in Pennsylvania means the eight charges against Exxon subsidiary XTO Energy – including violations of both Pennsylvania's Clean Streams Law and the Solid Waste Management Act – could be felony offenses.
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General Mills Bans GMOs in Cheerios, Setting New Bar for Cereal Production
Across America the news was greeted with measured optimism as food activists praised the company's decision, saying it would help end the still-popular belief that GMOs are a viable, sustainable future solution for food production.
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Invading the Vaca Muerta: A Brief Summary of Recent Events
The Vaca Muerta Petroleum System in the western Argentina province of Neuquén is a large shale rock formation with major gas and oil resources.
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Researchers Find 7,300-Mile Ring of Mercury Around Alberta Tar Sands in Canada
Government scientists are preparing to publish a report that finds levels of mercury up to 16 times higher around the tar sand operations, principally due to oil and gas companies' excavation and transportation of bitumen in the sands.
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What Pine Beetles' Destruction of Wyoming Forests Signals for Our Climate Future
The relationship between pine beetles and the woodlands they occupy has historically been one of elegant symbiosis. Now the beetles are wreaking havoc — and as long as temperatures keep rising, so will their populations in the West.
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Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: Final Appeal to Supreme Court to Protect Crops from GMOs
Jim Gerritsen, an organic seed farmer on Wood Prairie Farm in Maine and president of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association suing Monsanto, has spent the past 37 years protecting and maintaining the integrity of his seed stock.
