Oct. 13, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With President Obama’s backing, Congress yesterday passed trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that are based on the flawed model of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Read More »Sep. 16, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Washington D.C.—A World Trade Organization tribunal in Geneva, Switzerland ruled yesterday, September 15, that the U.S. labeling system intended to prevent dolphins from being killed by commercial fishing nets violates international law prot...
Read More »Sep. 8, 2011 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
As a result of this summer’s debt ceiling agreement discretionary spending will be slashed by $900 billion over the next ten years. A congressional super committee has been charged with reducing the deficit by an additional $1.5 trillion ove...
Read More »Sep. 6, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
CHICAGO, ILL. -- As representatives from the United States and eight other Pacific countries gathered behind closed doors in a Chicago hotel to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, environmental, public health, family farm, lab...
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