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Securing a House Vote against the pesticide industry

The House of Representatives rejected an effort in the Farm Bill to shield pesticide manufacturers from legal accountability.

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Tell USDA to stop supporting factory farming

Factory farming is one of the worst perpetrators of animal cruelty, air and water pollution and public health harm.

Stop the cruise industry from destroying the Arctic

Cruise companies don’t care about the delicate balance of some of the world’s most sensitive ecosystems. They care about their profits.

Tell Lowe’s and Home Depot: Stop selling bee-killing Roundup

A recent EPA assessment found that this pesticide is likely to harm or kill 94% of endangered plants and animals.

Tell EPA to address the plastic crisis now

Corporations are raking in massive profits while people, animals, and the planet suffer the devastating consequences of plastic pollution.

Save our public lands from oil and gas drilling!

Nearly 25% of US emissions come from fossil fuel extraction on public lands — we can’t afford to let Big Oil continue to drill & mine.

Protect the Arctic from being destroyed by Trump

Tell the EPA we need immediate federal solutions to regulate rampant cruise pollution before Trump and his cronies take office.

New Report: Maryland’s $15M Animal Waste Fund Fails to Deliver

Maryland is subsidizing private waste-technology ventures in communities that are already carrying an unfair share of the state’s pollution burden and do not want these projects in their backyards.

New Data Shows US is Worst International Public Financier of Fossil Fuels in the G20 in 2025 

The new factsheet, Tipping the Scales, shows the U.S. in 2025 ramped up their international fossil fuel finance, particularly through its export credit agency, U.S. Export-Import Bank (US EXIM).

NYC Schools Soy Milk Pilot Expands Student Choice While Cutting Climate Emissions

A first-of-its-kind pilot offering soy milk on the lunch line found strong student demand and cut average daily milk-related greenhouse gas emissions by 17.4%.

Who Controls the Global Food System? New Report Maps the Corporations and Financiers Behind It

Food, Land & Money: The Case for Ending the Agribusiness Financial Complex and Funding the Peoples’ Food Web, identifies the 100 largest companies by revenue across global food and agriculture.

New AI Report Reveals NVIDIA’s Greenwashing Tactics and Hidden Emissions

NVIDIA has been using greenwashing tricks to misleadingly mask its staggering emissions impacts, finds a new analysis. 

New Report Finds Industrially Produced Meat and Cheese Dominate America’s School Lunch Entrées, Raising Concerns for Children’s Health  

A new report by Friends of the Earth and Chef Ann Foundation finds school lunch entrées are dominated by processed, meat- and cheese-laden foods sourced from large-scale industrial supply chains.

The High Cost of Manure: Why Maryland Should Ends Its Animal Waste Technology Fund

Maryland has committed more than $15 million in taxpayer dollars to technologies intended to address pollution from factory farm manure.

Tipping the Scales: G20 & MDB Clean Energy Finance Overtakes Fossil Fuel Finance

Between 2023 and 2025, for the first time, the three-year average for clean energy finance provided by G20 international public finance institutions and the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) excee…

Exporting Climate Chaos: How Much Are G20 ECAs Financing Fossil Fuels?

ECAs provided an annual average of $26 billion for oil and gas – over 99% of ECA support for fossil fuels.

Hiding in Plain Light: Marine Light Pollution, the Maritime Industry & the Case for IMO Action

Marine light pollution disrupts biological rhythms, navigation, and reproductive cycles among numerous species, thereby contributing to biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation.

Food, Land, and Money

Food, Land & Money makes the case that the dominant industrial food system is not “broken,” but rather, is doing exactly what it is designed to do: feed the concentration of wealth by massive corp…

NVIDIA’s AI Climate Hoax

The is an analysis of greenwashing-style statements commonly used by NVIDIA, one of the world’s biggest beneficiary of the AI boom.