Carcinogens banned in restaurants and bars are encouraged in tar sands
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Colombian peasants mobilize to block giant El Quimbo dam
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Protect food security, end biofuel subsidies and support
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Building the environmental movement today: A debate
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Video: Fred Magdoff on the global climate emergency
The co-author of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism makes the case for radical social and economic change as the only to stop the drive towards planetary destruction
EnergyEast tar sands pipeline faces growing opposition
TransCanada's massive pipeline scheme is being challenged from First Nations, provincial and municipal governments, environmental and grassroots groups, and even from other pipeline companies. Together, these forces can stop the latest plan to spread dirty tar sands oil across Canada and around the...