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Cincinnati, OH A new billboard near the Cincinnati headquarters of Kroger (NYSE: KR) demands that the largest traditional grocery corporation in the U.S. stop using toxic pesticides linked to dramatic declines in populations of bees and other pollinators essential to food production. The billboard was placed by environmental organization Friends of the Earth as part of a larger campaign urging this and other top food retailers to help save pollinators by eliminating toxic pesticide use in their supply chains. The billboard, on the Fort Washington Way freeway, depicts a dead bumblebee and reads, “Kroger, say NO to toxic pesticides.” ....
Friends of the Earth’s Fossil Fuels Program Manager, Nicole Ghio, issued the following statement: Friends of the Earth is thrilled that Biden will nominate Rep. Deb Haaland for Interior Secretary. Haaland will be a champion of our public lands and waters, and the communities that rely on them. There is no one better to rebuild the Department of the Interior after the Trump Administration’s efforts to turn our shared wild places over to extractive industries. Haaland will be the first Native person to lead the DOI, despite the Department’s trustee obligations to Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Nations, Native Hawaiians and Alaska Natives. Haaland’s nomination is historic and long overdue. ....
FOE Statement on the appointment of Michael Regan to head the EPA FOE Statement on the appointment of Michael Regan to head the EPA December 17, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C.- In response to reports that President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Michael Regan to be the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Friends of the Earth’s Senior Fossil Fuels Campaigner and a recognized leader in the environmental justice movement nationwide, Donna Chavis, issued the following statement: While we are disappointed that Secretary Regan will likely be nominated as EPA Administrator by President-elect Biden, we are prepared to work with the Agency and the Biden Administration on policies that support a healthy and just world. Because the environmental and climate challenges that we face are immense and escalating, the EPA has to do more than simply regain lost ground; the agency has to forge a whole new path. This moment requires strong, visionary leadersh ....