Environmental Groups Deliver More Than 500,000 Anti-TPP Petitions To Congress

Environmental groups this week delivered more than 500,000 petitions to Congress demanding the rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club and Water Watch were among the groups' leaders in the effort, which holds that TPP “promises to ramp up fossil fuel exports, accelerate climate change and encourage deregulation of environmental safeguards across the board,” according to a press release from Friends of the Earth, U.S. “Among other anti-environment provisions,” it states, “the Trans Pacific Partnership would...