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Friends of the Earth: The U.S. Cuts an Ugly Deal on Trans Pacific Trade Agreement

Ironically results in “a big win for people and the planet”

WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2015. Today in Atlanta, Georgia the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries reached agreement on the Trans Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal that, if adopted, would stymie environmental regulation and ramp up U.S. exports of climate-destroying fossil fuels.

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The TPP deal was cut behind closed doors by Mike Froman, the U.S. Trade Representative and former Citi bank…

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