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The TTIP would require US states to pay foreign companies in order to regulate toxic chemicals such as Bisphenol A.
TTIP stands for "This Treaty Is Plutocratic". Its other name, TAFTA, stands for "Turn All Freedom To Ashes".
US citizens: tell Congress to stop giveaways to Wall Street.
Global heating is disrupting butterflies, so that caterpillars mature in the autumn and can't survive the winter as adults.
The UK gave 1.5 billion dollars in subsidy to all sorts of power plants just for existing and doing what they were going to do anyway.
The subsidy was supposed to be an incentive to bring new generating capacity on line, but it did none of that.
Since a large fraction of this generating capacity uses fossil fuel, that fraction of the subsidy is subsidy for continuing to use fossil fuel (rather than building renewable capacity).