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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica had the following response to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s announcement today that the Department of the Interior will offer a second round of oil shale research, development and demonstration leases:
On Thursday, October 8, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed the nomination of controversial nominee Joseph Pizarchik to be the head of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement by a voice vote. Senator's Bernard Sanders (I-VT) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) were not at the vote, but they both submitted requests that they be recorded as no votes on the nominee. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) also submitted a statement voicing his concern with the nomination.
When the House of Representatives started working on a clean energy bill last winter, we were optimistic. After all, our country had just come off an election in which a large majority voted for bold change and the candidate who most strongly supported clean energy. Congressional leaders were promising to pass a bill to keep the climate stable, provide us with a secure energy future, and create millions of new jobs that could revitalize our economy.
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Contact: Nick Berning, 202-222-0748 Ben Schreiber, 202-222-0752
Washington, D.C. -- The nomination of Joseph Pizarchik to the head the federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement advanced out of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee today by voice vote.
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) ill-conceived plan for a nuclear park at a key site in the DOE complex has hit a wall after a persistent challenge by Friends of the Earth. Although never developed as a departmental policy, the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management began its own secretive initiative and quietly negotiated with contractors to pursue a subsidized “energy park” at the sprawling Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina.
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Ben Schreiber, 202-222-0752, bschreiber@foe.org
Elizabeth Bast, 202-641-7203, ebast@foe.org
Washington, D.C.— Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica had the following statement in response to the Kerry-Boxer draft climate bill:
The Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), as passed in the 2007 Energy Bill, is one more step closer to being finalized. Comments to EPA's draft regulation, released in the Spring 2009, were due September the 25th of 2009.
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Elizabeth Bast, 202-641-7203, ebast@foe.org
Washington, D.C.— Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica had the following statement in response to the G20 communiqué released today:
Senator Harkin, along with Senators Grassley and Nelson, attempted to scrape funding for EPA to finish their lifecycle analysis of global warming pollution in the 2010 Senate Appropriations Bill. The target of their fury was the inclusion of emissions from deforestation and other forms of land use change that occurs indirectly from increased biofuels production in the lifecycle assessment of biofuels for the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). The RFS is a policy that was passed in 2007 which mandates the blendi
