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Landmark Trial About Patenting Humans Begins Today

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Meet Eric Hoffman

Friends of the Earth is a fierce advocate of scientific progress, but corporations often seek profit from scientific developments with little regard for human health. We must take precaution to ensure new technologies don't do more harm than good.  In this video, Eric outlines some of the challenges that lie ahead for his campaigns.

Use caution with colloidal silver

Statement regarding Friends of the Earth's position on colloidal silver products

Friends of the Earth’s core reason for petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was due to concern about nanoscale silver and its use in great quantities in many products, which have the potential to generate serious antimicrobial resistance (as the United Nations and much of the scientific community have identified is happening with antibiotics).

Technology Assessment in Copenhagen

Our Health and Environment Campaigner, Ian Illuminato, will be joining the rest of our team in Copenhagen on December 13. Ian’s mandate during the negotiations will involve lobbying for stricter assessment of risky technologies, which are being promoted to help with the climate crisis.

Air pollution protections under threat

Great Lakes exemption could derail limits for ship pollution

For several years, Friends of the Earth and various other environmental groups, air regulators, and public health organizations have worked with the EPA to create an “Emission Control Area” that would dramatically reduce air pollution from large ships – pollution that is responsible for serious health impacts including premature death, lung cancer, heart attacks, and respiratory illness.

Petitioning EPA to Regulate Global Warming Pollution from Factory Farms

The Humane Society of the United States, with Friends of the Earth and others, petitioned EPA to regulate global warming pollution and other air pollution from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), or factor farms.  The petition outlines the

Coalition Asks EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gases and Other Toxic Air Pollutants from Factory Farms

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CONTACT:
Kate McMahon, 202-222-0715, kmcmahon@foe.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Humane Society of the United States and a coalition of environmental and public health organizations filed a legal petition with the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to regulate air pollution from factory farms.   

Report Warns of Nano-Sunscreen Risks

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CONTACT:
Ian Illuminato, Friends of the Earth, 250-478-7135, iilluminato@foe.org
George Kimbrell, International Center for Technology Assessment, 571-527-8618, gkimbrell@icta.org
Michael Hansen, Consumers Union, 914-378-2452, hansmi@consumer.org

New Report From Public Interest Groups Warns of Risks From Nanomaterials in Sunscreens

Nano-Sunscreens: Not Worth the Risk

Sunscreens Report CoverFriends of the Earth teamed up with Consumers Union and the International Center for Technology Assessment to compile the latest info about nanomaterials in sunscreens (pdf) and their potential hazards.

Friends of the Earth at OECD meeting on potential benefits of nanotechnology

OECD logoOur Health and Environment Campaigner, Ian Illuminato, traveled to Paris, France in mid July to speak at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conference.  The conference's focus was Potential Environmental Benefits of Nanotechnology: Fostering Safe Innovation-Led Growth (click to view the

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