May. 17, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
BP's careful control of image hides a record that should be alarming With spring fully sprung and another Earth Day past, it is critical the public stay alert to corporations that wrap themselves in a green patina while acting to the contrary. Kin...
Read More »May. 16, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
New evidence exposes more major safety concerns WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the heels of a pointed ruling by a panel of judges against Southern California Edison’s scheme to rush the experimental restart of a severely damaged reactor at San ...
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May. 14, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Archer / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Updated May 2013: Take action here to tell Home Depot, Lowe's and other stores not to carry products containing bee-killing neonicotinoids. Spring is in the air, and as we plant our vegetable gardens and enjoy the blossoming flowers, it’s e...
Read More »May. 14, 2013 / Posted by: Shajuti Hossain / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Atomic Safety Licensing Board grants Friends of the Earth’s petition WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a stunning rebuke to Southern California Edison’s bid to start up the crippled San Onofre nuclear power plant, the U.S. Atomic Safety Lic...
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May. 8, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog
The decades-long fight to protect the lower Hudson River in New York City from habitat destruction and overdevelopment has heated up with several recent developments: (1) recent attempts to weaken the state law governing the area have emerged; (2)...
Read More »May. 8, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to news reports, Vice President Joe Biden said recently that he is against granting a permit for construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, but he is “in the minority” in th...
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May. 6, 2013 / Posted by: Rey Edward / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
A new study from an Australia NGO tells how Chinese financing will potentially devastate the Great Barrier Reef. Yes, you read that correctly. The Great Barrier Reef – home to endangered sea turtles, blue whales, sea snakes, and fragile cor...
Read More »May. 6, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: News Releases, Oceans and Forests
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Under California’s new cap-and-trade program, the state is considering allowing a controversial form of carbon credits that have been rejected by the European Union as ineffective and potentially harmful to rainfor...
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May. 2, 2013 / Posted by: Rey Edward / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
Earlier this year, China’s ministries of Commerce and Environmental Protection jointly issued new guidelines for the environmental practices of Chinese companies doing business abroad. The new guidelines are an important step toward improvin...
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May. 2, 2013 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
With the reliance on coal declining in places like the U.S. and Australia, Big Coal has found another way to offload its dirty goods — by shipping it overseas. The global coal trade expanded by over 13 percent in 2010 and last year the U.S. ...
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