Aug. 26, 2011 / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Environmental Impact Statement for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline was slammed by experts today shortly after its release by the U.S. State Department.
Read More »Aug. 25, 2011 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
The recently released Green Scissors 2011 report identifies environmentally beneficial spending cuts that could save taxpayers more than $380 billion. Recommended cuts range from giveaways to big oil companies to road projects to environmentally d...
Read More »Aug. 24, 2011 / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. — The heads of the nation’s largest environmental organizations — often at odds on the best strategy for combating climate change — released a letter today calling on President Obama to block the Keystone X...
Read More »Aug. 24, 2011 / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — August 24, 2011 — Ending a third of a trillion dollars in environmentally harmful subsidies could go a long way toward solving our nation’s budget challenges, an unusual right-left coalition said today in a gro...
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Aug. 18, 2011 / Posted by: Becca connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Each year, the federal government gives away more than $10 billion in tax breaks to oil and gas companies. These polluting industries are already raking in record profits -- it’s an outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars to pay them for damagi...
Read More »Aug. 11, 2011 / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- August 11, 2011 -- Not only should the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) slow down reactor licensing and relicensing in order to address a range of health and safety concerns raised by its own experts in the task force review...
Read More »Aug. 2, 2011 / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the Senate voted 74 to 26 to pass the Budget Control Act of 2011. The bill passed the House 269 to 161 last night and institutes roughly $1 trillion in initial spending cuts with no guaranteed revenue increases as th...
Read More »Aug. 1, 2011 / Categories: Food and Technology, Legal, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled late Friday that two human genes correlated with increased risk for breast cancer are patentable.
Read More »Aug. 1, 2011 / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night President Obama, Majority Leader Reid, Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader McConnell announced a framework for raising the debt ceiling. The plan calls for roughly $1 trillion in spending reductions with no rev...
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