Dec. 30, 2011 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog
At the end of every year, we tend to pause and reflect about the past 12 months, stopping to examine trends and to remember important events -- usually in list form. And with all the year in, worst of, best of, top five and top ten lists appearing...
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Dec. 24, 2011 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Nigerians wait, helpless, for the massive spill from Shell’s Bonga offshore oil field to hit the coastal waters, shorelines and swamps. Telephone links to some of the coastal communities are tenuous at best and most people will not know what...
Read More »Dec. 23, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. — Congress finished its tax legislation today without including a provision to extend a massive subsidy for corn ethanol that is set to expire at the end of the year.
Read More »Dec. 22, 2011 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today the Nuclear Regulatory Commission voted to approve the final rule for the Westinghouse AP1000 design.
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Dec. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
There have been lots of “d” words used to describe the Durban climate talks that recently ended in South Africa -- disaster, debacle, delusion, devastation.
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Dec. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology, Publications
A private firm is planning to release potentially harmful genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys as early as January, endangering human health and the environment in what would become the first-ever U.S. release of these engineered ...
Read More »Dec. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Food and Technology, Legal, News Releases
San Francisco, Calif. -- Concerned by the growing body of scientific reports cautioning against the unregulated use of nanotechnology in consumer products, a coalition of nonprofit consumer safety and environmental groups sued the Food and Drug Ad...
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Dec. 20, 2011 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
The first rule of Keystone XL: don’t underestimate the vice grip of Big Oil on our democracy, especially when it comes to its marquee project. A month ago, we were celebrating—skeptically. We had gotten the welcome news that the Obama...
Read More »Dec. 17, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. — The Senate today passed a payroll tax cut deal that will force the Obama administration to decide the future of the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline within 60 days.
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Dec. 16, 2011 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it's final round of funding earlier this week, and once again put the interest of corporate polluters before the environment or taxpayers. In 2011 alone, $4.28 dollars of taxpayer money ...
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