Dec. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
Negotiations are coming down to the wire on the fiscal cliff. Friends of the Earth warned about the dangers of a bad deal and we are still concerned. That is why Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica wrote President Obama and urged him to pres...
Read More »Dec. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Controversial plan to run reactor at reduced power could require formal legal hearings WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Southern California Edison’s experimental plan to start up one of the crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors and run it at reduced power...
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Dec. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
Robin Hood, a champion of ordinary people, made a stop in Washington, D.C. this week -- to put his hat in the ring to replace outgoing U.S. Treasury Sectary Tim Geithner, a champion of Wall Street. Mr. Hood is running on a platform of taxing Wall ...
Read More »Dec. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
Today, the Food and Drug Administration released its final environmental assessment on the so-called “frankenfish,” a salmon that has been genetically engineered by Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Technologies Inc.
Read More »Dec. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Friends of the Earth U.S. congratulates Senator John Kerry (D -Mass.) on his nomination to become secretary of state and President Erich Pica had the following statement:
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Dec. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
Call it the fiscal cliff, the fiscal slope or an “austerity crisis,” but no matter the nomenclature, a battle is underway over the role of government in the U.S.: Should we take care of our own or should people be left to fend for them...
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Dec. 14, 2012 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
Two recent articles outline well some of the harms that Arctic shipping, and shipping more generally, poses to the environment. Rick Steiner, a former professor at the University of Alaska, writes, in particular, about shipping through the Unimak ...
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Dec. 13, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
At the height of Superstorm Sandy there was a five-foot surge of water rushing down Don's street. Then, in the middle of the storm, a fire sparked in a neighbor’s house and, by the next day, most of his block was in ashes. “The fire s...
Read More »Dec. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Friends of the Earth announced today the launch of its new Climate Stories campaign. The project, produced in partnership with HEIST (http://heistprojects.com), uses powerful, emotional video shot entirely on location to bring to light the very re...
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Dec. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
Friends of the Earth in the news this week As developed countries have fled the Kyoto Protocol like rats from a sinking ship, climate financing continues to be central among the issues on the table at the UNFCCC COP18 negotiations taking place rig...
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