Feb. 29, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Who should pay to clean up what has been called the “Rainforest Chernobyl” in the Ecuadorian Amazon? Why are the people of the rainforest who suffered the most not represented directly before the international investment tribunal that ...
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Feb. 29, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
As expected, the current president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, recently announced that he's stepping down. The outstanding question remains -- what will the process be to replace him? Will it be run according to codes of conduct of the 21...
Read More »Feb. 27, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — TransCanada today announced a scheme to circumvent President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline by splitting the project into two segments to be reviewed through separate regulatory processes. In a...
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Feb. 27, 2012 / Posted by: Brent Blackwelder / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
Cheaters are lurking in the U.S. economy, corrupting what should be an honest game of production, commerce, and trade. “Cheater economics” refers to the corporate welfare system in which corporations are given special tax subsidies and...
Read More »Feb. 27, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: News Releases, Oceans and Forests
London, U.K. -- The polar waters of the Arctic and Antarctic are in jeopardy as a result of substantial delays to the development of environmental protection rules which will reduce the impact of shipping on these delicate regions. Last week the I...
Read More »Feb. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, Legal, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental group Friends of the Earth sued the State Department today to gain access to communications between the department and a broad web of lobbyists promoting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
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Feb. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Most people are shocked to learn that 20 percent of the human genome has been patented by corporations and scientists, granting companies ownership and sole access to these fundamental building blocks of life. Patents on genes limit the ability of...
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Feb. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Kurt Walters / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Legal
Friends of the Earth and a coalition of 11 other groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday, February 16 to reverse the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s misguided approval of risky new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia. The suit asserts ...
Read More »Feb. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Friends of the Earth today released Crude beginnings, a new investor brief on the environmental and social risks associated with China National Petroleum Corporation, one of the world’s biggest oil companies. CNPC, China’s leading oil...
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Feb. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth, Publications
The growing power of Chinese multinational corporations around the world, particularly in developing countries, is drawing a lot of attention. International companies complain that they are losing out to Chinese businesses benefiting from state s...
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