Jul. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Yesterday, activists with Tar Sands Blockade met President Obama’s motorcade in Austin, Texas wielding banners and signs with one simple message: stop the Keystone XL pipeline, no more tar sands through Texas. Tar Sands Blockade is a local a...
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Jul. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
“The beaks of Sam LaBudde’s first dolphins strained against the net that had formed a canopy over them. Their flukes churned the ocean white. They thronged at the surface, desperate to force slack in the net sufficient to free their bl...
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Jul. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Coming off of the freakish extreme weather across the country the past several months, people are anxious for a break from the punishing weather and looking forward to a calmer July. Climate scientists, meanwhile, haven’t provided much solac...
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Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications
On Wednesday a freight train carrying ethanol derailed in Columbus, Ohio, putting hundreds of residents within range of blazing fires and facing the risk of water contamination. In response, the National Transportation and Safety Board evacuated o...
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Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
This week, Friends of Earth, along with 30 other organizations based in California, urged Governor Brown to prevent international REDD carbon credits (carbon credits generated from efforts to prevent deforestation and forest degradation in tropica...
Read More »Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, Publications, San Onofre News
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The problems with the steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear reactors are the most severe found in comparable generators across the U.S. nuclear industry, according to a new report commissioned by Friends of the Earth.
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Jul. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Kendra Ulrich / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications, San Onofre Updates
Leaked Edison document exposes San Onofre as worst in the nation The crippled steam generators in the San Onofre nuclear reactors have earned the Southern California Edison run plant the dubious distinction as having the most severely defective an...
Read More »Jul. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: News Releases, Oceans and Forests
A group of over 30 California-based organizations yesterday sent a letter to Governor Brown urging him to reject the use of international forest carbon offsets credits in the state’s cap and trade system.
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Jul. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Activist opposition to the proposed plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys is starting to heat up -- and the media is increasingly taking notice. Last month, I sent an email encouraging Friends of the Earth activist...
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Jul. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
“The trade ministers get together to set the rules of trade. They don't worry about the environment; that's somebody else's agenda. Trade above all -- that's the way they approach it. And as a result of that, we get a trade agenda that puts ...
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