Jul. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications
Tomorrow morning the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold what will likely be the only Congressional hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard this year. The hearing, titled “The American Energy Initiative: A Focus on Alternative Fuels...
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Jul. 6, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
On Friday evening, my husband Patrick and I were putting our daughter to bed and preparing an emergency kit at the same time. Due to the heat wave that had struck the lower southeast, we had already sweltered through a day where the heat index pus...
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Jul. 3, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Food and Technology
This past week the Obama Administration announced $62 million in new funding for the advanced biofuels industry. The White House's goal is to jump-starting the commercial-scale development of drop-in biofuels – biofuels that do not require s...
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Jul. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Over the past several years, Chinese overseas investments have had a powerful global impact, from the Gibe 3 dam in Ethiopia, to the Alberta tar sands in Canada, to the Shwe oil and gas project in Myanmar. In the past, many of these environmentall...
Read More »Jul. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
SAN FRANCISCO -- A new report, China Development Bank’s overseas investments: An assessment of environmental and social policies and practices, released today by Friends of the Earth U.S. and BankTrack, concludes that the China Development B...
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