Jun. 30, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Des Moines, Iowa — In the latest of a series of blows to the nuclear industry since the meltdown at Fukushima, the Iowa Senate adjourned today without passing a bill that would pave the way for MidAmerican Energy to charge ratepayers in adva...
Read More »Jun. 24, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), joined by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), acted today to protect consumers from potentially harmful nanoparticles in cosmetics by introducing the Safe Cosmetics Act ...
Read More »Jun. 23, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s newly released sunscreen rules fail to meaningfully consider the risks posed by nanoscale ingredients, according to public interest groups including Friends of the Earth, The Int...
Read More »Jun. 20, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests
Read more about the international climate negotiations: Read informational briefs about pressing issues at Bonn Huffington Post: Will Bonn Climate Talks Reflect a Dramatically Changed World? Deutsche Welle: Kyoto successor looks bleak at Bonn c...
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Jun. 17, 2011 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth, Publications
In July 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives is likely to vote on three new free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia, and Panama. Friends of the Earth and other environmental advocates oppose ratification of the three agreements, which ...
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Jun. 17, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
In the past several years, extreme weather events have wreaked devastation around the globe – from violent tornadoes that descend out of nowhere to reduce entire towns to rubble, to floodwaters that break their containment dams and levees to...
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Jun. 17, 2011 / Posted by: Rebecca Connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
On June 16, 2011, the Senate voted 73-27 to end the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit. This major victory against dirty corn ethanol had strong bipartisan support across the political spectrum, including some of the Senate’s most progress...
Read More »Jun. 16, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate voted 73-27 this afternoon to end ethanol blender tax credits, a $6 billion dollar annual giveaway for dirty corn ethanol.
Read More »Jun. 16, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
DURHAM, N.C. — In a legal motion filed today, watchdog groups pressed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to terminate the approval process for the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design. The groups said that a growing list of mistakes ...
Read More »Jun. 15, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Panel approved a bill to expedite a decision on the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The bill, from Congressman Lee Terry of Nebraska an...
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