Oct. 25, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Friends of the Earth: Continued operation of San Onofre is not cost effective IRVINE, Calif. -- The California Public Utilities Commission will announce today that it is launching an investigation assessing key economic issues relating to the crip...
Read More »Oct. 24, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
As California lawmakers prepare to launch the state’s cap and trade program as part of its Global Warming Solutions Act, or AB32, indigenous leaders traveled to Sacramento to urge officials not to include an international forest-based carbon...
Read More »Oct. 24, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
This morning the National Research Council released a new report titled
Read More »Oct. 22, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
A reactor at the crippled San Onofre nuclear power plant is leaking hydrogen gas into the environment, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Although it is not yet known if the leaking gas is radioactive, Friends of Earth said the l...
Read More »Oct. 19, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
After two weeks of talks, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference comes to a close here today with Friends of the Earth International criticizing negotiators for focusing on false solutions to biodiversity loss and favoring corporate polluters ...
Read More »Oct. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Leaders of indigenous forest peoples warned today that California’s proposed carbon credits trading scheme – intended to help reduce global warming – could in fact threaten the survival of those who live there.
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Oct. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
Protecting tropical forests is important in the fight against global climate change, but Indigenous Peoples are lining up against what they consider a false solution to the climate crisis. As part of California’s commitment to reduce global...
Read More »Oct. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s continued refusal to consider a legally binding hearing on the future of the San Onofre nuclear plant has prompted Friends of the Earth to accuse the agency of failing to protect the public and of failing ...
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Oct. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications
In November, the EPA will make a decision that could mitigate the higher food prices and job losses we're seeing across the country and abroad right now thanks to our federal biofuels mandate–the Renewable Fuel Standard. In August, eight sta...
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Oct. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
“These are the first international trade disputes which create the potential for conflict between a nation’s commitments under the WTO and its obligations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It rais...
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