Sep. 28, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A series of online ads are educating Nebraskans about the cozy relationship between a TransCanada lobbyist and State Department officials. The ads relate to recent documents released by Friends of the Earth under the Freed...
Read More »Sep. 27, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The State Department's review of a proposed tar sands oil pipeline faced a new setback today as an environmental group called on the Justice Department to investigate a top pipeline lobbyist's illegal failure to register a...
Read More »Sep. 22, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Email correspondence between State Department employees and a TransCanada pipeline lobbyist who served as a top aide on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign provides evidence of bias in the review of...
Read More »Sep. 16, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Washington D.C.—A World Trade Organization tribunal in Geneva, Switzerland ruled yesterday, September 15, that the U.S. labeling system intended to prevent dolphins from being killed by commercial fishing nets violates international law prot...
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Sep. 15, 2011 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
On September 15, 2011, McDonald’s and 14 other chain restaurants called on the super committee to go on a diet by cutting back on corn subsidies. Citing high corn prices, the National Council of Chain Restaurants and many of its members urg...
Read More »Sep. 14, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Public health and environmental experts are warning that the increasing use of nano-silver as an antimicrobial agent in consumer products may be hastening the spread of resistant microorganisms, according to a report relea...
Read More »Sep. 13, 2011 / Posted by: Rebecca Connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
We have obtained documents from the State Department in response to our Freedom of Information Act request that provide evidence of agency bias and indicate the State Department was doing favors for TransCanada during the Keystone XL review.
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Sep. 13, 2011 / Posted by: Ian Illuminato / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology, Publications
For almost 100 years, we have waged a war on bacteria. In a new report by Friends of the Earth, we argue that this war, far from making people safer, may have a harmful impact on people’s health. In order to stave off these microscopic &lsq...
Read More »Sep. 8, 2011 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
As a result of this summer’s debt ceiling agreement discretionary spending will be slashed by $900 billion over the next ten years. A congressional super committee has been charged with reducing the deficit by an additional $1.5 trillion ove...
Read More »Sep. 6, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
CHICAGO, ILL. -- As representatives from the United States and eight other Pacific countries gathered behind closed doors in a Chicago hotel to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, environmental, public health, family farm, lab...
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