Sep. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Yesterday, Friends of the Earth sent a letter signed by 63 U.S. organizations, to Secretary of State Clinton regarding misinformation spread internationally by State Department representatives about financial transaction taxes (also known as the R...
Read More »Sep. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: News Releases, Oceans and Forests
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -– A coalition of environmental groups moved to intervene in a court case today to support a low-sulfur fuel requirement for ships in most U.S. waters, including southern Alaska. The State of Alaska filed suit in July ...
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Sep. 20, 2012 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
Arctic summer sea ice extent reached an all-time record low on September 16. The rapid nature of the changes in the region has many scientists concerned, and the implications on weather systems and marine ecosystems could be profound. The shipping...
Read More »Sep. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6213, the "No More Solyndras Act," which allows uneconomical and dirty coal and nuclear projects to remain eligible for loan guarantees through the Department of Energy’s Tit...
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Sep. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
The dog days of summer haven’t done much to slow down TransCanada’s propulsion towards construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The Canadian oil corporation last week unveiled its “new” proposed route through...
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Sep. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Since my last post on the stupidity of using food for fuel, almost 300 members of Congress, state governors, organizations and private citizens have written to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson about our federal biofuels m...
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Sep. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
For 10 days, the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a colossal, job-destroying free trade agreement -- will be negotiated in secret in Leesburg, Virginia. This massive trade agreement would threaten essential environmental protections as a favor to expl...
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