Jun. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
You’d think the State Department would’ve learned its lesson from the first round of review of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, wouldn’t you? Especially after it took 1,253 people risking arrest on President...
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Jun. 15, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
“There’s no reason in the world why trade agreements can’t be written that create a more just and sustainable world.” -- Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, TPP Labor Day Rally, Chicago, September 5, 2011. ...
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Jun. 8, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
I met with Mr. Grant Kesler, the owner of Metalclad. I talked very clearly with him, saying that it was, from my point of view, virtually impossible to open the [hazardous waste disposal] site due to the opposition of the local community and the l...
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Jun. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Greetings from Providence, Rhode Island! I’m here today with Friends of the Earth communications manager Kelly Trout for Netroots Nation, an annual national conference of progressive bloggers, media, grassroots organizations and individual a...
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Jun. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Either Press Secretary Jay Carney was confused at yesterday’s daily White House briefing and misspoke, or the Obama administration has abandoned any semblance of adhering to a legal review process for the southern segment of the Keystone XL ...
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Jun. 1, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
“Cost-benefit calculation is the highest art form in the realm of persuasion by information — and the most deceitful…In essence, property rights (and profit) are being assigned a higher value than human rights. Human lives are d...
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May. 30, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
For almost 15 years now, I’ve been doing human rights and environmental advocacy work -- most of it in Washington, D.C. Just about anyone who has done that sort of thing for more than a decade in the belly of the beast (a.k.a, the nation&rsq...
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May. 24, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
The public has reached a strong verdict on the billions of dollars of subsidies that our government hands annually to fossil fuel corporations making historic profits: end them. According to one recent poll, seventy percent of the public oppo...
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May. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
One of the best-known and trusted environmental labels is the “dolphin-safe” label that today can be found on much of the tuna sold in the U.S. On May 16, a World Trade Organization appeals panel ruled that this label unfairly discrimi...
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May. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Yesterday evening, Canadian pipeline company Enbridge kicked off one of the most sweeping expansions in its history, a $3.2 billion (Canadian) series of pipeline projects that would carry some of the world’s dirtiest oil—tar sands oil&...
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