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&...
Read More »
May. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
Activists from a broad coalition of environmental groups including Friends of the Earth, Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity, Ocean Conservancy and Alaska Wilderness League, converged yesterday in front of the White House to demand that Pr...
Read More »
May. 15, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Dateline Dallas: I arrived Tuesday, May 8, in this north Texas city for ten days of intense activity around a new regional trade pact called the Trans Pacific Partnership. During this week and a half, we have scheduled formal and informal meetings...
Read More »
May. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Today Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act, legislation that goes further than any previous bill to unwind the web of government subsidies for the fossil fuels industry. ...
Read More »
May. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications
Friends of the Earth has long been at the forefront of the effort to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. These subsidies perpetuate our dependence on the dirty energy sources of the past, rob us of our capacity to fund energy solutions of the future,...
Read More »
May. 4, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
U.S. model for Trans Pacific trade pact will generate investment lawsuits threatening the environment In 2001 William Greider, the famed progressive journalist, wrote about the North American Free Trade Agreement’s investment chapter in The ...
Read More »
Apr. 24, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
On Thursday, April 19th the House subcommittee on the environment and economy held a hearing on H.R. 4345, the Domestic Fuels Protection Act of 2012, which provides liability protection for oil companies, gas retailers, and car manufacturers for a...
Read More »
Apr. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Enbridge, the Canadian oil giant responsible for a massive tar sands oil spill into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan not yet two years ago, now wants to pipe tar sands oil—the world’s dirtiest oil—through New England with its Trai...
Read More »
Apr. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
TransCanada yesterday unveiled its proposed alternative routes—including a preferred alternative route—through Nebraska for its Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline to the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. The Keystone ...
Read More »
Apr. 19, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
As the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual Spring Meetings get underway, 117 organizations from around the world today urged government funders of the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds to pivot away from financing the CIFs and ...
Read More »Tell Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling bee-killing pesticides.
