Apr. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
“There is a silent epidemic here. The effects on the children are not easily visible, but they have all kinds of serious health problems, and those will only get worse if the smelter reopens,” says Hugo Villa, a local doctor. Accordin...
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Apr. 6, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
This morning, standing on the dunes above the Pacific Ocean near the San Onofre nuclear reactor site, San Onofre Safety, San Clemente Green, ROSE and other local groups held a press conference ahead of the afternoon visit to the reactors from the ...
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Apr. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, San Onofre Updates
San Onofre reactor safety failures remind us (again) why the United States cannot afford the risks of nuclear reactors. In late January of this year, Friends of the Earth, while preparing an analysis on the Fukushima-daiichi nuclear accident, was ...
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Apr. 3, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
I was working away on my computer late last Saturday night, March 31, when suddenly this dramatic report from New Zealand came across on my e-mail: "End to Secrecy and Release of Draft TPP Text Hailed as 'Triumph for Democracy.' The nine parties ...
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Mar. 29, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Two days ago, President Barack Obama returned from a state visit to South Korea. The trip coincided with the entry into force this month of the U.S.-Korea free trade agreement, which Obama touted as a “win for both counties” at a Seoul...
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Mar. 27, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Last night the Senate voted 92-4 to have 30 hours of debate on S.2204, the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. The bill would eliminate billions of dollars of tax subsidies for the five biggest oil companies, who have cumulatively booked more than $...
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Mar. 26, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Friends of the Earth and our activists have been fighting a bill in the Iowa state legislature that would raise customers' electric rates to pay in advance for the construction of new nuclear reactors. This nuclear rate hike bill just passed the S...
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Mar. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Yesterday, President Obama shamelessly stood in front of piles of Keystone XL pipe near Cushing, Oklahoma, touting his ‘all of the above’ strategy to solving our energy woes and the climate crisis. Scratch that last one—he didn&r...
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Mar. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications
Friends of the Earth works to bring together diverse interests opposed to ethanol subsidies. We work with other environmental advocates, organizations that advocate against hunger and poverty, industries whose economic profitability is hurt by inc...
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Mar. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Many of us have driven through coastal communities and looked admiringly at houses nestled close to the water. What we don’t often think about is the fact that many of these houses are built on land that often floods during heavy rains, and ...
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