Mar. 13, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
In what is becoming a summer ritual high gas prices are again at the forefront of the national consciousness. With the U.S. consuming 20 percent of the world’s oil supply and controlling only 2 percent of the reserves, there simply is no sho...
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Mar. 13, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
President Obama has identified over $4.7 billion that the oil and gas industry should pay under standard tax rules this year but that will remain in company coffers because the industry receives preferential treatment in the code. This special tre...
Read More »Mar. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Climate and Energy, News Releases
DES MOINES, IOWA — A TV ad highlighting the risks of a bill that would allow MidAmerican Energy to raise electric rates for Iowa consumers in advance to pay for new nuclear reactors began airing today in Des Moines, Sioux City and Cedar Rapids.
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Feb. 29, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Who should pay to clean up what has been called the “Rainforest Chernobyl” in the Ecuadorian Amazon? Why are the people of the rainforest who suffered the most not represented directly before the international investment tribunal that ...
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Feb. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Wow. In 24 hours, the environmental movement and our progressive allies came together to send a huge, jarring wake-up call to senators wavering in the face of Big Oil’s threats and campaign coffers: reject any attempts to revive the Keystone...
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Feb. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Yesterday President Obama fired the first shot in what is likely to be a series of budget skirmishes with House Republicans leading up to the November elections. Including controversial provisions such as an expiration of the Bush tax cuts for tho...
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Feb. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Friends of the Earth has been monitoring the Medicine-Bow liquid coal facility since we first discovered that the Department of Energy is considering giving the project a loan guarantee. Medicine-Bow is a bellwether project because if completed it...
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Feb. 13, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
UPDATE Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. EST: We've smashed through our initial goal of half a million and are now over 672,000 messages to the Senate! Unfortunately, some of Big Oil’s bought-and-paid-for friends in the Senate are putting the heat on as w...
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Feb. 8, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Yesterday the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee approved a bill that would require the EPA to do a more thorough analysis on the effects for consumers, the economy, and the environment of increasing the amount of corn ethanol in gasol...
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Feb. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Salvadoran environmentalists are fighting for a ban on destructive mining projects in the face of physical attacks at home, and legal attacks from abroad authorized by a U.S. trade agreement. Since 2009, community leaders, staff of a local radio ...
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