Feb. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
Cruise ship pollution poses a significant threat to marine resources. While treatment is required to discharge sewage and other wastewater, the U.S. EPA has found that older ship sewage treatment systems discharge highly concentrated wastewater in...
Read More »
Jan. 30, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Protest at the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement negotiations this week in Beverly Hills and La Jolla, California. Trade negotiators from around the Pacific Rim are gathering in southern California this week, January 31 - February 3, to h...
Read More »
Jan. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Legal
If you’d have asked me in the fall of 2009, when Friends of the Earth was first contemplating going all in on a campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, whether I thought we could force President Obama to reject TransCanada’s applica...
Read More »Jan. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Obama administration rejected the permit for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline sought by Canadian oil firm TransCanada, determining that the project was not in the national interest.
Read More »
Dec. 30, 2011 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog
At the end of every year, we tend to pause and reflect about the past 12 months, stopping to examine trends and to remember important events -- usually in list form. And with all the year in, worst of, best of, top five and top ten lists appearing...
Read More »
Dec. 20, 2011 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
The first rule of Keystone XL: don’t underestimate the vice grip of Big Oil on our democracy, especially when it comes to its marquee project. A month ago, we were celebrating—skeptically. We had gotten the welcome news that the Obama...
Read More »
Dec. 16, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
"¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!,” or “the people united, will never be defeated,” resounded outside World Bank headquarters yesterday in downtown Washington, D.C. Friends of the Earth staff joined about...
Read More »
Nov. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog
Lately we’ve all been hearing a lot about Occupy Wall Street (or Occupy Oakland, DC, San Francisco, and many places in between). Many are calling it the Tea Party of the Left, with its focus on unemployment, corporate greed and crony capital...
Read More »Nov. 15, 2011 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Economics for the Earth, Publications
Read More »Nov. 8, 2011 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Advocacy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
The hope and ambition of the Occupy movement has reminded us that we need to remake financial and economic systems so that they serve people and the planet, not the other way around. We are challenged to consider ways in which we can not only resi...
Read More »Tell Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling bee-killing pesticides.
