Oct. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
Protecting tropical forests is important in the fight against global climate change, but Indigenous Peoples are lining up against what they consider a false solution to the climate crisis. As part of California’s commitment to reduce global...
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Oct. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications
In November, the EPA will make a decision that could mitigate the higher food prices and job losses we're seeing across the country and abroad right now thanks to our federal biofuels mandate–the Renewable Fuel Standard. In August, eight sta...
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Oct. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
“These are the first international trade disputes which create the potential for conflict between a nation’s commitments under the WTO and its obligations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It rais...
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Oct. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications
When Congress established the Renewable Fuel Standard –our federal biofuels mandate – they probably weren’t hoping to incentivize invasive species, choke rivers, or increase wildfires. But, if the EPA approves giant reed (Arundo ...
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Oct. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Kendra Ulrich / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, San Onofre Updates
A dangerous gamble with the safety of Southern California If you have ever been to Las Vegas, you’ve seen it: People so caught up in the excitement of the casino that they just can’t resist the lure of the next bet or the thought that ...
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Sep. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Yesterday, Friends of the Earth sent a letter signed by 63 U.S. organizations, to Secretary of State Clinton regarding misinformation spread internationally by State Department representatives about financial transaction taxes (also known as the R...
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Sep. 20, 2012 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
Arctic summer sea ice extent reached an all-time record low on September 16. The rapid nature of the changes in the region has many scientists concerned, and the implications on weather systems and marine ecosystems could be profound. The shipping...
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Sep. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
The dog days of summer haven’t done much to slow down TransCanada’s propulsion towards construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The Canadian oil corporation last week unveiled its “new” proposed route through...
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Sep. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Since my last post on the stupidity of using food for fuel, almost 300 members of Congress, state governors, organizations and private citizens have written to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson about our federal biofuels m...
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Sep. 7, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
For 10 days, the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a colossal, job-destroying free trade agreement -- will be negotiated in secret in Leesburg, Virginia. This massive trade agreement would threaten essential environmental protections as a favor to expl...
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