Jun. 19, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
As key House committee takes up budget for plutonium disposition program, campaign to end funding of troubled MOX project ramps up on DC & South Carolina airwaves WASHINGTON, D.C. – If it walks like pork and sounds like pork -- even with a F...
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Jun. 17, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
In Sofala province, Mozambique, a group of initiatives collectively known as the N’hambita Pilot Project have been promoted as a flagship program for the protection of forests and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The United Nations...
Read More »Jun. 14, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Friends of the Earth: Atomic Safety Licensing Board ruling must not be vacated WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just one week after Southern California Edison announced the permanent shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear reactors in the face of a devastating...
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Jun. 11, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Today feels like Groundhog Day with the Department of State. More than a year ago, Friends of the Earth, along with members of Congress including Sen. Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Cohen from Tennessee, charged the State Department with gross neglig...
Read More »Jun. 11, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Environmental leaders hosted a press call today to call for a State Department Investigator General investigation of the State Department’s flawed Keystone XL review process and to call on Secretary Kerry to halt the...
Read More »Jun. 7, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Here is a statement from Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, on the announced closure of the San Onofre Generating Station. “This is very good news for the people of Southern California. We have long said that ...
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Jun. 4, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, San Onofre Updates
Former Japanese Prime Minister Naota Kan warned today that restarting the damaged San Onofre nuclear reactor is driven by the same industrial and regulatory forces in the United States that are seeking the restart of Japanese nuclear reactors. He ...
Read More »Jun. 4, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Friends of the Earth: 'No future' for nuclear in U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The decision of MidAmerican Energy to scrap plans to build nuclear reactors in Iowa is further evidence that nuclear power has no future in the United States, Friends o...
Read More »May. 29, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Under pressure from the California Public Utility Commission, Southern California Edison has released to Friends of the Earth another suppressed and highly incriminating internal document, showing that the utility knew eig...
Read More »May. 28, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Barbara Boxer has released a private 2004 letter from Southern California Edison that reveals the utility knew of major problems in its radically redesigned replacement steam generators at the San Onofre Nuclear Gener...
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