Mar. 22, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday morning, Mother Jones magazine released an exclusive story which details the State Department's role in covering up the relationship between TransCanada and the company hired to do the supplemental environmental impac...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications
The third meeting of the United Nations Green Climate Fund wrapped up last week. Though “paradigm shift” emerged as the new catch-phrase of GCF discourse -- as the fund’s governing instrument calls for a “paradigm shift tow...
Read More »Mar. 8, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Friends of the Earth: ‘Bombshell’ for plans to restart crippled reactor WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A secret Mitsubishi Heavy Industries report released today confirms that Southern California Edison knew about serious problems in the radicall...
Read More »Mar. 8, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, San Onofre News
The just-released Mitsubishi Heavy Industries report on the San Onofre steam generators conclusively reveals that, as far back as 2005-2006, the joint Southern California Edison/Mitsubishi anti-vibration bar design team had identified worrisome pr...
Read More »Mar. 4, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. -- Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica provided the following statement on the nominations of Ernest J. Moniz as Secretary of Energy and Gina McCarthy as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. On Ernest J. Mo...
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Feb. 18, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant and Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Food and Technology, Oceans and Forests
When our friends at Global Forest Coalition asked us to write an article examining the links between the synthetic biology industry and trends in the forest sector, we were happy to put together the following article, a version of which has just r...
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Feb. 14, 2013 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Yesterday, I was arrested for the first time in my life! My hands were cuffed, alongside so many others, at the White House fence, as I joined 47 environmental and progressive leaders -- including Bill McKibben of 350.org, Mike Brune of the Sierr...
Read More »Feb. 12, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Friends of the Earth demands release of leaked report Washington, D.C. -- Southern California Edison, operator of the San Onofre nuclear reactors, appears to have submitted false information to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Friends of the Ear...
Read More »Feb. 7, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Friends of the Earth calls on NRC to release suppressed document indicating prior knowledge of design problems at Southern California Edison’s crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors Washington, D.C. -- Today Friends of the Earth sent a letter ...
Read More »Feb. 6, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Friends of the Earth applauds congressional action, demands leaked document be released to public WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Friends of the Earth today welcomed the release of a letter from Senator Barbara Boxer and Representative Edward Markey regarding...
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