Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The heads of seven environmental, consumer, and legal organizations sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today, calling on her to recuse herself from the permitting decision for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands...
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Friends of the Earth launched an online ad campaign today to mobilize Americans to contact their members of Congress and demand that they end a tax credit that funnels billions of taxpayer dollars to corporate corn ethanol i...
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Eleven influential senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today rebuking her for stating support for a controversial pipeline before her own agency has completed a legally mandated environmental impact ana...
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A report released today by Friends of the Earth demonstrates the ways in which the biofuels industry influences legislation through lobbying expenditures and campaign contributions.
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A bipartisan group of U.S. senators pushed back this week against remarks Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made October 15 at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club indicating that she is “inclined” to approve th...
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friends of the Earth showed up at a press conference held by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this morning to protest his newly announced support for extending federal subsidies to ethanol. Several activists, dressed as &...
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Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Legal
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Climate and Energy, Legal, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently identified 16 regions in the United States that fail to meet clean air standards for airborne lead emissions. The finding underscores the need for immediate action by the ...
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite opposition from a broad coalition of public interest, consumer and industry groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it will raise the maximum ratio of ethanol that can be blended into ...
Read More »Sep. 22, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- As President Obama arrives here for a Democratic campaign fundraiser today, activists with signs and banners are calling on him to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry dirty tar sands oil to the U.S.
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