Aug. 13, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
This summer has seen extreme weather and climate events with devastating impacts across the globe. Prolonged heat in Russia and flooding in Pakistan have harmed millions of people. A chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan has broken off fro...
Read More »Aug. 6, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
CHICAGO—Activists who oppose a controversial pipeline that would bring the world’s dirtiest oil to the U.S. demonstrated outside of a fundraising event attended by President Obama here today and called on the president to reject a perm...
Read More »Aug. 5, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Washington, D.C.—Last week, the World Bank’s independent grievance mechanism, the Inspection Panel, was authorized to conduct a full investigation into alleged policy violations in the Bank’s $3.75 billion loan to South African p...
Read More »Aug. 5, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. – As reported by Senator Jon Tester, TransCanada, the Canadian firm seeking approval from the Obama administration to build a massive new tar sands oil pipeline into the United States, will withdraw its application for a saf...
Read More »Jul. 30, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. -- This week, a pipeline carrying oil from Canada into the U.S. ruptured, spilling more than a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. Crews are attempting to prevent the spilled oil from reaching Lake Michiga...
Read More »Jul. 27, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this afternoon unveiled a draft outline of a pared-down oil spill bill after officially abandoning a broader attempt to address our climate and energy crises last week.
Read More »Jul. 22, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved transportation funding legislation that provides insufficient funding for Amtrak and high speed rail (HSR) projects. The bill provides $1.963 billion for Amtrak, $666 million short of the funds r...
Read More »Jul. 20, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C.-A broad coalition of public interest, faith, and environmental groups-joined by Gulf Coast residents directly impacted by the Gulf oil spill-marked today's three-month anniversary of the BP oil catastrophe at a rally on Capitol Hi...
Read More »Jul. 15, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Friends of the Earth’s president, Erich Pica, had the following response to reports that the well that has been gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20 has been capped.
Read More »Jul. 8, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. – Clean energy advocates, landowners, and indigenous activists are uniting today to condemn a proposed pipeline that would bring toxic tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. in demonstrations, community events and meetings wi...
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