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...
Read More »Jun. 30, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth and Clean Air Task Force are calling on Congress to let the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) expire at the end of the year.
Read More »Jun. 29, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C.—After a White House meeting focused on climate and energy legislation today, Senator John Kerry offered the following, concise summary of Senate Democrats’ climate strategy: “We believe we have compromised signif...
Read More »Jun. 24, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As millions of gallons of crude oil continue to hemorrhage daily into the Gulf of Mexico, the environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth last week launched a campaign to pressure members of Congress, including Senat...
Read More »Jun. 24, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. -- As millions of gallons of crude oil continue to hemorrhage daily into the Gulf of Mexico, the environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth last week launched a campaign to pressure members of Congress, including Representa...
Read More »Jun. 24, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As millions of gallons of crude oil continue to hemorrhage daily into the Gulf of Mexico, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has earned oily marks from the environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth as one of the Senat...
Read More »Jun. 22, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Friends of the Earth’s president, Erich Pica, had the following response to a federal judge’s injunction blocking President Obama’s six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects.
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