Jun. 21, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Friday, Southern Company announced it has accepted a preemptive bailout by the Department of Energy for the construction of nuclear reactors in Georgia. Friends of the Earth responded today by criticizing the bailout and ...
Read More »Jun. 17, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, as BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, was set to testify about the devastating oil disaster his firm caused in the Gulf of Mexico, the environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth launched a campaign to pressure members of ...
Read More »Jun. 17, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, Oceans and Forests
Washington, D.C. – A day after the US Senate voted to uphold the US Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, a coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging EPA’s failure to ...
Read More »Jun. 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 President Obama’s speech from the Oval Office this evening.
Read More »Jun. 10, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Senate voted by a margin of 47 to 53 today to reject a resolution sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) that sought to roll back the Clean Air Act’s protections against pollution that destabilizes our climate...
Read More »Jun. 8, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Friends of the Earth dirty fuels campaigner Alex Moore had the following statement regarding the “American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010” (HR 4213), which includes a variety of tax breaks for po...
Read More »May. 28, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, DC -- Today, President Obama issued an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation to develop fuel economy and emissions rules for medium- and heavy-duty trucks for the first time....
Read More »May. 27, 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 President Obama’s remarks at this afternoon’s press conference.
Read More »May. 25, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington D.C.—The Clean Air Task Force and Friends of the Earth filed today a lawsuit to the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in the U.S. Court of Appeals and petitioned the EPA to reconsider its assumption regarding land conversion.
Read More »May. 24, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has indicated that she could bring a measure to roll back the Clean Air Act to the Senate floor this week. Sen. Murkowski’s measure, called a “disapproval resolution,” wo...
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