Dec. 15, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Friends of the Earth’s climate and energy tax analyst, Ben Schreiber, had the following statement in response to the $860 billion tax package that passed the Senate today.
Read More »Dec. 11, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, News Releases
CANCUN, MEXICO -- Friends of the Earth U.S. had the following response to the close of UN climate negotiations in Cancun: Climate change is the greatest threat the human community has faced. The texts considered tonight are a wholly inadequate re...
Read More »Dec. 8, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
December 7, 2010, Cancun -- News reports indicate World Bank President Robert Zoellick is coming to Cancun tomorrow to announce the establishment of a multi-million dollar fund to promote the creation of carbon markets in developing countries.
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Kate Horner / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
CANCUN, MEXICO, 3 December 2010 – A new, secret text from the Mexican presidency, which would effectively begin replacing the Kyoto Protocol with the Copenhagen Accord, might be on the table this weekend at the climate talks in Cancun. Minis...
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
CANCUN, MEXICO, 3 December 2010 -- Rumors of a secret Mexican text that would essentially replace the Kyoto Protocol with the Copenhagen Accord, leading to a dangerous and unacceptable climate change of up to 5°C (9°F) have begun circulati...
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Obama administration announced today that it has concluded negotiations on the U.S.-South Korea free trade agreement, one of the NAFTA-style trade deals left over from the Bush administration.
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: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—A decision by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today to block construction of a commuter rail tunnel between New Jersey and Manhattan will harm the state’s residents, according to an analyst at Friends of the Earth.
Read More »Dec. 7, 2010 / Posted by: Michelle Chan / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Green groups blasted the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) for its expected final approval today of hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidized federal financing for the massive 4,000 megawatt Sasan coal power plant and mine in India, one of ...
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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