Mar. 16, 2012 / Categories: Climate and Energy, Legal, News Releases
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — Nuclear watchdog Friends of the Earth is filing a public records request today with the California Public Utilities Commission calling for the urgent release of information regarding the serious safety problems at the...
Read More »Mar. 9, 2012 / Categories: Climate and Energy, Legal, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Under pressure from Friends of the Earth, the State Department today made public the third-party contract and conflict of interest documents for the environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The docum...
Read More »Mar. 7, 2012 / Categories: Climate and Energy, Legal, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Friends of the Earth, a leading advocate for a healthy environment, filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency today after the agency did not reply to a May 2011 Notice of Intent to sue. The lawsuit challenges ...
Read More »Mar. 6, 2012 / Categories: Legal, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club filed papers in federal court in Washington, D.C. opposing a lawsuit seeking to compel the reconstruction of Klingle Road through Klingle Valley in Rock Creek Park.
Read More »Feb. 23, 2012 / Categories: Climate and Energy, Legal, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Environmental group Friends of the Earth sued the State Department today to gain access to communications between the department and a broad web of lobbyists promoting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
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Feb. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Kurt walters / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Legal
Friends of the Earth and a coalition of 11 other groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday, February 16 to reverse the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s misguided approval of risky new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia. The suit asserts ...
Read More »Jan. 26, 2012 / Categories: Legal, News Releases, Oceans and Forests
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — A coalition of conservation and American Indian groups today sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions from U.S. Navy warfare train...
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Jan. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Legal
If you’d have asked me in the fall of 2009, when Friends of the Earth was first contemplating going all in on a campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, whether I thought we could force President Obama to reject TransCanada’s applica...
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Jan. 13, 2012 / Posted by: Nick berning / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Legal
The State Department continues to stonewall on disclosing aspects of its internal conversations about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, more than a year after Friends of the Earth and several allies filed a Freedom of Information Ac...
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Jan. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Ian illuminato / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology, Legal
What do you do if a government agency charged with protecting you from unsafe products refuses to do its job? Well...there are a good number of ways you can express your concerns. You can petition the agency, send the agency formal comments or you...
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