Feb. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / 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 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / 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...
Read More »Dec. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Food and Technology, Legal, News Releases
San Francisco, Calif. -- Concerned by the growing body of scientific reports cautioning against the unregulated use of nanotechnology in consumer products, a coalition of nonprofit consumer safety and environmental groups sued the Food and Drug Ad...
Read More »Oct. 5, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Climate and Energy, Legal, News Releases
OMAHA, Neb.— The Center for Biological Diversity, Western Nebraska Resources Council and Friends of the Earth sued the State Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to stop illegal construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a spra...
Read More »Aug. 1, 2011 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Food and Technology, Legal, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled late Friday that two human genes correlated with increased risk for breast cancer are patentable.
Read More »Jul. 7, 2011 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Legal, News Releases, Oceans and Forests
Washington, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must formally determine whether greenhouse gas pollution from aircraft endangers human health and welfare, ruled a U.S. District Court today.
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