May. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Today Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act, legislation that goes further than any previous bill to unwind the web of government subsidies for the fossil fuels industry. ...
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Mar. 27, 2012 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Last night the Senate voted 92-4 to have 30 hours of debate on S.2204, the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. The bill would eliminate billions of dollars of tax subsidies for the five biggest oil companies, who have cumulatively booked more than $...
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Mar. 13, 2012 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
In what is becoming a summer ritual high gas prices are again at the forefront of the national consciousness. With the U.S. consuming 20 percent of the world’s oil supply and controlling only 2 percent of the reserves, there simply is no sho...
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Feb. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Yesterday President Obama fired the first shot in what is likely to be a series of budget skirmishes with House Republicans leading up to the November elections. Including controversial provisions such as an expiration of the Bush tax cuts for tho...
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Feb. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Friends of the Earth has been monitoring the Medicine-Bow liquid coal facility since we first discovered that the Department of Energy is considering giving the project a loan guarantee. Medicine-Bow is a bellwether project because if completed it...
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Jan. 31, 2012 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
If there ever were a story that illustrated how the top 1% have captured both the economic and political power in our country, we need look no further than today’s earning announcement from Exxon Mobil. The oil and gas giant made $41 billion...
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Nov. 29, 2011 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
Now that the Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the super committee, has officially announced that they are not going to reach a deal we can let out a sigh of relief. That’s because, as Paul Krugman wrote, failure is good...
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Nov. 22, 2011 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests
On Friday November 18, 2011, Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica testified in the House Committee on Natural Resources hearing titled ANWR: Jobs, Energy and Deficit Reduction. The hearing was called by the Republican majority to promote dril...
Read More »Aug. 25, 2011 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
The recently released Green Scissors 2011 report identifies environmentally beneficial spending cuts that could save taxpayers more than $380 billion. Recommended cuts range from giveaways to big oil companies to road projects to environmentally d...
Read More »Feb. 25, 2011 / Posted by: Ben schreiber / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
Friends of the Earth joined more than 240 state, local, regional and national groups across the country urging Senate Majority Leader Reid to reject the idea of a so-called “clean electricity standard” that would call dirty energy sour...
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