Mar. 15, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Friends of the Earth received many questions and comments regarding the unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan. We have compiled several of those questions and will be adding more to this page as more questions come in or as the situation changes in ...
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Dec. 16, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Ernie Fellows is a 65-year-old retired rancher living in Mills, Nebraska, a remote community that sits atop the Ogallala Aquifer along the South Dakota border. Fellows has spent his entire adult life raising livestock and tending to the land he in...
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Dec. 16, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Theresa Landrum, 56, is a native Detroiter and has lived on the same block in the city's southwest side since she was born. Her neighborhood, known by its 48217 zip code, is the most polluted area in the state of Michigan and is home to some of th...
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Dec. 16, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Karla Land settled in Channelview, Texas in 1979. She was born and raised in Texas, leaving the state for college and to pursue her passion for scuba diving in the Bahamas. She returned after marrying her husband and together they own and operate ...
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Dec. 16, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
David Daniel is a 43-year-old carpenter living in Winsboro, Texas, a small community of a couple thousand people in East Texas. Daniel fell in love with the community for its natural beauty and purchased some land shortly after seeing it for the f...
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Dec. 16, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
François Paulette is a member of the Smith's Landing Treaty 8 Dene First Nation and lives 200 miles downstream from the tar sands industry site in Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, Canada. François was previously chief and vice-chief of the...
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Dec. 16, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Kim Marcel is a long-term resident of Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, Canada, the home of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations. She has always been interested in the environment and is concerned about what the tar sands industry is doing to destroy it...
Read More »Dec. 16, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
We're fighting the Keystone XL pipeline in solidarity with people who are already impacted by tar sands oil extraction and who would be directly impacted by this tar sands oil pipeline. We have compiled some of their stories to share with you. The...
Read More »Sep. 1, 2010 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Our biotechnology campaigner, Eric Hoffman, was recently interviewed on the Free Speech TV show "Whistle Where You Work" to discuss the dangers of the genetically engineered (GE) salmon. If this fish were to be approved by the Food and Drug Admini...
Read More »Aug. 16, 2010 / Posted by: KTrout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
When President Obama returned home to Chicago on August 4 and 5 to celebrate his birthday and fundraise, he was greeted by protestors concerned about a 1,700-mile pipeline that Big Oil is seeking his approval to build from Canada to Texas.
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