May. 24, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Motion calls for convening hearing panel on license amendments WASHINGTON, D.C. – Friends of the Earth has filed a motion with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requesting that a Licensing Board be convened to review license amendments that ...
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May. 22, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
European banks and pension funds continue to finance one of the largest and most destructive palm oil giants, Wilmar International, according to new research released today by Friends of the Earth Europe. Well known European banks including HSBC, ...
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May. 21, 2013 / Posted by: Ross Hammond, Senior Campaigner, Climate & Energy Program / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
Thanks to new high-tech advances, California is on the verge of another oil boom: a fracking boom. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking as it is commonly known, involves drilling horizontal wells and pumping toxic fluids into them at high pressure, w...
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May. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests
Friends of the Earth is deeply devoted to curbing both deforestation and averting catastrophic climate change. Yet FoE’s international forests campaign has been actively engaged in opposing California’s pending adoption of a program kn...
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May. 17, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
BP's careful control of image hides a record that should be alarming With spring fully sprung and another Earth Day past, it is critical the public stay alert to corporations that wrap themselves in a green patina while acting to the contrary. Kin...
Read More »May. 16, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
New evidence exposes more major safety concerns WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the heels of a pointed ruling by a panel of judges against Southern California Edison’s scheme to rush the experimental restart of a severely damaged reactor at San ...
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May. 14, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Archer / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Updated May 2013: Take action here to tell Home Depot, Lowe's and other stores not to carry products containing bee-killing neonicotinoids. Spring is in the air, and as we plant our vegetable gardens and enjoy the blossoming flowers, it’s e...
Read More »May. 14, 2013 / Posted by: Shajuti Hossain / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Atomic Safety Licensing Board grants Friends of the Earth’s petition WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a stunning rebuke to Southern California Edison’s bid to start up the crippled San Onofre nuclear power plant, the U.S. Atomic Safety Lic...
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May. 8, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog
The decades-long fight to protect the lower Hudson River in New York City from habitat destruction and overdevelopment has heated up with several recent developments: (1) recent attempts to weaken the state law governing the area have emerged; (2)...
Read More »May. 8, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to news reports, Vice President Joe Biden said recently that he is against granting a permit for construction of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, but he is “in the minority” in th...
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