Apr. 11, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Though a number of wealthy countries attending a State Department-convened climate finance ministerial meeting on mobilizing private money have been trying to escape their obligation to use public funds to help the world’s poor confront the ...
Read More »Apr. 10, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today Representatives Goodlatte (R-Va.), Womack (R-Ark.), Costa (D-Calif.) and Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the Renewable Fuel Standard Reform Act, which would eliminate the corn ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard and c...
Read More »Apr. 10, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Washington, D.C. -- Today, President Obama released a budget proposal for fiscal year 2014 that calls for ending billions of dollars in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. President Obama has been calling for the repeal of these provisions sinc...
Read More »Apr. 10, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, President Obama released his fiscal year 2014 Budget. For the first time the President’s Budget is calling for $1.2 trillion in cuts to the government, including billions from Social Security and Medicare. Friends ...
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Apr. 9, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications
New Report from Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance This week in Washington, DC, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is organizing the Ministerial Meeting on Mobilizing Climate Finance. This invitation-o...
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Apr. 9, 2013 / Posted by: Rey Edward / Categories: Blog
Since the project’s inception in 2006, Friends of the Earth has advocated against the use of public funds for the proposed coal to gasoline plant in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Despite claims from DKRW, the Enron-headed company behind the project...
Read More »Apr. 8, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
WASHINGTON - Southern California Edison’s request for a license amendment for one of its crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors treats major safety issues as a minor footnote and seeks to strip the public of the right to a meaningful public he...
Read More »Apr. 3, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
‘Disgraceful’ scheme for risky nuclear experiment could begin June 1 WASHINGTON – In an extraordinary admission, Southern California Edison said today that as part of the experimental plan to restart one of the crippled San Onofr...
Read More »Apr. 3, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Over 55 development, faith, human rights, community, and environmental groups from more than 20 countries teamed up today to ask World Bank President Jim Kim to end Bank support for all fossil fuel projects unless the projects ...
Read More »Apr. 3, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
Friends of the Earth: Obama alone can kill the Keystone pipeline SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- President Obama arrives here Wednesday for a series of fundraisers. At 5:30 p.m., when he visits the Pacific Heights home of Ann and Gordon Getty, he will be...
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