Mar. 22, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases, San Onofre News
Friends of the Earth: Full public participation essential Washington, D.C. -- After more than a year of denial, Southern California Edison is ready to concede that a license amendment is needed before restarting one of the crippled reactors at th...
Read More »Mar. 22, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, by a vote of 62-37, the U.S. Senate attached a provision to the Senate Budget Resolution expressing support for the Keystone XL pipeline. This vote is non-binding and has no impact on the State Department’s pe...
Read More »Mar. 22, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Climate and Energy, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Yesterday morning, Mother Jones magazine released an exclusive story which details the State Department's role in covering up the relationship between TransCanada and the company hired to do the supplemental environmental impac...
Read More »Mar. 22, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: News Releases, San Onofre News
Edison financials show keeping reactor shut down three times cheaper than startup SAN FRANCISCO -- Restarting one of the crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors this summer would cost Southern California Edison’s customers three times as much a...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
In a press release issued yesterday by Friends of the Earth International, we asked for cancellation of a World Bank loan to Honduran palm oil producer Grupo Dinant. Here's why:
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications
The third meeting of the United Nations Green Climate Fund wrapped up last week. Though “paradigm shift” emerged as the new catch-phrase of GCF discourse -- as the fund’s governing instrument calls for a “paradigm shift tow...
Read More »Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood&...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Friends of the Earth is excited to announce our new campaign to prevent genetically engineered fish from hitting our dinner plates: the Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood. As we recently reported, the U.S. Food & Drug Administr...
Read More »Mar. 19, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Washington, D.C. -- International NGOs have condemned a statement by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, [1] which defends the record of a Honduran palm oil company, Grupo Dinant, which is implicated in dozens of murders as w...
Read More »Mar. 13, 2013 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Economics for the Earth, News Releases
Washington, D.C. -- Friends of the Earth Tax Analyst Ben Schreiber provided the following statement in support of the House Progressive Caucus’s release of the Back to Work Budget today: “If you listen to the budget debate in Washingt...
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