Friends of the Earth’s blog is a staff-run blog that provides policy analysis, insight and commentary about the environment and other progressive issues, advances our campaigns, and builds momentum for a healthy and just world.
Feb. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Kurt walters / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Legal
Friends of the Earth and a coalition of 11 other groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday, February 16 to reverse the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s misguided approval of risky new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia. The suit asserts ...
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Feb. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Michelle chan / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth, Publications
The growing power of Chinese multinational corporations around the world, particularly in developing countries, is drawing a lot of attention. International companies complain that they are losing out to Chinese businesses benefiting from state s...
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Feb. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Kim huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Wow. In 24 hours, the environmental movement and our progressive allies came together to send a huge, jarring wake-up call to senators wavering in the face of Big Oil’s threats and campaign coffers: reject any attempts to revive the Keystone...
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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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Feb. 13, 2012 / Posted by: Kim huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
UPDATE Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. EST: We've smashed through our initial goal of half a million and are now over 672,000 messages to the Senate! Unfortunately, some of Big Oil’s bought-and-paid-for friends in the Senate are putting the heat on as w...
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Feb. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
Today, the U.S. EPA signed a federal rule that will finalize EPA’s decision to approve a California state proposal to ban all sewage discharges from large cruise ships and most other large ocean-going ships to state marine waters along Calif...
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Feb. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Kurt walters / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
There’s a lot of uncertainty around exactly how much taxpayer money the government gives out to Big Oil, Big Coal and the rest of the dirty energy industry each year in subsidies. But we know one thing for sure: it’s a lot. A new crowd...
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Feb. 8, 2012 / Posted by: Michal rosenoer / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Yesterday the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee approved a bill that would require the EPA to do a more thorough analysis on the effects for consumers, the economy, and the environment of increasing the amount of corn ethanol in gasol...
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Feb. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Ian illuminato / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
I had the privilege of participating in the Thematic Social Forum this past week in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Porto Alegre was where the very first World Social Forum took place back in 2001. The difference between the World Social Forum and Thematic ...
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