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.
May. 21, 2013 / Posted by: Ross Hammond, Senior Campaigner, Climate & Energy Program / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Ross hammond
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 / Tags: Carbon trading, Jeff conant, Redd
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 / Tags: Fred felleman
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...
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May. 14, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Archer / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Lisa archer
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...
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May. 8, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog / Tags: Guest post
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)...
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May. 6, 2013 / Posted by: Rey Edward / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: China, China sustainable development, Chinese overseas finance, Great barrier reef, Rey edward
A new study from an Australia NGO tells how Chinese financing will potentially devastate the Great Barrier Reef. Yes, you read that correctly. The Great Barrier Reef – home to endangered sea turtles, blue whales, sea snakes, and fragile cor...
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May. 2, 2013 / Posted by: Rey Edward / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: China overseas policy environmental protection, Rey edward
Earlier this year, China’s ministries of Commerce and Environmental Protection jointly issued new guidelines for the environmental practices of Chinese companies doing business abroad. The new guidelines are an important step toward improvin...
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May. 2, 2013 / Posted by: Marcie Keever / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Coal export, Marcie keever, Marine sanctuary
With the reliance on coal declining in places like the U.S. and Australia, Big Coal has found another way to offload its dirty goods — by shipping it overseas. The global coal trade expanded by over 13 percent in 2010 and last year the U.S. ...
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Apr. 26, 2013 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth, Food and Technology / Tags: Bill waren, Trade
“Frankenfish is a 2004 monster movie dealing with genetically engineered fish in the bayou.” -Wikipedia “European Union… measures governing the importation and use of GE (genetically engineered) products have resul...
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Apr. 23, 2013 / Posted by: Ross Hammond / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Keystone xl, Tar sands
In February John Kerry took over at the State Department, providing a glimmer of hope to those demanding that the agency finally serve as an honest broker on the review of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Kerry, a fierce advocate for bold a...
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