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. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Bill waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
One of the best-known and trusted environmental labels is the “dolphin-safe” label that today can be found on much of the tuna sold in the U.S. On May 16, a World Trade Organization appeals panel ruled that this label unfairly discrimi...
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May. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Kim huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy
Yesterday evening, Canadian pipeline company Enbridge kicked off one of the most sweeping expansions in its history, a $3.2 billion (Canadian) series of pipeline projects that would carry some of the world’s dirtiest oil—tar sands oil&...
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May. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Eric hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Synthetic biology is the newest purported cure-all technology for remedying our social, environmental, and public health ills. As many prominent synthetic biologists proclaimed in 2007, the world “face[s] daunting problems of climate change,...
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May. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth kamalakanthan / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests
Activists from a broad coalition of environmental groups including Friends of the Earth, Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity, Ocean Conservancy and Alaska Wilderness League, converged yesterday in front of the White House to demand that Pr...
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May. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Marcie keever / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests
Fred Felleman, Friends of the Earth’s Northwest consultant, stood on the dock in Everett, WA, this past February capturing evidence of the U.S. Navy’s active sonar use with a hydrophone. But the sonar gradually became so loud it could ...
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May. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Michal rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Today, the majority of U.S transportation fuel is comprised of approximately 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline, a blend known as E10. However, the ethanol industry recently cleared all federal hurdles required by the U.S. Environmental Pr...
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May. 15, 2012 / Posted by: Michal rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth
Today the Renewable Fuels Association, a trade group for the ethanol industry, released a report claiming corn ethanol reduces gas prices at the pump. It is no surprise that a report bought by the corn ethanol corporations champions their industr...
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May. 15, 2012 / Posted by: Bill waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth
Dateline Dallas: I arrived Tuesday, May 8, in this north Texas city for ten days of intense activity around a new regional trade pact called the Trans Pacific Partnership. During this week and a half, we have scheduled formal and informal meetings...
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May. 15, 2012 / Posted by: Becca connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy
The San Onofre nuclear power plant, located between Los Angeles and San Diego, has been kept shut for the past three and half months by Southern California Edison, after radioactivity leaked into the atmosphere.
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May. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Eric hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Last weekend the Keynoter newspaper in the Florida Keys reported that plans to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key West “remain on indefinite hold.” But Oxitec has submitted an application to the FDA for approval of its mo...
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