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.
Jul. 6, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Becca connors
On Friday evening, my husband Patrick and I were putting our daughter to bed and preparing an emergency kit at the same time. Due to the heat wave that had struck the lower southeast, we had already sweltered through a day where the heat index pus...
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May. 15, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Becca connors
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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Apr. 6, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Becca connors
This morning, standing on the dunes above the Pacific Ocean near the San Onofre nuclear reactor site, San Onofre Safety, San Clemente Green, ROSE and other local groups held a press conference ahead of the afternoon visit to the reactors from the ...
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Apr. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, San Onofre Updates / Tags: Becca connors
San Onofre reactor safety failures remind us (again) why the United States cannot afford the risks of nuclear reactors. In late January of this year, Friends of the Earth, while preparing an analysis on the Fukushima-daiichi nuclear accident, was ...
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Apr. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Becca connors
Friends of the Earth launched a new television ad campaign today targeting the utility Southern California Edison, the operator of the troubled San Onofre nuclear reactors, which are currently closed due to serious safety problems. The ad parallel...
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Dec. 30, 2011 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog / Tags: Becca connors
At the end of every year, we tend to pause and reflect about the past 12 months, stopping to examine trends and to remember important events -- usually in list form. And with all the year in, worst of, best of, top five and top ten lists appearing...
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Dec. 24, 2011 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Becca connors
Nigerians wait, helpless, for the massive spill from Shell’s Bonga offshore oil field to hit the coastal waters, shorelines and swamps. Telephone links to some of the coastal communities are tenuous at best and most people will not know what...
Read More »Sep. 13, 2011 / Posted by: Rebecca Connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Becca connors, Keystone xl, Tar sands
We have obtained documents from the State Department in response to our Freedom of Information Act request that provide evidence of agency bias and indicate the State Department was doing favors for TransCanada during the Keystone XL review.
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Aug. 18, 2011 / Posted by: Becca Connors / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Becca connors, Earth budget, Subsidies
Each year, the federal government gives away more than $10 billion in tax breaks to oil and gas companies. These polluting industries are already raking in record profits -- it’s an outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars to pay them for damagi...
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Jun. 17, 2011 / Posted by: Rebecca Connors / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Becca connors, Biofuels, Ethanol
On June 16, 2011, the Senate voted 73-27 to end the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit. This major victory against dirty corn ethanol had strong bipartisan support across the political spectrum, including some of the Senate’s most progress...
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