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.
Dec. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Ben schreiber, Earth budget, Green scissors
Negotiations are coming down to the wire on the fiscal cliff. Friends of the Earth warned about the dangers of a bad deal and we are still concerned. That is why Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica wrote President Obama and urged him to pres...
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Nov. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Ben schreiber, Climate change, Keystone xl, Subsidies, Tax
Last week it sounded a lot like the conservative think thank American Enterprise Institute cares more about addressing climate change then President Barack Obama. It certainly seems more willing to find solutions. AEI hosted a symposium on a carb...
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May. 10, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Ben schreiber
Today Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act, legislation that goes further than any previous bill to unwind the web of government subsidies for the fossil fuels industry. ...
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Mar. 27, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Ben schreiber
Last night the Senate voted 92-4 to have 30 hours of debate on S.2204, the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. The bill would eliminate billions of dollars of tax subsidies for the five biggest oil companies, who have cumulatively booked more than $...
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Mar. 13, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Ben schreiber
In what is becoming a summer ritual high gas prices are again at the forefront of the national consciousness. With the U.S. consuming 20 percent of the world’s oil supply and controlling only 2 percent of the reserves, there simply is no sho...
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Feb. 14, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Ben schreiber
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 / Tags: Ben schreiber
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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Jan. 31, 2012 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Ben schreiber
If there ever were a story that illustrated how the top 1% have captured both the economic and political power in our country, we need look no further than today’s earning announcement from Exxon Mobil. The oil and gas giant made $41 billion...
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Nov. 29, 2011 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Ben schreiber, Tax
Now that the Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, better known as the super committee, has officially announced that they are not going to reach a deal we can let out a sigh of relief. That’s because, as Paul Krugman wrote, failure is good...
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Nov. 22, 2011 / Posted by: Ben Schreiber / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Ben schreiber, Green scissors, Tax
On Friday November 18, 2011, Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica testified in the House Committee on Natural Resources hearing titled ANWR: Jobs, Energy and Deficit Reduction. The hearing was called by the Republican majority to promote dril...
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