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.
Jan. 20, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Legal / Tags: Kelly trout
If you’d have asked me in the fall of 2009, when Friends of the Earth was first contemplating going all in on a campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, whether I thought we could force President Obama to reject TransCanada’s applica...
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Jan. 17, 2012 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kelly trout
The writing is on the wall for rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline. But given recent oil industry efforts to make it appear otherwise, I thought it might be useful to provide a reminder that leading Obama administration officials and their allie...
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Dec. 16, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Kelly trout
"¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido!,” or “the people united, will never be defeated,” resounded outside World Bank headquarters yesterday in downtown Washington, D.C. Friends of the Earth staff joined about...
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Nov. 7, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kelly trout, Keystone xl
12,000 strong. That's how many people showed up Sunday, November 6 -- exactly one year before Election Day 2012 -- to link arms around the White House in a circle of hope (three rings deep!) and urge President Obama to stop the proposed Keystone X...
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Oct. 18, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kelly trout, Keystone xl, Tar sands
Evidence is mounting that the State Department's review of a proposed tar sands oil pipeline has been corrupted by bias, lobbyist influence and conflicts of interest. The growing scandal is making front-page headlines and putting new pressure on P...
Read More »Oct. 14, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kelly trout, Keystone xl, Tar sands
October 14, 2011: Our communications director has compiled a must-read list of coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline controversy. There’s been a lot of coverage. He's compiled some of the last week’s key stories here.
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Oct. 5, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kelly trout, Keystone xl
October 5, 2011 Since there’s been so much news related to the Keystone XL pipeline controversy subsequent to our release of the second round of State Department documents, we put together the following news roundup. Breaking this a.m.: Sta...
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Sep. 2, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kelly trout, Keystone xl, Tar sands
With joy and resolve, I was arrested for the first time on August 29. I joined more than 1,200 people who stubbornly planted their bodies on President Obama’s doorstep across two weeks of rolling sit-ins because I am fed up, but I have not g...
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Jun. 17, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Kelly trout
In the past several years, extreme weather events have wreaked devastation around the globe – from violent tornadoes that descend out of nowhere to reduce entire towns to rubble, to floodwaters that break their containment dams and levees to...
Read More »May. 10, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Budget, Green scissors, Kelly trout
Our elected officials set the tone for the upcoming budget debate early in the wake of the 2010 elections by trading expensive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires in order to extend unemployment benefits for the millions of Americans who st...
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