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.
Jun. 11, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Erich pica, Keystone xl
Today feels like Groundhog Day with the Department of State. More than a year ago, Friends of the Earth, along with members of Congress including Sen. Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Cohen from Tennessee, charged the State Department with gross neglig...
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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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Jan. 25, 2013 / Posted by: Damon Moglen / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Damon moglen, Keystone xl, Tar sands
As Senator John Kerry’s confirmation hearing opened yesterday, President Obama set high expectations for his nominee to lead the State Department with a rigorous commitment to combating catastrophic climate change. But for Kerry to live up t...
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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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Sep. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Keystone xl, Kim huynh
The dog days of summer haven’t done much to slow down TransCanada’s propulsion towards construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. The Canadian oil corporation last week unveiled its “new” proposed route through...
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Aug. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Adam russell, Keystone xl
Today, Tar Sands Blockade kicked off a sustained, direct action campaign to stop the construction of the southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline through Oklahoma and Texas. The grassroots organization, comprised of concerned landowners, farme...
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Aug. 1, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Erich pica, Keystone xl
Last Tuesday marked the two-year anniversary of the start of the Kalamazoo River disaster where Canadian oil corporation Enbridge spilled over a million gallons of tar sands oil into waters near Marshall, Michigan. The following piece is cross-pos...
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Jul. 18, 2012 / Posted by: Kim Huynh / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Keystone xl, Kim huynh
Yesterday, activists with Tar Sands Blockade met President Obama’s motorcade in Austin, Texas wielding banners and signs with one simple message: stop the Keystone XL pipeline, no more tar sands through Texas. Tar Sands Blockade is a local a...
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Jul. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Prashanth Kamalakanthan / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Keystone xl, Prashanth kamalakanthan
Coming off of the freakish extreme weather across the country the past several months, people are anxious for a break from the punishing weather and looking forward to a calmer July. Climate scientists, meanwhile, haven’t provided much solac...
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Nov. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog / Tags: Erich pica, Keystone xl, Wall street
Lately we’ve all been hearing a lot about Occupy Wall Street (or Occupy Oakland, DC, San Francisco, and many places in between). Many are calling it the Tea Party of the Left, with its focus on unemployment, corporate greed and crony capital...
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