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Apr. 22, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog / Tags: Erich pica
This week is always a special week for Friends of the Earth U.S. Around this time every year, the Goldman Environmental Prize announces the recipients of its prestigious award. Modeled after the Nobel Peace Prize, the Goldman Environmental Prize h...
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Apr. 17, 2013 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Erich pica
This morning, I joined Representatives Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) as well as the leaders of Health Gap, National Nurses United, National Peoples Action, Demos and Vocal to announce the introduction of the Inclusive Prosperi...
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Apr. 15, 2013 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Erich pica, Gene patents
Today, I stood with women’s health activists, BRCA-positive women and activists and organizations from across the country in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to express Friends of the Earth’s support and solidarity with Breast Cancer Ac...
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Apr. 12, 2013 / Posted by: Kendra Ulrich / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, San Onofre Updates / Tags: Kendra ulrich, Nuclear regulatory commission, San onofre
To say that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- charged with ensuring the safe operation of the nation’s aging, degraded nuclear fleet -- is a paper tiger would be far too kind. Rather than just de-fanged and flimsy, on Wednesday, they went...
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Apr. 11, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Climate change, Climate finance, Karen orenstein, Tax, Wall street
Though a number of wealthy countries attending a State Department-convened climate finance ministerial meeting on mobilizing private money have been trying to escape their obligation to use public funds to help the world’s poor confront the ...
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Apr. 9, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Climate change, Climate finance, Ifc, Karen orenstein, Wall street, World bank
New Report from Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance This week in Washington, DC, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is organizing the Ministerial Meeting on Mobilizing Climate Finance. This invitation-o...
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Apr. 9, 2013 / Posted by: Rey Edward / Categories: Blog / Tags: Coal to gasoline, Dkrw, Medicine bow
Since the project’s inception in 2006, Friends of the Earth has advocated against the use of public funds for the proposed coal to gasoline plant in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Despite claims from DKRW, the Enron-headed company behind the project...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Biofuels, Honduras, Human rights, Ifc, Jeff conant, Palm oil, World bank
In a press release issued yesterday by Friends of the Earth International, we asked for cancellation of a World Bank loan to Honduran palm oil producer Grupo Dinant. Here's why:
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Publications / Tags: Climate finance, Karen orenstein
The third meeting of the United Nations Green Climate Fund wrapped up last week. Though “paradigm shift” emerged as the new catch-phrase of GCF discourse -- as the fund’s governing instrument calls for a “paradigm shift tow...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
Friends of the Earth is excited to announce our new campaign to prevent genetically engineered fish from hitting our dinner plates: the Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood. As we recently reported, the U.S. Food & Drug Administr...
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