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.
Apr. 8, 2010 / Posted by: NBerning / Categories: Blog
A coalition of organizations, including Friends of the Earth, have signed a letter asking President Obama to recognize that solutions to the climate crisis must be agreed upon at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), ...
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Apr. 6, 2010 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: John kaltenstein
After a recent and unprecedented victory to reduce shipping air pollution in North America with the adoption of an Emission Control Area -- precipitated by domestic and international advocacy from Friends of the Earth -- our organization is turnin...
Read More »Mar. 30, 2010 / Posted by: KMcmahon / Categories: Blog
In late March, Representative Earl Pomeroy introduced a bill that would extend the tax credits for corn ethanol by five years. The cost of extending the tax credits for corn ethanol would be over $31 billion dollars, with practically no impact on ...
Read More »Mar. 30, 2010 / Posted by: KTrout / Categories: Blog
The U.S. District Court of New York held yesterday in Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al. that patents on human genes that correlate with increased risk for breast cancer and ovarian cancer are in...
Read More »Mar. 29, 2010 / Posted by: KTrout / Categories: Blog
Mike is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations, an indigenous community located at Fort Chipewyan (or Fort Chip for short) in Alberta, Canada. European traders established an outpost here in 1821, and in subsequent years the tar sands i...
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Mar. 26, 2010 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: John kaltenstein
On March 26, 2010, an international body governing the shipping industry approved rules to limit harmful air pollution from ships in most U.S. and Canadian waters. The rules are expected to prevent millions of illnesses and 14,000 premature deaths...
Read More »Mar. 17, 2010 / Posted by: KTrout / Categories: Blog
Biofools Day is rapidly approaching! We’re calling out some of the biggest promoters of harmful industrial biofuels. We’ve highlighted five major biofuels proponents, including corporate executives, industry lobbyists, and government r...
Read More »Mar. 8, 2010 / Posted by: KTrout / Categories: Blog
Happily, at the end of 2009 several environmentally damaging tax credits expired. These subsidies went to a range of dirty energy sources, including fossil fuels and bioenergy, at the expense of taxpayers. The various tax credits went to a long li...
Read More »Mar. 8, 2010 / Posted by: KTrout / Categories: Blog
Hundreds of Friends of the Earth supporters joined a coalition of more than 200,000 NGOs, farmers, consumers, and organic producers in calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to prohibit genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa. We were al...
Read More »Mar. 2, 2010 / Posted by: KTrout / Categories: Blog
Did you know that around 20 percent of the human genome has been patented? That corporations and researchers own hundreds of animal genes and thousands of plant genes? That even some DNA sequences of viruses like AIDS and SARS are patented, and a ...
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