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.
May. 14, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
Right now, cruise ships and other large ocean going vessels are getting a free pass because the standards for dumping their sewage are over 30 years old! We recently submitted a petition to the U.S. EPA urging it to bring large ship sewage dumping...
Read More »May. 11, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
At its annual pilgrimage to lobby in Washington, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), an umbrella organization of public interest organizations working on U.S.
Read More »May. 8, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
There are millions of hungry people in the world and someone has to feed them. Small farms that seek to provide healthy food for their surrounding areas are being threatened by large-scale industrial agriculture. To make matters worse, genetically...
Read More »May. 7, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
Early May, EPA released draft rules for the Renewable Fuels Standard. In this massive, 1000 page document, is EPA's assessment of the global warming impact of biofuels. The Renewable Fuels Standard, which mandates the production of 36 billion gall...
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May. 7, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog, Economics for the Earth
Friends of the Earth released a report in May 2009 that examined the extent to which biofuels are subsidized by the tax credits as well as the Renewable Fuels Standard. The report found that biofuels received enormous benefits from these policies,...
Read More »May. 6, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
An Environmental Health Nightmare Gas flares are created when oil companies burn off extra gas that escapes as a result of oil drilling.
Read More »Apr. 28, 2009 / Posted by: MKeever / Categories: Blog
Friends of the Earth issued a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urging the EPA to update standards governing sewage dumping from large ships. The current, outdated standards, adopted in 1976, allow the use of 30-year-old treatme...
Read More »Apr. 24, 2009 / Posted by: KMcmahon / Categories: Blog
As Congress debates how to build a clean energy future, one policy proposal threatens our nation's forests: The Renewable Electricity Standard. While a Renewable Electricity Standard -- which would require a set percentage of U.S.
Read More »Apr. 24, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
Last year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission warned against the use of fire retardant chemicals in baby products and furniture. This is because scientists around the world have linked these chemicals to hormone disruption, neurological and de...
Read More »Apr. 23, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
With thousands of votes cast, this year's Biggest Biofool is Hugh Grant, CEO of Monsanto. Grant has been a long-time supporter of biofuels, insisting, despite evidence to the contrary, that biofuels are good for the environment. In fact, biofuels ...
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