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. 16, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
While it may not have exactly been what organizers of the April 15 tax day protests had in mind, Friends of the Earth supporters took a no-taxes-for-nukes message to the “tea party” rally at the South Carolina capitol in Columbia. Dres...
Read More »Apr. 9, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
Friends of the Earth has long promoted plug-in electric vehicles as a way to dramatically reduce pollution from transportation, especially in states like California where the electric grid contains a significant percentage of renewable power. Plug...
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Apr. 1, 2009 / Posted by: Micah Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Michal rosenoer
Congratulations to Secretary Tom Vilsack With 2,424 votes -- more than the total number cast last year -- the 2011 Biofool of the Year is Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack! There’s no doubt he deserves it; with Secretary Vilsack at the he...
Read More »Mar. 31, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD) is at it again, advocating for the removal of critical forest protections in the Renewable Fuels Standard. She has re-introduced her bill that would change the defintion of "Renewable Biomass" and thereby swee...
Read More »Mar. 27, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
We recently passed the the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. And what is there to remember from such an awful environmental disaster? Maybe the thousands of gallons of crude oil still polluting Alaska, the almost assured extinction o...
Read More »Mar. 27, 2009 / Posted by: MChan / Categories: Blog
Friends of the Earth's Michelle Chan testified before the Ways and Means Committee on March 26, 2009 about the financial aspects of reducing carbon emissions. She emphasized that existing financial regulations, as well as those in major cap-and-tr...
Read More »Mar. 18, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
The biofuels lobby is, yet again, urging the EPA to ignore emissions from indirect land use change in EPA's accounting of global warming pollution from biofuels. And corn-state Senators have sent their own plea to EPA in support of the industry, a...
Read More »Mar. 12, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Senator John Kerry (D-MA) today introduced the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2009. Nearly 10 million passengers took cruises from the United States in 2007 and that figure is expected to grow to mor...
Read More »Mar. 11, 2009 / Posted by: NBerning / Categories: Blog
President Obama’s first budget did away with over $30 billion in giveaways to oil and gas companies. Friends of the Earth has been working for years to end these give aways to multi-national companies that are earning record profits. Congres...
Read More »Feb. 27, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Blog
President Obama’s budget proposal for the Department of Transportation begins the process of transitioning to a more efficient, lower-carbon transportation system. The President’s budget increases funding for public transit which will ...
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