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.
Nov. 3, 2012 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Climate change, Erich pica
This week, Hurricane Sandy fulfilled what many of us had been dreading as we watched it move up the coast: its landfall on the coast of New Jersey and a merger with a massive cold front left millions in the East without power, shelter, or worse. A...
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Nov. 2, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy / Tags: Michal rosenoer
Hurricane Sandy tore through more than just the eastern states this past week; the power of the megastorm is also forcing the media and candidates to break their silence on climate change. Hurricane Sandy is the latest tragedy on the long list of ...
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Oct. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Blog, Oceans and Forests / Tags: Adam russell, Redd
Protecting tropical forests is important in the fight against global climate change, but Indigenous Peoples are lining up against what they consider a false solution to the climate crisis. As part of California’s commitment to reduce global...
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Oct. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications / Tags: Biofuels, Ethanol, Michal rosenoer
In November, the EPA will make a decision that could mitigate the higher food prices and job losses we're seeing across the country and abroad right now thanks to our federal biofuels mandate–the Renewable Fuel Standard. In August, eight sta...
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Oct. 9, 2012 / Posted by: Bill Waren / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Bill waren
“These are the first international trade disputes which create the potential for conflict between a nation’s commitments under the WTO and its obligations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. It rais...
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Oct. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Publications / Tags: Biofuels, Ethanol, Michal rosenoer
When Congress established the Renewable Fuel Standard –our federal biofuels mandate – they probably weren’t hoping to incentivize invasive species, choke rivers, or increase wildfires. But, if the EPA approves giant reed (Arundo ...
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Oct. 5, 2012 / Posted by: Kendra Ulrich / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, San Onofre Updates / Tags: Kendra ulrich, Nuclear reactors, San onofre
A dangerous gamble with the safety of Southern California If you have ever been to Las Vegas, you’ve seen it: People so caught up in the excitement of the casino that they just can’t resist the lure of the next bet or the thought that ...
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Sep. 28, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Economics for the Earth / Tags: Climate finance, Karen orenstein
Yesterday, Friends of the Earth sent a letter signed by 63 U.S. organizations, to Secretary of State Clinton regarding misinformation spread internationally by State Department representatives about financial transaction taxes (also known as the R...
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Sep. 20, 2012 / Posted by: John Kaltenstein / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Oceans and Forests / Tags: John kaltenstein
Arctic summer sea ice extent reached an all-time record low on September 16. The rapid nature of the changes in the region has many scientists concerned, and the implications on weather systems and marine ecosystems could be profound. The shipping...
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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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